Spanish GP Ticket Prices - any ideas?
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Prices for this year are here: http://www.circuitcat.com/files/108-74-arxiu/gener...
I'd say this was a reasonable benchmark for next year.
I'd say this was a reasonable benchmark for next year.
I went in 2009 and stayed fairly locally to the track (about 45 minutes drive).
Brilliant few days away and good night life etc.
Barcelona Circuit de Catalunya F1 2009
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Brilliant few days away and good night life etc.
Barcelona Circuit de Catalunya F1 2009
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I did a visit to the Spanish GP under the guise of my stag do in 2008, rented an apartment in the centre of town near the Ramblas and had seats just at the end of the pit lane which IIRC were about £220-240.
Its a cracking weekend away, Barcelona itself is a great city to go out in although getting to and from the circuit on race day can be a bit labourious as its normally about 30-45 minutes by train then another 15 minute walk, but obviously on race day the station etc is rammed so it can take a while to actually get on a train.
One other tip would be to to read up on which grandstands you're booking into as a few are pretty much booked out by Alonso fan clubs etc and some fans are rather partizan (bordering on psychotic) so being a Brit presumably cheering on the Brits might be a bit uncomfortable if you're in the wrong seats. The main straight etc seemed fine, the one on the hill as you go up towards turn 9 were the ones filled with the fan club when we were there, but I guess that may change from year to year.
Its a cracking weekend away, Barcelona itself is a great city to go out in although getting to and from the circuit on race day can be a bit labourious as its normally about 30-45 minutes by train then another 15 minute walk, but obviously on race day the station etc is rammed so it can take a while to actually get on a train.
One other tip would be to to read up on which grandstands you're booking into as a few are pretty much booked out by Alonso fan clubs etc and some fans are rather partizan (bordering on psychotic) so being a Brit presumably cheering on the Brits might be a bit uncomfortable if you're in the wrong seats. The main straight etc seemed fine, the one on the hill as you go up towards turn 9 were the ones filled with the fan club when we were there, but I guess that may change from year to year.
Edited by LocoBlade on Sunday 26th September 19:53
LocoBlade said:
One other tip would be to to read up on which grandstands you're booking into as a few are pretty much booked out by Alonso fan clubs etc and some fans are rather partizan (bordering on psychotic) so being a Brit presumably cheering on the Brits might be a bit uncomfortable if you're in the wrong seats.
LOL. I almost got lynched at Jerez testing, being the only person cheering for Button. P924 said:
LocoBlade said:
One other tip would be to to read up on which grandstands you're booking into as a few are pretty much booked out by Alonso fan clubs etc and some fans are rather partizan (bordering on psychotic) so being a Brit presumably cheering on the Brits might be a bit uncomfortable if you're in the wrong seats.
LOL. I almost got lynched at Jerez testing, being the only person cheering for Button. The Spanish fans (at least the partisan Alonso fans) remind me of British football hooligans at a Leeds-Millwall match.
LocoBlade said:
I did a visit to the Spanish GP under the guise of my stag do in 2008, rented an apartment in the centre of town near the Ramblas and had seats just at the end of the pit lane which IIRC were about £220-240.
Its a cracking weekend away, Barcelona itself is a great city to go out in although getting to and from the circuit on race day can be a bit labourious as its normally about 30-45 minutes by train then another 15 minute walk, but obviously on race day the station etc is rammed so it can take a while to actually get on a train.
One other tip would be to to read up on which grandstands you're booking into as a few are pretty much booked out by Alonso fan clubs etc and some fans are rather partizan (bordering on psychotic) so being a Brit presumably cheering on the Brits might be a bit uncomfortable if you're in the wrong seats. The main straight etc seemed fine, the one on the hill as you go up towards turn 9 were the ones filled with the fan club when we were there, but I guess that may change from year to year.
Cheers, very helpfull..was that for just race day, or for a 3 day pass? We are probably only going for race day I suspect.Its a cracking weekend away, Barcelona itself is a great city to go out in although getting to and from the circuit on race day can be a bit labourious as its normally about 30-45 minutes by train then another 15 minute walk, but obviously on race day the station etc is rammed so it can take a while to actually get on a train.
One other tip would be to to read up on which grandstands you're booking into as a few are pretty much booked out by Alonso fan clubs etc and some fans are rather partizan (bordering on psychotic) so being a Brit presumably cheering on the Brits might be a bit uncomfortable if you're in the wrong seats. The main straight etc seemed fine, the one on the hill as you go up towards turn 9 were the ones filled with the fan club when we were there, but I guess that may change from year to year.
