System 1 has introduced a weekend attendance of 300,286 on the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix, which marked the thirty fifth and remaining time Catalunya hosted the occasion.
System 1’s newest triple header got here to a detailed with Oscar Piastri main house a McLaren 1-2 on the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The race weekend had a complete attendance of 300,286 throughout the three days, which is the best reported determine within the circuit’s historical past of internet hosting the occasion and a rise of round 3,000 on final 12 months’s determine of 297,268.
Particular person day by day attendances haven’t been introduced for the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix. Simply over 125,000 attended on Sunday alone final 12 months – a determine which was down barely on the earlier season.
That is the primary time that weekend attendance on the Spanish Grand Prix has formally surpassed 300,000, although figures are prone to have been across the similar stage when house star Fernando Alonso was on the top of his powers within the mid 2000s. Weekend attendances on the Spanish Grand Prix have grown in yearly because the coronavirus pandemic, having risen by 23,000 since 2022.
It wasn’t one of the best weekend for the native drivers on the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix, although Alonso managed to attain his first factors of the 2025 season with a ninth place end. Carlos Sainz completed down in 14th, together with his first point-less outcome because the Bahrain Grand Prix. It was the primary time Sainz completed exterior of the highest ten in his 11 appearances on house soil.
The Spanish Grand Prix at the moment ranks because the second-best-attended race weekend of the 2025 season, behind the Australian Grand Prix (465,000). Final 12 months, the Catalunya race ranked because the Eleventh-best-attended race total by the tip of the 12 months.
Formally, complete System 1 race weekend attendance in 2025 stands at slightly below two million, although figures for the Saudi Arabian and Monaco Grands Prix haven’t but been introduced. Six races thus far this 12 months have posted larger attendance figures than in 2024, that means that F1 is prone to surpass its total 2024 attendance of 6.5 million by the tip of the season.
Madrid Prepares to Host 2026 Spanish Grand Prix
The 2025 Spanish Grand Prix marked the thirty fifth and remaining time that Catalunya hosted the Spanish Grand Prix. Catalunya joined the F1 calendar in 1991 and the Barcelona observe is contracted to stay on the calendar subsequent 12 months, possible as host of a newly-titled Barcelona Grand Prix. In the meantime, the Spanish Grand Prix will transfer to Madrid.
The official format of the brand new “Madring” circuit, set across the IFEMA exhibition centre, was revealed in April, with development starting quickly after. On Saturday June 7, Carlos Sainz will participate in a free occasion on the circuit, the place followers can see the Spanish driver full a high-speed demo run within the Williams FW45.
The 2026 Spanish Grand Prix is predicted to happen in early September. It’s possible that the 2026 System 1 calendar can be revealed in full subsequent week, following a gathering of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Macau on June 10-13.
