Silverstone and parking fee.....
Discussion
Motogp this year, its £45 to park all three days at the track......
I hate this, as nearly everyone has to drive to get there,I feel its no different to Tesco's charging admission.....
Just include it on the ticket price, at least I wont feel quite so raped.....
For the record, I will be using the Dadford site, which is £30 for the weekend....
I hate this, as nearly everyone has to drive to get there,I feel its no different to Tesco's charging admission.....
Just include it on the ticket price, at least I wont feel quite so raped.....
For the record, I will be using the Dadford site, which is £30 for the weekend....
Turn7 said:
Motogp this year, its £45 to park all three days at the track......
I hate this, as nearly everyone has to drive to get there,I feel its no different to Tesco's charging admission.....
Just include it on the ticket price, at least I wont feel quite so raped.....
For the record, I will be using the Dadford site, which is £30 for the weekend....
Why should the price increase to cover free parking. Whilst I agree the majority will drive there, a lot will car share. I hate this, as nearly everyone has to drive to get there,I feel its no different to Tesco's charging admission.....
Just include it on the ticket price, at least I wont feel quite so raped.....
For the record, I will be using the Dadford site, which is £30 for the weekend....
Park n Ride is a joke.
Used it once thinking it would have some sort of special route/priority and instead we got there even later than if we'd just driven to the track ourselves.
Silverstone can stick their traffic "management" up their arse.
Having attended all but one race there, we now have the perfect plan that means we get up and leave as soon as the very last MotoGP bike has gone round on the cooldown and we're back in the car in 15mins, get stuck in 5mins of traffic before we're on our way back to the M40.
Used it once thinking it would have some sort of special route/priority and instead we got there even later than if we'd just driven to the track ourselves.
Silverstone can stick their traffic "management" up their arse.
Having attended all but one race there, we now have the perfect plan that means we get up and leave as soon as the very last MotoGP bike has gone round on the cooldown and we're back in the car in 15mins, get stuck in 5mins of traffic before we're on our way back to the M40.
I go to watch the racing. I couldn't care less about the rest of it hence I try and get there for the first warm-up and leave after the MotoGP (don't stay for RedBull Rookies as it's damn near impossible to tell who's who and what position they were last lap due to them being on identical bikes and wearing identical leathers.)
Either way, Silverstone can't manage traffic for s
t! 
Either way, Silverstone can't manage traffic for s
t! I think that you have a surprising attitude and lack of knowledge. You must also be a great hurry to get home, because in 2019, the GP race started at 1pm, and the Moto2 race (note not the Red Bull Rookies) at 2:30pm, so it is hardly a late finish. If you don't bother with the Moto2 and Moto3 races (note no Red Bull Rookies), and you are not interested in the off-track entertainment, then why do you go at all, assuming that you do you actually go to the event and are not just making it all up?
I assume that Fred Clarke's circuit commentary, and the large LED screens are no good either, in helping you determine who is in which place in the races?
As for traffic management, Silverstone don't organise that, it is SEP, who do traffic management for most events across the UK from festivals to agricultural shows.
The crowd last year wasn't quite 115,000 - a drop of 10,000 on 2018, probably because of the weather debacle that year put people off booking for 19, so the traffic wasn't excessive, especially compared with the F1 crowd which was over 350,000.
I assume that Fred Clarke's circuit commentary, and the large LED screens are no good either, in helping you determine who is in which place in the races?
As for traffic management, Silverstone don't organise that, it is SEP, who do traffic management for most events across the UK from festivals to agricultural shows.
The crowd last year wasn't quite 115,000 - a drop of 10,000 on 2018, probably because of the weather debacle that year put people off booking for 19, so the traffic wasn't excessive, especially compared with the F1 crowd which was over 350,000.
Edited by LucyP on Friday 20th March 01:03
Ok, since you're clearly looking for an argument....
"A surprising attitude and lack of knowledge"?!
You clearly have a problem with reading and comprehension since you missed the part where I said we get there FOR THE MORNING WARM-UPS, unlike the vast majority of people. In order to do this it means leaving the house at 0600 which then means I don't want to have to stay another 3 or 4hrs after the racing in order to avoid traffic.
We stay until the end of the GP races (whichever order they're in) and then hightail it out of there to avoid the stshow that is Silverstone's traffic management. WHO actually runs it is utterly irrelevant since there's no difference in a traffic jam caused by Silverstone's ineptitude or SEP's.
