Silverstone Classic 2018

[pb450]

Is it just me, or are the 'early bird' tickets this year more expensive than the '2 for 1' tickets last year? (Early bird offered earler than 2 for 1 and hence cheaper?)

[chunder27]

The more people keep going and paying the rather OTT prices, the more they will go up. the event used to be about racing, not a family deal, all that has done is increase the prices to a level that make it the 3rd or 4th most expensive meeting of any racing year.

One to be ignored for me after early years going with me Dad and enjoying it

[coppice]

Oh nonsense -I pay 90 odd quid and as a car club member (main reason I belong to one ) I get two tickets for three days And I go from 8am Friday to 5pm Sunday . So it's 15 quid a (very full ) day . That gives me access all areas to 1200 racers - no paddock pass needed . Silverstone is big enough to cater for anoraks like me and family groups too - just a shame it's such a poor track for viewing compared to when I first went there in what now feels like 1902...

Expensive ? Crikey , it cost me 12 quid for banger racing the other week , £15 for local drag racing , tenner for hillclimbs and £30 plus for BTCC

Edited by coppice on Saturday 3rd February 08:04

[chunder27]

There you go, you are in a car club, you have incentive to go

I am not, and tickets prices I see splashed at me are expensive for one day attendance compare to other events of a similar nature and also where I could see 80% of the cars attending.

They have made the event a three day event because they have totally different stuff on every day. I don't want that myself, I want to see everything over one day.

The event is NOT intended to appeal to people like me, so I am not going to like it am I, it is aimed at families, car club members and people who would go anyway regardless of cost.

[corozin]

coppice said:

Oh nonsense -I pay 90 odd quid and as a car club member (main reason I belong to one ) I get two tickets for three days And I go from 8am Friday to 5pm Sunday . So it's 15 quid a (very full ) day . That gives me access all areas to 1200 racers - no paddock pass needed . Silverstone is big enough to cater for anoraks like me and family groups too - just a shame it's such a poor track for viewing compared to when I first went there in what now feels like 1902...

Expensive ? Crikey , it cost me 12 quid for banger racing the other week , £15 for local drag racing , tenner for hillclimbs and £30 plus for BTCC

Edited by coppice on Saturday 3rd February 08:04

But a single entrant ticket for Saturday is an eye-watering £63 before fees, for a single day. At a track with crap (fence obstructed) viewing, with poor, overpriced food and services. Sure the racing is decent but so is the Donington Historic, which costs only £25 for a single Saturday admission ticket.

So the way you do it might work out well for you but for most people it really is a stinking great load of money for what is - frankly - a fairly mediochre event.

[Welshbeef]

You get
Racing
Air display
Fireworks
Good live music in the evening
Blend of racing
Loads of lovely classic cars to see.
Nice family day out.


Food is no different in price to any such event. With a family it can get really pricy for food.
What we did the other year 4 adults 3 kids under 6. We made a massive picnic - “posh one” with prosecco etc. Picnic mats big ones from Costco and some decent camping seats we had. We were utterly full and didn’t spend more than £15 on food and drinks again take your own it’s a fraction of the cost. Soft drinks too.
Another reason we did that was we have seen the vast queues for food previously and with young kids that doesn’t work - it was the same when we went so swerved that nightmare.

[coppice]

corozin said:

But a single entrant ticket for Saturday is an eye-watering £63 before fees, for a single day. At a track with crap (fence obstructed) viewing, with poor, overpriced food and services. Sure the racing is decent but so is the Donington Historic, which costs only £25 for a single Saturday admission ticket.

So the way you do it might work out well for you but for most people it really is a stinking great load of money for what is - frankly - a fairly mediochre event.

Mediocre? Crikey- biggest entry of any historic race meeting, 40 strong grid of 3 litre F1 and 50 plus grids of just about everything else . Some extraordinary machinery in car club displays too. You can make it expensive but the way I do it means it's peanuts . It is not my favourite race meeting - that is usually the HSCC Cadwell- but I enjoy it hugely . Food I find far better than the slurry on offer nearly everywhere else - my Tex Mex dinner last year was excellent ... The choice is also far , far bigger than at Donington - an event I also enjoy BTW but it is very small scale in comparison .

[Welshbeef]

The group C racing is stunning
The touring Cars is great
In fact here are very few races I don’t enjoy - actually low participant races are not great as it’s a big track so takes minutes for them to come round.

[Gc285]

Welshbeef said:

The group C racing is stunning
The touring Cars is great
In fact here are very few races I don’t enjoy - actually low participant races are not great as it’s a big track so takes minutes for them to come round.

no group c this year. I didn't think it was on the list

[Welshbeef]

Gc285 said:

no group c this year. I didn't think it was on the list

Seriously?


They are wonderful race cars from a special era - no group c ( it’s the highlight of the event) what is the headline Cars?

[darreni]

It was my first visit last year, I thought it was great value.

Infield parking, 100ish quid gets 3 day entry for 2 people & no extra for grandstands or paddocks.

There is a wide range of great food, good music & something happening wherever you look.

[hunter 66]

There is a Masters Le Mans race into the night to replace the Group C , so 95 -20005 Le Mans cars ..... might be interesting and we may enter and will be great cars in this epic slot

[Welshbeef]

hunter 66 said:

There is a Masters Le Mans race into the night to replace the Group C , so 95 -20005 Le Mans cars ..... might be interesting and we may enter and will be great cars in this epic slot

Ah nice

So
F40 LM
F1 GTR long tails
Merc CLK Webber car

[Pericoloso]

Welshbeef said:

Ah nice

So
F40 LM
F1 GTR long tails
Merc CLK Webber car

1995 will take in all F1s ,not just long tails.

Will also include 911 GT1s ,NSX ,Vipers and loads of stuff I've forgotten.

[Welshbeef]

Pericoloso said:

Welshbeef said:

Ah nice

So
F40 LM
F1 GTR long tails
Merc CLK Webber car

1995 will take in all F1s ,not just long tails.

Will also include 911 GT1s ,NSX ,Vipers and loads of stuff I've forgotten.

F40 LMs?

Did the 959 go racing or just the RSR’s?

[Pericoloso]

Welshbeef said:

F40 LMs?

Did the 959 go racing or just the RSR’s?

1995 was actually the first year I went so it's all a bit foggy now but I'm fairly sure the F40s were still entered.

Don't think 959s ever entered, being 4WD isn't a help for circuit racing ,more like 911 GT2s perhaps back then.

I looked up 959 Wikipedia ,it was entered as a 961 in 1986 and 87.

Edited by Pericoloso on Saturday 3rd February 22:16

[Pericoloso]

I tried to find my pictures from 1995 ,not digital ones ,real paper ,but my draw full of pics is so jumbled I couldn't even find 1995,

let alone a specific event.

[chunder27]

I am doing Le Mans classic this year

50 Euros for 3 days

That is good value, at a much nicer place, much beter weather and better cars

Sorry, but Silverstone has priced me out of its market

[chasingracecars]

I noticed that the three day WEC ticket for Silverstone in August this year is £50!!!! That’s almost Le Mans 24 prices!

[Welshbeef]

WEC has moved to Aug from crappy March?


That’s a result.

Also £50 for the 3 days Aug bank holiday weekend well worth it.


However Car fest South is on that weekend