(Motorsport-Whole.com) – Extra spectators than ever earlier than adopted the Spanish Grand Prix stay on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. This has been introduced by the organizers. They’re speaking about 288,218 followers over the whole System 1 weekend, a brand new report for the race observe close to Barcelona.
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System 1 followers on the award ceremony in Barcelona 2024
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It is a slight enhance in comparison with earlier years: round 284,000 on-site spectators had been counted on the Spanish Grand Prix in 2023, and round 278,000 followers in 2022. (For an summary of the variety of on-site spectators in System 1 with a comparability with the earlier yr!)
In keeping with System 1, the go to on Thursday earlier than driving began had a really optimistic impact. On race day alone, over 125,000 got here to the observe to look at System 1 stay.
And on Wednesday 40,000 took half within the System 1 highway present in Barcelona. Nonetheless, this 40,000 is unlikely to be included within the spectator statistics for the Spanish Grand Prix.
As all the time, one factor to bear in mind with these numbers is that there have been not 288,218 people on the race observe over the weekend. This quantity comes from including the person departure days. In different phrases: guests who’re en route on all three journey days are additionally included within the three-time customer statistics. That is the standard process for giant occasions lasting a number of days.
Within the present System 1 season, Barcelona is the brand new quantity three behind Melbourne (452,000) and Montreal (350,000), and is simply forward of Miami (275,000) within the viewers rating.
Barcelona are proper on development for the 2024 season
Barcelona’s small enhance in comparison with the earlier yr is inside the regular vary: nearly all routes on the System 1 calendar elevated by a couple of hundred to some thousand followers in 2024.
Saudi Arabia nonetheless has no official figures and Monaco merely refers to its most of 200,000, which is quoted yearly. Bahrain is the weakest weekend of 2024 with 100,000.