F1 shares stats from 2025 season whether information on on-track moves and or things outside the track with regards to social media and everything.
It has been another record-breaking season for Formula 1 as the sport celebrated its 75th anniversary. The action on-track continued to deliver, with Lando Norris securing his first Drivers’ Championship, becoming the 11th British driver to win a world championship, as well as McLaren claiming consecutive Constructors’ Championships. The end of the season ended in spectacular fashion, following the closest finish to a title fight in 15 years, with three drivers in contention coming into the final race. Across the 24 Grands Prix, nine different drivers across seven teams reached the podium.
Focus now shifts towards a next generation for Formula 1 as the sport introduces new regulations for the 2026 season, including advanced sustainable fuels and new hybrid power units. Next year will see the introduction of new teams Audi and Cadillac, and Ford will also return to the sport, working with Oracle Red Bull Racing on its engine project as a Technical Partner. Following the conclusion of a memorable 2025 season, below is a summary of how Formula 1 has performed across multiple categories, such as audience and commercial growth, as well as race attendance and partner activations.
Growth and Demographic Trends
Our global fanbase continues to grow and is becoming younger and more diverse:
- Formula 1 has a global fanbase of 827 million and is the world’s most popular annual sporting series, with a year-on-year increase of 12% and a 63% increase versus 2018.
- This global fanbase figure makes Formula 1 the most popular global sport league, with a fanbase 11.4% greater than the second biggest sport (NBA).
- The fanbase continues to get younger, with 43% of the total fan base being under 35 years old and a growth of 51 million in fans under 35 year-on-year.
- 57% of all new fans over the last year have been under 35.
- 42% of the fanbase is now female, vs 37% in 2018, with a growth of 43m female fans year-on-year.
- 48% of all new fans this year have been female.
- Our fanbase keeps growing in every part of the world, with 115.4m fans in Europe, 16.7m in the UK, 221.1m in China, and 78.8m in India.
United States
We continue to see robust growth and momentum in the US market supported by the three unique races in the USA:
- Fanbase size in the US has reached 52 million, up +11% year-on-year.
- Live season race viewership in US up +21% vs. 2024 season average.
- The US is largest F1 market for YouTube viewership (171m video views in 2025) and social media followers (6.3m across YT, TT and IG) – social media followers are up in US +17% year-on-year.
F1® The Movie
Following its global launch at the end of June, F1® The Movie performed incredibly at the box office, becoming both the highest-grossing Apple film, and the most successful sports movie of all time.
Key statistics following the release of the movie include:
- Highest-grossing sports film of all-time, with a global box-office figure of more than $630 million.
- Largest global opening weekend ever for a Brad Pitt film (previously World War Z in 2013), and overall highest-grossing film of Pitt’s career.
- F1® The Movie was shown on more than 44,000 screens in 78 markets outside the US & Canada.
- During production, over 185 hours of footage was shot across 14 Grands Prix.
- More than 2,000 hours of F1 broadcast footage was recorded for the movie.
- 1,900 members of crew involved in the production of the film, with roughly 400 crew at each race.
- F1® The Movie was released on Apple TV worldwide on Friday 12 December 2025, hitting No.1 on Apple TV streaming charts after the release on the platform, and setting the record for the biggest opening streaming weekend on Apple TV for a theatrically released film.
F1 75 Live
To celebrate the sport’s 75th anniversary and the 2025 season launch, Formula 1 delivered a spectacular and innovative show, F1 75 Live at the O2, the sport’s first-ever season launch event, where all 10 teams and 20 drivers unveiled their liveries for the season. A host of exciting musical performances were included from the likes of Take That, country music sensation Kane Brown, composer Brian Tyler’s ‘Are We Dreaming’ and award-winning singer-songwriter mgk.
Standout statistics from the event include:
- The O2 Arena sold out in 20 minutes, with 16,000 fans in attendance.
- 42 of F1’s broadcast partners streamed live coverage across 37 global territories.
- 5m tuned in to the live broadcast on the F1’s social media channels, with the YouTube livestream being watched in 211 different territories and 63% of TikTok views being from non-followers.
