Official 2024 Spanish Grand Prix Thread ***SPOILERS***

[Forester1965]

How much are general admission tickets at Barcelona this weekend?

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

Piginapoke said:

Sandpit Steve said:

Those grandstand prices are not miles away from package deal prices to Abu Dhabi or Singapore - that include your flights and hotel for three or four days! You can have an actual holiday for the price of admission to Silverstone, especially if you add camping or parking.

Wow- You must need your head examined to pay Silverstone’s prices

Indeed, even general admission for Sunday is £309 and an additional £60 to park the car. Then you will be fighting to get there, fighting other people for a slightly better view, killing hours until the race starts, have no idea who is in the lead, leave and then spend many hours sitting in the car park.

Personally I will be sitting on the sofa with a cup of tea, maybe with the laptop, and maybe have a little snooze in the middle.

Silverstone have done this to themselves, who in their right mind is going to pay thousands of pounds to watch what is going to be a very boring race?

[rallycross]

Silverstone ticket prices are crazy not good value at all.

[timmybob]

rallycross said:

Silverstone ticket prices are crazy not good value at all.

Don't look at Miami or Las Vegas then! The prices at both can be eye watering. Even Austin prices have gone up significantly in the last few years (with Drive to Survive increasing popularity over here), but that didn't sell out last year and tickets were significantly marked down in the couple of weeks before the race.

[Nova Gyna]

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

Piginapoke said:

Sandpit Steve said:

Those grandstand prices are not miles away from package deal prices to Abu Dhabi or Singapore - that include your flights and hotel for three or four days! You can have an actual holiday for the price of admission to Silverstone, especially if you add camping or parking.

Wow- You must need your head examined to pay Silverstone’s prices

Indeed, even general admission for Sunday is £309 and an additional £60 to park the car. Then you will be fighting to get there, fighting other people for a slightly better view, killing hours until the race starts, have no idea who is in the lead, leave and then spend many hours sitting in the car park.

Personally I will be sitting on the sofa with a cup of tea, maybe with the laptop, and maybe have a little snooze in the middle.

Silverstone have done this to themselves, who in their right mind is going to pay thousands of pounds to watch what is going to be a very boring race?

Across the weekend, Silverstone had 400,000 people through the gate in '22, 480,000 last year, and they’re expecting even more this year.

I’ll be happy watching from the sofa with a fridge full of beer and no queuing for the bog.

[Steamer]

Nova Gyna said:

ThingsBehindTheSun said:

Piginapoke said:

Sandpit Steve said:

Those grandstand prices are not miles away from package deal prices to Abu Dhabi or Singapore - that include your flights and hotel for three or four days! You can have an actual holiday for the price of admission to Silverstone, especially if you add camping or parking.

Wow- You must need your head examined to pay Silverstone’s prices

Indeed, even general admission for Sunday is £309 and an additional £60 to park the car. Then you will be fighting to get there, fighting other people for a slightly better view, killing hours until the race starts, have no idea who is in the lead, leave and then spend many hours sitting in the car park.

Personally I will be sitting on the sofa with a cup of tea, maybe with the laptop, and maybe have a little snooze in the middle.

Silverstone have done this to themselves, who in their right mind is going to pay thousands of pounds to watch what is going to be a very boring race?

Across the weekend, Silverstone had 400,000 people through the gate in '22, 480,000 last year, and they’re expecting even more this year.

I’ll be happy watching from the sofa with a fridge full of beer and no queuing for the bog.

I'll even put up with Crofty looking at those prices!

[HocusPocus]

timmybob said:

rallycross said:

Silverstone ticket prices are crazy not good value at all.

Don't look at Miami or Las Vegas then! The prices at both can be eye watering. Even Austin prices have gone up significantly in the last few years (with Drive to Survive increasing popularity over here), but that didn't sell out last year and tickets were significantly marked down in the couple of weeks before the race.

Monaco baby! Serious money weekend: can be 4 digits just for a Sunday stand seat to watch the procession. Oh the party vibe...which can't be sampled on TV.

