Traveling to a Grand Prix

Frank Bullitt

Think this is in the right section.

Im looking into going to the Valencia GP in August,Was wondering if anyone here has gone to any GP's and if they did how did they get their tickets etc.

Any help is welcome.

Iron Hide

I've been to a couple of the british ones over the past few years, but the tickets were all sorted as an uncle works with Honda and managed to grab a few... Google it i'd say, i think theres a place called worldtickets.com or worldticketstore.com that may be able to sort ya...

zanardi

Was at the Bahrain GP this year and met a young GP who was trying to attend all the races this year & publish her experiences and any tips she picked up along the way.

She has it up on a blog, makes a good read & you might pick up a few pointers:

backpackersguidetof1.vox.com

hotpoker

I went to the german GP last weekend. I got my tickets on mygpticket.com you can also get them on the offical f1 website. Also at the event their was alot of ticket sellers.

Draupnir

I was over at the German GP myself last weekend and had an amazing time.

We got a few texts from www.gpticketshop.com and found their service excellent. Booked flights through Aer Lingus, hotel through Hotels.com and rented a car through Hertz.

I would highly recommend it to anyone, we got three day tickets and loved every minute of it plus the organisation was brilliant as you would expect from Germans.

Chopper888

You can buy Grand Prix tickets off the Official Formula 1 website - www.formula1.com

Charlie-Bravo

I was at the British and Belgian GPs last year, also at Turkey in 2006. There are usually free shuttle buses from the city's main tansport hubs to the race track. With tracks usually situated outside cities and in the middle of nowhere, it's good to get onto the respective race's website to get all the travel info. As for Valencia, there shouldn't be any problem getting around unless you are staying outside the city due to cost. Still, best to research it in full so you know what transport to use and when.

Also, it's good to be an early riser - the earlier, the less a crowd and problems getting a seat on buses etc. Plus on the Sunday, try not to miss the GP2 which means getting up at stupid-o'clock 10.30am local time! It's one of the better races to begin a day.

zeris

I went to Valencia last year. We got our tickets though www.extratours.es who last year where the official ticket seller. Don't know if they are again this year.

We got Tribuna 4 tickets (looks like P4 this year) which where fine except for a badly positioned overpass which hopefully they'll have moved this year. Otherwise there was an excellent standing place (still needed a grand stand ticket to get to) in the far corner behind P1. This is where Pantano ran out of fuel in the GP2 feature race.

And we rented an apartment from www.cortes46.com which had just opened so it was all nice and shiny. And with aircon. In the north of the city but well connected by bus and Metro during the day and a fiver taxi at night back from the city centre.

Off to Budapest next week.

shamrock321

I was also at the German GP last weekend!

edgy

I went to the Hungarian GP in 2007, got a package deal through the travel department in dublin. got flights, 3 nights in a nice hotel, coach transfers and tickets for the quafiying and race day all in together. it was very handy and well organised