Jamie Chadwick's first day in a Williams F1 car at Portimao

The Sky F1 pundit's test went from simulator to seat fit to her first laps, and it was the week's most watched upload as the Bahrain Grand Prix moved to Sepang.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Jamie Chadwick drives Williams F1 car for the FIRST time! 🤩

A pundit got behind the wheel. Jamie Chadwick, familiar to Sky Sports F1 viewers as one of the voices analyzing the races, drove a Williams Formula 1 car for the first time at Portimao, and the channel followed her the whole way: the simulator, the seat fitting, the night before, the drive to the circuit and finally the laps themselves.

It became the most watched of fifteen uploads this week, past a quarter of a million views. Chadwick won the W Series three times and later raced in Indy NXT, so she is no stranger to fast cars, and that is what many viewers seize on: if a professional is this struck by the grip, what must these machines be like? Others keep pointing to the last few seconds of the video, and several hope the test leads to a full-time seat somewhere.

The rest of the week belonged to an odd bit of scheduling: the Bahrain Grand Prix, held this year at Sepang in Malaysia. Charles Leclerc topped Friday's second practice, then Saturday turned into a Max Verstappen pole with Lewis Hamilton alongside him on the front row. The qualifying highlights are the channel's fastest video right now, the drivers' reactions follow, and a clip of Toto Wolff, George Russell and Kimi Antonelli trying to explain Mercedes' struggles sits third.

The channel is running at roughly half its usual daily pace, with subscribers holding steady. Among motorsport and motorbike channels of similar size, it gathered the third most views of the week, while ThoughTaken had by far the biggest.

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The videos drawing views on Sky Sports F1 right now

Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia Qualifying Highlights244,340 views · 2026-10-03 VERSTAPPEN-HAMILTON FRONT ROW! 🤯 | Drivers react to Bahrain GP quali…93,242 views · 2026-10-03 Who topped Friday in Sepang? | Bahrain GP in Malaysia Practice Highli…80,082 views · 2026-10-02 Valtteri Bottas was asked about the recent tax situation for F1 drive…76,792 views · 2026-10-02 Everything you need to know ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malays…58,623 views · 2026-10-01 ‘Very DIFFICULT to understand’ | Wolff, Russell and Antonelli react t…30,595 views

The numbers

Here is how Sky Sports F1's week looks in figures.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels

ThoughTaken

17,104,670

4WD 24-7

4,489,657

Sky Sports F1

2,383,583

CarsandCameras

747,899

Srkcycles

579,053

Quadrant

569,241

RRC Restoration

170,525

RAFA TV

40,516

6Foot4Honda

4,258

subscribers

1,030,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

546,666,489

views per day

282,756

typical day: 566,217

this week's videos (first-day views)

Jamie Chadwick drives Williams F1 car f…

138,363

Who topped Friday in Sepang? | Bahrain …

75,249

Valtteri Bottas was asked about the rec…

66,360

Everything you need to know ahead of th…

45,496

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

4WD 24-7

1,500,000

ThoughTaken

1,320,000

CarsandCameras

1,310,000

Quadrant

1,180,000

6Foot4Honda

1,150,000

Sky Sports F1

1,030,000

RAFA TV

1,010,000

Srkcycles

792,000

RRC Restoration

792,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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