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#301 Nathan

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Posted 04 January 2025 - 18:28

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Weirdly, Monaco is going to be *significantly* cheaper than Silverstone, which feels quite wrong.

 

Let's review the value proposition after Silverstone.



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#302 TennisUK

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Posted 04 January 2025 - 19:42

Let's review the value proposition after Silverstone.


I’ve done both before. Silverstone is MILES better as an event - with so much more going on for sure. But Monaco is fun to do every once in a while.

Having been to a lot of different F1 races. Silverstone is, by some margin in my experience, the best event.

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Posted 04 January 2025 - 21:07

Before last years British Grand Prix, the only f1 race I’d been to was Spa in 2013 - and the event was so different, wasn’t sure if that was due to the passing of 11 years and the new Liberty era so interesting to see Tennis confirm that Silverstone is just better.

Obviously it’s the racing that’s the main event, and Silverstone rarely disappoints in that regard - but as we were spending the full weekend there camping, it was great to have other stuff to do once the days racing was done. It was like a huge festival and we loved it. It did actually make us unsure if other races could live up to it, we’ll see when we travel to another race I guess.

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Posted 04 January 2025 - 21:27

Silverstone is miles, miles better organised than Spa in my experience.

It’s also far, far more family friendly. Silverstone really is brilliant for that. I wouldn’t go to Spa again with family in tow (but will probably visit again with my brother in law, maybe for a big birthday).

Not that it has been of immediate concern to me or my family, but Silverstone also seem to cater for disabled customers really well, certainly compared to other European tracks (cough Monza, Spa) which I think says a lot for how they approach their product - and their customers - as a whole.

#305 BRG

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Posted 07 January 2025 - 11:44

"Super Bowl LIX tickets for 2025 are expected to range from $7,450 to $35,000"

 

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#306 danmills

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Posted 07 January 2025 - 11:48

Last and only time I went to Spa was 1995 and it was extremely basic, like a pop up track in the middle of the woods. I think that's what made it magical.

 

There were people hooked with carabiners hammocked to trees up the side of Eau Rouge, obviously not like that any more.

 

But the campsites were awesome and basic too, it's the atmosphere that made Spa, very festival spirited.


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#307 AustinF1

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Posted 07 January 2025 - 16:44

Just seen bburago 1/43 F1 cars selling for £6 at my local Morrisons - its a shame they only make 7 teams; getting a full grid for £120 would have made younger me very happy!

LOL. My 18 yo bought one of those for Christmas for my 21 yo. Paid 3x that much on Amazon, plus shipping to Texas from somewhere in Europe. Maybe I should be in the model car resale binness!



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Posted 08 January 2025 - 13:41

Last and only time I went to Spa was 1995 and it was extremely basic, like a pop up track in the middle of the woods. I think that's what made it magical.

 

There were people hooked with carabiners hammocked to trees up the side of Eau Rouge, obviously not like that any more.

 

But the campsites were awesome and basic too, it's the atmosphere that made Spa, very festival spirited.

Last time I went was 2014 and it was still pretty basic then - as is probably to be expected in a place as topographically interesting as Spa is.

 

The atmosphere was partly fun - boy scouts selling beer, chips and mayo are essential parts of the Spa experience - but my wife and her sister HATED it - the clientele was pretty much all male (the both got very, very tired of them ogling them constantly), laddish and drunk. It had a slightly intimidating atmosphere that I bet is worse now than back then, since we have the orange army to bring a few more Heinekens to the party. The forests were basically urinals  too, which didn't help.

 

I'll go again, but it will be without wives, for sure.



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Posted 08 January 2025 - 14:38

I last went in 2017 - and yes it's still fairly basic, which is part of the charm IMO (as much as Liberty want to get away from tracks in the middle of nowhere). Surrounding area/car parks are very grim if there's a hint of rain, which as we know, is almost certain at Spa. A nightmare to get in and out of. The 'fanzone area' seems to keep most of the trouble-makers in one place for the most part, but I didn't see any problems when last there.



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Posted 08 January 2025 - 19:21

Pouhon seemed like that scene out of Apocalypse Now when Willard turns up and finds there to be no C.O. But with more cans of lager.

 

And so, so, so much urine running down the side of the hill as everyone urinated in the forest. 



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Posted 08 January 2025 - 20:03

And so, so, so much urine running down the side of the hill as everyone urinated in the forest. 

I really shouldn’t have filled my water bottle up there.



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Posted 08 January 2025 - 20:12

Pouhon seemed like that scene out of Apocalypse Now when Willard turns up and finds there to be no C.O. But with more cans of lager.

And so, so, so much urine running down the side of the hill as everyone urinated in the forest.


:lol:

My dad and uncle went to spa in 2024 and they said the same thing - they thought they’d found an amazing spot, until a session ended and hundreds of blokes vanished into the woods for a piss… and it dawned upon them why the spot wasn’t in use

There’s probably a new breed of insect living in those woods, raised on the Heineken piss of race fans

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Posted 08 January 2025 - 20:13

He also said the token system was a total disgrace and designed to frustrate and rip off the fans in equal measure

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Posted 08 January 2025 - 21:13

I remember my mum telling my 9 year old self that 'those clumsy Germans dropping their sausages out of their hotdogs everywhere ' as we rambled from the densly wooded Schumacher campsite shrines to the Paddock entry.

 

They were turds. Footlong German turds. 



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Posted 08 January 2025 - 21:20

I’m beginning to see the upside of Spa going into yearly rotation



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Posted 08 January 2025 - 21:27

He also said the token system was a total disgrace and designed to frustrate and rip off the fans in equal measure

Same at Monza.