F1 Fan Surveys: Comparing Results from the Autosport and GPDA Polls

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Published: August 2, 2015

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Autosport recently released the results of its fan survey, conducted in conjunction with F1 Racing and Motorsport News. Earlier in July, the Grand Prix Drivers Association (GPDA) and Motorsport.com also published an executive summary of the results of their own Formula One fan poll.

Although the respondents to the two surveys agree on many points—probably because a lot of the same people answered both—there are also some interesting differences and surprising results. Let's take a look at those.

First, note that the GPDA survey, with its high-profile support from all the drivers on the grid, garnered significantly more responses than the Autosport poll—approximately 218,000 to 35,000.


In the Autosport survey, almost 25 percent picked the 2000s as their favourite F1 decade despite the fact it began with five straight titles for Michael Schumacher, most of them coming in dominant fashion. That is also in spite of the fact the top reason cited for fans to watch F1 is the rivalry and competitiveness between drivers and teams. And in the GPDA survey, 89 percent of fans said F1 needs to be more competitive.



Of course, the end of the 2000s did feature three seasons in a row with the drivers' championship being decided in the final race—perhaps that is what everyone is remembering. Or maybe lots of fans just enjoyed Schumacher's dominance. He ranked second behind only Ayrton Senna in the list of respondents' favourite drivers of all time in the GPDA poll.

Speaking of favourite drivers, in the Autosport survey, nearly 20 percent of fans picked Lewis Hamilton as their favourite, just ahead of Kimi Raikkonen. Raikkonen was first in the GPDA poll, though, followed by Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button.

What happened to Hamilton? It is only a guess, as many of the demographic details haven't been revealed, but perhaps the Au...
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