System 1 has introduced a weekend attendance of 220,000 on the 2025 Chinese language Grand Prix, a rise of round 20,000 on the earlier 12 months’s determine.
The 2025 Chinese language Grand Prix attracted a weekend attendance of 220,000. The three-day occasion noticed Lewis Hamilton declare his maiden win with Ferrari within the Saturday Dash race and Oscar Piastri take his third Grand Prix victory on Sunday, main residence McLaren’s fiftieth 1-2 end in System 1.
Attendance has grown on the Chinese language Grand Prix by round 20,000 in comparison with the 2024 determine. Extra tickets had been made out there for the 2025 race in comparison with the 2024 occasion. The full attendance of 220,000 spectators is being cited as an “all-time excessive” for the Shanghai occasion, regardless of Worldwide Providers Shanghai stating that 260,000 spectators attended the inaugural race on the observe in 2004.
Along with the on-track System 1 motion, the 2025 Chinese language Grand Prix race weekend additionally featured races from the SRO GT Cup and Porsche Carrera Cup Asia, in addition to the all-female F1 Academy assist sequence, which held the primary races of its 2025 season at Shanghai Worldwide Circuit. Away from the observe, a free fan pageant – titled the Checkered Flag Carnival – happened within the metropolis throughout race week.
Extra Tickets Made Out there for 2025 Chinese language Grand Prix
Huang Ming, Common Supervisor of race promoter Jiushi Group, stated that extra tickets had been made out there for the 2025 Chinese language Grand Prix in comparison with the 2024 occasion. Final 12 months’s race was the primary F1 occasion in China in 5 years, with Shanghai Worldwide Circuit having taken an prolonged break from the calendar because of journey points regarding the coronavirus pandemic.
Chatting with Yicai forward of the race weekend, Huang Ming stated that there have been 17,000 extra tickets on sale for the 2025 Chinese language Grand Prix and the occasion was projected to draw 20,000 extra spectators than within the earlier 12 months.
No official attendance determine was launched for the 2024 Chinese language Grand Prix, however media stories prompt figures of someplace between 180,000 and 200,000.
Attendance grew on the 2025 Chinese language Grand Prix even supposing native driver Zhou Guanyu departed the F1 grid on the finish of 2024. Driving for Sauber, Zhou grew to become the primary Chinese language driver to race in his residence Grand Prix final 12 months. Though not racing, Zhou was current on the 2025 Chinese language Grand Prix. He’s at present the reserve driver for Ferrari.
Shanghai Worldwide Circuit has capability for 200,000 followers in complete, although it doesn’t run at full capability on Chinese language Grand Prix weekend. There are massive grandstands on the banked Turns 12 and 13, for instance, which haven’t been used because the earliest races on the observe. The huge predominant grandstand, reverse the pit lane, has house for as much as 30,000 followers. The opposite grandstands utilised for F1 occasions can maintain round 20,000 followers and there are extra basic admission areas.
The Chinese language Grand Prix holds a contract to stay on the System 1 calendar till at the very least 2030, having signed a brand new five-year contract extension in December 2024. Yicia stories that the occasion generates financial advantages of round $193 million USD.
A File-Breaking Begin to the 2025 System 1 Season
The 2025 System 1 season has kicked off with two sturdy attendance figures. The season-opening Australian Grand Prix, at Albert Park, had a 4-day weekend crowd of over 465,000 – the most important within the Melbourne occasion’s historical past and one of many best-attended F1 race weekends in historical past.
Subsequent on the agenda is the primary triple header occasion of the 2025 season, with three Grands Prix on three consecutive weekends in April. First is the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka on April 4-6. It’s adopted by two evening races, with the Bahrain Grand Prix and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix set to happen on the next weekends.
Final 12 months, System 1 posted a complete attendance of 6.5 million throughout the 24 races in its 2024 season. It was a 9% improve on the earlier 12 months, when 22 races happened. Tickets proceed to promote effectively in 2025 and with the primary two races of the 12 months posting increased figures than in 2024, F1 may very well be on for one more record-breaking season.
