In March, the Australian Grand Prix saw record attendance, with 452,055 fans in Albert Park from Thursday to Sunday. The grandstands of the Melbourne circuit can accommodate approximately 130 thousand spectators, and of course all tickets were sold out.
Organizers plan to gradually increase the number of seats in the future, and by the 2025 race the grandstand capacity will be slightly larger.
This will be the first year that the new contract signed by promoters, the Australian Grand Prix Corporation (AGPC), with Formula 1 comes into effect, which includes an increase in annual FOM payments. The exact financial parameters of the deal are, as usual, not disclosed, but if until this year the organizers paid about 37 million Australian dollars for the right to organize the race, according to experts, this amount will increase to 45 million.
“The costs of organizing such a major sporting event are increasing,” AGPC CEO Travis Auld admitted to Speedcafe. – But this is not only due to payments to Formula 1: prices for everything are rising – both for preparing the circuit and for holding the race.
Other major competitions, such as the Australian Open tennis tournament, will experience the same thing. Therefore, there is always a need for a balance between increasing ticket prices and finding other sources of income. On the one hand, the demand is high, on the other hand, it is becoming increasingly expensive to run the race, but I do not want to pass the burden of these costs on to the public.
I think next year we will be able to host some more spectators, but this will be done in the traditional way, because part of the magic of our project is that we have learned to make the race a bright and large-scale event. celebration.”
The organizers expect that all three days of the weekend will be sold out again in 2025, but they also hope that there will be a large crowd on Thursday, as cars from the popular national Supercars series will take to the track on that weekend. day.
But the program of preliminary races does not end there: on various days of the weekend, Albert Park will host rounds of the Australian Porsche Cup, as well as Formula 3 and Formula 2.
Ticket sales for the Australian Grand Prix, which takes place from March 14 to 16, 2025, start tomorrow.
Source: F1 News
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