Formula 1 has announced a weekend attendance of 300,286 at the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix, which marked the 35th and final time Catalunya hosted the event.
Formula 1’s latest triple header came to a close with Oscar Piastri leading home a McLaren 1-2 at the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The race weekend had a total attendance of 300,286 across the three days, which is the highest reported figure in the circuit’s history of hosting the event and an increase of around 3,000 on last year’s figure of 297,268.
Individual daily attendances have not been announced for the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix. Just over 125,000 attended on Sunday alone last year – a figure which was down slightly on the previous season.
This is the first time that weekend attendance at the Spanish Grand Prix has officially surpassed 300,000, though figures are likely to have been around the same level when home star Fernando Alonso was at the height of his powers in the mid 2000s. Weekend attendances at the Spanish Grand Prix have grown in every year since the coronavirus pandemic, having risen by 23,000 since 2022.
It wasn’t the best weekend for the local drivers at the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix, though Alonso managed to score his first points of the 2025 season with a ninth place finish. Carlos Sainz finished down in 14th, with his first point-less result since the Bahrain Grand Prix. It was the first time Sainz finished outside of the top ten in his 11 appearances on home soil.
The Spanish Grand Prix currently ranks as the second-best-attended race weekend of the 2025 season, behind the Australian Grand Prix (465,000). Last year, the Catalunya race ranked as the 11th-best-attended race overall by the end of the year.
Officially, total Formula 1 race weekend attendance in 2025 stands at just under two million, though figures for the Saudi Arabian and Monaco Grands Prix have not yet been announced. Six races so far this year have posted higher attendance figures than in 2024, meaning that F1 is likely to surpass its overall 2024 attendance of 6.5 million by the end of the season.
Madrid Prepares to Host 2026 Spanish Grand Prix
The 2025 Spanish Grand Prix marked the 35th and final time that Catalunya hosted the Spanish Grand Prix. Catalunya joined the F1 calendar in 1991 and the Barcelona track is contracted to remain on the calendar next year, likely as host of a newly-titled Barcelona Grand Prix. Meanwhile, the Spanish Grand Prix will move to Madrid.
The official layout of the new “Madring” circuit, set around the IFEMA exhibition centre, was revealed in April, with construction beginning soon after. On Saturday June 7, Carlos Sainz will take part in a free event at the circuit, where fans can see the Spanish driver complete a high-speed demo run in the Williams FW45.
The 2026 Spanish Grand Prix is expected to take place in early September. It’s likely that the 2026 Formula 1 calendar will be revealed in full next week, following a meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Macau on June 10-13.
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