Ticket sales for the F1 Grand Prix of Great Britain were disappointing last summer. Silverstone blamed Max Verstappen and his dominating performance, while the Limburger blamed the circuit itself. The organization of Lewis Hamilton‘s home race has responded and is making more tickets available at the lowest price.
Stuart Pringle was clear that Verstappen’s back-to-back victories were not good for Silverstone’s finances. “If there is a high chance of the same winner and the danger is taken out of the sport, it takes the edge off,” the circuit director told Autosport in the run-up to the match earlier this season. In 2023 there were an estimated 480,000 fans during the entire race weekend, but this year Silverstone failed to sell out. “Last year it was very repetitive in the sense of one team dominating and this season they started in the same way. Things may be changing now and I recognize that we have had a number of years where a British driver dominated the championship and that We didn’t mind that as a British promoter! But it has certainly become a lot more difficult now that Red Bull dominates.”
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Looking in the mirror
There was a lot of criticism of Pringle’s statements. Fans agreed en masse that the price of the tickets was the problem and not Verstappen. The Red Bull Racing driver thought that Pringle had better look in the mirror to see if Silverstone itself could do something better. “I don’t think it’s my fault. This current Formula 1 season is actually very exciting, recently several teams have been competing for victories. If a promoter cannot fill all the seats and someone else blames that, it is better that “They first look at themselves to see what they are doing wrong. Because in other places I think they manage to fill the stands quite easily,” Verstappen said The Telegraph.
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More tickets, fewer price changes
The organization of the British GP has listened to the criticism from Verstappen and the fans. More tickets will be made available at a lower price for the 2025 event. To enter the Silverstone circuit on the first weekend of July, you will pay £70 to £329 per day next year. Prices for a whole weekend start between £269 and £399. Children under the age of 11 can attend the free training sessions on Friday for free. The organization will continue dynamic pricing hold back a little more next year. These are price increases the later you order your tickets. Silverstone has promised that ticket prices will never go higher than what is advertised, something that is a problem at plenty of other major events in the UK these days.
