How to Attend a Formula 1 Grand Prix Without Blowing Your Budget
You don’t need a king-size bank account to have a good time at an F1 race.
Spectators at the 2022 Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix, the most prestigious F1 race.
Photographer: Sebastien Bozon/AFP/Getty Images
When headlines herald $11,000-a-seat dinners and million-dollar hotel packages, attending a Formula One grand prix can seem as if it requires a King Charles-sized bank account. A half-century of glamorous photographs of the world’s jet set gallivanting to races from Monaco to Montreal doesn’t help assuage that image.
It doesn’t have to be like this. Since it bought F1 in 2017, Liberty Media has tried to make the racing series more accessible for fans in the US, especially families who want to experience it like a football game or concert. It has added circuits that use streets in urban centers rather than purpose-built tracks outside city limits; it’s introduced mini races known as sprints that run on Saturdays and provide more action.