F1 ticket prices are getting RIDICULOUS
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- čas přidán 21. 09. 2022
- Being an F1 fan is becoming harder and harder if you want to visit a Grand Prix...
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$600 to get into a race with long lines, overpriced food, and not enough toilets? Yeah, I think I'll stick to my $27 annual F1 TV pass.
They actually said £600 which is more like $700, so it’s even worse😂
Yeah that's insane, I would maybe spend 100$ to see a race but 6-700$ that's a big hell nah
Cheap TV pass lmao, that's the monthly rate here.
I'll stick to my pirated stream
Bet your fun at parties 🥳 🎉 🤪 😏 😜
"When do fans get listened to?"
Easy question to answer.
We fans as a collective group are listened to right now.
We want more F1 so we get more races.
And we keep buying the tickets and watch the races on TV or an app.
We buy the merch.
When we stop giving them money and empty seats start showing up on TV, prices will come down.
We always have a voice.
But they don't listen to our social medias comments.
They listen to our wallets.
thing is people also wanna see f1 for the first time. If less people buy tickets, more people will buy them anyway. that’s the sad reality of it
The fans: give us more races
F1: Yes!
The fans: Don't race in Saudi Arabia!
F1: lol wot?
£179 up to £319 is ridiculous, but i understand why they do it. In my opinion they need to build a lot more stands so that they can accommodate more people.
Nah, F1 is for the nobility and their spoiled brats (otherwise known as rich people).
Seriously the commoners aren’t allowed to attend these races unless you are willing to outbid the nobility. Instead the commoners are supposed to just stay at home, like the sheep in their kennel.
Well said man!
Living here in the states I looked at prices as I was excited to be able to go to an event. Hopes quickly dashed as I found for myself and my wife it was cheaper to go for a 2 week cruise to the Bahamas than to spend 3 days watching a race which I have a better view of on the TV.
Yep same here. I even checked Miami because my mother has a home in Naples that I can stay at.
Even then it is too expensive to go to. I can go to the Indy500 race at a cheaper price and better seats.
You could do both at the same time.
@@Ceece20 yeah, Indycar and Nascar are way cheaper and racing is awesome still
I think it is a stupid move by F1 to even let MGM buy up all the tickets and tie them into packages that only the wealthy can afford. Tick off the real fans and only get the ones that will lose interest in a year or two.
Exactly
The ticket pricing to attend the Miami GP were outrageous. The worst is that the venue was packed so there is an incentive to continue the practice.
yeah it was packed but it was the first ever, F1 might be in a bubble prone to explode in the coming years when the casuals get bored and go watch something else
It’s a shame because I can go to the Miami GP if it wasn’t for the ticket prices. I have family within driving distance of Miami, I wouldn’t have to pay for hotel, just parking and tickets.
But the prices for tickets are so expensive, I’d rather just stay home and watch. F1 seems like an elitist sports for nobility and spoiled brats. Sorry but I’d rather watch a dragster race than a F1 race.
Its not at random that it became known as the Fyre Festival GP
@@fgsaramago what?? where lol. I went to the Miami GP and the only issue was the water stations, but you could get drinks at any of the food carts around. Food was not a huge line either, I waited 10 minutes for my turn. Access was instantly, I was in the area I liked within 15 minutes of getting inside (walking distance was the only issue) The GA areas had good viewing angles but the lack of screens hamper the whole experience.
Tickets for the stands were sold out and being sold at crazy prices, but the GA were still available until Saturday night, I got my GA tickets on Friday night after watching FP1/2
@@DTFFP congrats on proving the point. Everything you mention has nothing to with motor racing. It could be some random festival.
I'd really love to go and see a race, but with those prices... no chance. Especially with all the issues surrounding the events at the moment.
What issues?
same
What issues?
@@gothicgolem2947 Poor sanitation access, ridiculous food and beverage pricing, discrimination, overcrowding, the "tokens" system and a couple more.
I´d really want to see races, but with vacuum cleaners as motors and safety being put first and foremost.. no thanks.
My first F1 race was Silverstone in 2009. General admission was £90 for 3 days and they had fan vision meaning you could hear commentary and follow the race really easily. At current prices I dont think I'll be going to a race any time soon
Newsflash; they dont care. They sell out anyways. they dont care if Billy whose been to every race for the last 40 years stops going so long as all the tickets sell
You won’t be going to an f1 race ever again if you aren’t happy with the prices, they will stay or only go higher
The main reason I didn't go to the Canadian GP this year was cost. I had to buy my passport, which was $300 by itself, but then General Admission seating on the grass with no decent view of the track was going for $320 a ticket...for JUST RACE DAY. Not a weekend pass. Prime seats at the Grand stands were for $1,200 for a single day ticket. Absolutely insane.
Holy sh#t!
Wow, why do these fools pay these $1200 ticket prices?
