The end of the covid era and a surge of new Drive to Survive-fuelled fans contributed to the track invasion at the end of the recent Australian GP. For instance, Melbourne was the most locked-down city on earth throughout the covid era, while a bigger-than-ever crowd descended on Albert Park fuelled by the popularity of the official Netflix series Drive to Survive. “What we’re essentially finding is that post-covid, crowd behaviours and crowd dynamics have really changed for us,” said Mottram. “Our early findings already suggest our motorsport crowd in the past has been a compliant crowd, if I can put it that way.

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