Lewis Hamilton had to settle for second but Formula 1's most successful driver said Sunday's United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, still felt like a breakthrough for his sport. The race day crowd of 140,000 at the Circuit of the Americas surpassed the 135,000 who attended the Indianapolis 500 in May, then the largest sporting event in America since the start of the pandemic. The three-day crowd figure for the race in Texas was given as 400,000. 'It feels like this is our acceptance into the U.S.,' Hamilton, a five-time winner in Austin, said as he surveyed the scenes after the race. 'I hope we get more races out here and I hope that the sport continues to grow because you can tell...
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