Same. I am from India but studied and lived in Ottawa, Canada for many years. One of my dreams was to go to Montreal by train from Ottawa and then make my way to the Grand Prix. Can't remember the prices(2011) but I was shocked at the costs and had to let go of this dream. It sucked. I was, and still am a huge F1 fan. I'll still go someday but they ought to do something about the prices, or as mentioned-make a great experience. I always wonder.....when does the autograph session happen and who gets a chance to get it. Is it fixed on say a Saturday or depends.
Passport card is 75$
@@tyleroptional2639 if renewing I believe
It's actually cost me less to go to Abu Dhabi for three days, which includes return flights, hotel, car hire and tickets (sourced separately), than it did for all four days at Silverstone THIS year. When you can go half way around the world for three days for less than it cost to go a couple of hundred miles up the M1 for 4 days, something ain't right.
Man, before they just got a sponsor to pay a fraction of the ticket and let you know it so you use their service.
Now the sponsor takes money from the ticket
Also thanks to all the fans that pay the tickets to this price, because it's nothing for them.
F1 doesn't care about joy anymore, just selling
It's a supply problem. If the prices were lower the tickets would be sold out in seconds to scalpers with bots and you'd end up having to pay insane prices to buy them anyway.
F1 is not going a good way:👍
@@Frikgeek just require verification before buying and scalping would be solved
If you live anywhere outside Europe or the US, going to an F1 race has always been a full on extremely expensive holiday, so I guess it's now the same feeling for everyone
Ah, equality!
For most in the US it’s still also an incredibly expensive vacation. Vegas will become the closest race to me, but it’s still over 1200 miles away, and right around Thanksgiving where air travel starts going crazy for holiday season. Austin is the next closest, but it’s over 2200 miles. Miami is basically equally as close as the Canadian or Mexican GP, all nearly 3000 miles away. And then on top of that the races here have the illustrious vacation destinations of Florida, Texas, or Nevada. Pretty much a guaranteed $2000+ spend just base travel, lodging, and tickets, then add to that whatever I want to do beyond the F1 weekend (it’d be stupid to spend that much for just a couple days travel).
It’d probably cheaper to go to somewhere like Austria, a full extra ocean away.
Going to the F1 in Australia (Melbourne, and previously Adelaide) has been pretty easy in the past. Yes tix getting more expensive each yr
US ticket prices are FAR higher than what they're seeing in Europe. It's cheaper for us to fly to Europe and go to a race there, and flying to Europe is expensive
😂
After having been to Abu Dhabi and Spa, two very different circuits in two very different countries, I have to say the better the infrastructure the better the experience. In Abu Dhabi, there was a massive area way bigger than the Spa fan zone for people to hang out, get food, and chill without feeling like a sardine. In Abu Dhabi there was no wait for a bathroom right before the race, at Spa it's a 20-minute line 5 minutes before the race is supposed to start. If you're a guy and there's a trough near you, then you're lucky and get to wait just 5 minutes and piss with countless men women, and children waiting for waffles while staring at you. In Abu Dhabi the farthest you'll have to walk is a mile, if you have a disability you won't have to walk at all. At Spa, you will have to walk a minimum of a mile, and if you have a disability you can hobble up and down steep hills while getting honked at to move out of the way for rich lazy people being driven around in golf carts. These other things have more to do with the government and other businesses around the venues, but in Abu Dhabi, it will take 10 minutes to get off Yas Island after the race. At Spa, it will take 40 minutes to leave Francorchamps. If you wanna go out to a nice dinner after the race there are countless options in Abu Dhabi within walking distance, if you want to fill up a morning before going to the track you can go to amusement parks, water parks, or a mall the size of Monaco also in walking distance. At Spa, there's really nothing else to do without taking a 30-minute bus or car ride.
Yes but I also think that the ticket in Abu Dhabi is 3 times the price of Spa!
This guy is a true fan
Wanted to go to this year's Mexican GP and the ticket pre-sale was all the way back in march, the lowest priced tickets were about 100$ and they were sold out within the first few hours. Now getting a ticket is nearly impossible unless you pay like 500$
I've never been to a race in nearly 25 years as a fan, and it's never seemed so far away as it does now. It's weird to imagine that when it was less 'open' under Mr. E, it was somehow less expensive, that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago.
No, it makes perfect sense. Formula 1 has become massively more popular nowadays which spikes up demand without supply to match. More people chasing after a limited number of tickets naturally means the price is going to go up.
@@Frikgeek exactly that. Simple economics, supply and demand
@@Frikgeek I disagree, its not become more popular, it's had a resurgence. When it was on national TV F1 was HUGE (in the UK at least). The Sky monopoly killed it, its just regaining the popularity it once had.
@@GlenBullivantGuitar I'd say that F1 is now more of a global sporting event rather than European/British. It's only mainly because of the events last year (Im talking Abu Dhabi) and also since Liberty Media bought F1 that globally people started to take more interest. And Americans.
@@GlenBullivantGuitar it certainly became more popular globaly though.
F1 has always been the sport of the middle-class and upper-class as a spectator and a participant. Just look at the locations, Monaco being the easiest to spot...
