The 2021 F1 season gets underway at the end of this month, with Lewis Hamilton and co. lining up at the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Hamilton is on record as saying Silverstone, Austin and Montreal are his favourite F1 circuits, but what are the most popular tracks on Instagram? To find out, a scrap car comparison site compared the hashtags of the official F1 circuits.
Predictably, the Nurburgring is ranked number one, with a whopping 850,000 mentions. It’s probably worth pointing out that this includes the fearsome Nordschleife, rather than the just the modern F1 circuit. This gives the Nurburgring an unfair advantage over its Instagram rivals.
Lewis Hamilton might be disappointed to discover that of his favourite tracks, only Austin’s Circuit of the Americas appeared in the top 10, with Silverstone and Montreal failing to make the cut. Actually, the F1 world champ has probably got other things on his mind right now.
Interestingly, Brands Hatch is ranked third, with 212,055 hashtag mentions on Instagram. Even more interesting, when you consider that Brands Hatch hasn’t hosted an F1 race since Nigel Mansell drove his Williams-Renault to victory in 1986.
According to Scrap Car Comparison, the company behind the research, the #Silverstone hashtag was discounted because the posts contained updates relating to the influencer @_____silverstone_____.
Most popular F1 tracks on Instagram
- Nurburgring, Germany: 850,152 hashtags
- Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium: 225,878 hashtags
- Brands Hatch, UK: 212,055 hashtags
- Suzuka, Japan: 205,556 hashtags
- Hockenheimring, Germany: 188,716 hashtags
- Fuji Speedway, Japan: 166,355 hashtags
- Red Bull Ring, Austria: 125,469 hashtags
- Hungaroring, Hungary: 124,288 hashtags
- Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi: 106,931 hashtags
- Circuit of the Americas, USA: 99,354 hashtags
The 2021 F1 season starts with the Bahrain Grand Prix on the weekend of 26-28 March. There are 23 rounds, including the British Grand Prix in July. The season ends at the Yas Marina Circuit in December.
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