The environmental organization Greenpeace takes the Formula 1 Grand Prix, which took place in Spielberg, Austria, to rumble again against private jets. However, no current figures are used as the basis for the claims, but those of the previous year and the calculation method is not mentioned.

According to Greenpeace, exactly 2022 private jet flights should have led to the Austria race in 151. The environmental organization claims that these caused "as many climate-damaging emissions as 116.000 fans arriving by train". One uses the opportunity to call again for an EU-wide ban on private jets. Greenpeace relies on data from the crowdsourcing platform Opensky Networks and claims that in 2022 around 80 percent of flights would have been less than 1.000 kilometers. Some would have led from Salzburg, Innsbruck and Graz to the airfield close to the race track. However, the organization does not name the way in which it calculated how it came to the conclusion that the private jet flights allegedly caused as many emissions as the 116.000 visitors arriving by train. There is also no valid data to prove that so many people actually took the train to Spielberg. The area is particularly frequented by car.

 “As the climate crisis escalates, the super-rich sit popping corks in their climate-damaging private jets. On a one-hour private flight to Formula 1 fun, they cause as many climate-damaging emissions as a person in Austria causes on average in a full five months. As a reward for their climate-destroying behavior, the red carpet is rolled out for them at the military airport. Here the peak of absurdity is reached. The climate-damaging and unfair private jets must be banned once and for all across the EU,” says Jasmin Duregger, climate and energy expert at Greenpeace Austria. “Anyone who can afford a private flight will not let higher taxes dissuade them from polluting the climate. Only a ban on private jets can abolish this climate-damaging status symbol and ensure more climate justice".