I am middle class and I had to scrap my holiday to just go to silverstone
@@_footy_editzz_szn_6330 worth it, lol.
In all seriousness, I agree they're too expensive, I just think thats always been the case since my dad and I used to go when I was a kid.
I mean “if you aren’t the nobility and their spoiled brats then stop being poor, you peasant.”
-F1
I am a German F1 fan since the early 2000s and even then tickets weren’t affordable. The reason why German GPs had so less fans on the race track was that it is just too expensive. On the other hand I attended several times at DTM races which wasn’t a problem of affordability at all.
Imagine paying all that money to watch the most scripted and f&ke sport there is.
@@StopMediaFakery nice try troll
@@StopMediaFakery Imagine spending a combined total of ruffly 35 million dollars plus putting your blood, sweat, and tears into racing for 22+ years only for some little kid on CZcams to call your sport fake lmfao.
even DTM is over-priced
@@StopMediaFakery wow wow weewa
As a 450$ gold ticket holder at the Spa 2021 fiasco, our dad and my F1 enthousiasm took a serious beating. Honestly, we’ve been robbed from a once maybe twice in a lifetime experience.
I had a miami grandstand ticket that was $1100. It made me laugh when there was no security or anyone checking tickets.
Ppl with GA tickets could walk in and sit next to me. I felt so foolish lol
Where I sat Turn 18 there was security constantly checking tickets
@@davegoliat5781 I was turn 7 in front of the marina. No one checked all 3 days
To be fair Ga wasn't that much cheaper lol. I laughed at £300 on the high end.
Thanks for addressing this Matt. My girlfriend was lucky enough to get us two Sunday GA tickets at £179 each but with the dynamic pricing I don't think we will be able to afford to go from 2024
Isnt it crazy 🥲 I got them for 179 too but by the time they sold out they were £100 more. No way I would of paid that!!
@@danielleamie9265 what is "would of"?
Would definitely love to attend a Grand Prix but to be honest, it’s way out of my league. I’d be purchasing tickets for my family of six, plus food, accommodation, gas, etc. That’s like six months rent. I’ll be sticking to watching from the comfort of my living room and I don’t have to queue for the toilets.
100% agree, i was at Monza this year with general admission, You honestly couldnt see anything unless you have been at the track from 6am that morning or camped in the forest, I ended up climbing a tree, These tickets cost £80 for grandstand i believe it was over £400, madness
The 3 day general admission for the Hungarian GP is 99€ and thats the cheapest ticket of the season(Sunday is 88€). Looking at other circuit prizes I am quite happy to have that circuit not too far away
Japan is cheaper than that, but would cost an arm and a leg to get to
Really? Prices haven’t changed much then. I went there in 2000 and payed 44000 forint for the entire weekend. Not accounting for inflation btw.
@@CreXNL you need to know how to buy them I guess, might be harder to do in English
@@jaredcampion I’m not local. I booked a complete trip back then including travel and stay for 600 guilders or so which would be around 270 euros now. Those were the days.
@@jaredcampion I am in Vienna it was easy to purchase in English. Took the train for 100.00 euro round trip, awesome Airbnb for 100.00 euro for two nights. Although I would recommend the high cab fare for another 100.00 euro to avoid the hell of the Sunday train ride from the track to the city. 50.00 euro on Friday and Saturday
Yes! Thank you for the Silverstone pricing disgrace, I waiting for a 3 day copse seating which was £330 to begin with, by the time the website ‘crashed’ twice the prices went up to £490, for the first time in 5 years I won’t be going and it that rate I won’t again, greed has taken over F1 from the outrageous price rise to the stupid amount of races next season, the F1 I loved is dying😢
Also thank you for bringing attention to the horrible side of F1 pushing away the real fans in favour of money, you never see this on sky!
Being right beside Montreal, I have memories of going to school and hearing the V10s and V8s echo over the river every summer. Even though I played F1 1997 on the PS1 as a child, and my dad got me a Mika McLaren toy F1, 2021 was the first year I got really into it, where I knew every current driver's name, I knew a bit of history, etc.
So when F1 returned to Montreal this year, I was initially interested in going, but when I saw that GA was $800+ for the weekend, and $600 just for Sunday, I decided against it.
I went to Canada GP this year. I paid about $2k USD to sit at turn 10 (on top of ~$3k for hotel + airfare). With nearly 350k attendees, the experience was TERRIBLE. Long queues, disgusting restrooms, discomfort (no social distancing), lack of organization, RAIN. It was pure chaos. I will NOT be attending any more F1 races. Personally, i think more people should NOT attend races in-person. I also partially blame celebrities for driving up ticket costs.
COTA does a good job of offering various levels of fan experiences with some temporary suites that are prices between the grandstands and the Paddock Club. It’s still expensive but at least COTA is trying to provide different price points for fans, including a race day only ticket this year that sold out quickly when sales were open to the public. I think more races putting temp seats / suites in different areas would benefit both the fans and the race hosts.
Agreed
To clarify, these are well into the thousands of dollars.
