Attendance grew by 12,000 on the 2025 Sao Paulo Grand Prix weekend, reaching over 300,000 for the primary time within the Interlagos circuit’s historical past.
The 2025 Sao Paulo Grand Prix attracted a weekend attendance of 304,000 – the biggest within the Interlagos circuit’s lengthy historical past on the Components 1 calendar. This yr’s attendance was greater than double that of the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix, the final pre-pandemic occasion held on the observe.
Attendance grew by round 12,000 from final yr’s determine. Resulting from demand for tickets, grandstands within the space round Flip 4 expanded capability for the 2025 race by round 20,000. This was the primary F1 race in Brazil to characteristic a house driver on the grid since Felipe Massa raced within the 2017 Brazilian Grand Prix. Gabriel Bortoleto didn’t have a house debut to recollect, crashing out in each Saturday’s Dash and Sunday’s Grand Prix.
Lando Norris grew his championship benefit to 24 factors with a faultless weekend, successful each the Dash and the Grand Prix from pole place. Kimi Antonelli turned the third-youngest driver in historical past to begin from the entrance row in a Grand Prix and recorded a career-best second place end, whereas Max Verstappen turned the primary driver in 11 years to safe a podium end having began from the pit lane.
Sao Paulo Grand Prix Ranks in High 10 Attended 2025 Races
The 2025 Sao Paulo Grand Prix ranks because the eight-best-attended race of the season up to now, not counting america Grand Prix, which is more likely to have had the next determine however has not but revealed an official whole.
The Interlagos race is more likely to stay within the high ten best-attended races this season. Of the three occasions remaining this yr, solely the Las Vegas Grand Prix is more likely to problem Sao Paulo. Weekend attendance declined on the second working of the Las Vegas race final yr by 9,000, all the way down to 306,000. Attendance figures on the different two remaining races, in Qatar and Abu Dhabi, have by no means beforehand exceeded 200,000.
Complete F1 attendance in 2025 now stands at 5.6 million, although that doesn’t embrace attendances at races in Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan or Austin, for which numbers haven’t been introduced. Utilizing estimates based mostly on earlier attendances at these occasions, precise general attendance is more likely to be round 6.2 million throughout the 21 races held up to now. F1 stays on target to beat its single season report of 6.5 million, set final yr.
2026 Sao Paulo Grand Prix Tickets On Sale Quickly
Tickets for the 2026 Sao Paulo Grand Prix will go on sale quickly. Subsequent yr’s race weekend takes place on November 6-8. For the primary time because the Dash format was launched in 2021, Brazil is not going to be host to a Dash spherical subsequent yr. It signifies that the race weekend will observe the normal format, with three follow classes, a single qualifying session on Saturday and the Grand Prix itself on Sunday.
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