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AUDIENCE - COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS FORMULA 1 RACING DRIVERS

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Often used for “inside” content, Instagram is surely the most popular social 2 network right now. Formula 1 drivers are the most famous in the motorsport, so we found it helpful to focus on their Instagram accounts for this study.

We selected the official Formula 1 drivers’s Instagram accounts (2018)

Data was taken manually by our team on each Instagram account. This data matchs with posts published between 10/01/2018 to 10/31/2018.

The Instagram data have been collected on November 1st, 2018, and are no longer effective today because of fans fluctuation and interactions on the accounts. BIGGEST COMMUNITY - CLASSIFICATION BETWEEN 10/01/2018 AND 10/31/2018

N° Racing Drivers Followers Posts Likes Comments Video views Videos 1 7,9M 49 11 966 662 110 904 9 821 177 14 2 2,2M 45 2 293 641 13 173 1 789 783 8 3 1,7M 12 1 667 394 18 076 2 282 676 2 4 1,7M 20 2 509 500 20 543 594 152 2 3 5 KIMI RAIKKONEN 1,1M 14 2 489 947 36 354 0 0 6 VALTERRI BOTTAS 777K 41 1 035 550 5 444 94 866 2 7 SERGIO PEREZ 560K 19 349 843 2 935 26 478 1 8 CARLOS SAINZ 520K 12 288 369 1 867 285 127 3 9 NICO HULKENBERG 477K 7 134 779 587 0 0 10 463K 38 193 027 1 015 232 834 13 11 439K 15 784 466 4 337 364 612 2 12 312K 16 279 595 1 204 0 0 13 306K 11 169 103 1 743 18 663 1 14 296K 25 586 380 3 314 58 593 1 15 254K 14 99 818 1 075 14 659 1 16 201K 14 139 767 1 468 0 0 17 177K 4 42 196 490 0 0 18 148K 9 124 400 1 651 97 498 2 19 SERGEY SIROTKIN 100K 19 92 538 707 9 627 1 20 NO OFFICIAL ACCOUNT AVERAGE OF REACTIONS - CLASSIFICATION BETWEEN 10/01/2018 AND 10/31/2018

N° Racing drivers Average of reactions* Average of video views 1 LEWIS HAMILTON 246 481 701 513 2 KIMI RAIKKONEN 180 450 - 3 DANIEL RICCIARDO 140 456 1 141 338 4 MAX VERSTAPPEN 126 502 297 076 4 5 CHARLES LECLERC 52 587 182 306 6 FERNANDO ALONSO 51 263 223 723 7 VALTERRI BOTTAS 25 390 47 433 8 PIERRE GASLY 24 186 95 042 9 CARLOS SAINZ 23 588 58 593 10 NICO HULKENBERG 19 338 - 11 SERGIO PEREZ 18 567 26 478 12 ESTEBAN OCON 17 550 13 STOFFEL VANDOORNE 15 531 18 663 14 BRENDON HARTLEY 14 006 48 749 15 LANCE STROLL 10 672 - 16 MARCUS ERICSSON 10 088 - 17 KEVIN MAGNUSSEN 7 207 14 659 18 ROMAIN GROSJEAN 5 106 17 910 19 SERGEY SIROTKIN 4 908 9 627 20 SEBASTIAN VETTEL - -

* reaction = likes + comments RESULTS

"There are the three last Formula 1 races in October, for that reason, we chose to do this study at this period. We can notice an important gap between Lewis Hamilton, great influencer, and his competitors. Sebastian Vettel is absent of this study, the German driver 5 is only one who don’t have official Instagram account. Communication on Instagram is usually used for the majority of athletes and their phones aren’t too far from cockpit. It should be noted that 19 racing drivers have an Instagram account and only 4 racing drivers published less than 10 posts last month, all others are very active. We can also notice that racing drivers who recently had important informations to announce, have very interactive communities, like Pierre Gasly or Charles Leclerc, this latter is one of the 5 best drivers on Instagram. As part of this study, we can not attest that advertising budgets have been invested to boost some posts, but the statistics of the reactions by post for all this Instagram accounts are not disproportionate." ARMAND FAURE

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