Sky, starts the new season of Formula 1, MotoGp and Superbike
The motorsport spectacle is about to start again in the House of Sports, which this year will offer an exceptional and extremely rich editorial narrative on Sky and streaming on NOW. Kicking off in two days is the new motorsport season, with more than 1,800 hours of live challenges – including more than 300 studios, columns, in-depth reports and specials – and exclusive coverage of the Formula 1, MotoGP and Superbike World Championships. With WRC already underway, it is WorldSBK, WorldSSP and WorldSPB, newly confirmed on Sky until 2027, that will be the first to hit the track on Friday, February 20, in Australia. On March 1, it will be the turn of MotoGP in Thailand, while Formula 1 will start in Melbourne next March 8.
There will be as many as 41 race weekends coming up on Sky Sports, which will report on more than 17 championships and more than 200 races over the course of the season, some of them also free-to-air on TV8: from the groundbreaking year of Formula 1 to the great challenges of MotoGP, which will remain in the House of Motors until 2027, to appointments with Formula 2, Formula 3, F1 Academy, Porsche Mobil 1 SuperCup, Moto2, Moto3, NTT IndyCar Series, World Rally Championship, European Rally Championship, WEC, GTWC, CIV, Lamborghini Super Trofeo and in 6 dates of the MotoGP also debuts the Harley Davidson Baggers World Cup, a spectacular trophy that is contested riding Harley Road Glides and that Sky Sport will report live on race weekends.
A daily story throughout 2026, thanks to the wealth of content produced daily by the Sky Sport team from circuits around the world and visible on the dedicated Sky Sport F1 and Sky Sport MotoGP channels, with in-depth coverage also on Sky Sport 24.
Attention to the revolutionary new F1 season, which this year experiences the most radical regulatory change ever. An uncertain and exciting season that will be narrated by the editorial team headed by Carlo Vanzini, accompanied in the commentary booth throughout the year by Marc Genè, Ivan Capelli and Roberto Chinchero. The entire track experience will be in the technical commentaries of Matteo Bobbi and Vicky Piria, with correspondent Mara Sangiorgio and Davide Camicioli alternating between studio and circuit throughout the year. Fabio Tavelli and his now historic and very popular Race Anatomy F1 will be entrusted with post-race analysis, with the round table commenting on the weekend’s issues and the voices of the protagonists. The Sky Sport F1 team will try to bring the paddock and its experiences to fans as if they were on the track: what does it feel like to be a human being sitting as a passenger next to an F1 driver? The “Hot lap” column will tell it from the first to the last second. Mara Sangiorgio prepares to experience multiple days as a mechanic for different teams, to understand firsthand what it’s like to work in a Formula 1 pit.
The hunt for the title in MotoGP reopens: Marc Marquez remains the reference, but winter tests say the competition is equipped. Guido Meda will report on all the races of the season with his now longtime friend and technical sidekick Mauro Sanchini. The pre and post races will always be conducted by Vera Spadini, who from the Sky Truck’s mobile studio will lead the in-depth reports and technical analysis. Confirmed pit correspondents Sandro Donato Grosso and Giovanni Zamagni, who this year will be joined by Ludovica Guerra, wild card correspondent in some races of the season. Moto2 and Moto3 challenges will be commented by the very close-knit Rosario Triolo and Mattia Pasini. The rider from Romagna, in addition to his role as technical commentator and guest in the in-depth reports, will also be hosting a new column dedicated to motorcycle technology, “Techno”. Pasini will also be on the MotoGP grid to report facts and thoughts from the last minutes before the start. Cristiana Buonamano will also be at the helm of Race Anatomy MotoGP, which will address cold issues from the Grand Prix that has just ended and hot topics on the celebrations of those who won and the reflections of those who may have little to celebrate. For Superbike, which stakes many of its cards on Italy’s Nicolò Bulega riding a Ducati, Edoardo Vercellesi and Max Temporali are ready in the commentary booth, who over the course of the season will also produce monographs on the sports bikes that have made history and specials on the world of racing and production motorcycles.
