The Super Bowl LVI that took place at SoFi Stadium in the Los Angeles area added a total of 101 million simultaneous viewers to the contrary is the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the last race of the 2021 season reached 108.7 million viewers.
It should be noted that despite the locality of American football in the United States and the widespread popularity of Formula 1, there are very comparable figures. In this sense, Formula 1 released more numeralia about the 2021 season.
2021 represented an important advance in audience that added 1.55 billion viewers, 4% more than in the 2020 season. F1 also saw huge viewership at the season opener at the Bahrain GP (84.5m) and at the three Sprint weekend events at Silverstone (79.5m), Monza (80.4m) and Sao Paulo (82.1m). millions).
In 2021, F1 welcomed 2.69 million attendees to its events, after they were suspended in 2020, despite many races having limited capacities and some unable to receive a single fan due to Covid-19 health constraints. 19.
The races with the most fans in the stands were
The three most tumultuous Grand Prix were those that exceeded 300 thousand attendees in their corresponding weekend: United States (400 thousand), Mexico (371 thousand) and Great Britain (356 thousand).
In the case of these three events in the United States, Mexico and Great Britain they increased their capacity for more fans than in 2019, the previous time they achieved attendances of 268 thousand, 348 thousand and 351 thousand, respectively.
“The 2021 season was something very special. We had a battle for the championship that went into the last race with a lot of emotion throughout the championship,” said Stefano Domenicali, President and CEO of Formula 1.