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What time is the 2026 Lianxin Sanya E-Prix and how can I watch it?

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The FIA Formula E World Championship returns to Sanya after a seven year absence for Round 11 of the 2025/26 season, here's all the timings and information you need to follow the action.

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Formula E is back in action, and the championship fight is on! This weekend, we return to Sanya for Round 11 of the 2025/26 season. It’s been seven years since Formula E has raced on this Chinese island, and with only eight drivers on the current grid having raced here before, anything can happen.

Here's the global start times for all the racing action on Saturday 20 June.

What time is the 2026 Lianxin Sanya E-Prix?

On track action commences on Friday 19 June, with Free Practice 1 taking place at 16:30 local time.

Heading into race day, Free Practice 2 starts the action with a 40 minute session at 08:30, followed soon after by qualifying at 10:40. The 2026 Lianxin Sanya E-Prix will begin at 15:05 (local time) for 37 laps of racing action.

How can I watch the 2026 Lianxin Sanya E-Prix?

Here's how to watch, follow or stream the race on TV and via stream whichever country you live in.

Follow the race LIVE and listen to full race commentary on web and in the Formula E app.

You can also keep across Live Timing – which includes a real-time interactive track map and the ability to follow your favourite driver during every session of every E-Prix – plus highlights, detailed session reports, exclusive interviews, all the standings and results as well as data, insight and reaction from trackside.

Where is the 2026 Lianxin Sanya E-Prix taking place?

For the majority of our 2025/26 driver line-up, this will be their first experience of racing in Sanya, with only eight drivers on the current grid having raced here when Formula E last visited the seaside venue in 2019.

The Sanya track has some really fast sections, plenty of overtaking opportunities, as well as plenty of hairpins. It has had a few tweaks compared to the 2018/19 season, which was won by Jean-Eric Vergne and was the location of Oliver Rowland’s first Formula E Pole Position.

Compared to last time out, there’s a different layout for the first three corners. These are all left handers, before they go into a wide Turn 5 hairpin. Then it’s a straight up to Turns 6 and 7.

Drivers are then met with a long run down from Turn 7 to the tight hairpin at Turn 9, with a slight kink in the road before it’s a similar journey to Turn 11 before being met with the final 90 degree left-hand corner which takes you to the start-finish straight.

What has happened so far in the 2025/2026 Formula E season?

Brazil started our season, with Jake Dennis finally ending an almost two-year long winless streak by turning his Julius Baer Pole Position into a strong victory for Andretti. Then it was the turn of Mexico City where Nick Cassidy fought his way from 13th to first and delivered Citroën Racing their first single-seater win just two races into their debut.

Miami hosted next at the city’s International Autodrome. Jaguar’s Mitch Evans secured his 15th career victory during the wet conditions and placed himself top of the all-time wins list in Formula E’s history.

Pascal Wehrlein won the first of two races in Jeddah, to launch himself to the top of the drivers’ standings with Porsche. The following day Antonio Felix da Costa clinched his first first place with his new Jaguar team – a fifth win with a fifth different manufacturer for the former champion in Formula E.

Madrid then welcomed Formula E for the first time, racing at Jarama, a race also won by da Costa. DAC-to-DAC victories for the Portuguese racer. Berlin followed, with Nico Müller achieving his maiden victory, doing so with a special ‘Pink Pig’ Porsche tribute livery. The following day it was Evans who again found himself on the top step of the podium, going from 17th to the win after sublime strategy and skill.

Most recently in Monaco, Nyck de Vries ended Mahindra Racing's winless streak and sealed their first win of the GEN3 era. Come Sunday, Oliver Rowland managed another Monaco masterclass after winning around the principality the year prior too.