Silverstone Price Hike
Discussion
Anyone else spotted this little gem on the BBC news website today ref Silverstone Grand Prix 2002?
"Fans will have to buy a three-day admission pass costing £199.
A further £100 is required to guarantee a grandstand pass.
Included in the price of the three-day pass are park and ride services which cost £29 this year. " Oh, and they're cutting capacity by 30,000 too.
Definitely going to be watching it on the telly again - at least we can video it and watch the race on fast forward. It's got so boring these days. The most exciting motor racing we've seen on TV recently was the Goodwood revival meeting where they showed those old Jags and Lotus Cortinas - it was like a reunion of 1960's getaway drivers!
"Fans will have to buy a three-day admission pass costing £199.
A further £100 is required to guarantee a grandstand pass.
Included in the price of the three-day pass are park and ride services which cost £29 this year. " Oh, and they're cutting capacity by 30,000 too.
Definitely going to be watching it on the telly again - at least we can video it and watch the race on fast forward. It's got so boring these days. The most exciting motor racing we've seen on TV recently was the Goodwood revival meeting where they showed those old Jags and Lotus Cortinas - it was like a reunion of 1960's getaway drivers!
The last time I went to Silverstone, a couple of weeks ago, it cost me £10 
(including parking inside the fence) to see 9 HSCC races, including a few TVRs.
Is F1 worth £300 of anyone's money?
I will just go to club races (and Le Mans) and spend the rest on
Roy
Edited by Roy C on Tuesday 23 October 13:17
(including parking inside the fence) to see 9 HSCC races, including a few TVRs. Is F1 worth £300 of anyone's money?
I will just go to club races (and Le Mans) and spend the rest on
Roy
Edited by Roy C on Tuesday 23 October 13:17
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, as we will find out Saturday. 
Like most other racing fans I simply cannot justify £300 for 3hrs of cars following each other. I live local to the circuit so travel / parking has never been an issue.
I will not be going to next years (unless it's a coprorate gift) and will be spending the money following the GTs, F3 & Touring cars etc. - real racing with overtaking!
How Octagon can consider this sensible is beyond me! Have you spoken to any of the Silverstone marshalls recently? Just ask them about the new 'packed lunches' and their 'payments & free tickets' being axed. Hard to see how they can run races without marshalls....
The only place worse than Silverstone as a national location was Wembley and look at that farce now...
Once again
accountants ruining what used to be a sport 
I will not be going to next years (unless it's a coprorate gift) and will be spending the money following the GTs, F3 & Touring cars etc. - real racing with overtaking!
How Octagon can consider this sensible is beyond me! Have you spoken to any of the Silverstone marshalls recently? Just ask them about the new 'packed lunches' and their 'payments & free tickets' being axed. Hard to see how they can run races without marshalls....
The only place worse than Silverstone as a national location was Wembley and look at that farce now...
Once again
accountants ruining what used to be a sport What really pisses me off it that Jackie Stewart has the effrontery to say that these prices are broadly in line with other venues. Are they bollocks!
I just came back from the GP at Indy. Turn 1 (end of main straight) grandstand seats, great views of T1-T7, easy access from downtown (10 minute drive with police manually controlling all lights), plenty of cheap parking within a 5-minute walk, all for the princely sum of $85. Access for the other days is $20 for a two-day pass! Same price as last year. Oh and there are plenty of loos, food stalls, merchandise vendors, etc. in the circuit. Check out one-pint Bloody Mary's for $5, hic! in In fact it's one big party.
I gave up going to Silerstone years ago as it was plain to me that this was all about lining the pockets of the BRDC, and not giving anything like value for money to the fans.
I just came back from the GP at Indy. Turn 1 (end of main straight) grandstand seats, great views of T1-T7, easy access from downtown (10 minute drive with police manually controlling all lights), plenty of cheap parking within a 5-minute walk, all for the princely sum of $85. Access for the other days is $20 for a two-day pass! Same price as last year. Oh and there are plenty of loos, food stalls, merchandise vendors, etc. in the circuit. Check out one-pint Bloody Mary's for $5, hic! in In fact it's one big party.
I gave up going to Silerstone years ago as it was plain to me that this was all about lining the pockets of the BRDC, and not giving anything like value for money to the fans.
"I'd already lost interest in this as have many others I know, this is going to turn a lot of fans off."
