Folloing F1 around the world

[BoRED S2upid]

Say an F1 nut like myself wanted to follow F1 around the world every race. How much would you need?

All the European ones I could drive to a lot are back to back so I would just doss around Europe waiting for the races and pop back to the UK to fly to others. What do you recon? £20,000, £30,000? Whats the cheapest you could do it for?. Does anyone actually do it?.


PS Is there any way to edit a post to put a missing W in the tite.

[GreigR]

You could easily do it for £20000, I worked that out with coming "home" after each race apart from the double long haul races.

I'd love to do that, maybe in a few years.

Greig

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

GreigR said:

You could easily do it for £20000, I worked that out with coming "home" after each race apart from the double long haul races.

I'd love to do that, maybe in a few years.

Greig

You'd have to do it on the cheap though. 17 races, £1176 per race? I reckon we spent that on beer & chips at the British GP!

[Belleair302]

The cheapest way to do it in Europe if you had the time is by buying or renting a motorhome and driving from race to race. Flying back to the UK after each race is expensive and hotels anywhere near the circuits are outrageous and many want a minimum four night stay at around £300 a night plus. I did 42GP's from 1997 until early 2000 working for a team and dread to think how much it cost them.

Edited by Belleair302 on Friday 16th March 18:25

[boRED S2upid]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

GreigR said:

You could easily do it for £20000, I worked that out with coming "home" after each race apart from the double long haul races.

I'd love to do that, maybe in a few years.

Greig

You'd have to do it on the cheap though. 17 races, £1176 per race? I reckon we spent that on beer & chips at the British GP!

European ones you could do for a fraction of that per race. Tickets £200, camp site, beer money, fuel to drive around Europe. Leaving a higher budget per race for the ones you have to fly to.

[GreigR]

If you had a few other fans up for the adventure it would be an amazing experience.

[sa_20v]

Have you tried writing to the team, saying you'll work for them for free and pay your own costs? Target Spyker, or teams like that?

Stephen
www.forumula1.net/

[BoRED S2upid]

sa_20v said:

Have you tried writing to the team, saying you'll work for them for free and pay your own costs? Target Spyker, or teams like that?

Stephen
www.forumula1.net/

Thought about that. Ive got links with Toyota through work so maybe they would let me make the tea if I pay for my own trip around the world, at least this would reduce my admission fee.

Its going to be a few years before I realise this dream though.

[Belleair302]

I spent three years working for an F1 team and the smaller teams want people who bring in money or skills, not take any out. Spyker etc all have budgets of around £ 50 million a year or more so unless you have a skill they want,forget it. However working for a sponsor is a different issue!

[BoRED S2upid]

Do they not drink tea then?

Hmm working for a sponsor, like Fosters? as a beer taster to make sure its not contaminated. Theres a job for me.

[Belleair302]

Din't see many tea sponsors in F1! Fosters have gone too. Whiskey, Red Bull, Energy drinks etc are the new tea. Also working for a tour operator may be one way to get to a number of races, but that is just plain hard graft.

[BoRED S2upid]

Belleair302 said:

Din't see many tea sponsors in F1! Fosters have gone too. Whiskey, Red Bull, Energy drinks etc are the new tea. Also working for a tour operator may be one way to get to a number of races, but that is just plain hard graft.

Im not a fan of hard graft.

[Belleair302]

Me neither. Go and buy a copy of who works in f1 and start ringing up these people and begging for a job.