How much would it cost to go to every F1 race in a season?
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2022
- As an F1 photographer I’m often asked, “How much would it cost to go to attend an F1 race”, “What’s the cheapest F1 Grand Prix”, “What’s the most expensive F1 Grand Prix” or “How much would it cost to go to every F1 race?”
Well, I can tell you firsthand that F1 travel is not cheap and in this video, I’ll tell you everything you’ll need to budget for to spend an entire year following the F1 schedule, I based it on the 2022 F1 schedule. From flights, hotels and tickets, to food, transport and travel insurance, there’s a lot of expenses you’ll have to consider for each F1 race you wish to attend, plus I’ve budgeted for 2 different ends of the spending spectrum.
So, get your pen and paper ready because there’s a lot of F1 logistics and travel planning to think about before you book your year-long adventure attending every F1 race in a season. Here’s how much would it cost to go to every F1 race in a season!
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Thanks Kym. Think you're better off buying a campervan for the European races and driving to those races. Once your done with the van you can flog it off. Would love to see a teams travel budget.... One of the most overlooked expenses the teams have. Wish they had Malaysia on the calendar, that was usually a bargain from an Aussie perspective.
I do wish Malaysia was still on the calendar. Could at least have a chance to go watch a race in person.
That’s my plan sometime in the next 5 years
I live in the US and have a converted van that I take to a few IndyCar races per year. It’s MUCH cheaper and great fun - I spend 1/4 on a place to stay in my van versus a hotel
Malaysia was always a banging race
Malaysia was the best non european weekend by far. Loved attending, was so cheap and a good time.
That is ridiculous. I used to work on yachts in Fort Lauderdale for quite a few years and it would be nothing for the owner to spend $80,000 on a paint job or $50,000 on new bed sheets for the yacht. I'm going to have to struggle and save for the next 2 years just to go to a single Grand Prix. I have been watching formula once since 1997 and I still haven't gone to a race that is one of the top things on my bucket list... someday it will happen 😁
Fort Lickerdale isn’t too far from Miami. Although going to Austin would be a better experience. Anything to stay away from the cesspool that Miami is, is worth it
@@TellURide447 oh trust me I know I have spent 6 years around Miami and Fort Lauderdale and I had to get the hell out of there ASAP. I was making $3,000 a month and only had to pay $500 a month for bills because I was living on the boats that I worked on so $2,500 a month would go to drugs and partying. I would rather go to the Canadian Grand Prix or Texas. I now live in Virginia so looks like Canada is the better choice 😁
@@TellURide447 We would call it Snort Lauderdale, for obvious reasons. The worst drug addictions I've had came from being in that place. Thankfully I'm out of it now and living the good life.
F1TV is $80 USD per year and you actually see much more of the racing. I live in the US and have no desire to to any races here in person.
@@terryrobertson8382 u gotta go to see for yourself man trust me
Thanks Kym, this is absolutely on my bucket list, only I would be traveling from Australia.
Still, this is a really great guide, so thank you so much for taking the time to put it together.
Glad you enjoyed it
This is actually on my bucket list! Cheers Kym and thanks for doing it from London too 👍🏽
Thanks for the info! I’m extremely excited to sell my all organs and house to visit all GPs in 2023!
That also would fall short sadly 😜
I have attended 3 races (including Monaco & barcelona) plus testing and agree with the cheaper prices. We always go for general admission tickets which allow roaming anywhere around the circuit on the Friday (except Monaco). Take our own picnic for the day to save money and use public transport. Its often cheaper to get flight around the Wednesday before the race and the Wednesday after the race and stay in an air b and b. Love this review Kym as it is our dream when retired to follow each race for a year. Would love to see some reviews of the super expensive paddock club areas.
Cheers Mrs M
Cheers @kym. Have to say enjoyed that video and certainly doable spread over a few years 😊
Very informative vid Kym, thanks!
Excellent info Kim, thanks
Exceptional Video. Wow! This is so good. Thank You!
Hi Kym - awesome guide indeed thanks for the break down.
.. what experience you have indeed to guide a F1 season tourist! excellent info Kym
This is on my bucket list. Thank YOU Kym for sharing these details. Priceless info this is!!
And the video will always be here for you to watch
@@KymIllman Gracias! :)
Hi Kim! You are right in Mexico City you can expect to pay the same as any European city in food and accommodation on the higher end of the espectrum. If you want cheaper accommodation stay away from anything on Reforma. Hotels in the southern side of the city cheaper and you can be at the track in 30- 40 min without traffic.
Thank you I was wondering about this yesterday & couldn't get a better answer than that
My pleasure
Solid content as always Kym!
Well, I will join you next year. Thank you for bringing it up. I will strategize it now.
Do it.
