With a weekend attendance of 203,000, the title-deciding 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was the best-attended race in Yas Marina Circuit’s historical past on the F1 calendar.
For the primary time in its historical past, weekend attendance on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix exceeded 200,000. The title-deciding 2025 race had an total attendance determine of 203,000 – a rise of 11,000 on the earlier 12 months.
Lando Norris secured his first World Championship victory on account of the 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which was Components 1’s first three-way title decider in 15 years. Max Verstappen received the race – his eighth victory of the season – nevertheless it was not sufficient to usurp the McLaren driver from the lead of the championship. Norris turned Britain’s eleventh World Champion and the primary McLaren driver to take the crown since Lewis Hamilton in 2008.
Components 1 reported that followers from 105 completely different international locations attended the 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Though unconfirmed, the attendance determine of 203,000 is believed to be a four-day determine, together with followers who attended the Benson Boone live performance as a part of the race festivities on Thursday night. Katy Perry, Metallica and Submit Malone additionally carried out over the race weekend.
To assist followers’ commute to and from the circuit, race organisers supplied 82 public buses, 3,000 taxis and a fleet of 15 autonomous automobiles, with drones getting used to watch visitors circulate all through the occasion.
Report Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Attendance
When the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix first joined the calendar in 2009, weekend attendance totalled 150,000. Previous to 2025, the 2016 and 2017 races shared the report because the best-attended occasions at Yas Marina Circuit, every attracting 195,000 followers.
The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix has one of many extra modest attendance figures of the Components 1 season. Solely races in Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan and Qatar are believed to have decrease spectator numbers. The British Grand Prix ends 2025 because the best-attended race weekend, with the four-day occasion attracting a report 500,000 spectators.
Official figures present that 12 races this season had attendances upward of 300,000. That doesn’t embrace the US Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas. The Texas occasion seemingly had greater than 400,000 spectators over its race weekend however an official determine has not been confirmed.
In keeping with official figures and our estimations for races which haven’t introduced attendance numbers, total Components 1 race attendance in 2025 is more likely to have totalled over 6.9 million – a rise from final 12 months’s record-breaking 6.5 million attendees over 24 races.
2026 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Tickets on Sale Quickly
The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will as soon as once more shut out the season in 2026. The Yas Marina race has been the season finale yearly since 2014. Subsequent 12 months, the season will come to an in depth on December 4-6.
Tickets for the 2026 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix aren’t but on sale however are anticipated to be out there in early January. Subscribe to our mailing listing utilizing the shape under to obtain occasion information and ticket updates.
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