F1: 2024 Australian GP tickets already sold out
Formula 1 is so big and so popular, tickets for the 2024 Australian GP sold out within hours of going on sale – for the 3rd year running.
More than 100,000 people had pre-registered their interest in early access to race-day tickets, according to the Australian GP Corporation (AGPC), with race-day tickets for the 2024 Australian GP selling out less than two hours upon release.
“The record-breaking number of pre-registrations and the rate of sales demonstrates that fans are just as excited as us for next year’s Formula 1 event in Melbourne.”
Travis Auld, Australian Grand Prix Corporation CEO
Fans can’t get enough Formula 1 right now; the world’s premier motorsport is enjoying unprecedented levels of global interest in a season that’s continuing to break viewership and attendance records, and demand for the hottest tickets in the sports is growing with each passing circuit.
Driven by driver narratives from the paddock and the hard-to-ignore presence of Netflix and its docuseries Drive to Survive, fans all over the world are desperate to get in on the racing action.
It’s why one of the worst hotels in Las Vegas has bumped its prices by 1380% for the inaugural Grand Prix and why American fans are being forced to pay the highest price in F1 for a weekend’s pass, as everyone’s capitalizing on the racing action.
Australian GP had so many fans it was literally bursting at the seams
Since American firm Liberty Media took over F1 the sport has become so popular everyone is swimming in money, including the race organizers, who used to lose their shirt when Bernie Ecclestone ran things.
Albert Park welcomed 444,000 fans over the 4-day weekend, a new record for the Australian GP at Melbourne.
However, they did lose control of the crowd as the race was ending, as fans rushed onto the track to get under the podium for the celebrations.
The Australian GP organizers will get hit with a fine as a result, but regardless, a huge crowd is a good thing to have.
