How to watch the FIA WEC action from Fuji
The penultimate instalment of the 2024 FIA WEC campaign – the 6 Hours of Fuji – gets underway tomorrow (13 September) at the legendary Japanese circuit. Read on for all the information regarding where to watch!
Action from Free Practice 3 on Saturday (14 September) will be live to watch on the FIA WEC YouTube channel. For €8,99, qualifying and the race will be available via the official FIA WEC app (more info below).
For Japanese fans who cannot attend in person, J Sports will broadcast both qualifying (14:10 – 15:55 local time) and the race (10:30 – 17:45 local time) in full on its J Sports 1 digital and linear channels, with re-runs on J Sports 1 and J Sports 3 later in the week.
ASIA + AUSTRALASIA
A pan-Asian TV deal with Eurosport for the Asia-Pacific region sees the race from Fuji broadcast on Eurosport Asia. Fans in China can follow live via online platform Douyin’s HeXin RacingChatterbox and 24hourSports channels (09:30 – 16:30 local time), with online channel StanSport televising FP3, qualifying and the race in full in Australia, as well as re-runs on-demand.
EUROPE
Eurosport platforms will show the WEC action across all of Europe including France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, with the full six-hour race live on Eurosport 1 from 03:30 – 10:30 CET. FP3, qualifying and the full race will be available on Eurosport’s digital platforms (Eurosport Player or Discovery+ depending on territories), as well as Max in Belgium and the Netherlands. Free-to-air La Chaine L’Equipe will televise the second part of the race live to fans resident in France, with the full race broadcast live on L’Equipe.fr (04:00 – 10:30 CET). In Italy, fans can tune in live via Sky Sport Arena (04:00 – 10:00 CET).
NORTH AMERICA
MotorTrend will show the race live in two parts in the USA (21:30 – 23:00 and 03:00 – 04:30 ET), while digital channel MAX will broadcast FP3, qualifying and the full race both live and on-demand. Canadian residents can tune in on the Discovery-owned Velocity channel (live from 21:30 – 04:30 ET), with FOX Sports 3 showing the full race live from 19:30 – 02:30 local time in Mexico.
SOUTH AMERICA
BAND will broadcast the action live and free-to-air in Brazil. The agreement will see the race shown on BAND plus pay-TV channel BandSports (partial race, 22:45 – 04:30 local time), with the full race on both FTA digital platform Bandplay (22:30 – 05:30 local time) and Esporte as well as on Grande Premio (FP3, qualifying and full race). DirecTV Sports will show the WEC across Central and South America plus the Caribbean (excluding Mexico and Brazil) on its channel DSports Motor.
AFRICA
Long-term WEC broadcast partner SuperSport will televise the race to residents living in Sub-Saharan Africa.
OFFICIAL FIA WEC APP
FIAWEC.TV will broadcast the WEC race from Fuji live on its online platform. This is available worldwide. Individual race packages are available to buy for €8,99. Available on the app will be qualifying, race replays and full English-language commentary from experts Anthony Davidson, Martin Haven, Graham Goodwin as well as pit-lane reporter, Bruce Jouanny. For more information about the app, click HERE.
For a full breakdown of the broadcast coverage for the 6 Hours of Fuji, click HERE.