Motorsport attendance has reached major highs across several championship series. Formula 1 reported 6.7 million spectators across its 2025 season, while MotoGP reported 3,660,716. Individual weekends also exceeded 400,000 in Formula 1 and 300,000 in MotoGP, showing how much a successful race meeting can concentrate a series’ audience.
Contents
- Formula 1 season attendance
- Formula 1 race-weekend records
- Formula 1 attendance before 2025
- MotoGP attendance trends
- IMSA: spectators and digital reach
- INDYCAR Detroit attendance
Formula 1 season attendance
Formula 1’s reported season totals show a sustained rise from the late 2010s into the middle of the 2020s. The Formula 1 2025 Season Review lists 4.2 million spectators in 2019, 5.7 million in 2022, 6.0 million in 2023, 6.5 million in 2024 and 6.7 million in 2025. These are season-level totals, so they describe the combined attendance reported across the calendar rather than the crowd at one circuit.
| Season | Reported Formula 1 attendance |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 4.2 million |
| 2022 | 5.7 million |
| 2023 | 6.0 million |
| 2024 | 6.5 million |
| 2025 | 6.7 million |
The same 2025 review says 19 of the 24 events were completely sold out. It also records 11 new attendance records during the season. Four race weekends exceeded 400,000 attendees, and 10 additional weekends exceeded 300,000. Together, those figures describe a calendar with both strong total volume and unusually high demand at many separate venues.
The Formula 1 2025 Half-Year Review provides a measurement from an earlier point in the same season: the first 14 races attracted 3.9 million fans. At that halfway point, 11 of the first 14 races were sold out, six new attendance records had been recorded, two weekends had exceeded 400,000 attendees, and five had exceeded 300,000. The half-year figures are not a substitute for the completed-season figures; they describe only the first 14 races.
Formula 1 race-weekend records
Several individual Formula 1 weekends illustrate the scale behind the season totals. The 2025 Australian Grand Prix drew 465,000 people, according to both the Formula 1 2025 Season Review and the Half-Year Review. The 2025 Great Britain Grand Prix drew 500,000 people in both reports, the largest individual figure listed in the supplied Formula 1 data.
The completed-season review also lists 369,000 attendees for the 2025 Monza weekend, 352,000 for Canada and 389,000 for Belgium. The halfway review lists five weekends above 300,000 and names Spain at 300,000, Canada at 352,000, Austria at 300,000, Belgium at 389,000 and Hungary at 300,000. Repeated figures across the two reviews refer to the same reported weekends, so they should not be added together.
The 2021 Formula 1 attendance report offers another view of large-event performance. Three Grands Prix exceeded 300,000 spectators: the United States Grand Prix reached 400,000, Mexico reached 371,000 and Great Britain reached 356,000. Formula 1 also said 11 events attracted crowds of more than 100,000 that season.
| 2021 Grand Prix | Reported spectators |
|---|---|
| United States | 400,000 |
| Mexico | 371,000 |
| Great Britain | 356,000 |
| Belgium | 213,000 |
| Netherlands | 195,000 |
| Turkey | 190,000 |
| Brazil | 181,000 |
| Abu Dhabi | 153,000 |
| Saudi Arabia | 143,000 |
| Austria | 132,000 |
| Hungary | 130,000 |
Formula 1 attendance before 2025
The 2021 report compares several event results with 2019 attendance. The United States Grand Prix reached 400,000 in 2021, compared with 268,000 in 2019. Mexico reached 371,000, compared with 348,000 in 2019. Great Britain reached 356,000, compared with 351,000 in 2019. These comparisons are the figures stated by Formula 1 in its 2021 attendance report and are event-specific rather than a general claim about every race.
Formula 1’s separate 2019 attendance report lists total season attendance at 4,164,948 spectators. It says eight Grands Prix had more than 200,000 spectators. The report also records a 1.75% year-over-year rise in weekend attendance, a 4% rise in Sunday attendance and a 7.15% rise in Paddock Club attendance. Those percentages measure different attendance categories, so they should be kept separate when interpreting the 2019 results.
The 2019 report and the 2025 Season Review use different levels of rounding: the earlier report gives an exact total of 4,164,948, while the later review presents 2019 as 4.2 million. Both labels describe the 2019 season, but the rounded figure should not be treated as a separate attendance count.
