Racing events combine competition, engineering, travel, and large public gatherings. The 2024 Formula 1 season ran 24 races, while MotoGP staged 20 races in 15 countries. Together, the figures below show how race weekends are measured through wins, points, attendance, circuit design, environmental work, and access to the sport.
Contents
- Calendar scale and competitive variety
- Winners, records, and championship numbers
- Teams, riders, and season participation
- Crowds, audiences, and local impact
- Circuit measurements and race-weekend geography
- Sustainability and event operations
- Participation and the next generation
Calendar scale and competitive variety
Formula 1’s 2024 calendar contained 24 races. That schedule was part of a broader expansion described by Formula 1: race attendance grew from 4 million to 6.5 million while the calendar grew from 21 to 24 events over the period cited by the organization. The attendance comparison is therefore tied to the time span and definitions used in Formula 1’s report, rather than a single-race headcount.
The season was unusually broad at the front. Seven different drivers won a race in 2024, the highest number since 2012. Two of those winners were first-time Grand Prix winners: Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. Norris won four Grands Prix, while Piastri won two. Max Verstappen won nine Grands Prix, giving the season a mixture of repeat success and new winners.
MotoGP’s 2024 season had 11 teams and 22 full-time riders. Its 20 races took place in 15 different countries, making geography a defining part of the championship. The two series are not directly comparable by race format or calendar structure, but both figures illustrate how a modern championship spreads competition across many venues.
Winners, records, and championship numbers
Lewis Hamilton’s 2024 British Grand Prix victory carried several layers of historical significance. Formula 1 reported it as his 104th career victory and said it ended a 56-race winless streak. His previous win had come at the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. At Silverstone, Hamilton won the British Grand Prix for the ninth time, an F1 record for victories at a single circuit.
Hamilton was 39 years and 182 days old at the 2024 British Grand Prix, making him the oldest Formula 1 race winner of the 21st century. The victory came in his 344th start. Formula 1 also reported a 17-year-and-one-month gap between his first win and that British Grand Prix win, an F1 record for the gap between victories.
The Silverstone numbers extended beyond the win itself. Hamilton had 12 consecutive Silverstone podiums after the result and 15 total podiums at the circuit. He had 150 podium finishes for Mercedes and 199 career podiums. Verstappen’s podium at Silverstone was his 107th career podium, while Norris’s was his seventh podium of the 2024 season. McLaren had also finished on the podium in eight consecutive races by that point, and Piastri had completed every racing lap in 2024 to that point.
Verstappen’s 2024 statistics included eight pole positions and nine race wins. He opened the season with seven consecutive pole positions and became only the sixth driver to win four world championships. Hamilton and Michael Schumacher remained tied at the top with seven world titles each, while Juan Manuel Fangio had five. At the Canadian Grand Prix, Verstappen and George Russell recorded identical qualifying lap times, producing a zero-second margin between them.
The constructors’ contest was close. McLaren won six races and scored 666 points in 2024, ending a 26-year wait for the constructors’ championship dating back to 1998. McLaren beat Ferrari by 14 points. Formula 1 described that 14-point difference as the closest finish since the current points system was introduced.
| 2024 Formula 1 measure | Reported figure |
|---|---|
| Calendar races | 24 |
| Different race winners | 7 |
| Verstappen race wins | 9 |
| McLaren race wins | 6 |
| McLaren points | 666 |
| McLaren’s margin over Ferrari | 14 points |
Teams, riders, and season participation
MotoGP’s 2024 entry structure comprised 11 teams and 22 full-time riders. Those figures describe the championship’s full-time grid, not every rider who may have appeared in a substitute or one-off role. The season’s 20 races across 15 countries also show how a rider’s campaign is distributed across an international route rather than concentrated at one home venue.
Formula 1’s statistics emphasize a different kind of participation: continuity through repeated laps, starts, podiums, and qualifying performance. Hamilton’s 344th start at Silverstone provides the context for his 104th win, while Piastri’s completion of every racing lap through that point in 2024 records reliability across the season’s racing distance.
McLaren’s eight consecutive podium finishes by the British Grand Prix show how team form can be tracked as a sequence rather than only by the final championship table. The eventual six wins and 666 points then converted that strong run into a constructors’ title. The 14-point final margin also demonstrates how a full season can be decided by a narrow difference even when the calendar contains 24 races.
