{"id":523994,"date":"2026-03-09T06:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523994\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:12:08","slug":"f1-fan-unable-to-access-stands-fumes-over-ripoff-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523994\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Fan Unable to Access Stands Fumes Over &#8216;Ripoff&#8217; Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Formula One fan took to social media to hit out at the ticket prices set by the Australian Grand Prix (GP), describing his experience over the weekend as \u201cquite a farce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Paul O\u2019Connor posted a clip of two photos to social media, showing spectators on the grass and behind a fence at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cBit of a ripoff at @ausgp sold tickets in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandprix.com.au\/shop\/products\/clubhouse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Clubroom;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Clubroom<\/a>. @ausgp oversold the place and we can\u2019t get in the stand. Security wouldn\u2019t originally let us have chairs on the outside grass. Quite a farce,\u201d he wrote to Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Speaking to Storyful, O\u2019Connor said he did \u201cgenuinely feel ripped off by the experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe spent a lot of money on it to have a good experience and the GP didn\u2019t care at all. Spoke to a lot of people where we were and they all felt quite aggrieved by the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Three-day tickets for the Australian Grand Prix started at $1,195 and offered \u201cspectacular views\u201d of the race, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandprix.com.au\/shop\/products\/clubhouse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:GP\u2019s website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">GP\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Storyful contacted the Australian Grand Prix for comment. Credit: Paul O\u2019Connor via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Formula One fan took to social media to hit out at the ticket prices set by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[48546,49,48,578,576,577,206342,1942,82,206343],"class_list":["post-523994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-australian-grand-prix","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-paul-oconnor","tag-social-media","tag-sports","tag-storyful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}