Silverstone Tickets 2012

Silverstone 2012 Formula 1, British Grand Prix
Friday, 6 July – Sunday, 8 July 2012

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Child tickets are available for children up to and including 15 years of age.

Child tickets are not available in the Platinum and Club Silverstone stands and so a full-priced adult ticket must be purchased.

Silverstone Experience

Visited for the 3 days in 2010, and had a great time. Stayed in Milton Keynes, and drove in each morning… a journey that ought to take around 30 minutes according to the TomTom.
Had platinum tickets, for Woodcote A on Sunday.

Travel:
- Friday took 35 mins to get in at 8AM, with a small queue through Silverstone village. Poor signs meant I missed the turn to the north-eastern car-parks, and ended up right down in the SW corner by Club. There was a serious queue at the pedestrian gates between Club & Abbey, so we walked up to the entrance near bridge, and got in with no hassle. Leaving *was* a hassle, with cars using both lanes to exit, but other cars still trying to enter on one lane. I gave up, and turned left down the Dadford road, and went back via Buckingham.
- Saturday took 45 mins to get in at 7:30AM, properly going to the eastern car-parks this time, and getting to the front of the car park behind the pit straight. Other family commitments meant we had to leave straight after qualifying, and we encountered no problems leaving whatsoever.
- Sunday took just over an hour to get to the same car-park behind the pit straight stand at 8AM, this time ending in the very furthest section. Leaving was a nightmare, with an ambulance trying to get into the area at the same time as two lanes were trying to leave. The 2 lanes then inched along, taking 30 minutes to get to the bridge over the (strangely empty) A43. After another 45 minutes of inching into Silverstone village, I gave up, and just followed the back lanes north through the village, and out north of Towcester, before swinging back east at Weedon, and south via Northampton. The M1 was also a nightmare, but that wasn’t really due to the F1 traffic.

The event itself made up for the travel out on the Sunday…
- Friday morning we went over Bridge, and into the new Arena stands. People were checking tickets – both to get over Bridge and to then get into the arena stands, even though you should have been able to rove anywhere with any ticket. Ours were platinum for Woodcote, and we got through without a hitch, so I’m not sure what restriction the previous poster hit. This gave a good view of drivers mucking up Village, but not really much of a view of them coming from Abbey/Farm – which seemed to be the cause of the problems. While you could see cars over on Becketts, it wasn’t a very good feel for what was going on there.
- We briefly sat in Luffield B, but felt it wasn’t a brilliant spot. We then decided to check what our race-day view was like in Woodcote A, and decided to stay for FP2. A view from the distant Aintree, through Brooklands, Luffield and Woodcote, then a view along the start/finish straight until the cars suddenly dart out of view as they turned into Copse. There was the bonus of the pit entry in front of us, with a view straight along the pit lane itself. We thought it was well worthwhile, which the security guard agreed with – guys were coming over from the BRDC stand as this had a much better view!
- On Saturday we stuck with a game plan of hanging around Woodcote B, as we ended up with seats with great room. With the heat predicted to be even higher than Friday, we didn’t fancy lugging the cool-box around too much. Not bad, but not as good as A, so I can see why they’ve changed the designation for next year.
- On Sunday it was back to Woodcote A. Excellent, with a good view of antics approaching Brooklands. The loop around Luffield meant it was *very* easy to visualise the decreasing gap between Vettel and Webber, when Seb was so close to getting lapped.

So this was a good spot, although it will be a bit diminished when the pits move next year.