Testing - Barcelona

[roboxm3]

Afternoon All,

We're planning a road-trip to Barcelona in March to watch the F1 testing that is on from 6th to 9th.

The driving / accommodation bit should be pretty straight forward but having never attended an F1 race before, let alone any test sessions, does anyone have any tips / pointers to make the most of the time available?

I can see that tickets are only 20E per day and assume (seeing nothing to the contrary) that we can just rock up on the day and pay the entry fee for grand stand / general admission.

Is there a usual order to these things i.e. start or end of the week / day being the better time to go to see as many cars / laps as possible?

Any and all advice gratefully received.

[roboxm3]

Thanks John.

I did suspect that on-track activity would be at the discretion of what the teams had planned / wanted to achieve but with it being the final opportunity to test before the first race, fingers crossed they'll be hoping to get a good few laps / race sims under their belt.

[roboxm3]

Thanks Johno.

To be honest I think we'll be happy just to turn up and have a watch from a few different areas over a couple of days and play it by ear.

Are you daft enough to be driving down?

Any pointers re. the route may come in handy...

[roboxm3]

The driving bit is half the reason for doing it and my brother's already been out and bought the car for the job!

There'll be three of us to share the driving and the fuel / toll costs, so it shouldn't be too painful, I just wondered if there was a better route to take or roads to avoid / aim for?

[roboxm3]

tobinen said:

This would make a great road trip I think, but expensive compared to flying of course.

I'm really looking forward to the drive...but not my portion of the fuel bill in a 6.2 V8