Ticketmaster has been forced to postpone the sale of tickets to next year’s Australian Grand Prix, blaming a global third-party outage for the delay.
General admission and grandstand tickets were scheduled to go on sale to the public on Tuesday after pre-sales opened last week, with fans clambering to get prized seats to watch emerging Australian Formula 1 star Oscar Piastri and his compatriot Jack Doohan, who has been promoted to a full-time driver for the Alpine F1 Team in 2025.
General admission tickets for next year’s Australian Grand Prix, featuring homegrown star Oscar Piastri, were put on hold for a day.Credit: Getty Images
However, a statement on the event’s official Facebook page confirmed there was a delay.
“Due to a global third-party outage, the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix 2025 general public on sale will be delayed until tomorrow Wednesday 9 October 12pm (AEDT),” the statement read.
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“We apologise for the inconvenience.”
The issue is with the Ticketmaster platform. Grand Prix officials are awaiting confirmation but expect the platform to be back up and running on Wednesday.
Ticketmaster’s largest shareholder is Liberty Media, which has the commercial rights to Formula 1.
Two pre-sales for the March 16 race have already taken place – on October 2 for members of the paid Access24 program, and another on Monday, for those taking part in a pre-sale ballot.