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Monaco Grand Prix Secteur Rocher

  • 13-02-2012 3:51pm
    #1
    Seve OB
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    Anyone ever been to the Monaco Grand Prix.

    I want to go this year as I will be in the South France (albeit 400k away) but the wife has given me a pass!

    Price of tickets though is savage, but Secteur Rocher is only €91.50. Anyone ever been here though and is it worth the extra scheckels €353 for the cheapest grandstand seat.

    I've never been to a GP before and most likely never will go again, and it just so happens Monaco is the one I always wanted to go to.


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  • #2
    Ghost Train
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    there's a few videos on youtube
    eg.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94noYFEAOe4


  • #3
    Seve OB
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    Booked my ticket, figured that no matter where I will be watching it, it will probably be more or less the same, as in the cars are just gonna whizz by, so for an extra €270 to sit in the cheap seats, I'm happy to be in the side of a hill!!

    really looking forward to it now, the F1 season can't start quick enough for me now!!


  • #4
    daveyid89
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    stevieob wrote: »
    Booked my ticket, figured that no matter where I will be watching it, it will probably be more or less the same, as in the cars are just gonna whizz by, so for an extra €270 to sit in the cheap seats, I'm happy to be in the side of a hill!!

    really looking forward to it now, the F1 season can't start quick enough for me now!!


    Hey Buddy, how were those tickets in the end? I'm considering the Monaco gp and I'm in the same situation with regards to the price difference.


  • #5
    Seve OB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,119 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    daveyid89 wrote: »
    Hey Buddy, how were those tickets in the end? I'm considering the Monaco gp and I'm in the same situation with regards to the price difference.

    Not to bad at all. If I was going again, I would position myself slightly different, but you learn from experience. I had read you can bring fold up chairs etc. I did and it was a bad idea. That is unless you are there really early to position yourself. There is basically a table that runs along the side of the road and I think if you got a spot up there, it would be the best. If you were early enough, you could easily park a chair on it. Be warned, if you go climbing on the hills, it is dangerous, I seen a few people carted off on stretchers, so just take care. I parked myself up in my chair on the side of the path (there are actual paths - but some lots people go over the railings) going down the hill, hanging over Rascasse. Just before the end of the race I packed up and started to move out to see if I could get a better view anywhere. Not more than 5 meters up the hill, I got a great spot to watch the finish (just so happened to be beside a load of deliouous Aussies!). Moral..... get there nice and early and have a good look around for your spot. I was on my own, but if I was with someone I would pick a spot, get settled and then send the other off to see if they can find somewhere better.

    Don't bother your arse bringing a chair, just sit on the ground. I was there positioned just as the second race was starting, so probably should have gone up earlier. I was afraid to move also once I got settled, but if I dodn't have the chair with me, I would probably have been more adventourous.

    I arrived in Monaco by Car about 8am or so and got parking in the Carpark at the main train station. I had to go down 10 levels (14 levels in total) but there was a good bit available down in the depths. Within half an hour I had to go back to the car and at that stage the car park was closed so I was lucky. If you are driving, get there early. If I was going again, I would stay nearby for the night and that way could hang around after and have a few beers and soak up the atmos. Beer was being sold by street vendors for only €5. Loads of street vendors and food was dirt cheap, so not your typical Monaco prices, could spend the day there very cheap if you wanted.

    Buy ticket from Monaco motor club and not F1 website. I bought them on official F1 website and they were about €20 more expensive, but it was to late at that stage.

    The big disapointment was that I had heard they always open the track for people to walk around it after. This did not happen at all. Maybe it was because of the weather, my god we got it after the race... everything from serious rain, hail, Thunder, Lightening and get this, I kid you not....Snow on the motorway on the way home. Snow on the Cote D'Azur in May. Traffic was awful, stopped in lots of places and many people were getting out to inspect it in disbelief and making snowballs to convince themselves!!!


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