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 System 1 calendar in 2021. Attendance grew by nearly 8,000 in comparison with final yr’s determine.
Max Verstappen claimed his seventieth Grand Prix victory on Sunday on the Qatar Grand Prix, protecting 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 implies 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 may very well be topped champion on the ultimate race of the season since 2010.
Along with the F1 motion in Qatar, Leonardo Fornaroli was topped System 2 champion within the collection’ 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 Development Continues in Qatar
Attendance figures on the Qatar Grand Prix have grown in each season for the reason that occasion first appeared on the System 1 calendar. The inaugural race had a weekend attendance of solely 80,000. On the time, it was a document for the most important 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 nearly 155,000 in 2024. The newest determine for the 2025 race continues the development of attendance development on the occasion, which holds a contract to stay on the F1 calendar till not less than 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 System 1’s dash race format subsequent yr.
Based mostly on earlier years, we anticipate tickets for the 2026 Qatar Grand Prix to be accessible in mid-February. Subscribe to our mailing listing (and tick the field for Qatar) to obtain occasion information and ticket updates.
F1 Attendance Might Complete 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 likely be underneath 200,000. The Baku race is the lowest-attended of the yr, 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 yr, whereas the document excessive for the Yas Marina occasion is 195,000, recorded in each 2016 and 2017. The truth that the occasion will likely be a three-way title decider will undoubtedly increase ticket gross sales within the ultimate days earlier than the race.
System 1 is on monitor to higher its document annual attendance of 6.5 million from 2024. Based mostly on official figures launched up to now and estimates for different races, we anticipate the whole attendance throughout the 24 rounds this yr to complete round 6.9 million. System 1 normally publicizes official complete attendance in its annual finish of yr report.