Edited by LocoBlade on Sunday 26th September 19:53
and the other replies too.
I think you'll find that you'll only be able to get full weekend passes, they dont generally just sell a race day ticket nowadays apart from perhaps on the gate if it's not a sellout, although if the Silverstone prices are anything to go by, the old race day tickets were almost as much as the 3 day passes now anyway, so I think they just do it to encourage a bigger crowd on the other days.
Also IIRC the grandstands were open on the Friday (and I think on the Saturday too) so you could wander round and sit where you want, its only race day that you need to sit in your reserved seat.
Also IIRC the grandstands were open on the Friday (and I think on the Saturday too) so you could wander round and sit where you want, its only race day that you need to sit in your reserved seat.
Edited by LocoBlade on Tuesday 28th September 21:30
The grandstand at the end of the pit straight is the best one, particularly if you can get a place fairly high up allowing a view of a large part of the circuit.
In spite of being my "local" race I haven't bothered going there in recent years as the race there is invariably of the "processional" variety. (Moto GP at the same circuit is another matter
) Pre season testing at 10€ a throw is definitely worth it though.
Prefer to spend my readies and make the hike to Spa. Granted, beer & frites sitting in the p1sing rain is NOT the Rambla on a sultry spring Sat night.
Depends if you are going primarily to watch the motor race or the passing totty I suppose
In spite of being my "local" race I haven't bothered going there in recent years as the race there is invariably of the "processional" variety. (Moto GP at the same circuit is another matter
) Pre season testing at 10€ a throw is definitely worth it though.Prefer to spend my readies and make the hike to Spa. Granted, beer & frites sitting in the p1sing rain is NOT the Rambla on a sultry spring Sat night.
Depends if you are going primarily to watch the motor race or the passing totty I suppose
Yeh that was pretty much where we were, in J or K in the map below. We could see the second half of the pit straight down to the first corner, then up through the second corner until they disappear around the big sweeping 3rd corner, then reappear where you can see them for most of the inner loop until they disappear again up towards turn 9 where Heikki Kovalainen had his big accident burying the Mclaren under the tyre wall the year we were there. It was right in front of a big screen which was useful, although I rented a Kangaroo TV for about £50 which I'd recommend getting if you want to follow the race properly. I think though if we'd been a little further along towards the first corner and a bit higher like you say, we could probably have seen even more, as we could only just see the first corner because we were a bit low.
From http://www.gpt.at/en/motogp/catalunya.html
From http://www.gpt.at/en/motogp/catalunya.html
F at the top is the best, but there doesn't seem to be a mechanism in the booking engine to allow you to choose your place (how stone age is that in 2010?) and also , quite a lot of these seats are pre-allocated to "collabaradors" (or some other spick title ? ) which seems to be locals whose good will in putting up with the din is bought by giving a couple of freebie tickets which they can re-sell at the gate, Oh, and the members of the local circuit club also seem to end up with a fair wedge of these seats. This was all evident when I visited a test just before the race a couple of years ago ,when that was the norm, and big wedges of the "good seats" were already stickered up with the names of the "worthies" who would be either sitting there or counting the cash.
LocoBlade said:
I think you'll find that you'll only be able to get full weekend passes, they dont generally just sell a race day ticket nowadays apart from perhaps on the gate if it's not a sellout,
Ah, thats a bit of a problem then. Has anyone managed to get just race day tickets?Thanks for the other replies, but unless I am confident we can get just race day tickets, it could be a non-starter. A couple of us are proper F1 fans, but the rest aren't, so can't see them wanting to pay out for a weekend ticket.
I think there were people buying race day tickets on the gate but its hard to tell as lots of people including us had to pick our pre booked tickets up at the gates anyway, but you'd have to fancy your chances to travel all that way without a ticket and I suspect most that are left are general admission with no grandstand seats, which means getting up at the crack of dawn and camping out on the banks somewhere hoping to get a good view.
As mentioned though, even if you find race only tickets to book online, I dont think you'd find them much cheaper than weekend passes anyway, for example this article suggests that in 2008 Silverstone were selling 3 day tickets for £115 and race day only tickets for £100, so might as well think of a 3 day pass as buying a race day ticket and getting free entry for the other days thrown in for "free" if you want it, which if you dont use, so be it.
As mentioned though, even if you find race only tickets to book online, I dont think you'd find them much cheaper than weekend passes anyway, for example this article suggests that in 2008 Silverstone were selling 3 day tickets for £115 and race day only tickets for £100, so might as well think of a 3 day pass as buying a race day ticket and getting free entry for the other days thrown in for "free" if you want it, which if you dont use, so be it.
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