The prices of Formula 1 tickets to most of this year’s 19 F1 destinations are unchanged from last year. This is probably the best we can hope for in the absence of major change to F1’s business model, which sees race promoters pay hefty annual fees (as much as $50-60m USD) to the F1 commercial rights holder for the privilege of staging their race. It’s these fees that explain why F1 is in danger of losing more of it’s classic European races (which cannot afford to pay such high fees) and why F1 fans pay so much for the privilege of watching their sport live.

Expressed in the home currency of each event, the majority of ticket prices were frozen between 2014 and 2015. A small number of race organisers did raise prices (e.g. Australia, Canada, Britain), but only by very small margins. In general, the increases were also applied to higher priced Grandstand tickets rather than cheaper General Admission tickets. Apart from small downward adjustments (and new early-bird discount initiatives at some events), no event saw any significant across-the-board reduction in ticket prices.

When expressed in USD, prices for the cheapest three-day General Admission tickets are around 10% cheaper than last year, but this can be explained by the strength of the greenback against most major currencies during the past 12 months. On the flipside, prices for the same tickets in EUR are around 10% higher year-on-year due to the weakness of the Euro.