British Grand Prix 2015, Silverstone - Race 9/19

Skeeter · 2 Jul 2015 at 14:56

Milkybk said:
Got tickets for my parents who are both going on Saturday and Sunday. They'll be in the club Silverstone stand. It's their first race and they're looking forward to it. They've got parking passes for the main Silverstone parking area.

What time should they look to arrive at the track on both days to avoid the traffic?

To avoid the traffic? February.

Nismo · 2 Jul 2015 at 15:43

Silverstone traffic

At least it's not (forecast to be) raining. That adds at least 10 years onto your entry/exit.

MooMoo444 · 2 Jul 2015 at 16:07

smr said:
Rain forecast for Sunday.

Nismo said:
At least it's not (forecast to be) raining.

I don't even know who to believe anymore!

DiCe! · 2 Jul 2015 at 16:23

smr said:
Have you sat there before? First time at Farm Curve for me, hoping it will be a good view of the cars. I know it'll be different to Maggots/Becketts and the International Pit straight.

Its an ok viewpoint I was there last year as well in with all the McLaren lot, we will all be watching the back of the pack keenly..... :'(

Skeeter · 2 Jul 2015 at 18:41

DiCe! said:
Its an ok viewpoint I was there last year as well in with all the McLaren lot, we will all be watching the back of the pack keenly..... :'(

With JB and Alonso joining you if recent form is anything to go by

smr · 2 Jul 2015 at 19:20

DiCe! said:
Its an ok viewpoint I was there last year as well in with all the McLaren lot, we will all be watching the back of the pack keenly..... :'(

Cool, I'm really looking forward to it, I've done the International Pit straight, Maggots and Becketts, Luffield, on the bridge at Wellington etc. before so fancied a change. Will be nice to see some lock ups for a change

and the start will be mega going into village I'm sure of it!

Nismo · 3 Jul 2015 at 09:30

Reports that something has changed with traffic management around Silverstone this year and queues are back to being pretty bad :/

In recent years when it was dry it was quite easy getting in/out, bad queues I thought were a thing of the past or related to bad weather, but seemingly not

ci_newman · 3 Jul 2015 at 09:35

Has it ever been anything but pretty bad?

leaskovski · 3 Jul 2015 at 09:38

Yeah, when they moved from the old A43 to the bypass. When it was just the one road going up the dadford road, it was carnage. So much so that I was able to do my GCSE geography on it and do questionnaires with people waiting in the traffic.

I miss living in Silverstone on the GP weekend.

smr · 3 Jul 2015 at 09:49

englishpremier · 3 Jul 2015 at 10:05

Yay FP1 I haven't heard as much bs from the media bigging silverstone up as they usually do. Win.

DiCe! · 3 Jul 2015 at 10:08

Managed to get another wing out there then.

That Force India nose looks interesting!

Twirlywoos · 3 Jul 2015 at 11:24

So BBC can't even get the British grand prix to show live? I don't know why I bother with TV Licence any more. :rolleyes:

benhaha85 · 3 Jul 2015 at 11:30

majnu said:
So BBC can't even get the British grand prix to show live? I don't know why I bother with TV Licence any more.

the race is definitely live on the BBC. I'm not sure what TV guide you've been using.

Nismo · 3 Jul 2015 at 11:33

ci_newman said:
Has it ever been anything but pretty bad?

Once they changed the roads AND the weather didn't affect the carparks/fields then it was relatively smooth. 2012 I think it was was a complete nightmare getting out of the circuit on a Friday, so much so we gave up and went back into the circuit to just walk around. This was after it nailed it down all day and cars were forced to double-stack in the better areas due to the fields being a no-go zone.

Not sure what was up today, but saw loads on Twitter commenting it was bad.

benhaha85 · 3 Jul 2015 at 11:37

Nismo said:
Not sure what was up today, but saw loads on Twitter commenting it was bad.

Going by Will Buxton's twitter it looks like they haven't really told anybody the A43 is only for Silverstone, so people are still trying to use it to cut between the M40 and the M1. Lots of people who aren't actually going to Silverstone are being diverted into the car parks and then are having to get out again.

Sounds like classic British organisation to me

UTmaniac · 3 Jul 2015 at 11:53

majnu said:
So BBC can't even get the British grand prix to show live? I don't know why I bother with TV Licence any more.

Been watching most of FP1 through BBC website, finished ~20mins ago.

However, unlike normal, the default live practice went to text commentary. I had to click the "live coverage" icon to bring up the live streaming.

Flibster · 3 Jul 2015 at 11:55

Helmut Marko's voice makes me suicidal.
God he's dull! Even makes Mansell sound exciting and interesting.

Nismo · 3 Jul 2015 at 12:00

benhaha85 said:
Going by Will Buxton's twitter it looks like they haven't really told anybody the A43 is only for Silverstone, so people are still trying to use it to cut between the M40 and the M1. Lots of people who aren't actually going to Silverstone are being diverted into the car parks and then are having to get out again.

Sounds like classic British organisation to me

LOL

So someone forgot to put the signs out!

leaskovski · 3 Jul 2015 at 12:51

benhaha85 said:
Going by Will Buxton's twitter it looks like they haven't really told anybody the A43 is only for Silverstone, so people are still trying to use it to cut between the M40 and the M1. Lots of people who aren't actually going to Silverstone are being diverted into the car parks and then are having to get out again.

Sounds like classic British organisation to me

Balls... I drove up the M40 earlier in the week and the week before and the signs were up saying the A43 was going to be closed. No different from other years.