Asia-Pacific / Singapore · Sport

Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix begins at Marina Bay

Rank
Ran: 38h
Updated: 23h ago
Final
Outlets: 7
Regions: 4
Countries: 6
Languages: 5

IOL South Africa · English 7 Oct, 12:28 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Español (1) · +3 languages

Read at IOL

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: IOL, 7 Oct, 12:28 UTC.
Second country: Singapore, with Mothership.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Mothership.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 9 Oct, 03:20 UTC.
Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

29%14%29%28%

Africa 2 outlets · 1 country · 29%
Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 29%
Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 28%

First movers

IOL 7 Oct, 12:28 UTC
TimesLIVE +7h 7m
Mothership +21h 12m
NU.nl +24h 31m
Infobae +26h 18m

Last to join

G4Media 9 Oct, 04:15 UTC
FNN 9 Oct, 03:20 UTC
Infobae 8 Oct, 14:46 UTC
NU.nl 8 Oct, 12:59 UTC
Mothership 8 Oct, 09:40 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Max Verstappen wins rain-delayed Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, 4 to 5 Oct 2026, 22 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 7 outlets in 6 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 1: Argentina. Asia-Pacific 2: Japan, Singapore. Europe 2: Netherlands, Romania. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Romanian.
Timeline: Earliest article IOL, 7 Oct 2026, 12:28 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 13:30 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 04:15 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Asia-Pacific, Singapore. Topic Sport. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.05, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continues Max Verstappen wins rain-delayed Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

8 Oct 2026 364 2.94 5 4 4 4 4.6

9 Oct 2026 388 2.74 7 6 2 2 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 7 Oct, 13:30 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 04:15 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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G4Media Romania 9 Oct, 04:15 UTC
Formula 1 revine pe Marina Bay: Programul Marelui Premiu din Singapore
FNN Japan 9 Oct, 03:20 UTC
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Infobae Argentina 8 Oct, 14:46 UTC
(Previa) Antonelli quiere dar el golpe bajo el calor nocturno en Marina Bay
NU.nl Netherlands 8 Oct, 12:59 UTC
Video | Bottas deelt beelden van gravelrit naar Formule 1-race in Singapore
TimesLIVE South Africa 8 Oct, 10:25 UTC
Snakes, lizards but no crashes: Bottas cycles 420km to next Grand Prix
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- Russell’s title hopes on the line as F1 heads to Singapore 7 Oct, 19:34 UTC
Mothership Singapore 8 Oct, 09:40 UTC
F1 driver Valtteri Bottas cycles 420km from KL to S’pore, approaches Marina Bay circuit
IOL South Africa 7 Oct, 12:28 UTC
Cloned - Max Verstappen faces ultimate test at Singapore Grand Prix following Sepang triumph

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
8 Oct 2026	364	2.94	5	4	4	4	4.6
9 Oct 2026	388	2.74	7	6	2	2	4.6