I’m supposed to be going to COTA for my first race in my life. Always wanted to go since I was a kid. I pray that things go smoothly
@@sqweeps.03 get there early, and plan to stay a while if you are parking in Lot L. Took us over 2 hours to get out of there in 2019. Parked out front last year and got out almost instantly.
@@sqweeps.03 When I was there in 2018 it was a good experience. Dress comfortably as there's a lot of elevation and LOT of walking to the track and around the course, and if it rains the day before, be ready for mud. There's some properties on the east side of the circuit that you can pay the homeowner to park your car there, so bring $45 to be safe.
Another problem may be that F1 is getting more greedy and wanting tracks to pay more for races to be held there, meaning the track needs to up the ticket price. That could be the reason for some tracks, but I don't know
When F1 raced at Indy I could go Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for about $100. General admission tickets were $20 for each day, parking(in someone's yard a quarter mile from the track)was $10 on Friday and Saturday and $20 on Sunday. Granted, that doesn't include the 200 mile round trip 3 days in a row or breakfast and lunch in a can, but its still a bargain by today's standards.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway actually makes sense though. It’s a real race track with stands already in position without any need to hire someone to put it up.
These prices are just ridiculous and I would rather go to the Indy500 over a F1 race.
Indianapolis knows how to run big events. I live near Monterey California and at Motogp if l included hotel prices l could actually fly to Indy and spend less for 3 days than l could driving to Monterey and staying in an enormously overpriced Motel 6. Indy also treated the fans very well as a city, Monterey barely tolerates them. Lets not forget F1 could have tested tires at Indy before the fiasco that destroyed that event and chose not to.
I tried buy tickets to Hamilton A grandstand. When I joined the queue when the tickets cost about £500 for 3 days. 1.5 days later I made it to the front of the queue and they'd increased to £700. I didn't buy them. I'd rather not give them the money, dynamic pricing in such a system is disgraceful.
i would absolutely love to go to silverstone next year but the prices are just insane. it’s so sad :( the tickets are just gonna get more and more expensive every year 😞
Crowd control
We attended COTA in 2017 & 2018, and the mass of people in all of the common areas of the track made getting around a huge pain. Huge lines to access the bridges to cross the track to the T3-T9 seating, followed by people stopping to watch on the stairways & clogging things up further.
I heard that 2021 was even worse, with it being a sell out race.
It was expensive then, something like $400USD each for 3 day tickets with reserved seating at T9 & T3 respectively.
It was manageable, but definitely extended the times it took to get form the main fanzone area to your seats. And that was in non-sellout years.
I would love for F1 to come back to Indianapolis Motor Speedway. They literally are prepared for it with both the Indy500 and NASCAR. It’s really easy to get in and out by walking and parking is a pain but isn’t terrible.
Then again I’m super close to Indy and I don’t need a hotel, it could be different for some but I imagine it isn’t as hard to get a hotel as Las Vegas or Miami.
I went to Zandvoort this year and the thing I found most infuriating was the fact the screens don’t show lap or interval times. Apart from the first couple of laps it was incredibly difficult to tell how big the gap was between drivers.
That said Zandvoort was extremely well organized
Organised the flares really well
Most circuits have FM radio coverage which will give you an idea on how the race is progressing (who has pitted etc). If you want full race data then the F1 app has live timing for qualifying & the race (approx £20 per annum) - of course that’s subject to 4G/5G capacity.
If you just want intervals between two cars you can go old school and use a stopwatch on your phone like the teams used to do!
I take a notebook, pen and a stop watch. Record the gaps myself as well as the pit stop laps, which tyres they are on etc. Bores my wife to death but in the end I know exactly what is going on.
@@istherenofreename You sir are a proper F1 fan. Respect!
@@sultanoftippoo3857 problem with cell phone service is during large events with 1000s of people, the towers get overwhelmed easily and connection drops constantly, as you said.
I have yet to see a cell phone carrier that actually acknowledges this problem at all and just ends up completely ignoring it.
Spent over 2500 on the weekend to watch a race finish under yellow. I go to Montreal every single year, but Monza was just the absolute worst experience of my life. Never doing it again and possibly will never go to Montreal again either. Used to cost me $500 for start/finish line seats for the whole weekend, this last time the same tickets were well over 5k unless you had tickets from the previous year (race was cancelled due to covid and we were able to use those tickets for the next year).
ive been wanting to go to my first F1 race since last year but prices are getting crazy, especially as an American when the cheapest Miami tickets i could find were $1,750
There were a few under that, but still expensive. I found mine through an online ticket service for about $1,300 each (just for race day alone) in the grandstand before the main straight complex. If you are buying for multiple people, it adds up fast. Add in a couple of hundred for parking and then money for merchandise and food, not to mention flights and hotels, of course, and it's a bit of an investment. They had GA tickets for I think around $600, but I'm not sure what you got for that. The better grandstand seats were in the $2,500 to $3,000 range. You get the standing start, but in Miami, the podium is elsewhere, so you don't get that there, which is a drawback if you shelled out the big bucks. When I went to Canada a few years ago, it was significantly cheaper. Not sure what it is today there. COTA might have some less expensive options as well. F1 is enormous fun to see in person, but yeah, Miami was a bit extreme in price.