MotoGP attendance trends
MotoGP reported 3,660,716 total spectators for the 2025 season. Its 2025 attendance report says the calendar contained 22 events and that nine circuits set all-time attendance records. The same report says 2025 exceeded the 2015 prior record of 2,467,281 spectators.
For context, the MotoGP Japanese attendance report identifies 2,705,353 spectators in 2024 and 2,492,076 in 2023. The 2025 total therefore stands above both reported comparison seasons, as well as above the earlier 2015 record. These are full-season totals, while the circuit and Grand Prix figures below describe individual weekends.
The 2025 French Grand Prix weekend at Le Mans drew 311,797 fans, according to the MotoGP Japanese attendance report. The 2024 French Grand Prix at Le Mans drew 297,471 fans, and the 2023 French Grand Prix drew 278,805, according to the MotoGP 2024 Le Mans attendance report and MotoGP 2023 French attendance report respectively. The three reported Le Mans figures provide a clear year-by-year attendance sequence, but they come from separate reports.
MotoGP’s 2025 attendance report says the Valencia finale drew more than 200,000 fans. Because the figure is reported as “more than 200,000,” it is an estimate threshold rather than an exact total. The report also says 2,000 fans attended the 2025 MotoGP Awards, a separate event from the race weekend.
One reported correction is important for accurate comparisons: the MotoGP 2024 Spanish attendance correction lists the 2024 Spanish Grand Prix weekend at 181,289 fans. That corrected number should be used in place of any earlier figure for that weekend.
IMSA: spectators and digital reach
IMSA’s attendance data includes a marquee endurance event and several measures of media reach. IMSA said the 2026 Rolex 24 At Daytona drew more than 180,000 fans over four days. The wording gives a lower threshold rather than an exact attendance total, and the four-day period is explicit.
The same IMSA 2026 Rolex 24 report said NBC coverage averaged more than 1.1 million viewers. Peacock reached 784,000 unique viewers, while the international YouTube broadcast produced nearly 3.8 million live views. These figures are media metrics, not track attendance, and they should not be combined with the 180,000-plus spectators.
By the end of January 2026, IMSA said its total social footprint had reached 3.7 million followers and that its Instagram account had surpassed 1 million followers. The 2025 Rolex 24 test weekend produced more than 250,000 YouTube views for the Saturday night session and more than 160,000 for the Sunday morning session, according to IMSA’s 2025 Rolex 24 weekend report.
IMSA’s 2025 start report said three of the first four events reported all-time record attendance at their venues. It also reported 2.7 million total social media followers, with 361,000 new followers in 2025, and 220 million video views by late May. The timing matters: the 220 million figure was reported by late May, not for the entire year.
INDYCAR Detroit attendance
INDYCAR reported approximately 156,000 people at the 2025 Detroit Grand Prix over three days. The series said attendance rose 4% compared with both 2023 and 2024. Because the attendance total is described as approximate, it should be read as a rounded event figure rather than an exact gate count.
The Detroit Grand Prix’s commercial and broadcast metrics show how event performance extends beyond the physical crowd. INDYCAR said ticket revenue rose approximately 10% in 2025, while the race broadcast averaged 1.061 million viewers. Social reach reached 38 million over race week, including direct social reach of 1,068,074, which was up 140.68% year over year. Online video views nearly reached 11 million during race weekend, and race-day app usage was up nearly 62% versus 2024.
These Detroit figures measure different parts of the event: approximately 156,000 people attended in person over three days; 1.061 million viewers was the average race-broadcast audience; 38 million was race-week social reach; and nearly 11 million was online video viewing during the weekend. Treating those measures as interchangeable would overstate or misstate attendance.
For race fans, the broader pattern is consistent across the series covered here. Formula 1’s 2025 season combined 6.7 million attendees with 19 sold-out events. MotoGP’s 2025 season reached 3,660,716 spectators across 22 events. IMSA’s Rolex 24 crossed 180,000 spectators over four days, while INDYCAR’s Detroit event drew approximately 156,000 over three days. The measurement periods, event formats and reporting conventions differ, so the most useful comparisons keep each figure tied to its series, geography and date.