Race Attendance
Attendance by fans has continued to break records in 2025:
- Total season attendance: 6.7 million – this is the biggest combined season attendance ever. Up from 2024 (6.5m), 2023 (6m), 2022 (5.7m), and 2019 (4.2m).
- 19 out of 24 events were completely sold out.
- 11 new attendance records.
- Four race weekends with more than 400k attendees, including largest attendances in Australia (465,000) and Great Britain (500,000).
- 10 more race weekends with attendances of more than 300k, including Monza (369,000), Canada (352,000), and Belgium (389,000).
Social and Digital
Formula 1 has been the fastest growing global sport league on social media for the fifth year in a row, with F1 social platforms delivering more than 2.3 billion engagements – the most engaged tier 1 rights holder, outperforming NBA, UEFA Champions League, NFL and the Premier League.
Highlights from race weekends continue to remain popular with the sport’s audience, demonstrating the significance and growth in digital channels, particularly among younger fans, as well as the demand for short form racing content:
- Formula 1’s social media following has now reached 114.5m (+19% year-on-year and up from 18.7m in 2018).
- Below is the increase in growth of each of F1’s social media platforms vs the growth across 2024: TikTok: +91%; YouTube: +53%; Facebook: +51%; Instagram: +25%; X: +1%
- Growth on Chinese platforms (Weibo, WeChat, Toutiao, and Douyin): +35% compared to 2024.
- During the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix finale, F1 social media channels registered the most impressions and engagements ever across the top 5 platforms (Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook).
- Viewership for F1’s YouTube channel highlights are up +33% year-on-year. The highlights for the Australian Grand Prix gained 13 million views in the first week, the second largest audience after Abu Dhabi 2021 on the channel. Another 12 races gained over 7m viewership.
- The series Passenger Princess with popular content creator, Amelia Dimoldenberg, has so far generated 263m views across all channels.
TV viewership highlights
TV viewership for the 2025 season has continued to show a strong upward trajectory and produce record viewing figures for the year, with 18 of 24 races showing live viewership growth year-on-year across 15 of F1’s key markets (for qualifying and race). Key stats include:
- Year-on-year global audience growth, with approximately 70m average weekend viewership.
- The Belgium GP weekend attracted the largest audience of the season, with over 80m, underscoring the popularity among fans of Sprint events.
- On ESPN in North America, F1 registered an all-time single-season viewership record for the championship on US television, with 16 races this year setting new event viewership records.
- The sport continues to see an increase in interest both in heritage markets like Germany (+12%), Brazil (+11%), and France (+6%), as well as in growth markets like the China (+11%) and the Middle East (+10%). Oscar Piastri’s fight for the championship contributed to an increase of season audiences in Australia by +55% (please note that these are provisional data based on the TV audiences of the first 18 races).
Sprint Races
- Sprint races continue to be a hit with fans – on average, 78% of fans want sprint weekends to remain on the calendar.
- Sprint races create more buzz and conversation – in 2025 sprint weekends had more social mentions (8% higher) and more social reach (4% higher) than non-sprint weekends.
- Sprint audiences display year-on-year growth, with Miami (+21%) and Belgium (+30%) displaying the largest audience increase.
- In 2025, Formula 1 President & CEO Stefano Domenicali, said he anticipates that there will be an increase in the number of Sprint events in 2027.
Las Vegas Grand Prix
- Sold out event with a weekend attendance of over 300,000.
- A massive social success, with over 450 million video views and over 60 million online interactions with F1 content.
- More than 1,200 creators involved, generating 1.8 billion impressions and 5,000 social posts.
- Very strong media coverage of the event, producing more than 43,000 articles during the race week.
- This year, the Las Vegas Grand Prix offered an unparalleled scale of VIP access, featuring an impressive 44 private suites and five shared suites across the Paddock Club.
- Formula 1, in a partnership with Liberty Media, hosted an F1 Business Summit in Las Vegas, bringing together Global Partners, industry leaders and investors to explore the intersection of sports, entertainment, and culture.
Here’s more from F1: https://corp.formula1.com/formula-1-2025-season-review/
Here’s review of F1 Academy: https://corp.formula1.com/f1-academy-2025-season-review/
Here’s F1 2026 entry list
Here’s FIA, F1 on 2026 regs
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