Sepang, modded into F1 26, as Formula 1 returns to Malaysia
Aarav also went back to F1 2017, the last official game with the Malaysian circuit, to warm up for the Bahrain Grand Prix held at Sepang.
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This Mod adds the SEPANG Track into the Official EA F1 26 Game...
Formula 1 went back to Sepang this weekend, under the odd label of a Bahrain Grand Prix run in Malaysia, and aarava had the track ready before the cars did. Not in the official game, though: Sepang is not part of F1 26, so his Saturday upload shows a mod that adds the circuit to EA's latest edition. It passed 100,000 views within about a day and a half and is drawing viewers at roughly ten times the pace of anything else on the channel.
It was the second half of a Malaysian double. Earlier in the week he dug out F1 2017, the last official game to include the circuit, for "The 2026 Malaysian GP but its 9 YEARS AGO." The comments became a reunion. Many viewers say 2017 was the first F1 game they ever owned, others got chills from hearing the old intro music again, and one lays out the gap neatly: the last time the sport raced there, Lewis Hamilton had three titles and Max Verstappen had won only one race. Someone also caught the webcam sitting right on top of the mini map he was pointing at.
A first look at Motorsport Manager 2 brought in a crowd of its own, and an eight-day-old test of DLSS 5 in F1 26, faces described as "cursed" included, is still turning up. The My Team career, with Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo in Lamborghini-powered cars, rolled on through a red flag after a Verstappen crash.
Views ran a little below the channel's usual pace, and the subscriber count held at 866,000. Among the sports and racing game channels close to his size, aarava gained the fourth most views of the week. ASP FC's week was in another league altogether, and Tiametmarduk had a far calmer one.
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2017 F1 WAS PEAK!!
@Lorenz9640See it on YouTube2017 was the first F1 game I owned and played
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- Channel
- aarava
- Subscribers
- 866,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,433,945
- Videos published this week
- 9
- Video published
- October 3, 2026
- Video views so far
- 115,103
- Views on its first day
- 97,089
The numbers
Here is how aarava's week looks in figures.
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Which driver won the 2017 Formula 1 world championship, the season of F1 2017?
Hamilton won his fourth world title in 2017 with Mercedes, ahead of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.
