Verstappen wins a rain-delayed Bahrain Grand Prix at Sepang

TSN's extended highlights of a race that carried Bahrain's name but ran in Malaysia have a comment section mostly talking about the track.

Channel: TSNStory of October 5, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 202,471 views a day, 37 times a normal first day on this channel (5,515).

F1 Extended Highlights: Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia

A Bahrain Grand Prix, run in Malaysia, stopped for over an hour and a half by rain, and won by Max Verstappen. TSN's "F1 Extended Highlights: Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia" had plenty to show, and it is on pace for about 200,000 views in its first day. A new video on this channel usually opens with a few thousand.

The description sets out the afternoon. Several cars broke down in the wet before the race got going, the start was delayed by one hour and 33 minutes, and late in the race an engine failure ended what the description calls George Russell's outside bid for the world championship.

The setting fits Verstappen. Sepang hosted the Malaysian Grand Prix from 1999 to 2017, and he won the last of those races, in 2017, the day after his 20th birthday.

The comments came in about seven times faster than on one of the channel's usual first days, and most of them are about the circuit. Viewers call it a real racing track, recall older Formula 1 at Sepang and ask for the series to come back next year. Others argue about the new engine rules, saying the cars' software, not the drivers, decided how hard they could push in the rain. Liam Lawson's drive and Lance Stroll reaching the finish also come up.

TSN holds the Formula 1 rights in Canada, so this upload sat alongside the start of hockey season on the channel. Of the NHL highlights posted the same day, Ottawa against Toronto drew the most views, and it is still far behind the race from Malaysia.

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The numbers

One race from Sepang drew far more views than a usual first day on TSN's channel, and more than any of the NHL highlights posted the same day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

5,515

this video

202,471

subscribers

973,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

645,277,651

views per day

560,359

typical day: 439,420

the video

views

85,939

likes

941

comments

84

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

First Things First

1,110,000

Overtime SZN

1,100,000

TSN

973,000

NFL on ESPN

907,000

TMZSports

883,000

NHL on ESPN

878,000

As of October 5, 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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