diff --git a/apps/master-api/src/f1tv/client.ts b/apps/master-api/src/f1tv/client.ts
index c8ff4ab..4b87630 100644
--- a/apps/master-api/src/f1tv/client.ts
+++ b/apps/master-api/src/f1tv/client.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,32 @@ const F1TV_ORIGIN = "https://f1tv.formula1.com";
 const DEFAULT_UA =
   "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36";
 
+/**
+ * F1TV metadata levert `pictureUrl` als relatief pad
+ * (`1000010377-…` of `…/landscape_web`), niet als http(s)-URL.
+ * Covers/hero's gaan via image-resizer.
+ */
+export function resolveF1tvImageUrl(
+  raw: string | null | undefined,
+  opts?: { width?: number; height?: number; variant?: string }
+): string | null {
+  const t = String(raw ?? "").trim();
+  if (!t) return null;
+  if (/^https?:\/\//i.test(t)) return t;
+  const variant = opts?.variant || "landscape_web";
+  const w = opts?.width ?? 768;
+  const h = opts?.height ?? 427;
+  let path = t.replace(/^\/+/, "");
+  if (path.startsWith("image-resizer/")) {
+    return `${F1TV_ORIGIN}/${path}${path.includes("?") ? "" : `?w=${w}&h=${h}`}`;
+  }
+  if (path.startsWith("image/")) path = path.slice("image/".length);
+  // Already has variant suffix → keep; otherwise append landscape_web.
+  const hasVariant = /\/(landscape_web|portrait_web|hero_web|square_web)\b/i.test(path);
+  const withVariant = hasVariant ? path : `${path}/${variant}`;
+  return `${F1TV_ORIGIN}/image-resizer/image/${withVariant}?w=${w}&h=${h}`;
+}
+
 export type F1tvRequestAuth = {
   ascendontoken?: string | null;
   entitlementtoken?: string | null;
diff --git a/apps/master-api/src/f1tv/events.ts b/apps/master-api/src/f1tv/events.ts
index e819451..29a97fe 100644
--- a/apps/master-api/src/f1tv/events.ts
+++ b/apps/master-api/src/f1tv/events.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import type { ScheduleEventPublic } from "../viewer/schedule-events";
+import { resolveF1tvImageUrl } from "./client";
 import { loadF1tvConfigOnly } from "./settings";
 import type { F1tvMeetingSnapshot, F1tvSessionSnapshot } from "./tweaks";
 
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ export function sessionToPublic(
   const stop = new Date(session.endMs).toISOString();
   const phase = phaseFor(session.startMs, session.endMs, session.state, nowMs);
   const playable = session.kind === "live_event" && phase === "live";
+  const image = resolveF1tvImageUrl(session.imageUrl);
 
   return {
     id: toEventId(session.contentId),
@@ -50,11 +52,11 @@ export function sessionToPublic(
     stopLocal: null,
     sportBucket: "racing",
     sportLabel: "Racing",
-    imageLandscape: session.imageUrl,
-    imageBackdrop: session.imageUrl,
+    imageLandscape: image,
+    imageBackdrop: image,
     imagePortrait: null,
     logoUrl: null,
-    images: session.imageUrl ? [session.imageUrl] : [],
+    images: image ? [image] : [],
     audioLanguages: [],
   };
 }
diff --git a/apps/master-api/src/f1tv/sync.ts b/apps/master-api/src/f1tv/sync.ts
index ccf05f4..d56be34 100644
--- a/apps/master-api/src/f1tv/sync.ts
+++ b/apps/master-api/src/f1tv/sync.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { AppError } from "../security/errors";
 import type { F1tvContentOwners } from "./accounts";
 import { decryptAccount } from "./accounts";
-import { ensureSessionId, fetchPage } from "./client";
+import { ensureSessionId, fetchPage, resolveF1tvImageUrl } from "./client";
 import {
   loadF1tvSettings,
   saveF1tvSyncResult,
@@ -136,9 +136,10 @@ function extractSessions(
       state: String(emf.state ?? meta.state ?? "").trim() || null,
       startMs,
       endMs: Number.isFinite(endMs) && endMs > 0 ? endMs : startMs + 2 * 3600_000,
-      imageUrl:
+      imageUrl: resolveF1tvImageUrl(
         String(meta.pictureUrl ?? meta.imageUrl ?? meta.embargoImage ?? "").trim() ||
-        null,
+          null
+      ),
       defaultChannelId,
       accountIds: [accountId],
     });