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Sky Sports F1's extended highlights capture Ferrari's tyre debate, Antonelli's lost lead and Verstappen's climb through the field.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 543,088 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (45,574).
São Paulo Grand Prix Extended Race Highlights
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- 0:09Antonelli slides onto the grass during the reconnaissance laps, then rejoins.
- 3:55Verstappen passes Hamilton for ninth before continuing his progress past Piastri and Albon.
- 6:54Hamilton suggests the track is nearly ready for slicks; Ferrari subsequently tells him to wait.
- 9:48Russell spins at the pit-lane entrance and delays Piastri.
- 10:17Antonelli spins out of the lead at Turn 1, putting Norris ahead.
- 14:14Red Bull instructs Hadjar to let Verstappen through into second place.
When is a wet track dry enough to gamble? Lewis Hamilton is ready to consider it in Sky Sports F1's São Paulo highlights: "It's not far from being slicks, mate." Ferrari's reply is to wait. The team does not think the crossover point has arrived.
That exchange gives a strategic thread to a race full of drivers struggling to keep their cars pointing straight. Kimi Antonelli visits the grass before the start, then takes the lead into the first corner. Later, George Russell spins at the pit-lane entrance, delaying Oscar Piastri. Antonelli's own spin at Turn 1 hands the lead to Lando Norris.
The extended highlights reached about 285,000 views in eight hours, already well beyond Sky Sports F1's usual full-day audience for a regular video.
Max Verstappen supplies another thread, passing Hamilton before moving past Piastri and Alexander Albon. Red Bull later instructs Isack Hadjar to let him through into second. Meanwhile, Mercedes secures the Constructors' Championship, with Sky also posting the celebrations and Ted Kravitz's paddock account of the team's first constructors' title since 2021.
For some viewers, though, the edit leaves a strategic gap. They ask to see Norris and Verstappen's second pit stops, and the eventual winner's early stop. In a race where Hamilton's radio makes tyre timing such a live question, those requests are about how the result was built, not just which overtakes made the cut.
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@SkySportsF1See it on YouTubeWhy didn't you show Norris and Max's second stop? That's an important part of the story
@mkieltypercSee it on YouTubeThe move from Max on Piastri & Albion is just wildly insane. Maxterclass
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old bernie had a point with his sprinkler idea
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- Channel
- Sky Sports F1
- Subscribers
- 1,040,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 4,486,312
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,145,289 (on a normal day: 479,943)
- Video published
- November 8, 2026
- Video views so far
- 284,949 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 543,088
The numbers
The extended highlights have already drawn far more views than a usual first day. Comments have also passed the channel's normal full-day total.
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Which team does Lando Norris drive for in these São Paulo highlights?
Norris races for McLaren, as identified in Sky's accompanying São Paulo driver-reaction video.