The Austrian Grand Prix will stay on the Formulation 1 calendar till at the least 2041 having signed a brand new contract over the 2025 race weekend, which 300,000 spectators attended.
Race organisers on the Pink Bull Ring have agreed a brand new long-term deal to maintain the Austrian Grand Prix on the Formulation 1 calendar for the foreseeable future. Having already been signed as much as proceed internet hosting the Austrian Grand Prix till at the least 2030, the most recent contract extends the deal by one other 11 years, by to 2041.
The Austrian Grand Prix now has the equal-longest contract of any occasion on the Formulation 1 calendar, tying with the Miami Grand Prix which prolonged its contract by to 2041 in Might. Talking in regards to the new deal for the Pink Bull Ring, Formulation 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali stated:
“Austria has lengthy been an extremely particular race for Formulation 1 so it’s implausible we’ve secured the long-term way forward for a Grand Prix so deeply rooted within the sport’s historical past. The imaginative and prescient and fervour of Dietrich Mateschitz gave the race the funding and a focus that allowed it to return as an unbelievable occasion on the Formulation 1 calendar. Annually, returning to the gorgeous Styrian mountains is a spotlight – an expertise that evokes unbelievable emotion amongst our drivers, groups, and followers alike, creating an environment in contrast to another. I wish to lengthen my honest due to Mark Mateschitz and Thomas Überall and his workforce for his or her unwavering dedication to excellence, and to our unbelievable Austrian fanbase, whose enthusiasm and loyalty proceed to raise this iconic race.”
The Austrian Grand Prix has been held in Spielberg since 1970, when the venue now generally known as the Pink Bull Ring was generally known as the Österreichring. F1 has raced there 38 occasions since, returning after an 11-year absence. In 2020 and 2021, as a result of coronavirus pandemic, the observe hosted two races per season.
There are 4 circuits which have contracts up for renewal after 2026: Circuit of The Americas, Baku Metropolis Circuit, Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and Zandvoort, the latter having already confirmed it should depart the schedule after subsequent 12 months’s race.
It has been confirmed that the Belgian Grand Prix will seem on the schedule solely each different 12 months from 2027 onwards. With no rotating associate but introduced – and most circuits signed up on annual offers past 2027 – it’s turning into more and more doubtless {that a} new occasion will be a part of the calendar in 2028, with Thailand and a race on the African continent being the most probably new additions.
300,000 Attend 2025 Austrian Grand Prix Weekend
The 2025 Austrian Grand Prix weekend had a complete attendance of 300,000. For the second 12 months in a row, attendance on the Pink Bull Ring is barely down on the earlier 12 months. Having had a weekend attendance of 304,000 in 2023, it fell to 302,000 in 2024 and is down an additional 2,000 in 2025. It’s the first race this season to put up an attendance determine decrease than in 2024.
The Austrian Grand Prix slots in because the fourth greatest attended race weekend of the 2025 season up to now, behind Australia (465,000), Canada (352,000) and Spain (300,300). Final 12 months, the occasion ranked because the tenth best-attended of the 24 races held throughout the 2024 season.
Subsequent weekend’s British Grand Prix is more likely to prime the record of top-attended races once more in 2025, having attracted 480,000 spectators over the 4-day weekend in every of the final two years. On Saturday, Silverstone introduced that race day grandstand seats had offered out, with restricted numbers of normal admission and hospitality tickets remaining.
Tickets for the 2026 Austrian Grand Prix – which is able to happen on June 26-28 – will go on sale on Monday.
