{"id":781961,"date":"2026-07-06T04:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781961\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T04:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:58:11","slug":"adelaide-1995-formula-1-crowd-record-beaten-by-silverstone-british-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/781961\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide 1995 Formula 1 crowd record beaten by Silverstone British Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ADELAIDE\u2019S reign of holding the record for the biggest Formula 1 event in history is over.<\/p>\n<p>F1\u2019s final visit to South Australia in 1995 drew an estimated four-day crowd of 520,000, in an epic swansong as the annual Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix prepared to shift to Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>That figure had remained unrivalled worldwide for more than three decades since, until being toppled by Silverstone on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SI202607050511-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-258967\"  \/>Pic: Red Bull Content Pool<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 F1 British Grand Prix reported an attendance of about 564,000 to smash the benchmark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does it mean to be hosting the largest Grand Prix ever? It feels entirely appropriate for the place which ran the first round in Formula 1 in 1950,\u201d Silverstone CEO Stuart Pringle told the Press Association.<\/p>\n<p>Australia continues to be a major crowd-puller, with this year\u2019s Albert Park event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/latest-record-puts-albert-park-on-cusp-of-half-million\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attracting 483,934 spectators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut \u2013 How hot is too hot?<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut is back for another week, downloading a hot weekend in the Top End for Supercars!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADELAIDE\u2019S reign of holding the record for the biggest Formula 1 event in history is over. F1\u2019s final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-781961","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\/781961","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=781961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}