Ok 1: Everything’s getting more expensive anyway, 2: Naturally as you said, popularity is booming and circuits should price it higher to balance the supply/demand. Rather have more expensive tickets than a completely stuffed and overcrowded venue. It’s not unfair or bad that tickets are more expensive because of more demand. My personal issue/opinion is that in case of awful fan experiences, if tickets are at a premium price, then the quality of life/overall experience should match. So tv screens/good in-circuit broadcasting, easy access to facilities like food/restrooms, easy transport/parking etc.
ok but you’re acting like the tickets are even affordable. only the richest of the rich are gonna be able afford to attend races. it’s ridiculous
@@xfreja Fair enough, I agree with you on that, but the infrastructure in most circuits don’t even have the capability to support in increased amount of people if the tickets are cheaper. Obviously it sucks that it costs too much to enjoy just an f1 weekend live, but reducing costs of tickets right now with existing circuit infrastructure would just make things worse imo
@@jordanruitenschild4683 for €400 they should also clean my ass. Instead, you can't even get a drink!
I went to this year's Australian Grand Prix (Saturday only) tickets were $87 AUD (around 52 pounds) for general admission. A four day general admission pass was $189 AUD (around 112 pounds) and children under 14 were free. Compared to around the world these prices were great. Visibility was good. I was sat at the 9-10 (used to be 11-12) right left. There was a great viewing point on the hill. I moved across to the now removed chicane and that was probably the better spot. There was plenty of food and water accessible. The support V8 supercar races were great and so was the f5000 (like F3 but with 5 litre V8 engines). The Addition of F2 and F3 support races will be welcomed. My one gripe was with travelling to different parts of the circuit. As the track is based on the roads around Albert park lake, and there are no permanent bridges across the lake you were forced to walk across a floating bridge which didn't feel all that sturdy. Overall it was a great experience. I do feel for people who live in the area as the park is shut down for 3 months before the Grand Prix which stops people from accessing it through the summer.
This will only get worse. As long as there are people that can afford it, prices will keep rising. I was at the GP weekend in Zandvoort and it made me think: the bigger the event, the more F1 attracts people that are not even genuinely interested in F1 anymore but just want to have a "good" party and a good story to tell afterwards. Shame in my opinion, but shouldn't have been surprised. It's all about seeing and being seen anyways.
I'll just keep coming to the historic grand prix weekends in Zandvoort. Car and race enthousiasts, way better sound, tickets not even 10% the price and no cues for food and drinks.
i remember going to my first ever gp in austin back in 2019. cost about 150 dollars for a three day general admission. one of the best times in my life (except for the traffic). was planning on going this year until i saw the prices jumped to 250-300 dollars for general admission. at that point im just going to watch at home
Same! USGP 2019 was very memorable for me! But when I went back in 2021…ouch! I paid a lot just to basically see half of the race 🤦♂️
I already bought a ticket for this year & im not going alone like last year. But I’m thinking to sell my ticket & also watch it from the TV
So i bought tickets for this years COTA but u expected to pay high prices and just wanted to finally experience my first grand prix since my parents went to Austria in 2001 and absolutely loved it so i saved up as its my only trip this yead
is there any tips you recommend for a first timer at COTA or is there anything you wish you knew before you went?
@@lewisgilbertson7506 Make sure you bought parking
Bring Water (Texas is still toasty in October)
Go under the tunnels & avoid the Pirelli bridges (had a friend from karting who went last year and told me that he had to wait 20 minutes to pass the bridge)
Find your spot where your going to see the race ASAP when you enter the venue
Avoid any small clear spots you see in GA otherwise the people right next to you will be pissed & tell you to go find a another spot
Don’t tell anybody to give you space to see the race (because they’re just going to say a straight up no)
Don’t walk all over the venue because that will drain your energy for the rest of the day
And lastly the most important part is to enjoy it!
Sorry if this list is upsetting but that was my experience last year, it wasn’t that good compared to the first time I went.
But if it’s your 1st time & it’s good! Your going to have a hard time getting that out of your head because the first one are always memorable!
