In a year of more record-breaking crowd numbers, Formula 1’s overall attendance in 2025 is estimated to have reached almost 7 million.
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Ever since fans returned to race tracks after being forced to stay at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, attendance figures at Formula 1 race weekends have soared. Attendance for the 21-round 2019 season stood at 4.16 million. By 2024, the figure had grown to 6.5 million – itself a 9% increase on the previous year.
Attendances at Formula 1 races continued to grow in 2025, with this year’s overall total easily surpassing last year’s new record figure. Based on official figures and estimates for races at which attendances have not yet been announced, we expect this year’s overall Formula 1 attendance to be somewhere in the region of seven million. F1 is likely to announce the final official figure in its annual end of year report.
2025 Formula 1 Weekend Attendance Figures
The graph above shows the full weekend Formula 1 attendance figures at every race in the 2025 season, as published by Formula 1, race organisers and other sources. Races which have not yet announced official figures – the Saudi Arabian, Azerbaijan, United States and Las Vegas Grands Prix – are not included.
It should be noted that calculating the weekend attendance figure is not an exact science and will vary from circuit to circuit. Fans who attended multiple days of the event weekend are counted for each day they attended for weekend attendance figures. Some circuits include operational staff in their counts, while some events are also believed to include competitors and holders of free tickets. It’s also worth noting that some events – like the Australian and British Grands Prix – officially run for four days rather than three.
Race Attendances Continue to Grow in 2025
Year-on-year attendance grew at 14 of the 24 rounds in the 2025 Formula 1 season, with attendances at nine events growing by over 10,000 compared to 2024. The largest growth in terms of both crowd numbers and growth percentages was at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, where Imola’s final F1 appearance attracted 42,000 more fans than in 2024 – an increase of 21%. The other largest gainers were the Japanese Grand Prix, the Singapore Grand Prix and the Italian Grand Prix.
The table below shows, where possible, the attendance growth at each event in 2025 compared to the 2024 race weekend:
Race2025 Weekend Attendance2024 Weekend AttendanceAttendance Growth% Growth
Australian Grand Prix465,498452,05513,4432.97%
Chinese Grand Prix220,000200,00020,00010.00%
Japanese Grand Prix266,000229,00037,00016.16%
Bahrain Grand Prix105,000100,0005,0005.00%
Miami Grand Prix275,000275,00000.00%
Emilia Romagna Grand Prix242,000200,00042,00021.00%
Spanish Grand Prix300,286297,3682,9180.98%
Canadian Grand Prix352,000350,0002,0000.57%
Austrian Grand Prix300,000302,000-2,000-0.66%
British Grand Prix500,000480,00020,0004.17%
Belgian Grand Prix389,000380,0009,0002.37%
Hungarian Grand Prix300,000310,000-10,000-3.23%
Dutch Grand Prix305,000305,00000.00%
Italian Grand Prix370,000335,00035,00010.45%
Singapore Grand Prix300,641269,07231,56911.73%
Mexico City Grand Prix401,326404,958-3,632-0.90%
Sao Paulo Grand Prix304,000291,71712,2834.21%
Qatar Grand Prix162,972154,9737,9995.16%
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix203,000192,00011,0005.73%
Attendance comparisons are not available for the Saudi Arabian, Monaco, Azerbaijan, United States or Las Vegas Grands Prix.
There were five races at which attendance did not grow in 2025. The Miami and Dutch Grands Prix posted identical figures to last year, while attendance decreased at the Austrian, Hungarian and Mexico City Grands Prix. 2,000 fewer fans attended the Austrian Grand Prix weekend and just over 3,500 fewer fans attended the Mexico City Grand Prix weekend. The biggest loss was at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Attendance at the Hungaroring was down by 10,000 on the previous season.
Race by Race Formula 1 Attendance Figures in 2025
2025 Australian Grand Prix
Attendance continued to grow at the Australian Grand Prix in 2025 with another record-breaking Melbourne figure. Over 465,000 fans were in attendance over the four-day race weekend, with attendance boosted by an increased daily cap and a new 840-seat grandstand at Turn 6. Overall attendance increased by over 10,000 compared to 2024.
Daily attendances at the 2025 Australian Grand Prix:
Thursday – 72,056
Friday – 125,000
Saturday – 136,347
Sunday – 131,547
2025 Chinese Grand Prix
Despite Zhou Guanyu no longer being on the Formula 1 grid, attendance grew at the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix by around 20,000 compared to the previous season. The first Sprint weekend of the season, the Shanghai race had a three-day attendance figure of 220,000. More tickets were made available for the 2025 race than in 2024, with some citing the attendance figure as an “all time high” – despite contemporary sources reporting that 260,000 attended the inaugural Chinese Grand Prix in 2004.
2025 Japanese Grand Prix
Formula 1 originally announced the weekend attendance at the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix as 255,000 – but later amended the number to 266,000. It’s a 37,000 increase on the previous year’s figure and is the largest weekend attendance seen at Suzuka since 2006. While Japanese fans will lose Yuki Tsunoda from the grid in 2026, home support will still be strong next year for Aston Martin, where Japanese engine manufacturer Honda enter into a new partnership with the team.
2025 Bahrain Grand Prix
Although one of the lower attendances of the year, numbers continue to grow at the Bahrain Grand Prix. Race day attendance was a modest 37,700, while weekend attendance reached 105,000 – the largest in Bahrain’s history on the calendar and an increase of 5,000 on the previous year.
2025 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix
No weekend attendance figure has been announced for the 2025 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Not since 2023 has the attendance figure for the Jeddah race been announced. That year, it stood at 150,000.
2025 Miami Grand Prix
Race organisers at the Miami Grand Prix announced an unchanged attendance figure in 2025, with numbers reaching 275,000 for the second year in a row. All of the last three races in Miami have had attendance figures upward of 270,000.
2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix
The 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix was Formula 1’s final visit to Imola, at least for the time being, with the legendary Italian circuit unable to secure a position on the schedule in 2026. A “record-breaking” attendance figure of 242,000 was announced for the circuit’s final race weekend – an increase of around 40,000 on the previous year. It was the highest year-on-year increase seen across the 24 rounds of the 2025 season.
2025 Monaco Grand Prix
Automobile Club de Monaco – organisers of the Monaco Grand Prix – announced a four-day attendance figure of 250,000 for the 2025 race. It’s the first time an official figure has been posted publicly since 2017, when the number stood at 200,000.
2025 Spanish Grand Prix
With Madrid set to join in 2026, Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya hosted the Spanish Grand Prix for the final time in 2025. The race weekend saw the highest reported attendance figure in the track’s 35 years on the calendar, surpassing 300,000 for the first time. The circuit remains on the calendar next year as host of the Barcelona Grand Prix.
2025 Canadian Grand Prix
Year-on-year attendance continued to grow at the Canadian Grand Prix in 2025, with the latest edition of the race having a weekend attendance of 352,000. It is an incremental gain on the 2024 race weekend; albeit a smaller gain than in other previous seasons. Starting out at 338,000 in 2022, attendance grew by 7,000 in 2023 and by 5,000 in 2024.
2025 Austrian Grand Prix
For the second year in a row, attendance at the Austrian Grand Prix declined slightly compared to the previous season. Starting at 304,000 in 2023, it fell to 302,000 in 2024 and was 300,000 in 2025. The small declines equate to around only 700 fewer spectators per day, so it is not a particularly worrying statistic for race organisers at the Red Bull Ring, who extended their contract through to 2041 during this year’s race weekend.
2025 British Grand Prix
With 500,000 fans in attendance over the four-day weekend, the 2025 British Grand Prix was the best-attended race weekend of the season. Not only was it the best-attended this year, the 2025 Silverstone race had the highest overall attendance at any race weekend since the 1995 Australian Grand Prix (520,000).
Silverstone reported in late March that only 5% of grandstand seats remained available and these had sold out in the week prior to the race. Attendance rose by 20,000 compared to 2024.
Daily attendances at the 2025 British Grand Prix:
Thursday – 60,000
Friday – 130,000
Saturday – 142,000
Sunday – 168,000
2025 Belgian Grand Prix
Spa-Francorchamps welcomed more fans than ever before for the 2025 Belgian Grand Prix weekend, with attendance reaching 389,000 – an increase of 9,000 on the 2024 figure. Impressively, attendances at the track have more than doubled since 2015, when the three-day crowd total was 165,000.
2025 Hungarian Grand Prix
Despite this being the first race at a new-look Hungaroring with an all-new, higher capacity, main grandstand, attendance at the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix actually declined on the previous season. 10,000 fewer fans attended the 2025 race weekend than in 2024, with the weekend figure for this year’s race standing at 300,000.
2025 Dutch Grand Prix
The Dutch Grand Prix has announced an unchanged attendance figure in each of the last four years. Attendance at the 2025 race weekend was reported to be 305,000. The 2021 Dutch Grand Prix – when the circuit ran at limited capacity due to the coronavirus pandemic – is the only one which had a lower attendance figure during its comeback stint.
2026 marks the Dutch Grand Prix’s final appearance on the calendar, where it will host a Sprint event for the first time. Tickets are already on sale.
2025 Italian Grand Prix
Around 370,000 fans passed through the circuit gates over the 2025 Italian Grand Prix. While F1 reported a rounded figure of 370,000, local Italian media gave a more precise figure of 369,041. Attendance was up by 35,000 on the previous year.
2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix
We’re yet to see an official attendance figure for the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. According to Baku City Circuit, the 2024 race weekend had an overall attendance of 76,000 – which was the highest in Baku’s history on the Formula 1 calendar. In previous years, the Baku event has had the lowest attendance figure seen all season. That is unlikely to have changed in 2025.
2025 Singapore Grand Prix
Attendance at the Singapore Grand Prix rose by over 30,000 compared to the previous year, with numbers surpassing 300,000. It was the second-largest figure in the event’s history on the Formula 1 calendar, behind only the 2022 running of the race (302,000). Impressively, race organisers have already made up for the loss of grandstand capacity caused by the ongoing construction work in the bayfront area, which led to the demolition of the 27,000 capacity Bay Grandstand ahead of the 2023 race.
Demand for tickets for the 2026 Singapore Grand Prix is already high, with Marina Bay Street Circuit set to host F1’s Sprint format for the first time. Tickets are on sale now.
2025 United States Grand Prix
For the second year in a row, United States Grand Prix organisers have not announced an official attendance figure for the 2025 race at Circuit of The Americas. After COTA announced that General Admission tickets for the event had sold out, Formula 1 said in its television broadcast of the race that the event was completely sold out but did not provide a total attendance figure.
Spectator figures at COTA peaked in 2022 at 440,000. There is believed to have been a gradual decline in attendance in each year since. The figure is believed to still be over 400,000, making it one of the best-attended events on the calendar.
2025 Mexico City Grand Prix
For the third year in a row, attendance surpassed 400,000 at the Mexico City Grand Prix. The total 3-day figure – 401,326 – was a slight decline on the 2024 number, with around 3,000 fewer attendees. This was the first Mexican race without a home driver on the grid since F1’s return to Mexico a decade ago. With Sergio Perez returning to the grid with Cadillac in 2025, tickets for next year’s race are already in high demand!
2025 Sao Paulo Grand Prix
Attendance surpassed 300,000 for the first time in the Interlagos circuit’s long history on the Formula 1 calendar at the 2025 Sao Paulo Grand Prix. At 304,000, weekend attendance in Sao Paulo was 12,000 up on the previous year. Grandstand capacity in the area around Turn 4 was expanded by around 20,000 as a result of demand for tickets, this being the first F1 race in Brazil with a home driver on the grid since 2017.
2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix
No attendance figure has been announced for the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend, though Formula 1 announced that tickets had “sold out”. 315,000 attended the inaugural race weekend in 2023, with that figure dropping down to 306,000 in 2024. It is thought that the 2025 figure remained above 300,000.
2025 Qatar Grand Prix
162,972 spectators passed through the turnstiles over the 2025 Qatar Grand Prix according to local media reports. With figures growing by 8,000 compared to the 2024 number, this was the best-attended F1 race in Qatar to date. Attendance figures grew by 30,000 between the 2023 and 2024 events, totalling just under 155,000 last year.
2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
The three-way championship battle will likely have helped to boost ticket sales in recent months for the 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which became the first race weekend in Yas Marina Circuit’s history to have an attendance upward of 200,000. The figure of 203,000 was an increase of 13,000 on the previous year and set a new record for the best-attended race at the track. The previous record was 195,000 – set in both 2016 and 2017.