Spot on Apache. I will be going to the Indy cars at Rockingham instead. They have proper races there. I watched last week and a bloke won from last on the grid, and thats not the first time this year. They may have yellow flags but the advantage is that ANYONE can win. I pay to be entertained not to watch some boring procession. Now there is no-one to bother challenging Scum-Maker it's not worth watching. God knows Damon Hill wsn't the most talented driver but at least he battled with the bloody German. It's been crap since he left the sport IMO.
Spot on Apache. I will be going to the Indy cars at Rockingham instead. They have proper races there. I watched last week and a bloke won from last on the grid, and thats not the first time this year. They may have yellow flags but the advantage is that ANYONE can win. I pay to be entertained not to watch some boring procession. Now there is no-one to bother challenging Scum-Maker it's not worth watching. God knows Damon Hill wsn't the most talented driver but at least he battled with the bloody German. It's been crap since he left the sport IMO.
And silverstone have the front to ask for 50million quid or so from the government to develop the national F1 racing circuit..
B*llocks i say split the money over all the over circuits, can you imagine the difference a couple of million would make at places like anglesea and pembrey..
G
B*llocks i say split the money over all the over circuits, can you imagine the difference a couple of million would make at places like anglesea and pembrey..
G
You would think that after the fiasco of recent years, Silverstone would be keen to encourage punters back to the circuit.
The memory of trench foot and cars stuck in the midden that passed for a car park is, I'm sure, still relatively fresh in many peoples minds.
Also, whilst I'm putting the boot in, I'd like to know (it was my better half who pointed this out to me) why in the UK, the main start/finish straight grandstand is open? What's that about.
Marcus
& Ocean Haze Griff 500
The memory of trench foot and cars stuck in the midden that passed for a car park is, I'm sure, still relatively fresh in many peoples minds.
Also, whilst I'm putting the boot in, I'd like to know (it was my better half who pointed this out to me) why in the UK, the main start/finish straight grandstand is open? What's that about.
Marcus
& Ocean Haze Griff 500
Lovely thread this. Knockers, the lot of you. Knock Silverstone, Schumacher, the BRDC, Jackie Stewart, Octagon, Formula 1, and no doubt anything else you can think of.
There is an explanation for every single thing you moan about, but no, let's not bother to think, it's much more fun just to put the boot in.
Agreed, F1 is incredibly boring, agreed the Silverstone prices are over the top, etc. etc. But do any of you realise why? I could give you seventeen pages of exactly why, but I doubt if you would take the trouble to read anyhting so complicated.
I posted an enthusiastic thread about Rockingham before the CART race, and before you could blink an eye everyone waded in with complaints about the prices. Dear God!
If you can't afford to go then watch the thing on television as I do. You'll see much more of the action, without the pain in the wallet.
There is an explanation for every single thing you moan about, but no, let's not bother to think, it's much more fun just to put the boot in.
Agreed, F1 is incredibly boring, agreed the Silverstone prices are over the top, etc. etc. But do any of you realise why? I could give you seventeen pages of exactly why, but I doubt if you would take the trouble to read anyhting so complicated.
I posted an enthusiastic thread about Rockingham before the CART race, and before you could blink an eye everyone waded in with complaints about the prices. Dear God!
If you can't afford to go then watch the thing on television as I do. You'll see much more of the action, without the pain in the wallet.
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But we're British, we have to complain about everything.
Ted,
Strange I'd rather say the Brits can take anything without REALLYcomplaining. Being French, I don't call posting a few angry thread on this respectable website complaining. Back home they know how complain big time. Remember when the country was paralysed in December 95: no train, roads blocked by truck, etc... Let's face it Brits rather endure than complain, otherwise this country would have proper roads, railways, public transport, etc... but then would not have survived the Blitz, Peter Wheeler would not have bothered... and I wouldn't be living here.
Cheers
PS: Still I ain't going to pay £300 for Silverstone (3 month worth of insurance you mad!!)
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Strange I'd rather say the Brits can take anything without REALLYcomplaining. Being French, I don't call posting a few angry thread on this respectable website complaining. Back home they know how complain big time. Remember when the country was paralysed in December 95: no train, roads blocked by truck, etc... Let's face it Brits rather endure than complain, otherwise this country would have proper roads, railways, public transport, etc... but then would not have survived the Blitz, Peter Wheeler would not have bothered... and I wouldn't be living here.
Well observed. We complain to each other rather than to the people that matter. It's poxy bring a Brit sometimes
Still, stiff upper lip and all that.Gassing Station | General TVR Stuff & Gossip | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff