Residents and tourists alike excited for the return of the Montreal Grand Prix
, is back, and most people on Crescent Street Friday were ogling high-priced cars and checking out booths with Formula One-themed activities. On nearby Ste-Catherine Street, sports cars roared by as drivers unleashed their inner F1 driver.
“Pushing green energy and green cars would be a better way to integrate it into the city’s values” of sustainable mobility, Cinq-Mars added. The Grand Prix draws thousands of tourists each year — a Quebec cabinet minister has called it the “largest sports tourism event in Canada” — but it comes at a significant cost to taxpayers. Since 2017, the governments of Quebec and Canada have committed over $100 million to keep the race in Montreal through 2031.
Organizers reported attendance of 338,000 last year over the three-day weekend as the race returned to Canada after a two-year pause during the pandemic.
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