Thanks for this video Kym, bucket list for me and my father
Great video - thank you
I think it would be much more comfortable to attend half the races in a year, its a chaotic sport organization wise. Probably more fun to combine your favorite races with leisurely travel in those countries:)
This was a cool breakdown! Loved it. A friend and I have mused about doing this for years. I can’t imagine we will ever have the $$$$$ to make it happen, but it is nice to dream.
Great video! Check the Vegas hotel rates this weekend. With a big fight in town, they'll be high. Add another 10-25% to that, and that'll be about what it'll cost next year during the race. Unfortunately Vegas will be expensive, but fun.
I’m frightened to look.
Great content as usual! Thanks Kym!
What a great research and info!
That was really interesting to see the variation in ticket prices. I last went to a GP 6 years ago, in Austin. I thought of going again this year but the tickets sold out fast even though a 3 day ticket was $500. The same ticket 6 years ago was $200, and I got to see Taylor Swift after quali, Usher after the race.
I stopped watching after 4 races but thanks for the video Kym. Now I know what I have to do. Thank you so much.
Great video Kym. I've been to Monza, Imola, and Austin. All three have been enjoyable experiences. However, Austin was a nightmare to get out of the track and back into the city (the uber line was around three hours wait). Imola was by far the easiest. We just trained it in from Bologna. But be careful, the trains getting out of Imola after the race were a madhouse. This year at Monza, we just trained it in from Verona, which was less than two hours.
Went to Austria this year and it's much easier to leave the track on the shuttle busses than a taxi.
food and drinks, communication (phone sim cards and internet), country visa and entry fees, currency exchange rates and international banking fees and car fuel all are not included as if things went smooth as butter and according to plan and who tf visits anywhere without actually go out for other activities and a little shopping, i would safely double the estimates on the budget end and maybe add 30% on the top end.
Food and drinks included. The rest is up to the individual
I was eagerly waiting for this Video!!!!! Thanks a lot kym
Occasionally they show camping sites at a few races. I would love to see a video about that and how it works. I’ve camped for nascar races and it’s by far cheaper then hotels.
Nice vid as always but the cost will defo be way higher as there will be drinks/food bought at the track as well, car park, fuel for hire cars etc
Great video Kym 💛
I’ve just seen Kym on McLaren unboxed 😅this was good information, I’m sure quite a few people would love to follow F1 around the globe and now they know what kind of target to set for themselves 👍🏾
It’s a guide at best
Stayed at a place called Levens when I went to Monaco. About 45 mins to the track in the hills. Low key town no one knows about.
Great video!
Hi Kym. Thanks for such a wonderful video! Might I suggest flying to Nagoya from Singapore instead of Tokyo as you’ve said earlier, Nagoya is closer to Suzuka. I just looked up and found that there is a direct flight from Singapore to Nagoya direct! Maybe you would like to consider that instead of having to fly up to Tokyo and then heading south to Nagoya. Stay safe and have fun!
Thanks
Kym this was a great watch. Thanks so much!! Know where l could afford to go to!!
Cheers
Great video as usual Kym ! Really informative ! ( I spotted the Harp chair by Jorgen Hovelskov, huge fan :) )
Looks good, but I don’t think anyone’s ever sat in it
Excelent video!!! Where did drivers stay in the Miami Gp???
All over the place
Awesome video Kym as soon I I hit those 6 lotto numbers I’m jumping all in on this.👍👏
See you in the paddock then
@@KymIllman I will be looking for you.!!😂
I got grandstand tickets for 130€ in Monza this year so if your are smart or buy the tickets directly when possible you can safe some money too !
Agree, we did the same with barcelona, booked direct with the track, buying general admission tickets (£120) and the following year they offered us buy one get one free on grandstand tickets. Plus we got into testing for free.
Thanks man i love f1 have done for years now but never been to a single race
Hi Kym. Before watching your video I did the exercise because I have some experience traveling to Formula One circuits. So we corresponded in everything except the price of food and car rental. Food gave me 4,000 euros a year and Car rental also gave me 4,000 euros since I prefer the comfort that free movement gives me at any time of the day or night. My total of the year was 26.000 euros. As usual huuuuuge hugs from Colombia
I’m amazed how many followers I have from your country
18000 pounds seems very reasonable and I thought it would be more expensive than just 18k to attend all the races
Thanks for leaving the sum in the comments. Didn't want to spend 15 mins watching this shit :D
@@alexandrutudoran3941 the sum is literally at the end of the video, you couldn't even watch the first minute?
Nope, meaning no offense 😂
I'd add maybe 25% extra to this estimate just to account for miscellaneous and unpredictable expenses. Even then, £18,000 is multi millionaire money in most countries besides western Europe and USA and Canada.
@@ijustfelldown I am a Brit, £18,000 is a millionaire to me on illness benefit... just about afford live races after saving up mate.
Awesome video 👍 when I win the lottery I'm definitely doing a year of F1
I literally was thinking about following the circus for a full season 3 days ago. Thanks for this!
