WRC Wales spectators advice

[Coldy]

Hello all,

I want to go and watch the WRC rally in wales this weekend, from what I’ve found online you have to get to a designated car park about 6am and then you get to pay to stand in a boxed off area miles from the track. Can you not just find your own way to watch the stages? I’ve searched but I can seem to find much info.

Cheers

Coldy

[Pwig]

Get there early. Walk to the end of the pen, go round it and walk to where you want. Don’t stand anywhere stupid and the marshals are fine.

If you get there before the stage is ‘live’ then they just let you walk in, if it’s after you have to hop the fence.

[Pwig]

Oh and when I say early, I mean early. I took a camper van and parked up the night before. Was cooking some breakfast and the overheard some guys walking past who said it took them an hour just to walk to where my van was

[chris4652009]

Watching thread with interest, I'm heading across too

[ArnageWRC]

Coldy said:

Hello all,

I want to go and watch the WRC rally in wales this weekend, from what I’ve found online you have to get to a designated car park about 6am and then you get to pay to stand in a boxed off area miles from the track. Can you not just find your own way to watch the stages? I’ve searched but I can seem to find much info.

Cheers

Coldy

Unless you're a local, and/or know 'secret' shortcuts/ backroads - then no.

Apologies in advance if this sounds snotty, it's not meant to: It's a commercial sporting event; you wouldn't try to 'bunk in' at the BritishGP or FA Cup Final would you? Tickets have been on sale for a while, thought you can pay at the car park entrance.

Pick a stage you like, look what time the car park opens; and what time the stage starts; you want to be in position about an hour before the first car starts.
Ideally, you would get there the night before if you don't mind sleeping in the car - however, if that isn't for you, then you want to be arriving maybe 2-3 hours before the stage starts; but you will have a lengthy walk to the stage.

Oh, and if you do go. Enjoy!!

[Trophybloo]

ArnageWRC said:

Unless you're a local, and/or know 'secret' shortcuts/ backroads - then no.

Apologies in advance if this sounds snotty, it's not meant to: It's a commercial sporting event; you wouldn't try to 'bunk in' at the BritishGP or FA Cup Final would you? Tickets have been on sale for a while, thought you can pay at the car park entrance.

The British GP and the FA Cup final are held in private venues. WRGB and all its predecessors are, in the main, using public access national resources. Everyone has a right to use these forests, which is why there are no public right of way closures. There are vehicular road closures to make it difficult not to use the official car parks but the ticket money paid is in fact a hyper-inflated car park fee. The entry fees pay for the forest rehab charges. Sponsorship also picks up the largest wedge of the admin. Someone is making a ton of cash and the disbursement isn't 'easy to find' info. Interesting to know what the legal situation of the ticketing is in the event of any in-venue accidents. As most people know the ticket warning sentence doesn't absolve the provider of their duty not to be negligent.

[nbayly1]

Hi, I am just wondering if anyone has promo codes for day tickets, I will be buying online before I go and have checked prices yesterday on wales rally gb website and each day ticket has increased in price from when i looked on the wales rally gb website last week.
Any advise is greatly appreciated

[mcdjl]

Trophybloo said:

The British GP and the FA Cup final are held in private venues. WRGB and all its predecessors are, in the main, using public access national resources. Everyone has a right to use these forests, which is why there are no public right of way closures. There are vehicular road closures to make it difficult not to use the official car parks but the ticket money paid is in fact a hyper-inflated car park fee. The entry fees pay for the forest rehab charges. Sponsorship also picks up the largest wedge of the admin. Someone is making a ton of cash and the disbursement isn't 'easy to find' info. Interesting to know what the legal situation of the ticketing is in the event of any in-venue accidents. As most people know the ticket warning sentence doesn't absolve the provider of their duty not to be negligent.

They deliberately make the exact route hard to find for that exact reason: the official spectator zone are regarded as safe. There aren't enough marshals to cover all of the routes to make sure that each spectators idea of a sensible place agrees with the official one. After a few deaths a few years back they'd (almost) rather marshals also stood in a place where they can't see the track.

[alistair1234]

Get there the night before, sleep in the car, watch all the fireworks being let off, have a few beers etc.

You'll then have a couple of hundred meter (Max) walk in to the stage in the morning instead of a couple of km's.