I have had the pleasure of being sat in one of their car parks for two hours after a race and literally did not move an inch because the hi-viz muppets were refusing to create gaps in the traffic on the road (which was moving at a snail's pace, intermittently) so that cars from the car park could exit in groups of 3 or 4.
I had a long conversation with one of the board members that runs Silverstone and he explained it cost them circa £600K (a few years ago) to make the main dual carriageway (A43?) totally one-way in order to facilitate traffic and therefore was only financially viable for F1.
I doubt that would be cost to put a few cones out and cone off lane 1 to established traffic already on the dual carrigeway and therefore make joining it from the Silverstone slip a completely painless process, as they do in other countries. Valencia was unbelievable in this respect, less than five minutes after reaching the car we were on a free-flowing motorway. It CAN be done but for some reason Silverstone choose not to.
In fact, out of the 6 European circuits we've been to for MotoGP, Brno was the only one we had an issue with but that was caused by torrential rainfall the night before closing a couple of the carparks on raceday (I want to say 2016, the year McPhee AND Cal both won for the first time and I'm stuck watching it in a hotel in the city even though we had tickets already!).
As for the screens and track commentary, if you're not near a screen then those are redundant and good luck hearing the circuit commentary once they're 3 or 4 laps in and the bike noise is pretty much constant as they're all spread out.
HTH, you're welcome.
"A surprising attitude and lack of knowledge"?!
You clearly have a problem with reading and comprehension since you missed the part where I said we get there FOR THE MORNING WARM-UPS, unlike the vast majority of people. In order to do this it means leaving the house at 0600 which then means I don't want to have to stay another 3 or 4hrs after the racing in order to avoid traffic.
We stay until the end of the GP races (whichever order they're in) and then hightail it out of there to avoid the s
tshow that is Silverstone's traffic management. WHO actually runs it is utterly irrelevant since there's no difference in a traffic jam caused by Silverstone's ineptitude or SEP's.I have had the pleasure of being sat in one of their car parks for two hours after a race and literally did not move an inch because the hi-viz muppets were refusing to create gaps in the traffic on the road (which was moving at a snail's pace, intermittently) so that cars from the car park could exit in groups of 3 or 4.
I had a long conversation with one of the board members that runs Silverstone and he explained it cost them circa £600K (a few years ago) to make the main dual carriageway (A43?) totally one-way in order to facilitate traffic and therefore was only financially viable for F1.
I doubt that would be cost to put a few cones out and cone off lane 1 to established traffic already on the dual carrigeway and therefore make joining it from the Silverstone slip a completely painless process, as they do in other countries. Valencia was unbelievable in this respect, less than five minutes after reaching the car we were on a free-flowing motorway. It CAN be done but for some reason Silverstone choose not to.
In fact, out of the 6 European circuits we've been to for MotoGP, Brno was the only one we had an issue with but that was caused by torrential rainfall the night before closing a couple of the carparks on raceday (I want to say 2016, the year McPhee AND Cal both won for the first time and I'm stuck watching it in a hotel in the city even though we had tickets already!).
As for the screens and track commentary, if you're not near a screen then those are redundant and good luck hearing the circuit commentary once they're 3 or 4 laps in and the bike noise is pretty much constant as they're all spread out.
HTH, you're welcome.
Edited by Centurion07 on Friday 20th March 12:47
Which proves as I thought that you are just making this all up, and you don't actually attend the race, because if you did, you would know that they do indeed run the 1 way traffic flow on the Sunday of MotoGP. Here is the link for you:
https://www.silverstone.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2...
And you would also know that there were no Red Bull Rookies last year, but the British Talent Cup raced for a whole 25 minutes from 4pm on the Sunday!
There are plenty of screens where you can watch the action, even in places where you can stand without having to pay extra for a grandstand ticket.
And have you not heard of Radio Silverstone? Use your own radio/phone and headphones, or buy some from Silverstone.
https://www.silverstone.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2...
And you would also know that there were no Red Bull Rookies last year, but the British Talent Cup raced for a whole 25 minutes from 4pm on the Sunday!
There are plenty of screens where you can watch the action, even in places where you can stand without having to pay extra for a grandstand ticket.
And have you not heard of Radio Silverstone? Use your own radio/phone and headphones, or buy some from Silverstone.
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