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The Australian Grand Prix is an annual motor racing event which is under contract to host Formula One until 2035. [clarification needed] [1] One of the oldest surviving motorsport competitions held in Australia, the Grand Prix has moved frequently with 23 different venues having been used since it was first run at Phillip Island in 1928.
The Grand Prix regularly draws crowds of over 270,000 spectators, with the 2024 drawing a record crowd of 452,055, including 132,106 on the main raceday. [8] There has never been a night race at Albert Park , although the 2009 and 2010 events both started at 5:00 p.m. local time.
The final Grand Prix in Adelaide set a Formula One attendance record of 210,000, which stood until 250,000 attended the 2000 United States Grand Prix held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The race was also the third time the Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide had won the Formula One Race Promoters' Trophy as the best run Formula One Grand ...
The woman Sabalenka defeated in last year's final in Melbourne, Olympic gold medalist Zheng Qinwen, meets qualifier Anca Todoni in the first 2025 match in Laver at 11:30 a.m. (7:30 p.m. EST), with ...
Secondary-ticket prices for Saturday's Las Vegas Grand Prix have cooled considerably compared to last year's inaugural Formula 1 race on the city's Strip. A year ago, the website's cheapest ticket ...
The Australian Grand Prix is planned to host the opening race of the 2025 season for the first time since 2019. The Australian Grand Prix was the third round in the past three seasons, after the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix, respectively, with those events being pushed back in 2025 to avoid a conflict with Ramadan .
There have been 19 Formula One drivers from Australia, 16 of which have taken part in at least one race since the championship began in 1950, and 3 failed to qualify.Two drivers who represented Australia have won the World Drivers' Championship: Jack Brabham, who won it three times, and Alan Jones, the most recent Australian world champion won once.
In 1983, the Brabham BT52, driven by Piquet and Riccardo Patrese and was powered by BMW's M12 straight-four engine, secured four of the Brabham's thirty-five Grand Prix victories. The businessman Bernie Ecclestone owned Brabham during most of the 1970s and 1980s, and later became responsible for administering the commercial aspects of Formula One.