Formula One is the FIA World Championship for open-wheel cars, and YouTube interest for the keyword f1 printed 26 the week of August 22 2026. That is up 36.84% from 19 on August 15, per Trends MCP get_growth on youtube. The 261-week get_time_series on the same source runs from August 28 2021 (first print 30) through August 22 2026. The 30-day window is still down 23.53%, from 34 on July 25 to 26, because the summer shutdown sat between the Hungarian Grand Prix (July 24-26) and Zandvoort. Google Search for f1 is 34 on August 22, up 54.55% from 22, with about 18,500,000 estimated weekly volume, yet that source is noisier week to week. YouTube is the watch story.
About F1
Formula One is the FIA World Championship for open-wheel single-seater cars, first run at the 1950 British Grand Prix at Silverstone on 13 May 1950, and YouTube interest for the keyword f1 printed 26 the week of August 22 2026 as the Dutch Grand Prix weekend at Circuit Zandvoort opened after the summer shutdown.
Wikipedia says the Formula One Group runs the commercial side, the FIA sanctions the championship, and Liberty Media acquired the rights in 2017 for an estimated $8 billion. The 2026 cost cap is $215 million.
formula1.com, dated August 17 2026, called Zandvoort the 12th round and listed the Sprint at 12:00 local on Saturday August 22 and the Grand Prix at 15:00 local on Sunday August 23. Motorsport.com timed the summer break from the Hungarian Grand Prix on July 24-26 through that weekend, 11 races done and 12 left across 15 weeks. The Athletic, dated August 22 2026, said this is the last Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort after a December 2024 one-year extension.
What the time series shows
YouTube interest for f1 printed 26 on August 22 2026, up from 19 on August 15, after two shutdown weeks at 21 and 19, and the 261-week series still peaks at 100 on December 18 2021, the Abu Dhabi title fight that closed that season.
Last eight weekly prints are 35, 35, 27, 34, 33, 21, 19, and 26. Closest 30-day point is 34 on July 25 (-23.53%). Closest 90-day point is 29 on May 23 (-10.34%). Inside that 90-day window the high is 44 on June 13. Same week of the year: 31 on August 23 2025, 24 on August 24 2024, 24 on August 26 2023, 35 on August 27 2022.
The chart window starts August 24 2024 so two seasons of the summer-break dip stay in view. 2024 prints 18 then 17 in mid-August, then 24 as Zandvoort returns. 2025 repeats it: 33 and 31 in the break, then 45. 2026 follows the same shape. 26 is a rebound off 19, not a new high.
Why the page charts YouTube
F1 is a sport people watch, so youtube is the native source, and that 261-week series still has a readable summer-break shape a stranger can follow in one glance, with 26 on August 22 sitting above the 19 printed the week before.
Google Search for f1 printed 34 on August 22 2026, up 54.55% from 22 on August 15, with about 18,500,000 estimated weekly volume. The 30-day Google Search window is 42 to 34 (-19.05%), the same summer-break shape, but the week-to-week flips are wider. formula 1 on YouTube printed 23, up 53.33% from 15. f1 2026 printed 19, up 72.73% from 11. dutch gp printed 19, up 850% from 2. grand prix printed 43, up 16.22% from 37. f1 movie printed 6 and is falling. The race queries moved together. The film query did not.
TikTok Trending Searches had F1 2026 Edits at rank 14 as of 2026-08-27T12:01:40Z. That board does not give a 90-day weekly series. NFL is the other August sports climb on this site, still early on its own calendar. The YouTube trends source page is the 0-100 weekly index used here. ESPN Fantasy is the football-draft cousin, not the motorsport one.
The Trends MCP calls for this keyword
get_time_series with source youtube and keyword f1 is the call behind the chart, 261 weekly points from 2021-08-28 through 2026-08-22 stored as {date, value} with no smoothing, and that is the only series this page is allowed to mix with get_growth.
get_growth on the same pair, windows 7D and 30D, is the headline math: 19 to 26 (+36.84%) and 34 to 26 (-23.53%). Those tools have to share a source. Mixing the Google Search 34 with the YouTube 26 would invent a story the APIs do not tell. get_top_trends on TikTok Trending Searches supplies the rank-14 F1 2026 Edits context. The YouTube Trending API page documents the live board, which on this pull had turned over completely versus its 7-day baseline, so rank-change was empty and the current board was used only as a neighbor check.
A copy-paste pair for Claude or Cursor:
get_time_series source="youtube" keyword="f1"
get_growth source="youtube" keyword="f1" percent_growth=["7D","30D"]
REST is the same body at https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api with Authorization: Bearer and mode set to get_time_series or get_growth.