@@puma-racer0195 im lucky because i already live in socal so im used to average 100+° and have walked home from school in 116°, ran track in high school on varsity level so im happy to walk any distance I think of it as part of the experience
@@lewisgilbertson7506 And I’m here in Texas thinking that the weather is already bad enough 😂
Not watched this yet however this year's Silverstone tickets experience was appalling - I was there trying to purchase a ticket the moment sales opened on both Thursday & Friday however their sales system simply wouldn't connect to let me buy anything until Saturday morning when I had been priced out of going & even the general access tickets were sold out @ £300. Feel truly screwed over as I already have Woodlands camping tickets because my son & I have been attending for years & their sales system wasn't pathetic 🤬 I doubt I will be in a position to attend again unless things improve next year, cannot justify Grandstand prices just to carry my own deck chair & try to find a patch of dust to sit on & will not tolerate being repeatedly booted out of queues for 48h straight while watching prices skyrocket 😥
I was at Monza this year, in a grandstand at Ascari. Tickets were around 350 Euro, which I thought was pretty good compared to Silverstone prices. There was a guy sat up a tree next to me who had the same view as I did, and I suspect his branch was more comfortable than my bench. Viewing options for GA were awful and folks has to resort to standing on anything they could find to gain enough height to get a view of the track. Wheelie bins, benches, tables, stacked up tree branches, climbing trees, climbing up the back and sides of the limited GA stands, all sorts going on.
The things that really detracted from the experience though started with the chaos of actually getting in to the circuit; where I entered this was just a disorganised crowd crammed down a side street shuffling forward slowly for over an hour to then have any bottled water confiscated or uncapped by security. That wouldn't have been terrible had it been possible to actually buy any food or drink inside the circuit, but a very poorly implemented cashless system meant you pretty much had to choose to watch the action on the track or spend hours, literally hours, queuing first to try and exchange money for tokens and then again to exchange tokens for food or drink. Not well done at all and caused problems for a lot of people throughout the weekend.
Back to Silverstone next year. Managed to get tickets, and only got mildly violated by the dynamic daylight robbery pricing. A ticket has a face value, which should not change while you are waiting for somebody's technology fail to resolve. Dynamic pricing on event and concert tickets is extortion - after sitting in a virtual queue for 4.5 hours they know they have you over a barrel and you are unlikely to back out of the purchase even if the price has been inflated. Steps have been taken to eliminate scalping on tickets, but now the official channels are scalping the tickets themselves!
To put it in perspective, a ticket for general admission for Le Mans (including all the practices, qualifying and supporting races) will cost €90 next year
as an someone who watches the nfl i can say the same too. tickets are crazy and when it comes to something like the superbowl, the cheapest of seats can be a couple thousand dollars. its gotten to the point where even players complain how there arent as many "true" fans in the stadiums since a lot of them are pretty much just rich people who go bc the events are hyped up. Not only that, but ads are playing like every 10 minutes for tv viewers. its getting so bad and its honestly one of the main reasons im starting to get into soccer
Real easy reason: the nobility and their spoiled brats are outbidding the commoners.
It’s easier to cater to the nobility than the peasants on limited budgets.
Just stop being poor, according to F1, NFL, and NBA.
I really enjoy watching the races from the comfort of my room, nice cool clear commentary and also all the racing angle looks its the perfect package.
Yes. Having been at the Canadian GP, I agree with more screens and audio for the GA experience. It reminded me of being at a concert where I could see just 10 seconds at a time every lap. And had no idea what was going on. I checked my phone. But with 100k people also doing the same, good luck!
My dad used to go to a lot of the British Grand Prix back in the day when ticket prices were like £20 or so. He’s always banging on about how he’d love to go to another race sometime, but not have to re mortgage the house to afford it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Catastrophic GPs like monza should be for free next year
I've considered a couple of GP races in Europe but after seeing how badly they're managing them, I'll just watch on TV at home. This way I don't have to deal with queues for food/drink, toilet, etc. and all of the jacked up prices for hotel, flights, etc. I would consider the WTF1 camping experience you have at Silverstone as that looks like a lot of fun.
Good on you Matt for bringing this it up! Tickets prices are getting astronomical, definetly the way to go, these days is ONLY to get Early Birds, it can save you upto 50% on Weekend tickets. These days you need to plan a minimum 7-9 months ahead, with only prior to Covid 3-4 months was more then enough...
One way to make the experience better, would be to re-introduce Kangaroo TV/ FanVision.
I tried to use F1 TV at Monza, but it was impossible to follow it properly!
While the FanVision gave you EVERYTHING you needed to follow when at the track, like the strategy, onboards/ live timing etc!
Stopped going to silverstone 5 years ago, when for me and my two sons it cost over £1k for covered grandstand tickets for the 3 days, food and a tiny bit of Merch (caps)
Luckily enough we only live about 45mins away, or there’d be accommodation costs on top of that too.
But like you said, if I won’t pay it, someone else will. We’ve all got to draw our line somewhere.
I’m supposed to be going to COTA for my first race in my life. Always wanted to go since I was a kid, now 18. I pray that things go smoothly and that the experience of seeing F1 isn’t overshadowed by seating and ticket issues
Bro same ill be there too im 20 and my parents went to Austria 01’ and its going to be my first time, to both of us 🤝
@@lewisgilbertson7506 hope to see you there maybe lol
@@lewisgilbertson7506 my uncle claims to have gotten me a paddock pass. If so, That’ll be so cool
@@sqweeps.03 i just got the general admission but that sounds so sick i hope you have a good time
Good Luck, went to COTA last year. They ran out of water for race day, all merch was basically gone by Saturday, the transportation is the worst I’ve ever seen (been to Indy numerous times and nothing like COTA). We waited over three hours to get our bus to get to our lot. Only after those hours did we realize the busses had completely stopped cause the drivers quit. We still had to walk 3 miles back to our car. We sat in turn 19 and saw…. Turn 19. Unless you are high in turn one grandstand, it isn’t worth going to COTA.