Lucio Rizzica and Marcello Puglisi will be the voices of Formula 2, Formula 3 and Porsche SuperCup, while the F1 Academy will be entrusted to Andrea Sillitti and Vicky Piria. The WEC returns, with commentary by Matteo Pittaccio, Marco Nesi and Biagio Maglienti. And again, there will be Ivan Nesta on commentary for the GTWC, while for the WRC there will be Lucio Rizzica and Rosario Triolo, along with technical sidekicks Gabriele Cogni, Andrea Crugnola and Dario D’Esposito. For the NTT Indycar Series, Biagio Maglienti and Matteo Pittaccio will be in the commentary booth.
In the House of Motors this year on Sky Sports come many exclusive interviews with today’s champions and legends of the past. The first appointment is this afternoon with Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli, the only very fast and very young Italian in Formula 1, in the special “Attacco Mondiale”. During the season, the MotoGP riders will also be at the center of the story, with a series of interviews to discover the most hidden and introspective sides of the protagonists of MotoGP.
Sky Sport 24 will as always be the window on the circuits with news, interviews and dedicated studies. In particular, Mondays and Tuesdays on the all news channel will be the days of Reparto Corse, the column that summarizes the key moments of the weekend just past. Marta Abiye and Paolo Beltramo will take care of the space dedicated to MotoGP, while F1 topics will be developed by Davide Camicioli and Matteo Bobbi.
Special content will also be available on demand throughout the season, while non-stop coverage will also be provided by dedicated sections of the SkySport.it website and Sky Sport’s official social accounts.
17 CHAMPIONSHIPS IN 5 CONTINENTS
It will be 11 months of entertainment, with all the championships of the new season nonstop until December. Almost over is the wait for Formula 1, with the new single-seaters showing themselves in their final trim on the weekend of March 8 in Albert Park, Australia, when they take to the track for the first GP of the year. There will be 24 races between Europe, Asia, Oceania, North and South America, with the traditional finale in Abu Dhabi on December 6, which will award the drivers’ and constructors’ titles. A tricolor appointment on the weekend of Sept. 6 for the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, also live on TV8. Also live on free-to-air also the 6 Sprints of China, USA-Miami, Canada, Great Britain, Holland and Singapore, with related qualifying. Melbourne is also the new start for Formula 2 (14 race weekends) and Formula 3 (10 events in total), while we will have to wait for Shanghai for the debut of F1 Academy (7 weekends). In spring, however, it will be the turn of the Porsche Mobil 1 SuperCup (8 rounds total).
MotoGP starts next week, with all Grand Prix live exclusively on Sky and streaming only on NOW until 2027. Rendezvous March 1 at the Buriram circuit in Thailand for the first of 22 GPs, six of which will also be live on TV8: Qatar, France, Italy, Germany, San Marino-Misano and Portugal. Third year for the format with the Sprint Race on Saturdays (all live on TV8) with the championship concluding in Valencia on Nov. 22. Also on track during the season are the Moto2 and Moto3 championships.
WorldSBK will also be on Sky for another two years, ready to shakedown this weekend: first round of the year at Phillip Island, with the other 11 rounds all in Europe. WorldSBK, WorldSSP and WorldSPB weekends will be exclusive on Sky and NOW, with all Superbike races also live on TV8. Challenges from the WCR will also be in the House of Sport.
Tarmac, dirt, snow and mud for the World Rally Championship, which kicked off in January with the legendary Monte Carlo Rallye. The championship will be rich and long, with the year’s other 12 rounds deciding the winners in the grand finale in Saudi Arabia in November. Overseas, the time for the NTT IndyCar Series’ first green light is approaching, scheduled for March 1. In April it will be time for the GT World Challenge Europe powered by aws with Valentino Rossi, with French circuit Paul Ricard hosting the first of 10 seasonal rounds. Among two-wheelers, not to be missed is the Dunlop CIV – Italian Speed Championship, which starts at the Misano World Circuit “Marco Simoncelli” on April 25.