[shirt]

Sandpit Steve said:

vaud said:

Sandpit Steve said:

That ticket is indeed still on sale.
https://www.silverstone.co.uk/events/formula-1-bri...

A quick scoot says there’s 11 grandstands available, and 16 grandstands sold out. The granstands on sale are in the £550-£650 range for three days, and GA is a shocking-to-me £349

Especially when a one day GA ticket for Monza is €100. Or 3 days is €120 (I think)

Those grandstand prices are not miles away from package deal prices to Abu Dhabi or Singapore - that include your flights and hotel for three or four days! You can have an actual holiday for the price of admission to Silverstone, especially if you add camping or parking.

£600 for flights, accom and entry? I think you need to back that one up with a link as I simply don’t believe it.

[DaveTheRave87]

Steamer said:

I'll even put up with Crofty looking at those prices!

Channel 4 have the British Grand Prix live, so no need to endure Crofty.

[Drew106]

Bit of rain forecast for Sunday. Fingers and toes crossed.

[dobly]

axel1990chp said:

I think this is probably the most tedious "race track" thats in the calendar!

Only since the French GP has been retired…

Hoping for a proper race, but realistically it will probably be another kind of procession - different to Monaco though.

[Sandpit Steve]

shirt said:

£600 for flights, accom and entry? I think you need to back that one up with a link as I simply don’t believe it.

Fair enough. I’ll do some digging when I’m not watching the football, but the national airlines that headline sponsor these events do some bonkers deals on package tours when booking directly. On the other hand, UK sports travel agents or F1 Experiences are going to rip you off.

[honda_exige]

shirt said:

£600 for flights, accom and entry? I think you need to back that one up with a link as I simply don’t believe it.

Qatar as an example

Return flight £350 Out Friday back Monday
GA ticket for Sunday at Qatar £133
4 star hotel in the centre for 3 nights £91

Grand total : £573

Silverstone is a Joke.

[vaud]

honda_exige said:

Qatar as an example

Return flight £350 Out Friday back Monday
GA ticket for Sunday at Qatar £133
4 star hotel in the centre for 3 nights £91

Grand total : £573

Silverstone is a Joke.

True, but there must be a ton of oil subsidy in that.

[SpudLink]

vaud said:

True, but there must be a ton of oil subsidy in that.

How many GP are self funded, as opposed to those that are government subsidised?

[vaud]

SpudLink said:

How many GP are self funded, as opposed to those that are government subsidised?

I don't know. I don't think Silverstone gets any direct subsidy. I think the US ones get state support but not Federal.

I am guessing Qatar gets some for some 3 nights in a 4* hotel at a GP weekend being £91.

[Sandpit Steve]

vaud said:

honda_exige said:

Qatar as an example

Return flight £350 Out Friday back Monday
GA ticket for Sunday at Qatar £133
4 star hotel in the centre for 3 nights £91

Grand total : £573

Silverstone is a Joke.

True, but there must be a ton of oil subsidy in that.

Of course. Why would there be a GP in Qatar otherwise?

But the fact remains that you can actually have a proper long-haul holiday for the price of camping at Silverstone for the weekend.

[vaud]

Sandpit Steve said:

Of course. Why would there be a GP in Qatar otherwise?

But the fact remains that you can actually have a proper long-haul holiday for the price of camping at Silverstone for the weekend.

Oh I agree.

Silverstone is highly overrated anyway, regardless of price.

[shirt]

If you went all that way for GA though, you’d need your head read. I accept the comparison though, albeit I think it only works with Qatar as no one goes locally so there’s no premium on hotels.

[honda_exige]

shirt said:

If you went all that way for GA though, you’d need your head read. I accept the comparison though, albeit I think it only works with Qatar as no one goes locally so there’s no premium on hotels.

Same thing for Dubai and Abu Dhabi is £700 so not wildly different.

Also GA is much better at these places as weather is lovely, no rain or beating sun on your head for 6 hours.