So GA at Silverstone ... My thoughts ..
Discussion
So Silverstone actually give a hoot about the people on GA tickets ?
I went for the first time this year with a GA ticket and it really felt like everything was catered towards the Sponsors / Grandstand People.
We couldn't get in to Luffield despite a very early start as it was simply packed, and ended up in the GA area on the inside of Brooklands / start of the Luffield turns. (opposite the BRDC grandstand)
Quite chuffed with our position, only to find out the the Rolex sponsor boards had been mounted so high up the armco that you couldn't see the cars unless you were over 6ft. Lots of people ended up borrowing the picnic table from the eating area and forming their own grandstand.
What I also found hard to believe were that the big screens were positioned in such a way as to be only viewable from the grand stands. For us, we had to look across the big expanse of nothing to the smaller screen by the stage...
As for the park n ride ... no details on line, just a phone number. When I got through to them and told them I was coming from Oxford area, they suggested Hinton. When I got the tix, I was quite surprised to
find that Bicester was an option ! the P n R was 30 mins away and no priority lanes. Comparing that to RIAT which I use every year and has similar traffic issues/
Regardless of all that we still had a fantastic time....
I went for the first time this year with a GA ticket and it really felt like everything was catered towards the Sponsors / Grandstand People.
We couldn't get in to Luffield despite a very early start as it was simply packed, and ended up in the GA area on the inside of Brooklands / start of the Luffield turns. (opposite the BRDC grandstand)
Quite chuffed with our position, only to find out the the Rolex sponsor boards had been mounted so high up the armco that you couldn't see the cars unless you were over 6ft. Lots of people ended up borrowing the picnic table from the eating area and forming their own grandstand.
What I also found hard to believe were that the big screens were positioned in such a way as to be only viewable from the grand stands. For us, we had to look across the big expanse of nothing to the smaller screen by the stage...
As for the park n ride ... no details on line, just a phone number. When I got through to them and told them I was coming from Oxford area, they suggested Hinton. When I got the tix, I was quite surprised to
find that Bicester was an option ! the P n R was 30 mins away and no priority lanes. Comparing that to RIAT which I use every year and has similar traffic issues/
Regardless of all that we still had a fantastic time....
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