FORMULA 1: A NEW ERA STARTS
It’s all set to experience one of the most revolutionary seasons in Formula 1 history. The regulatory change that officially opens the new era will be told in full on Sky and NOW, with Sky Sport F1 (channel 207) serving as the exclusive paddock for fans thanks in part to 4K viewing quality. The new rules promise an uncertain and hard-fought season from the start, with as many as two new entries, Audi and Cadillac, and a circuit to be discovered, Madrid’s Madring. Ahead of the first GP of the season will be three days of testing in Bahrain, with Sky already following the progress of the sessions since this morning on Sky Sport Uno and Sky Sport F1. Telecast by Andrea Sillitti, Ivan Capelli, Mara Sangiorgio and Vicky Piria, with on-site reports by correspondents Davide Camicioli, Matteo Bobbi and Roberto Chinchero. At the end of the sessions, the daily recap will be given by Special Test Bahrain.
From the Australian weekend, which will sanction the start of the title fight – March 6-8 – to the concluding GP on Dec. 4-6 in Abu Dhabi, 30 spectacular events with 24 races and 6 Sprints, all to be followed in the House of Sport.
During the season, space for interviews with the protagonists. It starts already this afternoon at 5:20 p.m. on Sky Sport F1 with “World Attack”, the special in which Andrea Kimi Antonelli talks about his expectations for his second year in F1. A dialogue between past, present and future, with the dreams and wishes of one of the most anticipated talents on the grid.
Appointment with history on March 20, when it will air “Luca: Sognando Rosso”, the documentary on Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, the man who rebuilt the Ferrari dream: personally chosen by Enzo Ferrari to save the Prancing Horse, he is one of the most beloved icons in our country. Chris Harris, famous presenter of Top Gear, meets him right in Italy on a journey between postcard and memory places, interweaving the story of his own life with that of Gianni Agnelli and Ferrari.
From March 6, in addition, Giorgio Porrà recounts Enzo Ferrari in “L’Uomo della Domenica – Discorso su due piedi”. The new appointment, titled “Enzo Ferrari: the Man, the Redhead, the Myth”, is a journey through legendary triumphs and intimate defeats, in the human and visionary adventure of the man who became a myth, synonymous with speed, luxury and excellence, capable of distributing happiness, neglecting to regulate some of it to himself as well.
On Sky the storytelling will be continuous and constant, with the columns and in-depth reports always ready to provide real-time updates from the track and paddock. Pre and post each session from Friday to Sunday within Paddock Live and Paddock Live Show, while on Thursday we start getting into the GP atmosphere with Pit Walk. Ahead of Saturday’s qualifying Warm Up, while at the end of each Grand Prix there will be Debriefing and Notebook, the “hot” commentary and analysis spaces. Driver interviews, analysis and report cards of the weekend will be the focus of Race Anatomy, Fabio Tavelli’s program in which Leo Turrini, Mario Miyakawa, Umberto Zapelloni, Luigi Mazzola, Carolina Tedeschi and many other guests will discuss the issues that emerged during the race week. Technology remains central in the analyses, with Matteo Bobbi’s Sky Sport Tech Room that will analyze the on-track behavior of single-seaters, between active aerodynamics and new power units, with the support of AI to reveal to fans the subtlest textures of the new regulations and explain the drivers’ performances.
Always available is the Sky Sport Plus feature, accessible from channel 207 via the green button on the Sky Q satellite remote control or the interactivity button on Sky Glass and Sky Stream, if connected to the Internet. The Race Control option remains active with 25 channels: 22 onboard cameras (to watch each lap from the point of view of your favorite driver), Battle Channel (to follow the battle for the lead up close), Timing (for live race data), Multiscreen (all 22 onboard cameras in one screen), Onboard Mix (a mix of the drivers’s point of view), Driving Tracker (with a live circuit map to follow the drivers). Real-time Highlights, results and standings are also available.
