Sacramento IMAX theater to screen live Formula 1 races. How to get tickets, watch

One of the biggest screens in town is hosting live watch parties for some of the biggest Formula 1 races of the year.

As part of Formula 1’s partnership with Apple TV, IMAX is screening races at some of its theaters nationwide. Sacramento’s Esquire IMAX Theatre is the only California theater outside the state’s coastal metropolitan regions slated to play the races.

Tickets for the first of the scheduled race screenings, the Miami Grand Prix, are available now.

Here’s how you can catch every moment of racing action on the big screen.

Which F1 races are going to be screened at IMAX theaters?

Of the 22 scheduled 2026 Formula 1 Grands Prix, five races will broadcast live to U.S. IMAX theaters.

The Miami Grand Prix will kick off the events on Sunday, May 3 at 1 p.m. Pacific Time. Theaters will screen 15 minutes of pre-race programming before the green flag drops, according to the IMAX website.

These four races will also have events at IMAX movie theaters:

• Monaco Grand Prix – Sunday, June 7 at 6 a.m.
• British Grand Prix – Sunday, July 5 at 7 a.m.
• Italian Grand Prix – Sunday, Sept. 6 at 6 a.m.
• United States Grand Prix – Sunday, Oct. 25 at 1 p.m.

How can I get tickets to watch the F1 Miami Grand Prix at the Esquire IMAX Theatre?

Tickets for the theater’s screening of the Miami Grand Prix, hosted at the Miami International Autodrome around Hard Rock Stadium, are available on the IMAX website and on Fandango.

Admission costs $30 per person, with an additional $2.69 convenience fee. Tickets for the other events will become available closer to the race weekends.

As the European races start in the early morning for the West Coast, it was unclear as of Monday whether California theaters will screen the Monaco, British and Italian Grands Prix.

Which other California IMAX theaters are playing F1 races?

IMAX screens across the U.S. will play the F1 races, including 13 in California:

• Esquire IMAX Theatre, Sacramento
• AMC Saratoga 14 & IMAX, San Jose
• Regal Hacienda Crossings & IMAX, Dublin
• AMC Metreon 16 & IMAX, San Francisco
• AMC Burbank 16 & IMAX, Burbank
• Universal Cinema AMC at CityWalk Hollywood & IMAX, Universal City
• AMC Century City 15 & IMAX, Los Angeles
• AMC The Grove & IMAX, Los Angeles
• AMC Del Amo 18 & IMAX, Torrance
• Regal Edwards Ontario Palace & IMAX, Ontario
• Regal Irvine Spectrum & IMAX, Irvine
• Regal Edwards Mira Mesa & IMAX, San Diego
• AMC Plaza Bonita 14 & IMAX, National City

Camila Pedrosa

The Sacramento Bee

Camila Pedrosa is the California Diversions Reporter at The Sacramento Bee. She previously worked on The Bee’s service journalism team and was a summer reporting intern for The Bee in 2024. She graduated from Arizona State University with a master’s degree in mass communication.