Interest in Formula 1 has gone through the roof across the world in recent years.
But the frenzy created by, among other things, Netflix's Drive to Survive programme and the blockbuster rivalry between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen last year, seems to have passed Germany by. Interest in F1 from Dusseldorf to Berlin, Rostock to Munich has waned, in contrast with that general worldwide trend.
Former Mercedes motorsport vice-president Norbert Haug has summed up the situation and pointed to a lack of top drivers and no race in the country, among other things, as major issues that are affecting the popularity of the sport in the country.
