Components 1 has introduced an total attendance of 452,055 on the 2024 Australian Grand Prix – the most important 4-day attendance determine within the occasion’s historical past at Albert Park.
The 2024 Australian Grand Prix attracted a complete attendance of 452,055 over the four-day race weekend. It’s the most important complete attendance within the Melbourne occasion’s historical past, with a rise of simply over 7,000 on 2023’s earlier record-setting determine of 444,631.
Melbourne’s race is but to surpass the report Australian Grand Prix crowd. For the ultimate Australian Grand Prix weekend to be held at Adelaide, in 1995, the four-day attendance determine was 520,000. It stays the most important ever weekend attendance determine in Components 1 historical past.
Verstappen’s Profitable Streak Ends at 2024 Australian Grand Prix
Max Verstappen’s nine-race successful streak got here to an finish on the 2024 Australian Grand Prix, from which the Purple Bull driver retired early on with a brake failure. It paved the best way for a 1-2 end for Ferrari.
Carlos Sainz, who underwent surgical procedure for appendicitis simply over two weeks in the past, took the third win of his profession. He led house team-mate Charles Leclerc within the crew’s first 1-2 end result because the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix and their first 1-2 in Australia in 20 years.
The 2024 Australian Grand Prix was the primary race to function two Australian drivers in over a decade. Oscar Piastri, who picked up the primary factors of his Components 1 profession at Albert Park in 2023, ran inside the podium positions for a part of the race and completed fourth, equalling the all-time end result for an Australian driver on the Australian Grand Prix throughout its time on the F1 calendar. Piastri’s team-mate Lando Norris completed simply forward of him on the rostrum.
Daniel Ricciardo, one among three Australian drivers – together with Piastri and Mark Webber – to have completed within the prime 4 at their house Grand Prix, had a quieter afternoon. Beginning 18th and final on the grid, he gained six positions over the course of the race to complete twelfth.
Australia’s Document-Breaking 2024 Attendance
In 2023, with 444,000 attendees, the Australian Grand Prix completed the season because the second-best attended race weekend of the yr, behind solely the British Grand Prix. The Silverstone race attracted a sell-out crowd of 480,00 over its 4-day weekend.
This yr’s determine – 452,055 – is the most important in Melbourne’s historical past, with record-setting numbers seen on every day throughout the 2024 Australian Grand Prix weekend.
The 4-day 2024 Australian Grand Prix weekend started with motion from the Porsche Carrera Cup and the ever-popular Supercars sequence. Over 65,000 attended Albert Park on Thursday alone – a determine which has elevated by round 4,000 in comparison with its 2023 counterpart (60,832). It was the third best-attended Thursday within the Melbourne circuit’s historical past.
The primary day of F1 apply on Friday attracted a complete attendance of 124,113 – a report breaking determine for Friday on the monitor, with Sky Sports activities F1 reporting that this was the primary sold-out Friday in Albert Park’s 27-race historical past. The Friday determine was up by simply over 1,000 on the 2023 Friday quantity.
The figures continued to develop on Saturday and Sunday. 130,806 witnessed Max Verstappen safe the thirty fifth pole place of his profession on Saturday, whereas race day noticed 132,106 folks move by means of the circuit gates. The race day attendance is up by round 1,000 on 2023. The 1996 Australian Grand Prix – the place 154,000 allegedly attended on race day – stays the most important race day crowd in Albert Park’s historical past.
The calculation of Australian Grand Prix attendance figures has lengthy been a degree of rivalry, with many detractors contemplating the figures to be gross overestimates. Along with ticket-holding followers trackside, some races additionally embrace rivals and occasion workers of their attendance figures, which might positively increase the entire attendance figures by 1000’s.
As with all Components 1 races, weekend attendance is calculated by accumulating the variety of folks in attendance on every day of the weekend. If a fan attends all 4 days of the race weekend, they’re counted 4 occasions.
Final yr it was reported that 37% of 2023 Australian Grand Prix attendees have been first-time guests to the occasion. Within the first race below the management of recent Australian Grand Prix Company CEO Travis Auld, followers weren’t permitted onto the monitor to have a good time after the race. The choice was made in January 2024 following an early monitor breach in 2023.