I was so lucky this year. Got my ticket of 95€ for three days Red Bull Ring and because of the hills I could lay in the grass and still see two thirds of the track. Additionally I had the opportunity to sleep at my grandparents house, who live only a 30 minute bike commute away from the track!
I hope it stays like this for next year, would be very welcome :)
My daughters (11 & 5) both REALLY wanted to go to COTA this year, but race tickets alone would be over a grand for the three of us.
For a Nascar race at Talledega, I spent $145 for my seat, $45 for radio scanner, and $90 for garage pass. I got to meet some drivers, get close to the cars, go in the pits (pre race), walk out onto the track. I even got Donny Allison signature. I'm content watching on F1 app til they make the fan experience worth the money.
It needs to be a festival weekend, like going to Ultra or Tomorrowland. Throw some headliners in there, a car show, huge screens to follow the action from all divisions, and let's have a celebration of speed!
Lol, no. Mechanics and other staff need to work so that we can have the race and in many circuits thats already almost impossible.
@@fgsaramago they can still work though? They're currently doing it? Why can't we get a better fan zone? They should take some tips from Formula E.
@@armaanamod stuff like fan zones are the problem, according to mechanics and other staff from the teams. Youre diverting staff to those surrounding things, meaning theyre not working.
@@fgsaramago lmao this sounds so silly. I'm confident that f1 teams are driven to succeed and wouldn't be messing around, or they will just bring in people to get the job done. Please link me to where you get this info from because I've never seen such a thing
@@armaanamod well, itsbeen very discussed. Several f1 related cannels and podcasts have done videos on it, aidanmilward for example, and people from the teams on tv have also complained about it. Oh, and the budget cap prevents more people from being hired
Thanks for addressing this issue, really. The grandstand ticket I paid for the upcoming Japanese GP is $800/person, the parking slot is $130, the hotel is $300/night. The crazy thing is that tickets sold out as soon as they went on sale.
same here ,very expensive this year
still I'm wondering how much skalpers have a part in it. It really reminds me of the bad times in the GPU market the last 2,5 years. Though I can't prove it but it would make sense that the dipshits with algorythm skills get as many tickets as they can cheap and then sell them with 30% or more on top of the original price.
@@johannesschiele1513 For sure, duffers would be buying tickets all over the world. However, as far as the Japanese GP is concerned, the number of tickets available per person to purchase was limited and it was necessary to sign up for a special credit card to buy pre-sale tickets, so illegal transactions were difficult. I imagine the scalpers will be even more resourceful after this year knowing how profitable F1 is, tickets will become more difficult and expensive to get in the future. The hotels around Suzuka are already fully booked for next year right after the calendar was released.😭
@@kanan1361 it's just crazy. Ironically I have to stick with online streams now because they gave the tv monopoly to Sky in Germany. Sucks really hard
Canadian GP 3 day general admission for lawn tickets (cheapest available) were $999 + tax. Hotels and air bnb's within 1 hour of the track were charging $1500 - $6000 per night for that weekend
My wife and I just attended the USGP last weekend and got main grandstand seats. We’ve been attending since 2014 and COTA just isn’t equipped for the spike in attendance. The farm roads out near COTA meant people waiting in 2-4 hour traffic, and we spent an hour and a half waiting in line for a shuttle. We had to leave right as the front runners crossed the line…sheriffs had to get involved as there were 3 competing lines to get to the same shuttle line.
COTA also went down in terms of food quality near the grandstand from last year. The food was expensive and pretty bland at best. Austin has a great local food scene and festivals like ACL take advantage of that. Why COTA had no name food trucks out there is beyond me.
And with the 440,000 in attendance it took forever to get anywhere. Going from the main grandstand to a Biergarten between Turns 1 & 2 took almost 30 minutes one day as a walking area was too narrow. Friends coming from say Turn 15 had to cross a bridge and just gave up because it took so long.
I live in México and was fortunate enough to win 2 tickets for the Mexican 2021 gp. The prices are crazy. Most tickets are above 400usd. That is more than alot make in a month. The Mexican gp is one of the most expensive venues in the calendar.
This is my first year following F1 and I thought I might want to go watch a race live once, then I saw how high the prices were and after hearing how bad the experience can be, my desire to go to a track to watch a race is almost less than before.
Same! I almost commented the same when i found yours.
“Commoners aren’t allowed to attend these races”
-F1 (probably)
Netflix fan urgh
@@freedomisslavery6840 gatekeeping *urgh*
@@freedomisslavery6840 sorry I had an opinion about ticket prices under a video about ticket prices before becoming an elder fan. 🙄
In France some tickets costed more than 350€. The access to the circuit was so poorly made that all the access roads in a 15 mile radius were completely blocked. Some fans were stuck in their car for 7 hours and missed the race. They were refunded.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, for f1 fans in Miami, it is cheaper to see the race on Sunday in Austin (including air fare and hotel) than it is to buy a Miami gp ticket.
