On 13 December, the 2021 F1 season ended in Abu Dhabi, with Verstappen overtaking Hamilton on the last lap to win the first world championship of his career with 395.5 points, and Hamilton was runner-up.
The race ran a total of 58 laps, Hamilton was the leader in the first 57 laps, but the last 8 laps Verstappen challenged Hamilton and successfully overtook, which also made the game full of suspense and added a lot of surprises. It is this suspense and accident that has greatly increased the ratings of this game, and also allowed the merchants behind it to gain huge benefits.
Hamilton said after the game that it was a trap, that he had become an actor, and that everything was as if there was a script and that at the last moment a hero needed to appear, and that hero was Verstappen.
Since the American Free Media Group acquired F1 for $8 billion in 2017, the Americans have added a lot of entertainment elements to F1, they have turned the F1 game into the Super Bowl, they let Brian Taylor, who scored "Fast and Furious", made the theme song for the F1 competition, such as they deliberately exaggerated the plot of some F1 race overturning, they also cooperated with e-sports companies to attract more young fans, the Americans did this to make F1 more entertaining and attract more young audiences. That's how you can make more money. It is also understandable that americans have spent a lot of money to buy F1, and in the field of sports, Americans have a variety of ways to make money.
So between Verstappen and Hamilton, the Americans prefer to let Verstappen be the champion, because Verstappen has more traffic and more topics, and they must establish a hero like Verstappen, and Verstappen's victory is also a victory of traffic.
Hamilton won 8 crowns, he won the championship again will make fans have aesthetic fatigue, which is the same as the World Table Tennis Championships men's singles final if Moreygaard defeated Fan Zhendong, Moreygaard will become a hero will get more attention, will help the International Table Tennis Federation to play a better role in promotion, but Fan Zhendong does not give Moregaode such an opportunity.
After Verstappen won the championship, it also allowed F1 to have a new championship, many people may become fans of Verstappen and fall in love with F1, the American idea of the entertainment and sports industry is to package a hero out, which is conducive to the development of F1, of course, Verstappen can not always be a champion, F1 needs a hero to replace another hero, with heroic scenes to attract the audience, this is the plot of American blockbusters.
According to the American way of thinking, F1 players from countries with huge markets and huge consumption potential have more commercial value, and there has been no Chinese in the history of F1, and the future Chinese market is larger than that of the United States, which Americans also know.
With the signing of China's Zhou Guanyu by F1 Alfa Romeo Team, F1 also found the best advertising spokesperson, and Zhou Guanyu brought up to 30 million euros in sponsorship fees after entering the Alfa Romeo Team, and some people say that Zhou Guanyu is a capital into the group.
The 2021 F2 Championship has also come to an end, with Zhou Guanyu finishing second in the third leg of Abu Dhabi and locking in the third place of the driver of the year.
Zhou Guanyu has won four scoring rounds and nine podiums this season, and he has proved with his outstanding performances that Chinese can also become an F1 driver.
If Zhou Guanyu has a firm foothold in F1, he will also get a lot of care, he will also have Verstappen's treatment, if he has absolute strength F1 is also willing to support this Chinese driver.