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Now only 6,000,000 are true hardcore race fans and this past weekend through out the large events, and 700 local tracks under 400,000 were out there watching racing in some form with a ticket. TV between the televised events, 7 of them (F-1 included) less than 7,000,000 will have watched. Half of those NASCAR.
So in a Country of 300,000,000 this past weekend how many people watched or went to a race, around 7,250,000. I watched 6 of those races or parts there of. So, in reality less than 7,000,000.
Also in the 17 races of F-1 you will only get a little less than 2,000,000 people to attend. In the U.S. NASCAR over 38 point races and 2 special dates will draw 4,700,000. So the numbers per event are close to the same.
On three day shows, the numbers go well past 7,000,000 and F-1 to around 3,000,000.
The point I am making is maybe you numbers are right but here on Fox, F-1 would be lucky to get 625,000 viewers out of 300,000,000 possible people.
So in Europe, Brazil and a few other places yes F-1 does well but the world does not end there.
In the U.S. it is .02 that are race fans, world wide it is .0002.
Perhaps most of them like other forms of racing. And whio likes f1 style raod racing un the U.S. can follow GrandAm, ALMS, a couple of IndyCar races, formula atlantic - all with american drivers. So you're draming if you state, there are possible 300.000 f1 fans.
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By Castilho de Andrade*
Brazil was the highlight of the 2007 edition of the Formula One Global Broadcast Report, a comprehensive and thorough account published by FOM - Formula One Management - based on audience figures of the 17 races of the Formula 1 season, which were seen in nearly 200 countries. With 119 million viewers last year – 24% more than in 2006 – Brazil has surpassed China to become the country with the largest internal Formula 1 TV audience.
The 2007 Brazilian Grand Prix, on October 21st in São Paulo, was the international sporting event with largest audience in the world, with an average of 78 million viewers and a peak of 152 million viewers worldwide, according to international consultancy agency “Initiative Sports Future”.
In Brazil, “TV Globo” had an average audience of 26 points and peaks of 31 points during the race that decided the 2007 World Championship, where three drivers brought the title decision to the last round, in one of the most exciting clashes in the history of the category. The only sporting attraction that outperformed the Brazilian Grand Prix was the Superbowl in
the United States, an event with more than 90% of its audience within American territory and thus considered to be a national event.
In Spain, fans of Fernando Alonso gave the Brazilian Grand Prix the second highest audience of the year, with 8.4 million viewers. Its audience was just slightly below the match between Barcelona and Liverpool, in the UEFA Champions League, with 8.6 million viewers.
The introductory text to the 2007 Formula One Global Broadcast Report states, in one of its paragraphs, that "the growth of the audience was substantial in several new markets like India and Poland, as well as in already established markets such as Britain, Spain and particularly Brazil, which achieved extraordinary results."
In total, including people who watched various races, Formula 1 reached in 2007 the mark of 597 million viewers around the planet. Market analysts who had access to the Global Broadcast Report and to the data from the “Initiative Sports Future”, conclude that the Formula 1 is now the best vehicle in globalized sports media. FOM monitored a total of 11.183 hours of F-1 in TV networks that have the rights to motor sport’s main category, of which 5.169 hours were of live images.
I thin, that's a lot, and a lot more than NASCAR. And if you only count, the fans at the track. How much do you pay for a NASCAR-ticket? Last time when I attendet a formula one race here in europe (a couple of years ago) i paid around 200,- Euros for three days for a seat far away from start/finish and from seeing the whole track.