Record-breaking crowd confirmed for Australian Grand Prix as Formula 1 soars Down Under

Joshua Thomas

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The 2022 Australian Grand Prix has seen a record-breaking 419,114 fans attend Albert Park across four days of action. 

A race day crowd of 128,294 on Sunday made it the highest attended GP ever held in Melbourne and one of the most popular sporting weekends in Australian history. 

In 2019, the last time the event took place, it was estimated that just under 325,000 fans attended over the four days.

The Austin GP was Formula 1's most popular event in 2021 with a total crowd figure of 400,000. 

Australia's appetite for F1 action has clearly built up over the past few years with Netflix's 'Drive to Survive' no doubt playing some part in that. 

Aussie driver Daniel Ricciardo got the biggest cheers of the weekend on his home turf and noticed a bump in the crowds from the outset. 

“It’s been really cool,” he told Speedcafe.com.

“Walking in on Thursday, I’ll keep going back to that, that was just insane.

“For a day that we’re not even driving on track to have that kind of entrance and everyone here and already guns blazing, it was pretty cool.”

Ricciardo finished the 2022 Australian Grand Pix in sixth with Ferrari's Charles Leclerc claiming a dominant victory

Joshua Thomas

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Josh has been covering sport for nearly a decade now having fallen in love with football at a young age. A UTS graduate, Josh has previously worked for GOAL and now covers football closely for The Sporting News.