Hello,
My wonderful wife has bought my son and I tickets for Silverstone this
weekend. Having never been there, what's the best place to watch the
racing from? We have roving grandstand tickets so should be able to
find a good space, I hope!
Many thanks
Mark

mhall wrote:
> Hello,
> My wonderful wife has bought my son and I tickets for Silverstone this
> weekend. Having never been there, what's the best place to watch the
> racing from? We have roving grandstand tickets so should be able to
> find a good space, I hope!
> Many thanks

The things a woman will do to get the family out of the way and arrange a
shagfest

--
Hog

mhall ((E-Mail Removed)) wrote:
>
> Hello,
> My wonderful wife has bought my son and I tickets for Silverstone this
> weekend. Having never been there, what's the best place to watch the
> racing from? We have roving grandstand tickets so should be able to
> find a good space, I hope!

The straight answer is "on the tv"

I've not been there as a spectator but I reckon Brooklands or Woodcote
would be a good spot for some extended knee-down viewing,
Maggots/Becketts for left/right flip-flopping or somewhere on the
infield for things getting wiggly.

Failing that, I think the roving tickets give you access to the
start/finish straight, so you could just watch from there.

I'll be there to see qualifying on Saturday, so might have a better idea
of where's good to watch from after that.

--
ogden

gsxr1000 - the gentleman's sports-tourer
ktm duke - the practical cross-town commuter

On 09/06/2011 12:31, ogden wrote:
> mhall ((E-Mail Removed)) wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> My wonderful wife has bought my son and I tickets for Silverstone this
>> weekend. Having never been there, what's the best place to watch the
>> racing from? We have roving grandstand tickets so should be able to
>> find a good space, I hope!
>
> The straight answer is "on the tv"
>
> I've not been there as a spectator but I reckon Brooklands or Woodcote
> would be a good spot for some extended knee-down viewing,
> Maggots/Becketts for left/right flip-flopping or somewhere on the
> infield for things getting wiggly.
>
> Failing that, I think the roving tickets give you access to the
> start/finish straight, so you could just watch from there.
>
> I'll be there to see qualifying on Saturday, so might have a better idea
> of where's good to watch from after that.
>

Last time I went (quite a while ago), I was annoyed to find all of my
favourite places now have hospitality suites built on top of them,
blocking the view. Gits.

--
/Simon

Simon Wilson wrote:
> On 09/06/2011 12:31, ogden wrote:
>> mhall ((E-Mail Removed)) wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> My wonderful wife has bought my son and I tickets for Silverstone
>>> this weekend. Having never been there, what's the best place to
>>> watch the racing from? We have roving grandstand tickets so should
>>> be able to find a good space, I hope!
>>
>> The straight answer is "on the tv"
>>
>> I've not been there as a spectator but I reckon Brooklands or
>> Woodcote would be a good spot for some extended knee-down viewing,
>> Maggots/Becketts for left/right flip-flopping or somewhere on the
>> infield for things getting wiggly.
>>
>> Failing that, I think the roving tickets give you access to the
>> start/finish straight, so you could just watch from there.
>>
>> I'll be there to see qualifying on Saturday, so might have a better
>> idea of where's good to watch from after that.
>>
>
> Last time I went (quite a while ago), I was annoyed to find all of my
> favourite places now have hospitality suites built on top of them,
> blocking the view. Gits.

Does anyone think it's about fans?

--
Hog

On Jun 9, 12:31*pm, ogden <og...@pre.org> wrote:
>
> The straight answer is "on the tv"
>
> I've not been there as a spectator but I reckon Brooklands or Woodcote
> would be a good spot for some extended knee-down viewing,
> Maggots/Becketts for left/right flip-flopping or somewhere on the
> infield for things getting wiggly.
>
> Failing that, I think the roving tickets give you access to the
> start/finish straight, so you could just watch from there.
>
> I'll be there to see qualifying on Saturday, so might have a better idea
> of where's good to watch from after that.
>

Thanks for the suggestions. I did think the start/finish straight
would probably be acceptable but it would be good to see some knee-
down viewing as well!

