WEC Spa 6 hours - attending tips

[I 8 a 4RE]

Planning to visit the WEC Spa 6 hours with my family and friends.
In the wider group there are several 6-7 year olds (sort of a dress rehearsal for LM24 in near future).

Looking at tickets, seemingly you can only buy General Admission (and Paddock), but no specific stands.

Anyone been? Is it first come first serve? Would be keen to have some fixed seats in case younger ones get tired / bored.

[FredericRobinson]

I 8 a 4RE said:

Planning to visit the WEC Spa 6 hours with my family and friends.
In the wider group there are several 6-7 year olds (sort of a dress rehearsal for LM24 in near future).

Looking at tickets, seemingly you can only buy General Admission (and Paddock), but no specific stands.

Anyone been? Is it first come first serve? Would be keen to have some fixed seats in case younger ones get tired / bored.

Seats are unreserved in the stands, busy at the start of the race but easy to come by at other times. The stands on the Eau Rouge side are the ones to go for, the start/ finish straight is the only dull part of the track, otherwise, walk as much of the track as you can, and get there early on race day, preferably to one of the gates at the southern end of the circuit. And standard Spa advice about taking clothes for all eventualities, last year was lovely weather, on the other hand I’ve woken up to several inches of snow on race day too.

[I 8 a 4RE]

Thank you. That’s helpful.

Kinda damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Get there early, have youngsters wait for hours won’t go well.
Not have any seats will also not go well.

The old saying holds true:

“Expensive is better than not for sale”

[JensonMcRae]

Great tips thanks! My wife and I are going and I was looking for some tips for actually getting to the circuit - I've read about possible shuttle buses from Liege but can't find any real info about them. Do you know if they exist, or is it best to hire a car for the day? Thanks!

[Northcote67]

I stayed in Liege last year and drove to Spa, it's about 50 miles and be warned there were very long queues to get to the circuit car parks, which you should book ahead btw.

I think they (similar to COTA near Austin Texas which I also went to last year ;-)) run shuttles for F1 but not WEC,

This year we have rented a house that is walking distance to the circuit so we don't have to drive.

Spa is a brilliant circuit, much better for spectators than Le Mans (although I love LM and go every year),

My only bug bear was unlike Le Mans, (which is due to the thousands of Brits that attend the event),at Spa there is no English commentary and obviously no radio Le Mans, so sometimes hard to know what the hell is going on

Edited by Northcote67 on Thursday 29th January 14:53

[FredericRobinson]

Northcote67 said:

I stayed in Liege last year and drove to Spa, it's about 50 miles and be warned there were very long queues to get to the circuit car parks, which you should book ahead btw.

I think they (similar to COTA near Austin Texas which I also went to last year ;-)) run shuttles for F1 but not WEC,

This year we have rented a house that is walking distance to the circuit so we don't have to drive.

Spa is a brilliant circuit, much better for spectators than Le Mans (although I love LM and go every year),

My only bug bear was unlike Le Mans, (which is due to the thousands of Brits that attend the event),at Spa there is no English commentary and obviously no radio Le Mans, so sometimes hard to know what the hell is going on

Edited by Northcote67 on Thursday 29th January 14:53

If you can get internet connection there's Radio Le Mans commentary on line

[Northcote67]

FredericRobinson said:

If you can get internet connection there's Radio Le Mans commentary on line

Thanks, i should have thought of that