Crowds, audiences, and local impact
The largest supplied MotoGP attendance figure belongs to the 2024 French Grand Prix at Le Mans: 297,471 spectators. MotoGP reported the number as the highest-attended Grand Prix in its history. The previous French Grand Prix attendance record was 278,805 in 2023, so the two reported event totals differ by 18,666 spectators.
Formula 1 reported total attendance above 6.5 million in 2024. That is a championship-wide figure, whereas the 297,471 at Le Mans is a single MotoGP event figure. Keeping those geographies separate matters when comparing the scale of a series with the scale of an individual race weekend.
The 2024 Miami Grand Prix attracted 275,000 fans across the weekend. Formula 1 said the event generated more than US$1 billion in economic impact across its first three years and drew the largest US television audience of all time for the event, at 3.1 million viewers. These measures cover attendance, cumulative local impact, and television audience respectively; they are not interchangeable counts.
The British Grand Prix drew a record 480,000-person weekend crowd in 2023, according to Formula 1. More than 60,000 fans camped locally during that event. The camping figure is a subset of the weekend experience reported for the 2023 race, not an additional attendance total.
MotoGP’s later reported figures provide a separate 2025 reference point. MotoGP announced season attendance above 3.6 million in 2025 and said attendance records were set at nine different circuits. It also reported a global fanbase of 632 million, up 12% versus 2024. Because these figures refer to 2025 and use different audience definitions, they should not be combined with the 2024 trackside counts.
Circuit measurements and race-weekend geography
The Miami circuit is 5.41 kilometers long, has 19 corners, and includes three straights. Formula 1 gives its estimated top speed as 320 kilometers per hour. “Estimated” is important here: the top-speed figure is a circuit description, not a measured result for every car or every lap.
Silverstone is a 3.6-mile circuit, or 5.8 kilometers, with 18 corners, according to Formula 1. The supplied dimensions put the Miami and Silverstone layouts into a compact comparison:
| Circuit | Length | Corners | Other supplied measure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miami | 5.41 km | 19 | 3 straights; estimated top speed 320 km/h |
| Silverstone | 5.8 km / 3.6 miles | 18 | British Grand Prix venue |
These measurements help explain why a race event is more than a date on a calendar. Track length, corner count, and straight-line sections shape the physical setting in which qualifying margins, podium streaks, and attendance figures acquire meaning. The Miami and Silverstone descriptions are venue facts; they do not by themselves predict race outcomes.
Sustainability and event operations
Formula 1 reported a 26% reduction in carbon emissions against its 2018 baseline by the end of 2024. It also reported a 59% reduction in associated carbon emissions across Formula 1 and its factories and facilities. These are organization-reported reductions against the stated baseline and scope.
The series said its 2024 sustainable aviation fuel investment cut more than 8,000 tCO2e from the flyaway air-freight charter programme. Formula 1 described that SAF programme as reducing related emissions by approximately 19% compared with conventional aviation fuel. New freight containers were estimated to reduce carbon emissions by 9,000 tCO2e.
Operational changes were also quantified. Approximately 140 personnel now work remotely at each race weekend through Formula 1’s remote operations. In 2024, 80% of race promoters powered aspects of their events with alternative energy sources, and more than 90% began offering greener ways to travel to races.
The measures describe different parts of the event system: freight, aviation fuel, factories and facilities, remote staffing, venue energy, and fan travel. The tCO2e figures are reductions or estimates reported for specified programmes, not a claim that every race weekend has the same footprint.
Participation and the next generation
Formula 1’s 2024 Learning Sectors programme began with 130,000 students in 700 schools. The reported starting reach works across education sites rather than only race venues, connecting the championship’s event platform with schools.
F1 Academy competed alongside Formula 1 at seven events in 2024 and completed 14 races during the season. Those are separate measures: one counts shared event weekends, while the other counts races completed by the series.
Female participation in racing through the Champions of the Future partnership increased from 5% in 2023 to 25% in 2024, according to Formula 1. The source reports the year-to-year percentages, but does not define a total participant count in the supplied figures, so the percentages should be read as participation shares rather than headcounts.
MotoGP’s 2025 audience report adds an age measure: more than half of its fans and followers were under 35 for the fifth consecutive year. It also reported that its official YouTube audience consumed more than 1 billion minutes of action, engagement across channels climbed to 61%, TV audiences grew 9% on average at each Grand Prix, and Sprint viewership rose 26% versus 2024.
Those 2025 audience statistics belong to a later measurement period than the 2024 calendars and race results. They nevertheless show how racing-event statistics now extend beyond laps and podiums to include digital viewing, age distribution, engagement, access, and participation.