Despite All the Hype, Las Vegas GP Set to Disappoint in Terms of Attendance

Srijon Jana | 13/11/2023
Despite All the Hype, Las Vegas GP Set to Disappoint in Terms of Attendance

The much-awaited Las Vegas Grand Prix is only a week away and many expect that the race in the Sin City will be one of the most iconic ever seen in F1 history. F1 have invested over $500,000,000 to have a race in Las Vegas and the hope is that this event will be highly profitable for them. However, despite all the hype surrounding it, a report from GPBlog suggests that the Las Vegas GP might disappoint in terms of the number of people that attend the race.

According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, only around 105,000 people are expected to be in the city for the race weekend. An even smaller number would be actually present in the grandstands with the newspaper claiming that only 20,000 to 30,000 people have grandstand tickets for the event.

If the estimates are correct, this would mean that Las Vegas would unfortunately be crowned as one of the least visited races in the 2023 calendar. As per a report by Statista, the Bahrain GP had the lowest attendance last year with 98,000 fans visiting over the course of the race weekend.

As of 2023, the Bahrain GP saw 99,500 fans, only 5,500 less than the estimated amount of people set to visit Sin City for the F1 weekend. With the F1 market growing considerably in the US, Liberty Media would surely have expected their third race on US soil to have gathered a larger crowd.

To put Las Vegas in comparison with the other US races, Austin saw an attendance of 432,000 throughout the race weekend. Meanwhile, the second race in Miami saw around 270,000 flocking in to see their favorite drivers battle it out on track.

Highly-priced Las Vegas GP tickets backfires on F1

There have been numerous reasons why Las Vegas might fail to attract the crowd that they are expecting for the race. The biggest issue remains the exorbitantly high-priced tickets which have already backfired on F1. With people refusing to buy the tickets at sky-high prices, several thousand tickets have gone unsold and F1 authorities and resellers are now looking at losses.


To minimize these losses, these tickets are now being sold at highly discounted rates. Back in August, the cheapest tickets for Saturday’s race were priced at $1,645. As of now, the same ticket is priced at $1,087, a discount of around 38%. Hotel prices around the venue have also gone down by around 58%.

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Srijon Jana

Srijon Jana is a Formula 1 writer at The SportsRush. As a medical undergrad with a passion for motorsports, Srijon loves juggling between cadavers and cars with ease. He started watching F1 when he was only 11, and the beautiful cars grabbed his interest. Even now, he religiously follows all the Grands Prix, and when he is not gushing over Charles Leclerc, he likes to dabble in football as well. He is a college quizzer with several state-level and national-level accolades. He is a proud Ferrari fan, and loves to pass his free time reading, watching movies, and spending some quality time with his friends and family.

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