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Author Who's been to a GP weekend before?
Kyle T
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4th Jan 12 at 17:58   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I love F1, and every year I've said to myself "I need to go to a GP next year..." and it never really happens.

I think it's mainly because I'll never get better coverage than being sat on my arse at home watching the telly and reading the various news updates/gossip on the internetz.

Somebody at work has asked if I fancy Monza this year, and I'm seriously tempted.

Problem is, we want to get this booked pretty quickly as Monza is likely to be one of the sellout venues - which means lumping out the cash pretty quickly... which makes me nervous.

We're looking at ~ £600 ea to cover flights to Milan, coach to hotel, hotel room and grandstand tickets on the first chicane for fri/sat/sun and then flying home on monday.

I can afford the £600... but I've got a pretty long list of things I want to spend £600 on this year, not least some toys for the car which'll have to be backburnered

I read everywhere that the noise, smell and the atmosphere makes these events - and that's making me think the £600 will be worth it over a weekend on my arse at home, but I'm sure the CS crowd have got an opinion on that they'd like to share

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Russ and Kerry have been to Silverstone.

My Dad has been to a few, all be it back in the day. He used to road trip it.
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Went in 1998 and 99 to Silverstone. It was AWESOME and i imagine Monza would be even more epic due to how much the sport means to the fans over there. Do it. You wont regret it.
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Great weekend wherever it is.

Qualifying is the best day for me. As you've said though, the atmosphere makes it.

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I imagine Monza would be mental. Silverstone is a great weekend, done 2 in the last 3 years, if you get sun, you're laughing, if you get rain, it can really make it miserable.

We got lucky and got into the paddock and got to meet all the drivers famous people etc
Kyle T
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Yeah the 'Tifosi' are supposed to be mental... wonder if I could dig up an Alonso McLaren T-Shirt for if/when I go

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Absolutely HAULED it down when we went in 1998, fucking wind blowing rain into the stand at Becketts too

Didnt spoil it too much although obviously I'd have preferred sun!
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me and my girlfriends dad wants to go to silverstone any idea wheres best to book the tickets?

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Russ
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http://c20xe.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=609564&page=1
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quote:
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We got lucky and got into the paddock and got to meet all the drivers famous people etc


I remember seeing the pics actually, looked amazing - I was well jealous

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all down to you Kyle T
Kyle T
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I know... and not even an invite to kiss the back of Lewis Hamiltons head while he was signing his autograph

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we were gonna invite you to the wedding at one point
You even made the 1st draft of my speech
Kyle T
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quote:
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You even made the 1st draft of my speech


no way. That's the closest I think I'll ever get

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JonnyJ
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Just do it Kyle. Toys for the car can be bought any year, and bring short term joy. Doing Monza will give you memories that will last a lifetime
Kyle T
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quote:
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Just do it Kyle. Toys for the car can be bought any year, and bring short term joy. Doing Monza will give you memories that will last a lifetime


I think that's the way I'm leaning

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Going MotoGP, we always have a hospitality box for F1 couldn't go last year as was at mates wedding but fingers crossed I'll be there this year!

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quote:
Originally posted by JonnyJ
Absolutely HAULED it down when we went in 1998, fucking wind blowing rain into the stand at Becketts too

Didnt spoil it too much although obviously I'd have preferred sun!


Yeah I went absolutely immense weekend would go again but its a lot of money
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i went to silverstone last year and met russ and kerry who are arguably more famous than any gp drivers... all in all it was an epic weekend despite the rain.

want to do another one, would love to do monaco tbh but thats just silly expensive.
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I went to the Silverstone Race where it chucked it down and schuie one in the pits

The cheer that went round the track when Hakinen span off was great

Need comentry though as it impossible to now whats going on just watching a small bit of the track
Russ
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Loads of TV's at silverstone now
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went to the first F1 race at Singapore....

Spent most of the 3 days there watching the porsche and aston support races along with the F1. Got blootered during qualifying, left the track at around 11pm and onto ministry of sound.... home at about 9am for a few hours kip and REPEAT
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Went in 2009 to silverstone best weekend ive ever had tbh not been able to repeat it since though hope to go for my stag do next yr
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Me and my dad ended up in Spain during the valencia gp last year, we were gonna go but it was 2 hours on a train then a bus journey and we knew we'd end up lost but the ideas stuck so we may do it this year
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Flights booked, going to sort a block of grandstand seats at the weekend when we've confirmed numbers

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