Great timing
I've been to two Grand Prix, Zandvoort and Brands Hatch, probably never go again as it's all to expensive for me. Did Le Mans three years in a row, but nowadays that seems expensive. That's why I got into GT3 racing, so much cheaper (for my budget).......but thanks Kym, as always a great video
Great video! I can really imagine it took quite a while to make this video, really a appreciate the effort! Keep it up.
It is a lot of money but honestly I thought it would be more expensive than that.
Thanks
I love the topic of this video, as it's a damn sight cheaper, i do this with the Speedway GP championship and it's interesting to see this for f1
Thank you Kim. planing to do it for my 50th... 😉
Planning it takes hours.... no, days, maybe weeks.
Took me a while to work out why if wasn't seeing half the info on CZcams TV.. and that was coz the live chat was covering the right quarter where half the info was...
Nowhere near Kym, but I'm at Malaysia x4, Melbourne, Suzuka, Singapore, Monaco, Shanghai..
As an Aussie in Sydney loved the Malaysian race. Tickets, accommodation and flights were much cheaper than Melbourne. Hope it gets added back - it's a great circuit (even if a long way from the city centre)
Thank you Kym. Your content is always so entertaining and I really want to go to Las Vegas next year. I live in the US so we currently have 2 Grand Prix in Miami and Austin with Las Vegas next year. I hope I get to go to a race as I am a huge F1 fan!
Awesome info. Just monaco killed me 😅
Saw you at Monza, but you looked busy so I didn't want to disturb you
Always busy. Cheers
Great video! Im attending all 24 races in 2024 and ill have to do a cost summary for my travel and tickets but from memory my tickets for races alone are going to be $40,000+AUD. Should be a once in a lifetime experience and can you really put a price on that hahaha!
Great video . This is my dream to do this .
Make it happen.
@@KymIllman good advice …… that’s been my way of life with so many things . I’m going to put it to paper and plan it . 😁
Another great video! Any chance you’d be interested in doing the same video for IndyCar?
I know nothing about that subject so it wouldn’t be much of a video
Wow you did ALL this? Thanks! I once checked out accommodations for Monaco and soon realized my *friends* are ballers, not me, just used to tagging along.
We love you Kym. Your career is grand.
Cheers
Hope to see you at Singapore
Really interesting video, i can't imagine the research hours that went into this! Thank you!
Plenty
Living in the US and going to the USGP used to only cost a couple thousand in total, with flights and grandstand tickets. One year later, with Miami and Vegas being added, I'm guessing attending a US race is no longer going to be a realistic option for a middle class family making 100-200k a year.
how do nfl ticket prices compare? here in eu even football/soccer matches are slowly becoming unrealistic for middle class
Perhaps if this old man wins the lottery, I could. Bucket list. Kim, for COTA, you can also fly into San Antonio, and stay in New Braunfels or San Marcos, just a local guy’s opinion.
I am thinking around the world tickets for 3/4 continents, train/flights in between close cities, take a vacation in between races, Airbnb instead of flying back and forth!
i am manifesting that i will get the paddock club pass next season in Melbourne 🤞
I’d put the scenery in the Ardennes for Spa up against the Austrian scenery any day.
The one thing he doesn’t address is physical wear and tear. I was there for the old 16 race seasons and I can tell you, no matter what class you fly or how nice the hotels are, that much time traveling and at race tracks is nothing less than brutal.
My favourite video this year, fingers crossed for a lotto win!
Let us know when that lotto win comes in
@@KymIllman dinner on me at the lobster shack! 😂
Hiya Kym, does F1 do an all race access ticket option?
All access Paddock club cost for the season would be scary 😮
Paddock club is like 10-12 thousand per race, times 22. Don't forget air fare.
Well done
Well done kym very informative probably not man people will be doing this nice to dream though and jet lag would be crazy probably wouldn't know who or where you are at the end of all this
Ripper video mate
I’d love to know how much the mega opulent price would be
Kim, assuming you use Amex, have you been invited to the centurion card yet on the basis of all of that travel/spend?
I don’t use AMEX, I use a Bankwest MasterCard With no 3% currency conversion fee
Could you attach the Excel sheet that you did this on?
If I won the lottery, this is item 1 on my to do list. Thanks for letting me know how much to budget.
And us Aussies can only dream of those air fare costs. We wish! Just back from Italy with a return fare of A$2200 from Perth. Sad thing is we were in Milan but zero GP tickets to be found even mths out. (Unless you purchase an experience). The Italians grab the tixs in a hurry. We did however do a magnificent tour of Imola. Such a wonderful experience not to be missed if your in the area. If lotto comes good this week ill put your info to good use in '23. Interesting vid, thank you.
for imola regional trains from bologna are cheap and convenient
As mental as it sounds it doesn’t sound to bad… 60k ish to have mostly GA tickets some GS at your fav tracks, Non Budget Airline flights (not Business class) and 4/5 star hotels and and restaurant food.
