Macau Grand Prix week.

Dates

Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 November 2026. Thursday and Friday are practice and qualifying; Saturday and Sunday are race days

Edition

The 73rd Macau Grand Prix, officially the 73rd Macau Grand Prix – FIA FR World Cup

Circuit

The Guia Circuit, 6.120 km of temporary street circuit on the Macau Peninsula

The card

Seven races, headlined by the FIA Formula Regional World Cup in the new Gen2 Tatuus T-326 cars

Tickets

On sale since 12:00 on Friday 9 October 2026. MOP 100 on Thursday and Friday; MOP 400 to MOP 1,200 on race days depending on the stand

Also that week

The 26th Macau Food Festival opens on Friday 20 November, and the 38th Macao International Music Festival is in its closing stretch

The race card

Seven categories share the circuit, and the full programme is set out in our Grand Prix spectator guide. The short version:

• Macau Grand Prix – FIA FR World Cup. The headline. Twenty-six cars from thirteen teams, all in identical Tatuus T-326 cars built to the new Formula Regional Gen2 rules. A ten-lap qualification race on Saturday sets the grid for the fifteen-lap main race on Sunday at 15:30. This is the race young drivers treat as an audition for the road to Formula 1, and Macau is where reputations are made or bent.
• Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup. Factory GT3 machinery from Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Mercedes-AMG and Porsche down a street barely wide enough for it, with a new Silver Cup for emerging drivers in 2026.
• Macau Guia Race – Kumho FIA TCR World Tour. The touring car world tour's season finale: two races on the tightest circuit it visits all year.
• Macau Formula 4 Race – FIA F4 World Cup. The second running of the F4 World Cup, with an expanded grid from the leading national F4 teams.
• Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix, 58th edition. Road-racing bikes on a street circuit, Saturday at 09:10, twelve laps. The bravest race of the weekend and the one the purists set their alarms for.
• Greater Bay Area GT Cup (GT4) and the Macau Roadsport Challenge, for regional and local machinery.

The rhythm matters for planning: Thursday is the day to wander, watch practice from a cheap seat and learn the circuit. Saturday gives you the motorcycle race and the FR qualification race. Sunday is finals day, and the FR World Cup at 15:30 is the one start time to build the afternoon around. Session times can move; the organiser's timetable is the final word.

Tickets: prices and where to buy

Tickets are on sale now through the official channels: Macau Ticketing online at macauticket.com, the Kong Seng ticketing network, and fifteen physical sales points across Macao, Hong Kong and mainland China. Prices are per day. Thursday and Friday cost MOP 100 in every stand, which makes the practice days the best-value motor racing in Asia. On Saturday and Sunday it is MOP 750 at the Grand Stand on the start-finish straight, MOP 1,200 at the Lisboa Bend, where seats are assigned, and MOP 400 at the Reservoir, with MOP 150 concessionary Reservoir tickets for eligible spectators. Every spectator aged two and above needs a ticket, sales are capped at ten per person, and online bookings are collected in person: Grand Prix tickets are physical.

Buy early and buy official. The popular stands sell out (several race-day stands had already gone on the official site by mid-October), and counterfeit tickets surface every year. Our ticket sale guide carries the full price list and the sales-point details. If you would rather book in English with instant confirmation, the same 73rd-edition tickets are bookable through our ticket partner:

Where to watch

The signature corner is the Lisboa Bend, the tight right-hander at the end of the fastest straight, where the braking zone produces most of the weekend's overtaking and most of its incidents. The Lisboa grandstands are the classic first-timer pick. The Grand Stand gives you the start, the pits and the podiums; the Reservoir section watches the fast, flowing run past the water and rewards patience. Our stand-by-stand guide goes through each in detail.

You do not have to pay to see cars. The pedestrian refuge between the Wynn and StarWorld hotels, by the Lisboa Bend stand, puts the braking zone in front of you for free, and big screens around the circuit carry the races live. The other free pleasure is the circuit itself: outside race hours the Guia is public road, and walking the lap on a quiet morning, Lisboa, the Reservoir, the Melco hairpin, costs nothing and teaches you more about the place than any broadcast.

The rest of race week

Macau stacks the week around the racing. The build-up starts at Tap Seac Square with the Grand Prix Family Carnival on 7 and 8 November and the Grand Prix Auto Show on 14 and 15 November, where the competing cars are on display before they race. The Macao City Culture Festival runs from 14 to 22 November alongside.

On Friday 20 November, in the middle of the race weekend, the 26th Macau Food Festival opens at Sai Van Lake Square beside Macau Tower: seventeen days, around 150 local food and drink stalls, free entry, open to midnight on Friday to Sunday. It is the natural end to a race day. The 38th Macao International Music Festival is in its closing stretch across the same days, running to 29 November with Lang Lang and Turandot among its headline programmes, if your evenings need a counterweight to the noise. And the weekend after the Grand Prix, 27 and 28 November, Whisky Live takes over Grand Lisboa Palace; our Whisky Live guide has the details.

Getting around on closed roads

The circuit is the city's road network, so the city reorganises itself for four days. Expect road closures and bus diversions around the Guia Circuit on all four days, practice days included, and journeys across the peninsula to take longer than the map suggests. The working rules: stay on foot on the peninsula wherever you can, since every grandstand is walkable from the historic centre; treat taxis as a scarce resource at session ends; and if you are based in Cotai, come over early and stay late, rather than timing a crossing against a race start.

Coming from Hong Kong, race-weekend ferries sell out early, particularly the Friday evening and Saturday morning sailings. Our ferry guide covers the routes, and the Grand Prix ferry and hotel package guide covers the bundled option. One more piece of kit: ear protection. Trackside noise at a street circuit is relentless, and for children it is not optional.

Where to stay

Race weekend is Macau's priciest of the year and the good positions go first. The peninsula is the racer's base: the Grand Lisboa, Hotel Lisboa, Wynn Macau, MGM Macau and StarWorld sit within walking distance of the circuit, and some rooms overlook the track itself; our Grand Prix hotels guide goes through which hotels actually see the racing. Cotai trades the walk for space and price: the big integrated resorts are a bus or taxi ride from the stands, fine on Thursday and Friday, slower at Sunday session ends. Either way, book the room before the ticket.

Before race day, the Grand Prix Museum by the circuit is worth an hour: the cars, the history and the context that makes Sunday make sense.