Albert Park broke its attendance document on the 2025 Australian Grand Prix, with a complete of 465,498 spectators attending over the four-day weekend.
With elevated capability, Albert Park broke its attendance document on the 2025 Australian Grand Prix, with 465,498 followers passing by way of the circuit gates over the four-day race weekend. The attendance determine is an enchancment of over 10,000 on the 2024 determine.
A Document Breaking Begin to 2025
Albert Park posted record-breaking figures on the primary three days of the 2025 Australian Grand Prix weekend. The primary day of on-track motion on Thursday – which options no Components 1 vehicles on monitor – was attended by 72,056. It’s a 7,000 enhance on the 2024 determine.
By way of official figures, 154,000 on race day in 1996 stays the one day document for Albert Park, although appreciable doubt has been forged on the accuracy of reported figures at early races in Melbourne.
Friday attracted 125,000 followers – greater than many races appeal to on race day and a rise of round 1,500 on final 12 months. Qualifying day noticed 136,347 in attendance – a rise of over 5,000 on the Saturday attendance in 2024.
Capability was expanded forward of the 2025 race to cater for demand, which has seen the attendance determine enhance by nicely over 130,000 because the final pre-pandemic race at Albert Park in 2019.
Attendances in Melbourne had been capped at round 130,000 per day previous to the 2025 Australian Grand Prix however that quantity had clearly been elevated for this 12 months’s race. In addition to an elevated every day cap, there was a brand new 840-seat grandstand positioned at Flip 6, which additional helped to spice up numbers.
Final 12 months, the Australian Grand Prix ranked because the second-best attended race weekend of the whole season, bettered solely by the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, which 480,000 followers attended over the 4 days. Tickets haven’t but bought out for this 12 months’s British Grand Prix, set to happen in July, so it’s conceivable that the Albert Park quantity is probably not matched for the remainder of the 12 months.
The determine doesn’t beat the all-time Australian Grand Prix attendance, which was set in 1995 at Adelaide when 520,000 followers attended over the 4 days. It stays the best-attended F1 race on document.
Trackside Expertise Improved for Followers at 2025 Australian Grand Prix
Forward of the 2025 Australian Grand Prix, race organisers documented the methods wherein that they had improved the trackside expertise for followers at Albert Park. They famous that there was a 22% enhance in superscreens across the circuit, 23% extra hydration stations, 27% extra public bars and 17% extra bathrooms in comparison with 2024.
Organisers additionally improved fan expertise by rising shaded areas on the monitor (though they weren’t wanted on Sunday!) and added a brand new pontoon and a brand new overpass to assist followers discover their method across the monitor extra effectively. The enhancements have been seen by race-going followers in our Fb group, who praise organisation in and across the monitor and famous a scarcity of queueing for meals and facilities regardless of the elevated capability.
As ever at Albert Park, the Components 1 race was supported by motion from different sequence, together with the ever-popular Supercars championship and F1’s feeder sequence Components 2 and Components 3. Off monitor, nightly concert events got here from the likes of Fatboy Slim, The Residing Finish and Tones & I.
Melbourne as soon as once more embraced F1’s presence as the game arrived within the metropolis. This was the primary time since 2019 that town hosted the season-opening race. Melbourne-born Piastri kicked off Australian Grand Prix race week by asserting that he’d signed a multi-year contract extension with McLaren, which will likely be a significant optimistic for race organisers, who’re assured an Australian driver on the grid for the foreseeable future.
Piastri’s presence on the grid has actually helped attendance figures thrive in Melbourne in the previous couple of years. Capability could possibly be expanded even additional in 2026, with the opening of the brand new Anzac Station close by making the monitor much more accessible to extra followers.
With the longest contract of any present race, the Australian Grand Prix is about to seem on the Components 1 calendar till at the very least 2037. It’s probably that Albert Park would be the season-opening race as soon as extra in 2026, with the monitor contracted to be the primary race of the season at the very least three extra instances earlier than the top of its present contract.
