Silverstone MotoGP Parking/travel advice?

[PageyUK]

Hi,

Just about to book some Motogp tickets for this years Silverstone Motogp round. I'm going for weekend tickets, but wondered what people with experience recommend to regarding getting to the circuit and parking?

I'm going to buy the tickets on bookmoto.com (anyone had much experience with this website??) and they offer either circuit parking or park and ride.... We live quite a way away so will be traveling up and staying overnight. Is it easy enough to park on the Fri & Sat at the Circuit, but advisable to use the Park and Ride on the Sunday??

Thanks.

[graeme4130]

PageyUK said:

Hi,

Just about to book some Motogp tickets for this years Silverstone Motogp round. I'm going for weekend tickets, but wondered what people with experience recommend to regarding getting to the circuit and parking?

I'm going to buy the tickets on bookmoto.com (anyone had much experience with this website??) and they offer either circuit parking or park and ride.... We live quite a way away so will be traveling up and staying overnight. Is it easy enough to park on the Fri & Sat at the Circuit, but advisable to use the Park and Ride on the Sunday??

Thanks.

After taking nearly 5 hours just to get out the car park in 2016, I swore I'd never drive there again
Last year, I went up on the bike and parked for free, got in and out in 5 mins, and there's a big marquee you can leave all your bike kit in, so took shorts and flip-flops in a rucksack (it was really hot last year)

[PageyUK]

graeme4130 said:

After taking nearly 5 hours just to get out the car park in 2016, I swore I'd never drive there again
Last year, I went up on the bike and parked for free, got in and out in 5 mins, and there's a big marquee you can leave all your bike kit in, so took shorts and flip-flops in a rucksack (it was really hot last year)

Ah, that sounds good but unfortunately I will have the Mrs with me and we will be traveling by car... So is the general opinion to use the Park and Ride, or does the bus sit in the same traffic as the cars?

[patchb]

Are you planning on camping? The exit from the campsite doesn't seem too bad, I've been 3 times and never taken more than an hour to get out, may well be different from the day car parks though...

[PageyUK]

patchb said:

Are you planning on camping? The exit from the campsite doesn't seem too bad, I've been 3 times and never taken more than an hour to get out, may well be different from the day car parks though...

No, doubt the Mrs will be up for camping unfortunately, so will probably source a hotel nearby.

[egor110]

PageyUK said:

graeme4130 said:

After taking nearly 5 hours just to get out the car park in 2016, I swore I'd never drive there again
Last year, I went up on the bike and parked for free, got in and out in 5 mins, and there's a big marquee you can leave all your bike kit in, so took shorts and flip-flops in a rucksack (it was really hot last year)

Ah, that sounds good but unfortunately I will have the Mrs with me and we will be traveling by car... So is the general opinion to use the Park and Ride, or does the bus sit in the same traffic as the cars?

Park in silverstone village , when the racing ends go to the pub have a meal then by the time you've finished the traffics gone.

[RemaL]

egor110 said:

PageyUK said:

graeme4130 said:

After taking nearly 5 hours just to get out the car park in 2016, I swore I'd never drive there again
Last year, I went up on the bike and parked for free, got in and out in 5 mins, and there's a big marquee you can leave all your bike kit in, so took shorts and flip-flops in a rucksack (it was really hot last year)

Ah, that sounds good but unfortunately I will have the Mrs with me and we will be traveling by car... So is the general opinion to use the Park and Ride, or does the bus sit in the same traffic as the cars?

Park in silverstone village , when the racing ends go to the pub have a meal then by the time you've finished the traffics gone.

Having done the f1 and Moto GP at silverstone i've not been waiting for more than 30 mins to get out. Yes I did miss the year when it was horrendous. Which may have been the year you went.

As others have said you have other options worth looking into

[alistair1234]

2016 was horrendous

Car parks were a free for all when leaving, all the lines of parked cars just joined in to a horrible mess. Also, our field filtered on to another exit road, but there was no one marshalling traffic so we had to wait for any sign of a gap before we could leave in to their path.

[egor110]

If your in the car park opposite silverstone , if they still let you there's a track that goes thru the woods then dumps you out on the dual carriageway.

Dadford rd campsite used to be good until they started sending all the traffic up past there.

[epom]

Sorry about the thread hi-jack. If someone was to fly over for this, is there a way of getting to the track without a car/bike ? Bus service ? Trains etc ? Cheers.

[egor110]

epom said:

Sorry about the thread hi-jack. If someone was to fly over for this, is there a way of getting to the track without a car/bike ? Bus service ? Trains etc ? Cheers.

Yeah you'd need to get to milton keynes / northampton train stations then there are buses from there to the track

[WaferThinHam]

epom said:

Sorry about the thread hi-jack. If someone was to fly over for this, is there a way of getting to the track without a car/bike ? Bus service ? Trains etc ? Cheers.

Not sure how you'd do it, but they have heli pads at Silverstone too. ;-)