The British Grand Prix is one of the highlights of the F1 calendar, and Silverstone hosts the 2026 race over the weekend of 2–5 July. With a new era of cars and power units this season and a strong British contingent on the grid, there's plenty riding on the home race.
If you're abroad for it — on holiday, working away or living overseas — you don't have to miss a session. Here's how to follow the British Grand Prix, and the rest of the F1 season, from anywhere in the world.
For UK viewers, Formula 1 is split across two broadcasters:
So for almost the whole season, the live action is on Sky Sports and NOW, with Channel 4 carrying highlights. Silverstone is the exception: the British Grand Prix is the one round shown live and free on Channel 4.
The catch is that Sky Sports, NOW and Channel 4 are all geo-restricted to the UK. The moment you're abroad, they detect your location and the coverage stops — whether you're a paying Sky or NOW subscriber or just trying to catch the free Channel 4 coverage of Silverstone.
The usual workaround is a VPN, but the big-name VPN apps are routinely blocked by UK streaming services, because they run on shared data-centre IP addresses that broadcasters recognise and shut out. You can read more in our guide on why ExpressVPN, NordVPN and Surfshark stop working on UK streaming.
The setup that holds up is a VPN router with a UK residential IP address — an ordinary home-broadband address, the same kind millions of UK households use. To Sky, NOW and Channel 4, your connection simply looks like a viewer at home in the UK, so you're far less likely to be blocked.
Because it works at router level, every device connected to it is covered — smart TV, Apple TV, Firestick or streaming box. You watch the race weekend through the same apps you'd use at home, on the big screen, in full quality.
This works for following the British Grand Prix — and every other round of the season — from across Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and beyond.
At Stream UK TV Abroad, we supply pre-configured VPN routers that work straight out of the box, shipped worldwide. Plug the router into your internet abroad, connect your TV or streaming device, and open Sky Sports, NOW or Channel 4 as you would at home.
It's the same setup our customers use for the rest of their UK viewing, so a single router covers the F1 season alongside everything else. If you already watch Sky abroad, our guide on how to watch Sky Stream abroad covers that side of the setup in more detail.
A Grand Prix weekend comes and goes quickly, and the worst time to discover your stream doesn't work is on the formation lap. Rather than scrambling on race morning, get your setup sorted in advance — order the router, plug it in, and confirm Sky, NOW and Channel 4 all play cleanly while there's no session on the line.
Following the rest of the summer of sport too? See our guides to watching the Tour de France abroad on TNT Sports and HBO Max, England cricket abroad and the Commonwealth Games abroad.
The British Grand Prix is a fixture of the British sporting summer, and being abroad doesn't have to mean missing it. With the F1 season split across Sky Sports and NOW for the live action and Channel 4 for highlights and the Silverstone race, all of it is UK-only once you leave the country.
A VPN router with a UK residential IP is the most reliable way to reach all three from anywhere in the world, especially paired with a proper TV-based setup. Get it in place ahead of time and you spend the weekend watching the racing, not troubleshooting it.
At Stream UK TV Abroad, we supply pre-configured routers designed to make exactly that simple.
