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    McLaren boss Zak Brown summarized Formula One's growing popularity in the United States, saying it is just getting started. He cited the upcoming Las Vegas Grand Prix and an upcoming Brad Pitt movie about F1 as events that will further accelerate interest in the sport among US audiences. Brown also noted that F1's TV ratings in the US still have much room to grow compared to other sports, but interest has grown rapidly in recent years through platforms like Netflix and new races in Austin and Miami. He is optimistic these upcoming events will help attract new and wider audiences to Formula One in the US.

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    McLaren boss Zak Brown summarized Formula One's growing popularity in the United States, saying it is just getting started. He cited the upcoming Las Vegas Grand Prix and an upcoming Brad Pitt movie about F1 as events that will further accelerate interest in the sport among US audiences. Brown also noted that F1's TV ratings in the US still have much room to grow compared to other sports, but interest has grown rapidly in recent years through platforms like Netflix and new races in Austin and Miami. He is optimistic these upcoming events will help attract new and wider audiences to Formula One in the US.

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    F1's U.S.

    takeover just getting


    started, says McLaren chief Brown

    Reuters
    Oct 18, 2023, 03:43 PM ET

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    Formula One's surging popularity in the U.S. will accelerate further with next month's Las
    Vegas Grand Prix and an F1 movie starring Brad Pitt on the way, McLaren boss Zak Brown
    told Reuters.

    U.S. interest in the sport has been supercharged in recent years by Netflix's hit show
    "Drive to Survive" and the frenzy will shift into high gear when the sport's top drivers race
    down the famed Las Vegas Strip the night of Nov. 18.

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    "It's awesome that Formula One has finally caught on in North America," Brown told
    Reuters in an interview.

    "It has happened much more rapidly and more significantly than I ever thought possible,
    which is great news."

    Awareness of the sport in the U.S. plummeted after the U.S. Grand Prix fell off the F1
    calendar in 2008 but rebounded strongly when it found a home in Austin in 2012.

    Brown said F1 has attracted a wider array of fans since it was bought by Liberty Media in
    2016 and hopes the excitement of a third U.S. race will translate into a ratings bonanza for
    ESPN, which will broadcast its races through 2025.

    "You've got three great locations now with Miami, Las Vegas and Austin, and you have a
    new TV contract where they spent a lot more, so they are going to invest a lot more in the
    product," said Brown, who is a Los Angeles native.

    "The races are all sold out, corporate hospitality is off the charts. The awareness for
    Formula One is fantastic, but its TV ratings in North America relative to other major forms
    of sport are still very low," Brown said.

    "There's a lot of room for viewership growth in America."

    F1's return to Las Vegas after a decades-long absence is expected to be one of the biggest
    sporting spectacles of the year, with more than 105,000 fans in attendance each day
    beginning with open practices on Nov. 16.

    Organizers estimate the event will inject around $1.2 billion into the local economy.

    "Las Vegas is the hottest sporting ticket, not just in North America, but the world," Brown
    said.

    Meanwhile an as-yet-untitled movie starring Oscar winner Pitt from "Top Gun: Maverick"
    director Joseph Kosinski has been filming at racetracks.

    "I think we all saw Top Gun and fancied being a fighter pilot and Tom Cruise when we all
    grew up, or at least that was the impact the movie had on me.

    "And I think that's the impact the movie's going to have on men and women, boys and girls
    around the world. They're going to go, this sport is cool. So I think it'll bring in new fans
    and I think people will be fascinated.

    "The Brad Pitt movie, the new television contract, put it all that together and I think it's
    still early days in America."

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