Thanks again
Mark

In article <49f1a1b3-daf9-4673-94b4-5aae83aa2ce0
@v31g2000vbs.googlegroups.com>, (E-Mail Removed) says...
>
> Hello,
> My wonderful wife has bought my son and I tickets for Silverstone this
> weekend. Having never been there, what's the best place to watch the
> racing from? We have roving grandstand tickets so should be able to
> find a good space, I hope!
> Many thanks
> Mark

I was there last w/e for the FIA GT meeting, and the new layout is
pretty un-spectator-friendly, unless you're happy just finding your seat
in a grandstand and watching from there. The limited access makes
getting from one part of the circuit to another involve a lot of
walking, and there's security guards and fencing everywhere.

Anyway, the Becketts grandstand is supposed to be good for seeing a lot
of the circuit as well as having some good action in front of you. I
couldn't be arsed to walk all the way out there so ended up in the
grandstand on the inside of the new complex (Village is it?) before the
Wellington Straight which gives a good view of that section and some
idea of what's going on elsewhere too.

New Start/Finish area is pretty useless as you can really just see that
one straight as the Wing building is in the way.

Be interesting to know whether enough spectators bother with a 13-rider
MotoGP field (or whatever it is) to give the place any atmosphere -
Silvestone's really just too big and corporate now for anything other
than the F1 GP.

TW ((E-Mail Removed)) wrote:
>
> In article <49f1a1b3-daf9-4673-94b4-5aae83aa2ce0
> @v31g2000vbs.googlegroups.com>, (E-Mail Removed) says...
> >
> > Hello,
> > My wonderful wife has bought my son and I tickets for Silverstone this
> > weekend. Having never been there, what's the best place to watch the
> > racing from? We have roving grandstand tickets so should be able to
> > find a good space, I hope!
> > Many thanks
> > Mark
>
> I was there last w/e for the FIA GT meeting, and the new layout is
> pretty un-spectator-friendly, unless you're happy just finding your seat
> in a grandstand and watching from there. The limited access makes
> getting from one part of the circuit to another involve a lot of
> walking, and there's security guards and fencing everywhere.
>
> Anyway, the Becketts grandstand is supposed to be good for seeing a lot
> of the circuit as well as having some good action in front of you.

I think it's quite a way back from the track though, there's a lot of
runoff out there. That said, it's Silverstone, there's a lot of runoff
everywhere so all the grandstands are pretty far back from the track.


> couldn't be arsed to walk all the way out there so ended up in the
> grandstand on the inside of the new complex (Village is it?) before the
> Wellington Straight which gives a good view of that section and some
> idea of what's going on elsewhere too.
>
> New Start/Finish area is pretty useless as you can really just see that
> one straight as the Wing building is in the way.

I've got seats in the Club grandstand for the F1, which should give a
reasonable view down the new start/finish straight, into the pits, and
up past Vale towards Stowe.

Mind you, for the money it should give me a ****ing good view of Alpha
Centauri and Brooke Lee Adams too.


> Silvestone's really just too big and corporate now for anything other
> than the F1 GP.

And Donington's a bit of a shithole. Tough call.

--
ogden

gsxr1000 - the gentleman's sports-tourer
ktm duke - the practical cross-town commuter

ogden wrote:

> Mind you, for the money it should give me a ****ing good view of
> Alpha Centauri and Brooke Lee Adams too.

<fx:Googles>

Oh, it's a star...

--
Chris

On 09/06/11 15:38, ogden wrote:
> I think it's quite a way back from the track though, there's a lot of
> runoff out there. That said, it's Silverstone, there's a lot of runoff
> everywhere so all the grandstands are pretty far back from the track.

One thing that suprised me about the Catalunya circuit is how close you
can be to the action on some sections.