A Sky Sports camera operator’s work has gone viral on social media after they appeared to be distracted by a familiar sporting spectator in the Formula One paddock.
Sky were broadcasting live from Miami on Saturday as the 2026 season resumed following cancellations to races in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain owing to the crisis in the Middle East.
The Miami event attracts a whole host of celebrities and influencers who dress to impress over the course of the three-day bonanza.
And Sky’s coverage of Saturday’s action took a slight turn when the camera awkwardly panned to a brunette woman dressed in a black crop top striding down the paddock while Jenson Button was delivering his analysis to colleagues Simon Lazenby and Naomi Schiff.
As the woman exited view, the camera drifted to a McLaren mechanic who appeared to react with a stunned expression.
A moment in Sky Sports’ F1 broadcast has gone viral after the cameraman appeared distracted
F1 fans claim the glamorous spectator was Ivana Knoll – known as the ‘world’s sexiest football fan’ who shot to fame at the 2018 World Cup
The clip has been viewed thousands of times on social media, with fans suggesting the glamorous woman was Croatian model Ivana Knoll, who is otherwise known as ‘football’s sexiest fan’.
Knoll, 33, shot to fame at the 2018 World Cup in Russia when she was spotted cheering on her nation from the stands and boasts 2.8million followers on Instagram.
She lives in Miami and is a regular visitor to the race in Florida, having attended every edition since it was added to the F1 calendar in 2022.
Knoll, who is also a DJ, attended the World Cup in Qatar in 2022 but was criticised for wearing revealing attire.
‘There is good and bad and some things are blessings and some are lessons,’ she told Daily Mail in 2024.
‘I am the type of person who doesn’t care about other people’s opinions anyway.
‘But definitely my career changed a lot in an amazing way (after Qatar) and it helped me to get back to my biggest love which is music.’
She said the recognition that the World Cup gave her had led to her being invited to DJ at events like Formula 1 and in Las Vegas.
‘Nobody made me nobody can break me. I choose the harder way for my career not to sell myself or my soul and it’s not easy but I am making it.’
She said having followers on Instagram and more on other social media platforms, was ‘mind blowing.’
