The fourth working of the Qatar Grand Prix attracted a weekend attendance of 162,972 in response to native media stories. It’s the highest determine within the occasion’s historical past.
The 2025 Qatar Grand Prix attracted a weekend attendance of 162,972, in response to The Peninsula. It’s a brand new document for the best-attended race at Lusail Worldwide Circuit, which made its debut on the Components 1 calendar in 2021. Attendance grew by virtually 8,000 in comparison with final 12 months’s determine.
Max Verstappen claimed his seventieth Grand Prix victory on Sunday on the Qatar Grand Prix, preserving his probabilities of clinching a fifth consecutive title very a lot alive. Though Oscar Piastri received Saturday’s Dash, a technique error by McLaren within the Grand Prix signifies that the Dutchman has now overtaken the Australian within the standings and sits solely 12 factors behind chief Lando Norris. All three drivers have a mathematical likelihood of claiming the title on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which marks the primary time that greater than two drivers could possibly be topped champion on the closing race of the season since 2010.
Along with the F1 motion in Qatar, Leonardo Fornaroli was topped Components 2 champion within the sequence’ penultimate spherical of the season, whereas Seal and Metallica had been among the many headline music acts entertaining followers after every day’s racing motion concluded.
Attendance Progress Continues in Qatar
Attendance figures on the Qatar Grand Prix have grown in each season because the occasion first appeared on the Components 1 calendar. The inaugural race had a weekend attendance of solely 80,000. On the time, it was a document for the largest sporting occasion ever held within the nation. The race was not on the calendar in 2022 on account of Qatar internet hosting the FIFA World Cup.
When the occasion returned in 2023, attendance grew to 120,000 earlier than rising additional to virtually 155,000 in 2024. The most recent determine for the 2025 race continues the pattern of attendance development on the occasion, which holds a contract to stay on the F1 calendar till at the least 2031.
The 2026 Qatar Grand Prix is scheduled to happen on November 27-29, as soon as once more internet hosting the penultimate spherical of the season. For the primary time since 2021, the Qatar Grand Prix won’t host Components 1’s dash race format subsequent 12 months.
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F1 Attendance May Whole 7 Million in 2025
The 2025 Qatar Grand Prix has one of many lowest attendance figures of the season. Based mostly on our estimations, there are solely 4 races on the calendar which have weekend attendances of underneath 200,000. The 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix had a confirmed mixed weekend attendance of 105,000. Though figures haven’t been introduced for races in Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan, it’s believed that each will probably be underneath 200,000. The Baku race is the lowest-attended of the 12 months, having attracted solely 76,000 spectators over three days in 2024.
It stays to be seen what number of followers will attend subsequent week’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. 192,000 attended final 12 months, whereas the document excessive for the Yas Marina occasion is 195,000, recorded in each 2016 and 2017. The truth that the occasion will probably be a three-way title decider will undoubtedly increase ticket gross sales within the closing days earlier than the race.
Components 1 is on monitor to raised its document annual attendance of 6.5 million from 2024. Based mostly on official figures launched thus far and estimates for different races, we anticipate the overall attendance throughout the 24 rounds this 12 months to whole round 6.9 million. Components 1 often publicizes official whole attendance in its annual finish of 12 months report.
