![]() ![]() The race, which took place at 6am UK time, returned one of the broadcaster Sky’s highest viewing figures. The most recent round, held in Melbourne, attracted 420,000 fans, Australia’s highest attendance across a weekend sporting event. The season finale in Abu Dhabi last year attracted 108.7 million TV viewers globally while the sport reported a cumulative audience for 2021 of 1.55 billion, a 4% increase on the 2020 season. F1 believes that all of the remaining 20 races will be held with capacity crowds, including the races in the Middle East which do not have broad motorsport audiences, Abu Dhabi and Qatar, the latter of which is likely to replace the cancelled Russian GP. Silverstone is not the only circuit enjoying the resurgence of interest. If sales continue at this pace, we expect to be sold out across all three days.” “We have increased capacity slightly by adding extra grandstand seats and anticipate our race day crowd to reach 142,000 this year. “We have never reached a position of sellout so early in the year. “We have experienced unprecedented demand for tickets for the 2022 Formula One British Grand Prix,” said Stuart Pringle, Silverstone’s managing director. This would be the first time in the history of the race, which has been on the F1 calendar every year since 1950, that all three days have sold out and in that case the weekend crowd will surpass the record of 356,000 who attended in 2021. ![]()
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