Tickets for F1 Grands Prix
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There's always a large variety of tickets available at all race events. Designed to cater for the budgets of as many fans as possible, circuits also offer 'pelouse' ticket packages which, although they don't include a seat in any of the grandstands, will grant you access to first hand contact with all the action and atmosphere. The shops selling merchandise, the stalls selling you cold beer, soft drinks and snacks at prices so expensive you're better off bringing your own, it'll be an experience to remember for the rest of your life.
The smells, the sounds, the taste. The scent of the most advanced fuels burning through the world's most advanced engines is as intoxicating as the smell of bread and new books! A world apart, of course, but intoxicating nonetheless.
Top Five Tips to make your F1 experience a better one
1. The best seats in the house are plastic ones! What we mean is that its always best to have a numbered seat on one of the grandstands. If gives you the freedom of moving around before and during the events for all those necessities (buying drinks, making your own 'pitstops') without having to worry about not finding a seat when you get back.
2. Visit the circuit's own website to make sure you know where the best seats are. You may automatically thing that being bang in the middle of the start/finish straight might be the best place to be but, think about it, how much action are you REALLY going to see as the cars hurtle past you down towards the corner. The corners are certainly the best place to be, particularly at the end of the longer straights. There's every chance you'll see an overtaking manouevre or two as drivers nip out of the slipstream and dive for the corner, see God and then brake! You might get to witness a shunt or contact between cars
3. As much as possible, try and work out where the nearest screens are to the grandstands you'd like to sit in. No true fan can sit there for two hours not knowing who's putting in the fastest laps, who's pitting and, crucially, how your team is doing relative to everyone else.
4. Take an FM radio receiver with you! Most circuits have their own commentators transmitting over the local radiowaves and whilst it may not always necessarily be as entertaining as what you're used to, it'll be a helpful guide to all the action off camera, on the other side of the circuit; and finally
5. Arrive early and park some distance away from the precincts of the circuit. While you may think this a bit of a silly suggestion, when 90,000 like minded individuals make like Linford Christie for their cars at the end of the race, the spectators' Grand Prix will be somewhat less exciting than the action on track, as you sit for hours without moving in the traffic jam. Spend some of the time casually walking back to your car, digesting the finer moments of the race and, with any luck, by the time you set off there'll be less traffic to negotiate!
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Alternatively, if you want any more information about any of the events on the calendar, click through to our F1 race calendar page for everything you need to know