Silverstone post 2021

[Danith]

Rumour is that Silverstone will be out of mere mortals' price range after this year. With no 3rd party track days allowed.

Anyone know any more on this? I did it for the first time this year and wish I'd known how good it was, sooner!

[Paul_M3]

I believe it's true that there will only be events organised directly by Silverstone in the future.

Is there any reason to believe that this means costs will be significantly higher though?

How did prices direct with Silverstone compare with other organisers previously?

[Danith]

No idea. But from memory I always saw Silverstone being £500+, which I why I've never done it before. This day I did was with a TPO and it was £239 I think (can't remember it was a transfer from a cancelled Oulton day in 2020).

[brillomaster]

Hopefully they'll run a range of trackdays, from high numbers with lower costs, up to very low numbers, exclusive events.

i've done plenty of trackdays, but never done silverstone as despite being the closest track to me, any full day there has been £400-£500, which is twice the price of anywhere else. did see a few third party TDOs were offering a date for somewhere around the £200 mark, hopefully silverstone will offer at least one day where the price starts with a 2.

[upsidedownmark]

IME, the biggest driver of 'how bloody much' for sliverstone is if it's the GP circuit, or not..

[Danith]

National doesn't look worth the trip to me. I did the gp and it was 240 ish

[Smitters]

Booked direct with Silverstone on he GP circuit last month. £315 for full GP, garage and a coffee and bacon roll. Well run day, minimal dheadery and a wide variety of cars and participants.

National circuit is well worth the effort but is hard on brakes.

I don't like the lack of competition but what can you do?

[Krikkit]

Smitters said:

Booked direct with Silverstone on he GP circuit last month. £315 for full GP, garage and a coffee and bacon roll. Well run day, minimal dheadery and a wide variety of cars and participants.

National circuit is well worth the effort but is hard on brakes.

I don't like the lack of competition but what can you do?

Not too ridiculous for such a massive circuit!

[tvrmark]

I've do Silverstone over the winter months were the price tends to be more reasonable £200-300 during the summer it is always £400+ whichever organizer you use

[4packet]

Prices are on their website. The summer date looks on the high side of other TDO prices, but no discount for the colder months so far! Rules me out, even if it is my local. Can almost do Spa including the travel for that price.

[brillomaster]

FIVE HUNDRED and forty nine pounds for a random tuesday in march?!? Screw that and a bag of chips.

Looks like i'll never do silverstone then. Shame.

[Danith]

Yep. I loved it, but not paying that.

[b0rk]

Anyone know why all the Silverstone direct dates are run out of the national pits? Fairly sure Silverstone direct used to prefer running dates out of the wing pits. Prices do seem very steep even vs last year.

[Smitters]

That's a shame. To be fair, the whole place must have a high overhead, but over 500 quid that early seems steep. I'd have expected 400 plus though.

I assume they hire out the wing pits area above, the big halls, so try to cut the noise a bit.

[Wh00sher]

brillomaster said:

FIVE HUNDRED and forty nine pounds for a random tuesday in march?!? Screw that and a bag of chips.

Looks like i'll never do silverstone then. Shame.

It does appear they seem to be under the belief that they are SILVERSTONE so can charge those sorts of prices for out of season days. Time will tell if they can or not.

The days of the ~£300 March / November Full GP trackday seem to have gone don`t they. Big shame, I always liked those days.

Edited by Wh00sher on Saturday 11th December 06:25

[dh00065p]

That’s what you can do when you have a monopoly

[nickfrog]

dh00065p said:

That’s what you can do when you have a monopoly

I am not sure I understand. What monopoly do you think they have?

If you're saying they have the monopoly over the use of the Silverstone race track, I don't think it is a monopoly. It is just theirs so they market it the way they want.

[Throttlebody]

With Silverstone only doing 12 public track days for the whole year, they obviously reckon they will get the demand.

There might still be enough owners who like that something a bit special, bit exclusive, no riff raff and chance to show off their posh tools. Track day organisers already exist for that cadre, they’ve just been cut out of the loop.

[Dynion Araf Uchaf]

the problem is what next?

Jonny Palmer like to be a bit of an entrepreneur and all the circuit hire charges are pegged against as to what Silverstone charge, so do we think that the MSVT team will do MSV only track days in 2023 at tis circuits? If they do I guess they'll charge what they want as well. Although I kind of thought that the purpose behind the change at Silverstone was to pocket the margin the TDO's make..

anyway £££££

[b0rk]

I never thought the normal TDO's made much of a margin. Sure the super-ultimate premium ones might but those charging £250 to £400 per day per car for Silverstone probably where not creaming in profits.

I'd guess that limiting Silverstone public trackdays will increase demand on the genuine test days, no longer can race teams use public trackdays as cheap testing. It will also I'd assume force the experience or hospitality day crowd to hire the circuit privately if they want to run an event at Silverstone rather than piggybacking on a public trackday.

Seeing how MSV react to this next year will indeed be interesting.