Montreal recorded its highest-ever System 1 race weekend attendance, with 360,000 followers visiting Circuit Gilles Villenueve over the three days of the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix.
System 1 has introduced a weekend attendance determine of 360,000 on the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix – the biggest determine in Circuit Gilles Villeneuve’s historical past on the calendar.
Kimi Antonelli made historical past in Montreal, changing into the primary driver within the sport’s entirety to take his first 4 wins at consecutive occasions. Along with his Mercedes team-mate George Russell retiring from the race, Antonelli now holds a 43-point lead within the Drivers’ Championship. He was joined on the rostrum by Lewis Hamilton, who recorded his greatest end result with Ferrari to this point, and Max Verstappen, who took his first high three end of the season.
Additionally on the weekend line-up was F1 Academy and, for the primary time, System 2. The feeder sequence accomplished its first two races at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve as a part of a change to the calendar caused by the cancellation of rounds within the Center East. Off monitor, followers have been handled to headline performances by Canadian acts Bryan Adams, Easy Plan and Alessia Cara.
2026 Canadian Grand Prix Breaks Montreal Attendance Report
This isn’t the primary time that the Canadian Grand Prix attendance has been reported to be 360,000. In 2017, the identical determine was reported, earlier than being retrospectively modified to only 180,000.
Since then, attendances have doubled. Between 2019, the final Canadian Grand Prix previous to the pandemic, and 2022, F1’s first go to to Montreal after the pandemic, crowd numbers grew by 31,000, as much as 338,000. Since then, there have been incremental year-on-year good points, averaging round 5,000 per season.
2026 marks the most important bounce in attendance for the reason that first post-pandemic race. This yr’s determine is up by 8,000 on its 2025 counterpart.
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2026 F1 Attendances Go 1.5 Million
The entire weekend attendance for System 1 races to date in 2026 has handed 1.5 million. Official attendances have been introduced for less than three races to this point this yr. Along with the 360,000 on the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix, F1 additionally introduced attendance figures of 484,000 for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and 230,000 for the Chinese language Grand Prix.
Though not confirmed formally, attendance over the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka was stated to be 315,000, whereas the Miami Grand Prix is believed to have had the same attendance determine to final season (275,000).
Added collectively, the reported weekend attendance figures from the primary 5 races in 2026 has handed 1.6 million. Final yr, complete attendance reached a document 6.7 million. The perfect-attended race of the season was the British Grand Prix, with a determine totalling 500,000. The same turnout is predicted this yr, with Silverstone having introduced final week that just one,000 tickets stay for race day.