If you were to be successful in your career, retiring or taking a sabbatical to do this is certainly achievable, especially if you get some kind of inheritance or redundancy payout etc…
I paid $350 for GA in Austin this year.
Gracias Kym
Interesting to learn that one can be so passionate about F 1.
Its 2023 I can expect 25k E for budget and 125k E for top end. However it will more expensive for next year, 2024 will be exciting but expensive. Budget is likely 25-30k E and Top end is 125k-140k E Range.
Singapore direct into Nagoya would be the best bet, I think it's daily with SIA.
See you on board
Very insightful but if I was blind I'd be raging at this video. All the details provided in the voiceover aside from the actual costs!
Yep, definitely a video that needs to be viewed.
I loove this
I am from Hong Kong, someday I would like to go to Suzuka or Silverstone for race
9:49 Btw there is Chubu international airport, just the opposite of the prefecture of Suzuka, much closer to Nagoya
With all the budget caps on the teams, I'm still waiting on ticket price caps for the fans :)
It’ll never happen
I think the lower end number is very optimistic. In reality you could prob add another 5-10 g to that number. And lets not forget our "walking around money"...another 5-10 g for the whole season. A good baseline assessment though.
Agreed, also the food prices at a circuit are eye watering as is the merch
@@peterh9238 Hey Peter, I live in the UK and have a partner. Going to Silverstone is easily a thousand £+ day...tickets, food, merch, and other attractions. We drive there so no planes, and we go home afterwards so no hotels. You are correct, the prices at F1 circuits are enough to make a grown man cry.
@@dazuk1969 do you know which European race is the cheapest? I'm moving to Berlin next week and want to visit atleast one European race next year.
@@nithingowda8350 Not sure my friend, this dude did mention it in this vid if you watch it through. He does give an accurate list of ticket prices. I think it was 100 UK pounds per ticket but I just can't remember which one it was.
@@nithingowda8350 Hungary is definitly the cheapest option. Austria seems to be 2nd cheapest
Done 4 so far this season with Abu Dhabi to go. And its a lot for thm
You might wanna go to Osaka. The food there is amazing.
It’s amazing everywhere in Japan
Hey Kym I know you must do fairly well selling your various prints, books and such but I don't imagine that your sales cover all of your F1 expenses, especially since you fly a lot in 1st class and business class, stay in nice locations and rent a lot of cars. Would it be too personal to ask how much YOUR COSTS are for an F1 season? I imagine it's up there, pretty close to the top end figure you mentioned or higher ..... care to let us know?
Hi. I would first suggest you watch my video “The money side of F1 photography” - www.kymillman.com/store/money-side-of-f1-photography/. It’s available to all my VIP channel members for free too. If you want more information, book a one to one session with me at www.kymillman.com and I will gladly tell you what I know.
Regards
😂
Haha trick question... How much would it cost to follow Mr.Kym during the Grand Prix?
Do brace yourself for the upcoming GP in Singapore. Even the weather here is all over the place. Humidity is the main problem for most visitors here.
I love Singapore and the GP there.
Can’t wait to return next year.
The humidity is fine by me
I’m from AUS so it’s all good
@@the_rocksf1148 nice... hopefully that next years F1 will be much closer on the track and in the stands as well as the air fares dropping to pre-covid rates.
I wonder if we would be crowning a new "lion of Singapore".
Cheers
wow my dream is to do this one day!!! go to at least 4 races back to back .
No reason to fly into Dallas or Houston and then rent a car to drive 3 hours to Austin. BA does a direct flight to Austin and I would highly recommend that.
Do it.
I’m not being nosey but what hotel are you staying at in Singapore Kym?
We stay at Carlton across from Raffles
I have a few booked and will decide at the last minute.
@@KymIllman I'm curieus: why did you decide to make reservations with several hotels in Singapore? Is this because you want to avoid a Kym Illman followers stampeed in your hotel? 😉
WOW That would be my dream to go to every race.
You’re living in dreamland if you think you’re going to get some of those airfares. Even the economy fares will likely be 3-5 times those numbers.
just do the European tour, much cheaper, way more fun and less abuse on the body from jet lag. Plus now there's more with France, Dutch and two in Italy. The Classic F1 feel
Nobody's doing that lol.
Time to hit the lottery, baby. I would love to do a Year of F1, but no bouncing back and forth to London. Keeping my eyes, fingers and toes crossed.
If you going to all the races I would suggest to get slr camera and take pictures and you will get your money back or alternatively become a marshall this will save you a lot of money.
What's the cost of being in the Paddock Club in comparison ? Thanks :)
You can only get tickets that allow you short tours in the paddock. It’s not like you can roam around there all day.