Method 1 has introduced a weekend attendance of 266,000 on the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix – the most important determine at Suzuka in almost 20 years.
The 2025 Japanese Grand Prix weekend had a complete attendance of 266,000 – the most important weekend attendance at Suzuka since 2006 and a rise of 37,000 on the 2024 determine. After initially displaying a weekend attendance of 255,000 of their pre-race broadcast, Method 1 amended the determine to 266,000 after the race.
There was loads of native curiosity for the Japanese followers, with Yuki Tsunoda stepping as much as Purple Bull from Racing Bulls, changing Liam Lawson on the workforce after simply two races within the 2025 season. Purple Bull ran a white and pink livery on the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix, in tribute to their partnership with Honda, which involves an finish on the conclusion of the 2025 season.
Coinciding with the race weekend, a fan pageant was held in Tokyo to rejoice F1’s go to to Japan. Earlier within the week, Tsunoda and Lawson joined their respective new team-mates Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar for demonstration runs on town streets.
The 2025 Japanese Grand Prix marked the second time that the Suzuka race has taken place in April. It moved to its new place on the schedule final 12 months as a part of F1’s calendar rationalisation, serving to the game to succeed in its internet zero emissions objectives by 2030. Suzuka Circuit has additional helped F1’s efforts in 2025 by putting in new photo voltaic panels on the circuit and introducing the usage of HVO gasoline to energy mills within the paddock.
2025 Japanese Grand Prix: Attendance Continues to Develop at Suzuka
Within the 2010s, weekend attendance figures at Suzuka reached 200,000 solely as soon as, in 2012 when house hero Kamui Kobayashi recorded the primary and solely podium end of his profession on house soil. The Japanese Grand Prix returned to the calendar in 2022 after a 3-year enforced break as a result of coronavirus pandemic.
After 200,000 followers attended in 2022 – at a time when Japan had not re-opened to worldwide guests – the determine grew to 222,000 in 2023 and reached 229,000 in 2024. The 2025 determine of 266,000 represents Suzuka’s largest weekend attendance since its 2006 document, when 361,000 packed into the circuit over the three days.
Learn extra about earlier attendances figures at Suzuka: Triumph, Tragedy and Typhoons – 50 Years of Japanese Grand Prix Attendance Figures.
The Japanese Grand Prix’s present contract lasts till 2029, with Suzuka race organisers having signed a five-year contract extension with Method 1 in February 2024. Subsequent 12 months marks 50 years for the reason that Japanese Grand Prix first appeared on the F1 calendar. It was run at Fuji Speedway in 1976 and 1977 earlier than returning at Suzuka in 1987.
F1 Attendance Figures On The Rise
All three Method 1 weekends thus far in 2025 have posted larger weekend attendance figures than in 2024. On the Australian Grand Prix, 4-day attendance grew by over 10,000 in comparison with final 12 months. The full determine of 465,000 was a brand new document attendance for the Melbourne occasion. On the Chinese language Grand Prix, attendance improved by round 20,000 in comparison with 2024, with the 3-day weekend determine totalling 220,000.
Attendance can be more likely to rise at subsequent weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, with all grandstand tickets having bought out and solely a restricted variety of hospitality packages remaining accessible. The occasion is among the lowest attended of the season, with 100,000 passing by means of the circuit gates throughout the weekend in 2024. Final 12 months, race day in Sakhir noticed a brand new document for the occasion, with 37,000 spectators within the grandstands.
Elsewhere, British Grand Prix organisers introduced earlier this week that 95% of grandstand tickets for the 2025 race weekend in July had bought out.
The Japanese Grand Prix was the primary of three races on consecutive weekends. After the Bahrain Grand Prix subsequent week, F1 will head on to Jeddah Corniche Circuit for the fifth working of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
