Fail!? Better than the old days before they put the bypass in. I still remember when I did my Geography GSCE project based on track access to Silverstone (my home village) and Shennington.Good work getting the parking sorted but there is now a half mile queue to get through the gate into the circuit. Fail.
Fail!? Better than the old days before they put the bypass in. I still remember when I did my Geography GSCE project based on track access to Silverstone (my home village) and Shennington.
These days its a millions times better.
Ah, good man, could you tell me which way I'd be better off going on Sunday? I only live half an hour from the track and am good at sneaking to the main entrance but I need to get to the East entrance and I know there is a little road from Silverstone to Whittlebury. Is that blocked on race day? Otherwise I'll just head to Towcester and come down the short bit of A43.
We came up the A5 towards Towcester and got directed off and there were signs marked east entrance, although we went in the main car park (field within circuit grounds).
They used to only allow locals down that road, so not sure what they do with it now as I havent lived there for 15 years and the folks moved to Brackley 11 years ago.
We went and stood at Luffield first, never been there before but it was a decent view, bit miffed about the relentless rain and not seeing hardly any cars until the last 10 minutes or something, although the Saubers put in a bit of a show for us before then too so wp to them for that.
For FP2 sat at Woodcote grandstand, first time I've sat there and it's a great place to sit, can see the cars all the way from the start of Wellington, brake hard, feel their way through Luffield and see the back end wobble as they press on the throttle and look for traction accelerating down towards Copse.
Really enjoyed FP2 and seeing so many cars out - perhaps making up for no FP1 to speak of.
Getting out was easy as well.
All in all a good Friday fix of Formula 1
Epic wasn't it Loud as ever
We started at Luffield and moved to Vale end of P1. Then started off P2 at Int Pit Straight then moved to Village (Arena)