Silverstone F1 GP car parking options

[brisel]

Has anyone used the park & ride option? Is it any quicker?

I have no great desire to sit in a traffic jam though the thought of being in a bus is better than wearing out my clutch!

Apologies to the mods if this is in the wrong forum.

[illmonkey]

I've used it, used to get dropped off so we could drink at Silverstone. It works well, just go early so you have no concerns about time. Bus goes in a different way to the A43, so doesn't sit in the traffic.

There are other options, I have got the bus direct from Oxford before, that worked out well. But it's 1 or a very low number of buses, so don't miss it!

[brisel]

I will be using the park & ride again. 2 days of P&R got me in & out of the circuit within an hour, even on race day. I parked at a friend’s house in Silverstone village for Saturday and it took 2 hours to get home for what would be a 15 minute journey normally, thanks to the back roads being full of arrogant people who wouldn’t give up an inch of space to anyone else!

[Dazzled]

brisel said:

I will be using the park & ride again. 2 days of P&R got me in & out of the circuit within an hour, even on race day. I parked at a friend’s house in Silverstone village for Saturday and it took 2 hours to get home for what would be a 15 minute journey normally, thanks to the back roads being full of arrogant people who wouldn’t give up an inch of space to anyone else!

Should have been here on Sunday then. Much, much worse. Complete and utter clusterf@ck of epic proportions. The “carefully managed” traffic plan went right out the window. Don’t think the relationship between the village and the circuit have ever been as negative as it is now. Mind you, it’s unreasonable to expect what is normally a 15 minute journey to take anything like that over GP weekend. Everyone goes looking for the same rat runs or back road routes.

[355spider]

We did the park and ride the first time, which ended up being the last, the issue for me being rammed into a bus on a bloody hot day with no ac, stuck in the traffic jam,was bad enough on the way there, but the way back was even worse.

Since then we use the circuit parking, still have the traffic but at least in the comfort of your own car.

[LittleBigPlanet]

355spider said:

We did the park and ride the first time, which ended up being the last, the issue for me being rammed into a bus on a bloody hot day with no ac, stuck in the traffic jam,was bad enough on the way there, but the way back was even worse.

Since then we use the circuit parking, still have the traffic but at least in the comfort of your own car.

This was my experience a few years ago, now we park at the circuit and, while we are still stuck in traffic, at least the air con is decent! Worth the extra pennies in my opinion.

[usn90]

LittleBigPlanet said:

This was my experience a few years ago, now we park at the circuit and, while we are still stuck in traffic, at least the air con is decent! Worth the extra pennies in my opinion.

On this subject, we've always paid for circuit parking, tarmac’d car park, last time we were governed by which way the traffic controllers sent us, we ended up in a field a good hike away from
The circuit.

For the life of me between the coned off roads and the traffic controllers I couldn’t work out where we went wrong

[amoby]

355spider said:

We did the park and ride the first time, which ended up being the last, the issue for me being rammed into a bus on a bloody hot day with no ac, stuck in the traffic jam,was bad enough on the way there, but the way back was even worse.

Since then we use the circuit parking, still have the traffic but at least in the comfort of your own car.

we used Hinton, started off well ...no queue to get into the carpark & jumped straight onto a bus- then it started to go wrong a bit:

Bus driver went wrong way at HS2 island, approx 20 min delay

return Bus we had to queue (not that long, approx 15 mins) but that also got lost so we ended up taking about an hour from queuing to getting in car ...then another 20-30 mins queue to get out of that

not sure if i will be repeating the park & ride