Red Bull Air Race Cannes

An event watch in 188 countries.

The competition, whose second edition took place in France, gathered 24 pilots over 3 days above the Croisette, in Cannes. Pilots navigated an aerial racetrack featuring 25m high air-filled pylons at speeds of 370+ km an hour!

An audience of 100,000 watched a high-flying competition.

That’s the number of people to check-in along the bay of Cannes. Red Bull trusted Weezevent with the sale of tickets, access control and cashless payment solution. A custom organisation was put in place for the event promoter, with many different ticket types on offer to account for various areas and audiences – general public, reserved seated and VIPs.

20,000+ tickets sold on location.

Many passers-by who were there to enjoy a day in the sun were able to buy their tickets directly from Weezevent box offices, thereby purchasing the last few available tickets over the 3‑day event.

900 scanning devices deployed across the event.

With 8 areas spread along the Croisette, the challenges are numerous: high turnout over short periods of time — before and after races —, many comings and goings requiring systematic check-in at each entrance while preventing long queues, and supervision of 900 devices spread across 2 km.

Thanks to our NFC system, access control and cashless payments are were done using chips in each participant’s wristband. Once they have collected their wristband at one of the 3 entrances, attendees were able to come and go on the Croisette, visit the bars and foodtrucks and pay using their wristband, topped-up either in advance or at kiosks on location.

The staff were given access control terminals to check people in onsite and at entrances. They could also top-up wristbands while food & drinks suppliers at the event were trained to use our devices as payment terminals.