MOTOGP, TITLE HUNT OPENS
All on the attack for the 2026 MotoGP world championship, which will remain on Sky until 2027. Sky Sport MotoGP (208) will always be the channel of choice for all fans. It’s time to hit the track in Thailand for the last pre-season tests, a foretaste of the first green light that will go off right at the Buriram circuit on the weekend of March 1. From the hunt for Marquez’s tenth title to the opponents’ desire for redemption, passing through the talent of the Italian riders called upon to be protagonists, it will be a year of challenges at the last turn, in a calendar that sees the return of the Brazilian GP after 22 years.
Approach always at the center of the story: throughout the season, Sky Sport MotoGP will carry out monographic interviews with the greatest active riders and those of the past, with the aim of bringing out the most human and perhaps distant sides of the usual paddock life. The motorcycles that have made history will be revisited in stories ranging from the design phase to putting them on the road and track. Series produced just by the manufacturers and teams will also be rebroadcast always on channel 207, an experiment already started last year with “Inside,” made every week by Team Ducati Lenovo on the behind-the-scenes of its riders’ races. “Strade d’Italia” is the new column dedicated to touring motorcycling among the most beautiful curves of our extraordinary country. The specials also continue in early March, with “Dakar 2026. The Lords of the Sand”, a docufilm hosted by Sandro Donato Grosso and directed by Claudio Cavilotti dedicated to the last edition of the Dakar that opened in 2026 and of which Sky was for the first time official broadcaster. The documentary traces the 13 stages that, among the dunes of Saudi Arabia, saw two- and four-wheeled drivers compete in extreme conditions, with behind-the-scenes footage of what is considered the world’s toughest rally raid.
For columns, “Techno,” which will explain motorcycle technology, makes its debut. Later in the week, Thursday will always start with Paddock Pass, for a comprehensive view on the issues of the upcoming race. Instead, Racebook will be entrusted with the direct storytelling of the riders. The new talents of the future will be told by Talent Time, while the present and past of racing will be the subject ofTop Riders. The lives of the riders will be observed with a playful and light-hearted eye by Rosario Triolo in hisSocial Media Rider, a privileged look into the garages and behind the scenes of MotoGP. On Sunday’s race day, the lead-up to the race will be by Grid, to breathe in the adrenaline directly from the grid just minutes from the start, while the immediate post-GP coverage will be by Zona Rossa, with Vera Spadini and her guests. In addition, the Sky Sport truck, the editorial center of gravity of on-track activity, returns to European circuits.
SITE AND SOCIAL, A NEW RECORD SEASON
SkySport.it ushers in the new motorsport year on the strength of outstanding results: in 2025, content dedicated to Formula 1 and MotoGP exceeded a total of 228 million page views, with 4.7 million visits for F1 in May and 2.8 million for MotoGP in March.
In addition, at the beginning of March comes Speed, the new newsletter of Sky Sport Insider edited by Angelo Carotenuto: from F1 to MotoGP, from Superbike to World Rally and Sky’s other motor events. A must-have pitstop for those who love speed.
On the social front, the official profiles @SkySportF1 and @SkySportMotoGP (Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube and TikTok) are confirmed as the digital reference point for motorsports fans in Italy, thanks to live coverage capable of speaking especially to a young and super-engaged audience, particularly Gen Z. In 2025, total interactions reached 186 million, while video views reached 1.5 billion.
Great performance on YouTube as well, where channels dedicated to motors totaled 118 million video views in 2025. Formula 1, moreover, was confirmed as the second most commented TV event on social media in Italy, right after Serie A, with 111 million live interactions (source: Sprinklr and Talkwalker).
PILOTS PROTAGONISTS OF NEW SKY CAMPAIGN
Motorsport champions are celebrated on Sky Sports throughout the year, and become the protagonists of the new marketing campaign designed and produced by the Sky Creative Agency. Last season’s most spectacular overtaking and fiery rivalries are the common thread running through the campaigns dedicated to Formula 1 and MotoGP, united by the fast-paced rhythm of the music and the energy of the drivers in action. Anticipation toward the new challenges is sky-high: “A new era begins” for Formula 1, “The title hunt opens” for MotoGP. It will be a spectacular year, all to be experienced in Sky’s House of Sports.
