Sky Sports F1 2026 Launch Film

2026 is a new era for Formula 1, and Sky Sports needed a film to launch the season. The job for the music was to bottle one specific feeling: the last few seconds on the grid before the lights go out, when everything is held on a knife edge.

The pulse under the whole track is a real heartbeat, recorded through a stethoscope. It sets the tempo and the tension, the thing every driver feels on the grid. Over that we layered the sound of an orchestra tuning up, all the anticipation before a note is properly played, against gritty hardware synths for the edge. The Formula 1 is in there too: we took real car sounds and stretched and manipulated them into drones and risers, so the track is built partly from the thing it is about.

It all builds to lights out. That is the emotional peak, but we didn't let it resolve and fade. The track kicks off right at the very end, so it leaves you wanting the season to start rather than winding down.