RE: More Seats at British F1
Monday 23rd January 2006
More Seats at British F1
More grandstands at Silverstone
Silverstone has confirmed today that it has been given the green light to build a new grandstand, and increase the capacity of existing grandstands for this year's Grand Prix (9 to 11 June 2006).
For this year’s event Silverstone will be building a second grandstand at Club, and increasing the number of seats in existing grandstands at Copse, Stowe, Luffield and Club.
The announcement from Silverstone comes with just over a week to go before its Early Booking Offer ends. Fans booking their British Grand Prix tickets before 1st February willbenefit from discounts of up to 25%. This year three day General Admission tickets cost just £99.
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WOW just £99!!!!
Watch cars follow each other round with stupid tyre rules and special 'reduced excitement' qualifying.
Went once to Silverstone, sat in the grandstand, it started raining and all the cars came in to change tyres. I am not the worlds biggest F1 fan so I do not know who has yellow mirrors or a particular helmet design and as the cars are so heavily plastered in logos that the numbers are not very clear compounded by the fact that there was no visible 'totem' or lap chart to give a running order I just ended up watching fast things going down the S/F straight. Woo.
I went with F1 fans who thought it was the absolute dogs.
Give me any other motor race any other day.
£99!
Rubbish.
Watch cars follow each other round with stupid tyre rules and special 'reduced excitement' qualifying.
Went once to Silverstone, sat in the grandstand, it started raining and all the cars came in to change tyres. I am not the worlds biggest F1 fan so I do not know who has yellow mirrors or a particular helmet design and as the cars are so heavily plastered in logos that the numbers are not very clear compounded by the fact that there was no visible 'totem' or lap chart to give a running order I just ended up watching fast things going down the S/F straight. Woo.
I went with F1 fans who thought it was the absolute dogs.
Give me any other motor race any other day.
£99!
Rubbish.
what exactly is your point? or do you just not like Mondays?!
if you dont like it, dont go. i am sure the BRDC and Bernie will not miss you or your £99. I think going to a GP is great fun, especailly one in europe where the atmosphere is much better. Personally, the noise of an F1 car is always enough to get the tingle in my spine going!
Granted £99 will get you into the A1GP race and a few other meetings in 2006 but a ticket to Chelsea or Arsenal this season will be close to £50
if you dont like it, dont go. i am sure the BRDC and Bernie will not miss you or your £99. I think going to a GP is great fun, especailly one in europe where the atmosphere is much better. Personally, the noise of an F1 car is always enough to get the tingle in my spine going!
Granted £99 will get you into the A1GP race and a few other meetings in 2006 but a ticket to Chelsea or Arsenal this season will be close to £50
I've been to F1 test days etc and the cars are fantastic and seeing F1 on TV does the speed they travel no justice at all. I just think that to sit in a stand all day for 'just' £100 to watch (IMO) not very exiting racing when distinguishing drivers is pretty hard is a bit of a farce.
Also going to watch a European GP would be better as it's an event in a different culteral context.
As for the cost of football tickets don't even start...
Also going to watch a European GP would be better as it's an event in a different culteral context.
As for the cost of football tickets don't even start...
99 for a 3 day pass is OK really BUT if they build the extra grandstands the number of places from which a 99 quid ticket will get you a half decent view will surely be even more limited.
So absent a Granstand seat you probably won't see much. And if you are in a grandstand you can't move location, which is how I like to watch racing usually.
If they build the grandstands but then leave them closed for other meetings during the year (with or without seats) that also restricts the viewing potential, which is not such a good thing.
Oh for the days when there were 8 or 9 races on the programme and the superstars would join in some of the support races as well.
So absent a Granstand seat you probably won't see much. And if you are in a grandstand you can't move location, which is how I like to watch racing usually.
If they build the grandstands but then leave them closed for other meetings during the year (with or without seats) that also restricts the viewing potential, which is not such a good thing.
Oh for the days when there were 8 or 9 races on the programme and the superstars would join in some of the support races as well.
Silverstone is such poor value for money compared to most other races. I remember in 2000 when I went to Monaco, we paid less for airfare and race tickets than it would have cost for a grandstand seat at the British GP (FF900 + £120 for BA to Nice vs £255 for Silverstone) and this year and last two tickets for the US GP at Indy were a grand total of $210.
Crook said:
I've been to F1 test days etc and the cars are fantastic and seeing F1 on TV does the speed they travel no justice at all. I just think that to sit in a stand all day for 'just' £100 to watch (IMO) not very exiting racing when distinguishing drivers is pretty hard is a bit of a farce.
Also going to watch a European GP would be better as it's an event in a different culteral context.
As for the cost of football tickets don't even start...
you wont even get near a granstand seat for £99!....that ticket just lets you in to one side of the circuit, with no granstand access.
if you want a seat, you have to pay a LOT more!
www.silverstone-circuit.co.uk/booktickets/book_tickets_F1.htm
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