As Brad Pitt's F1 movie lands on Apple TV on 12 December, American fans are about to get an at-home replay of a film that has done something pretty special: it made Formula 1 feel like a mainstream US blockbuster.
Long before the movie's streaming debut, F1 already had a lot to tell of its success in the States. As we've mentioned countless times before on this website, Netflix's Drive to Survive had primed the country, persuading it to embrace the championship, which was for so long stubbornly European. Now, the US "accounts for the largest share of respondents of any individual country", according to the 2025 Global F1 Fan Survey, with 52 million fans.
