37,000 witnessed Max Verstappen’s victory on the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix, a brand new single-day report for the biggest attendance in Bahrain Worldwide Circuit’s historical past.
Max Verstappen dominated proceedings on the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix, successful the season-opening race by the biggest margin ever seen at Bahrain Worldwide Circuit. Verstappen’s fifty fifth profession victory was witnessed by 37,000 followers – a brand new report single day crowd for the Bahrain Grand Prix.
The 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix weekend – which ran on a Thursday to Saturday schedule – attracted a complete weekend attendance of 100,000, making it the best-attended race weekend on the observe since 2010.
The F1 motion was supported on-track by the season-opening races of the System 2 and System 3 championships, plus extra races from the Porsche Carrera Cup Center East. Off observe, worldwide DJs Zedd and Diplo offered the nightly concert events.
2024 Bahrain Grand Prix Celebrates Occasion’s twentieth Anniversary
The 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix was the twentieth operating of the occasion, with race organisers internet hosting quite a lot of particular occasions to have fun the twentieth anniversary of the primary System 1 race within the Center East.
Talking in regards to the record-breaking attendance determine, Arif Rahimi, Chairman of Bahrain Worldwide Circuit mirrored on the anniversary occasion:
“The race weekend has supplied a becoming tribute to our 20 years in System 1. Our report attendance but once more reveals the recognition of the game in Bahrain, the area and past and provides us nice confidence that we will proceed to develop the occasion nicely into the longer term. I supply my because of System 1 and the FIA for his or her partnership and assist in delivering an unimaginable weekend of racing. I additionally thank the groups, The Bahrain Motor Federation, marshals and all those that allow us to placed on such an unimaginable present for followers around the globe.”
In early 2022, Bahrain Grand Prix organisers signed one of many longest contract extensions in F1 historical past, with their occasion now set to stay on the calendar till no less than 2036. Over the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix weekend, ticket gross sales opened for the 2025 race. As a result of timing of Ramadan, which will get progressively earlier every year, the Bahrain Grand Prix will not be anticipated to retain its slot because the season-opening occasion subsequent 12 months.
Coronavirus-impacted seasons apart, attendance figures on the Bahrain Grand Prix have grown year-on-year since 2012. Whereas 2024’s 37,000 is a race day report at Bahrain Worldwide Circuit, weekend attendance figures have hit 100,000 twice beforehand: in 2008 and 2010. FOM initially introduced a weekend attendance of 100,000 for the 2017 Bahrain Grand Prix however, ultimately of 12 months report, this was later rectified to solely 93,000.
Capability at Bahrain Worldwide Circuit is 70,000, although grandstand capability is believed to be slightly below 50,000, with quite a lot of grandstands having been expanded attributable to demand lately. Common Admission tickets weren’t accessible for the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix. Together with the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the Bahrain Grand Prix often has one of many lowest weekend attendance figures of the season.
Attendances Grew By 5% in 2023 F1 Season
Final month, Liberty Media confirmed a report complete attendance of 6 million throughout the 22 race weekends held throughout the 2023 System 1 season. Final December, we estimated that attendances at F1 races in 2023 surpassed the 6 million mark. It represented a year-on-year attendance progress of 5% in comparison with 2022, when 5.7 million attended the 22 races staged that 12 months.
Given the comparatively uninspiring season-opening occasion and Pink Bull’s continued domination of the game, it’s attainable that System 1 attendance figures will fall at some races in 2024. Ticket gross sales for some 2024 races haven’t been as robust as in earlier years. The truth that there can be 24 races on this 12 months’s calendar in comparison with final 12 months’s 22 might assist the general attendance determine to stay steady.
Tickets for nearly all races within the 2024 System 1 season are already on sale, apart from the Las Vegas Grand Prix. The season continues subsequent weekend with the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix at Jeddah Corniche Circuit, which will even run on a Thursday to Saturday schedule.
