{"id":527769,"date":"2026-03-09T00:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527769\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T00:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:47:16","slug":"2026-formula-1-australian-grand-prix-attracts-record-crowd-to-albert-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527769\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix attracts record crowd to Albert Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANOTHER year, another crowd record for Melbourne\u2019s Formula 1 bonanza.<\/p>\n<p>A race day crowd of 137,869 brought the total four-day attendance at the 2026 Formula 1 Qatar Airways Australian Grand Prix to 483,934.<\/p>\n<p>That eclipsed the venue record of 465,498 set last year, with the gains made in the first half of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday and Friday figures soared to all-time highs at the 2026 edition.<\/p>\n<p>It brings Albert Park within reach of the magic 500,000 number achieved by the last AGP held in Adelaide in 1995, which drew an estimated 520,000-strong crowd across four days.<\/p>\n<p>Crowd figures: 2026 Australian Grand Prix<\/p>\n<p>Thursday: 86,210<br \/>Friday: 125,725<br \/>Saturday: 134,130<br \/>Sunday: 137,869<br \/>Total: 483,934<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/official-2026-repco-supercars-championship-season-guide?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/season-guide-2026_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANOTHER year, another crowd record for Melbourne\u2019s Formula 1 bonanza. A race day crowd of 137,869 brought the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-527769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}