A software update on the grid: the Bahrain GP in Malaysia, reviewed by Matt and Tommy
Formula 1 went back to Sepang for the first time in nine years, and the race review passed 450,000 views in under two days.
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Our 2026 Bahrain GP in Malaysia Race Review
Matt and Tommy spent their weekend at Sepang, at least in spirit. The Bahrain Grand Prix, held in Malaysia this year, brought Formula 1 back to the circuit for the first time since 2017, and the pair covered it from every side: a qualifying reaction, a full watchalong, a race review, shorts in between and, on Monday, Matt working through the memes. Fifteen uploads in all.
The race review is the week's most watched, and its description promises software issues, wet weather, strategy failures and a P1 curse. The comment section explains the first one. Cars glitching out on the formation lap stretched the wait to an hour and a half, and viewers have turned it into a running joke about phone updates and engines that needed a bowl of rice. Others write from the grandstands: one counts themselves among the huge Sepang crowd, another says it was their first race ever, and several describe the roar when Lewis Hamilton made a pass. A few, too, connect a Red Bull win with its own engine to the memory of Dietrich Mateschitz.
The meme reaction is the fastest thing on the channel right now, running even quicker than the review did.
Daily views sat a little under the channel's usual pace, but the week still added about 7,000 subscribers. Among the motorsport and off-road channels near its size, none gathered more views over the seven days; dickfartjr had the hottest stretch of days at the end, and most of the others ran quieter than normal.
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What viewers say
Brb phone doing a software update
@ijedi8843See it on YouTubeSepang, what a banger.
218k attended, I was one of them.
Bring this track backkkk@huplimSee it on YouTubeI chose the right track to attend my first race ever!
@izzad777See it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on P1 with Matt & Tommy right now
2026 F1 Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia Watchalong397,537 views · 2026-10-04
Our Reaction to Qualifying for the Bahrain GP in Malaysia316,068 views · 2026-10-03
ABSOLUTE CHAOS 😳234,421 views · 2026-10-04
HE’S DONE IT! 🦁🔥167,738 views · 2026-10-04
The Best Reactions to the Bahrain GP in Malaysia160,096 views · 2026-10-05
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- Channel
- P1 with Matt & Tommy
- Subscribers
- 667,000 ▲ 7,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 8,863,124
- Videos published this week
- 15
- Video published
- October 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 455,756
- Views on its first day
- 376,008
The numbers
Here is how Matt and Tommy's Sepang week looks in figures.
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Which team did Dietrich Mateschitz found as Red Bull's Formula 1 outfit in 2005, after buying Jaguar?
Red Bull bought the Jaguar team at the end of 2004 and raced it as Red Bull Racing from 2005.
