British GP tickets

[herby]

I am looking to buy tickets for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. The best deals appear to be with F1GPT.com they are registered abroad, do any other PHers have experience of using this company? Are they genuine?

Anyone know of camping facilities at or near Silverstone?

[Marcia]

Hi herby,got my tickets dierctly from silverstone website last year,just felt safer that way,as for camping,whittlebury is the best for camping heres the link they were fantasic 5 min walk to circuit,you can't get any closer


http://www.whittlebury.com/index.php?pag=cms&i...

Edited by Marcia on Tuesday 31st March 09:12

[Muzzer]

Buy direct from Silverstone - it's a lot safer.

Whittlebury is good for camping.

[anonymous-user]

would suggest motor racing tours or page and moy. never used them but they have been going for years and have a solid reputation. buy from the circuit in the first instance though i know that a lot of grandstands etc are sold out...

would love to go back to hungary again this year, cheap as chips, general admission on race day is about £30....

[GT 1]

herby said:

Anyone know of camping facilities at or near Silverstone?

http://www.silverstone-camping.co.uk

Edited by GT 1 on Tuesday 31st March 19:28

[mike360]

dont use f1 gpt, i bought my spa tickets from them , and at the last minute on the friday practice as i was leaving home they decided to send an e-mail telling me they had to cancel them due to reasons beyond there control.

Luckily i bought some at the ticket booths in SPA

[herby]

Many thanks for your help chaps. I have bought tickets from Silverstone and will check out the camp sites.

Herby

[mosil]

I know this is an old thread, but I feel compelled to tell about my experiences with this vendor. It is my opinion that you should NOT buy from f1gpt.com.

I purchased tickets for the Japanese Grand Prix over 6 months before the actual event in October. I purchased "V2-4" grandstand tickets, and confirmed with them many many times that these were the tickets I wanted, and specified my preference in seating, which they "noted".

Come October, they said they'd ship my tickets to my house, 2-3 weeks before the event. 2 weeks before the event, still no ticket, and I had to leave for Japan without my tickets. I was freaking out, but was told that they'd arrive at my hotel in Japan before the event. I waited 4 days in Tokyo, and it still did not arrive. I was travelling all over Japan (first in Tokyo, then Osaka before I made my final stop in Nagoya/Suzuka), so I finally had to leave Tokyo to go to the my next stop, STILL without my tickets. After many e-mails, they finally agreed to ship the tickets to my hotel in Osaka, and less than one week before the event, the tickets FINALLY arrived.

HOWEVER, they were the WRONG TICKETS. On the tickets I noticed that there was a price on the tickets, "68,000 yen". I went on the Suzuka Circuit Japanese website, and cross referenced their tickets page with my tickets, and saw that for "68,000 yen" you get the V2-9 tickets, while the tickets I ordered, V2-4, were selling for "72,000 yen". In essence, this means that they gave me CHEAPER tickets than I paid for. The tickets don't specify the "section" you're sitting in like it's listed on the f1gpt.com website, so someone who couldn't read Japanese wouldn't know that they received the wrong tickets. I immediately contacted them to point out the error, and demanded for the correct tickets. One week passed, and they completely ignored me. Up until then, they had responded to all my e-mails very promptly (within 1 or 2 days), so this was a suprise. I had no choice but to go to the race with the incorrect tickets, and sat in a section I did not pay for.

After the race, I demanded a refund for the difference. They said they'd look into it. I sent in all my evidence (link to Suzuka website showing seating/pricing, scanned pics of my tickets, my receipt from vendor clearly showing I paid for different tickets, etc). I waited for 2 weeks, and there was no response. At this point, I figure they are not going to deal with me anymore.

Please do not buy from them! I also read on another review site that someone else who went to the Australian grandprix also had a bad experience from this same vendor (late ticket arrival and wrong tickets). I feel like I have to warn other fans before this happens to anyone else!!!

Edited by mosil on Wednesday 2nd November 18:20