Silverstone recommendations

[Togneri]

Apologies last I can find someone asking about this is in 2010...

Looking to attend the British GP for the first time next year with my father in law. Based on the Silverstone website it seems you can pay £450 for the weekend for a grandstand seat, or upgrade to an enclosure at which point it's around £1k. Appreciate this is probably a big hike since prior years but we're happy to pay this much for a good weekend.

Keen to hear any recommendations/advice when looking at Club silverstone/ Wellington/Boxpark loop - and generally anything else I should think about.

For context, we'll be taking a campervan, and I can't imagine my 67 yr old father in law will be super fussed about afterparties/live djs...

Cheers

[bergclimber34]

If you can afford the travel go somewhere else, its simple

[silentbrown]

Went for the first time with my daughter last year - three day tickets for Luffield stand were about £470 then, £650 now - but there's dynamic pricing, so the price goes up as the stands fill.

Cheapest grandstands aren't covered, and Silverstone weather is predictably bad!

I'm really not sure what value the 'enclosure' tickets add, beyond the parking/park and ride cost. Where are you planning to camp with the campervan?

[BunkMoreland]

I have 2 grandstand tickets for next year. But we're only going on the Saturday to reduce costs. Shouldn't be too bad, next year will be a Sprint race then qualifying. Plus whatever is going on with support races. So we get a decent lump of action for £500 outlay!

(40 of which was cancellation insurance and 14 was 2 park and ride tickets!)


A friend wanted to do Spa and pointed out it would be cheaper even with hotels and travel.


I want to do Monza but from the F1 site it seems its only 900 euro 3 day passes available and I've heard its a total nightmare getting out from the circuit to the train station! (And I know how TrenItalia "works" from a trip to Mugello for the MotoGP a few year ago )

[jules_s]

You really need to be a Silverstone grid membership esp this year

From what I can gather they are not using several fields for parking/camping next year (park and ride preferred)so they've made campervans plots stupidly expensive

According to the mrs who booked our tickets

[Padron]

Save the money instead of buying the really expensive tickets and buy a trackday as well.

There’s nothing like experiencing it for yourself! It’s hard to appreciate the g forces until you experience them even in a road car!

[silentbrown]

jules_s said:

You really need to be a Silverstone grid membership esp this year

What are the useful benefits of that?

[WilliamWoollard]

BunkMoreland said:

I have 2 grandstand tickets for next year. But we're only going on the Saturday to reduce costs. Shouldn't be too bad, next year will be a Sprint race then qualifying. Plus whatever is going on with support races. So we get a decent lump of action for £500 outlay!

(40 of which was cancellation insurance and 14 was 2 park and ride tickets!)


A friend wanted to do Spa and pointed out it would be cheaper even with hotels and travel.


I want to do Monza but from the F1 site it seems its only 900 euro 3 day passes available and I've heard its a total nightmare getting out from the circuit to the train station! (And I know how TrenItalia "works" from a trip to Mugello for the MotoGP a few year ago )

I did Silverstone and Monza this year. I was very impressed with the public transport at Monza. As soon as one bus left for the station another pulled up, there were people stationed at every door to ensure the bus was full when it left and police at every junction stopping the traffic and waving the buses through. It was very slick.

We were sitting in a restaurant in central Milan by 6:20 on Sunday evening.