{"id":207147,"date":"2025-10-17T18:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207147\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:59:07","slug":"f1-driver-lewis-hamilton-says-u-s-gp-popularity-surge-amazing-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207147\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 driver Lewis Hamilton says U.S. GP popularity surge \u2018amazing to see\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">F1 driver Lewis Hamilton discussed the \u201crapid growth\u201d in popularity of the championship and the U.S. GP since the race at the Circuit of The Americas joined the calendar in 2012 and said it has \u201cbeen amazing to see the growth and the interest from people\u201d in the U.S. The latest edition of the race will be held Sunday. Hamilton said the track to him is \u201cthe best track here in the States.\u201d He added, \u201cIt\u2019s one of my favourite tracks on the whole calendar.\u201d Mee noted Netflix\u2019s \u201cDrive to Survive\u201d was a \u201chuge driving force\u201d in increasing the viewership of F1 in the U.S. Another factor was Apple\u2019s \u201cF1\u2033 movie, which Hamilton \u201cserved as executive producer\u201d for. Hamilton: \u201cThe first time we came here, it was all kind of \u2018Formula 1? What is Formula 1?\u2019 But the progress, the journey that we\u2019ve been on from, you know, from Netflix being out to then the biggest sports movie of all time, the \u2018F1\u2019 movie that we did this year, which has been amazing\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/f1\/news\/lewis-hamilton-crowns-cota-the-best-track-in-the-states-as-us-f1-popularity-explodes\/10768054\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MOTORSPORT, 10\/16<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">After 80 races at 12 different American venues, F1 has \u201cfinally cracked the American code.\u201d Former F1 driver Scott Speed said, \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time coming but there is a noticeable difference when you see people walk around in F1 apparel.\u201d There have been \u201cyears of ingenuity, dissatisfaction and scandal\u201d ever since the U.S. first hosted a race in F1 in the sport\u2019s inaugural year in 1950. The composition and creation of the COTA in Austin, which hosts this weekend\u2019s U.S. GP, \u201cgave F1 a lifeline\u201d in the U.S. Speed said, \u201cThey finally got their location right.\u201d F1\u2019s expansion in the U.S. can be \u201cdecreed as nothing other than a roaring success\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/f1\/f1-us-grand-prix-2025-news-austin-cota-b2842400.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">London INDEPENDENT, 10\/17<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/17\/f1-apple-clinch-five-year-media-rights-deal-as-racing-series-pins-us-hopes-on-tech-giant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/17\/f1-apple-clinch-five-year-media-rights-deal-as-racing-series-pins-us-hopes-on-tech-giant\/\">F1, Apple clinch five-year media rights deal as racing series pins U.S. hopes on tech giant<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F1 driver Lewis Hamilton discussed the \u201crapid growth\u201d in popularity of the championship and the U.S. GP since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,18733,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-207147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-motorsports","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}