I genuinly appreciate you guys making these videos! The one with the Monza debacle and this one should be shared on every social media platform, on every official channel for everyone to see. It can't continue like this. And I'm quite sure, the current hype will die off in two or three years. Then, what will all those money hungry "hosts" do, when they wont sell anymore of their overpriced tickets... Plus, it allready is a rich people sport, so it atleast shouldn't be necessery to be rich as a fan of the sport aswell...
Absolutely.
I just wish people would vote with their feet.
The Mexican GP is one of the most expensive in the calendar, there is a "section" of about 200 people that is about 150 usd for 3 days (it sells inmediatly as there is so little tickets). The stadium is about 300 usd but is sells in like 10 seconds and resale is min 500+ other parts of the track are minimum 700+ and main grandstand (the starting line) 1500-2000 and what do you get? Water and mobile toilets, food? Thats 100 usd at least per person, etc... (all the prices are per person)
I never understood the appeal of the stadium section (although to be fair, I’ve never been there)
I mean, THAT IS THE SLOWEST PART OF THE CIRCUT!
F1 ticket prices are indeed insane. Apparently, according to various sources, the cheapest F1 ticket for the South African GP (which was obviously scraped for 2023), was to be around R3000-R5000 rand per ticket, for the cheapest seat. R3000-R5000 is about 1/5 of most South African people's salary. Heck, for some that might be more like a 1/4 or even closer to half of their monthly salary, which is just bogus.
I came to the realisation that I'll never attend an F1 race many years ago, it hasn't ever been about the fan experience from what stories I've seen about people who have forked out to go to one. It's just not accessible and hasn't been for a very long time. 🙁
If people buy these tickets, they’ll price them high enough.
I think Silverstone should build more stands and keep their current ticket pricing model.
There’s not much space to build more stands at Silverstone only a few gaps for general admission 😊
It was really upsetting to see these prices go up. I live in Florida, and happened to make it to the F1 event they had in Biscayne Blvd back in 2018. I was so hyped to have an F1 race less than 1 hour's drive away, I was fully prepped to go all out with saved up money for a paddock pass or at least some good seats at an overtake corner. I knew of the prices at COTA, which were, prior to '21, reasonably priced, and expected only slightly more. Probably $200-300 for a proper experience. Come to find out the tickets were over $650 for the cheapest spot on the track, after having the tickets sold out before the second group (I was the second group of website passcodes) can even access the website to purchase. The course, while a fun race in hindsight, is still a track on the parking lot of my college football stadium, and isn't a historical or famous course either. Looking at the other comments and such, if F1 doesn't make the tickets more affordable/ available to the masses, the celebrity walk is gonna be the only type of fan that can enjoy the race in person, since only the top 0.5% of the planet will be able to go to these races come 2030.
3 or 2 years ago, general admission tickets at COTA cost less than 250usd, now for this year they went up to almost 400usd and the incredible thing was that they sold out, when before 2020 you could still find tickets the same weekend in the circuit .
@@castolo5755 With drive to survive, more people want to watch f1. More people in f1, more people you can show off to. So now those who can afford these ticket prices are racing to the event with full pockets trying to get their 2 seconds of fame at the celebrity pit-walk. If I want to go to a race, I have to save up for months, not like I want to go any more considering the horrible experience the fans are having due to ill-behaved fans and inept event planners/ circuit venues.
I went to the Australian GP this year, i paid $180 AUD for 4 days of GA, thought it was decently priced for 4 days worth of events.
paddock pass cost around $3k here in Singapore. It got sold out quickly and many are scalping for profit at around $5k per person per day
I got my spot in preorder for Las Vegas but I'm really afraid of how expensive prices will be once released. I may not even end up buying one when I get the chance. I'm also keeping an eagle eye on November 2023 hotel tickets, as it's too early at this moment to even reserve a room. Will be interesting to see how expensive advanced reservation rooms are in a couple of months.
Same here
Same here. Honestly, most likely going to back out. Love the sport but there comes a point where the fan base is just being taken advantage of.
I booked my rooms for 2023 already cause i had a guess on the date, sure enough when the calendar was released recently the rates for my weekend were now less than for 1 night!
For the weekend just the tickets will be over $3000. Hotels will jack their prices up exponentially.
Book now and get cancelation rights.
In Mexico tickets were so overpriced that the prices haven't changed till this year. But I am curious to know the price for tickets in, let's say Silverstone depending the zone you are allowed to enter with the ticket you buy.
For Silverstone, with GA (general Admission) you can go anywhere around the outside of the circuit to all the fan zones located around the track etc.
There is also a limited number of Inside Track tickets that are available (as an extra) so you can cross the bridge at the Wellington Straight to watch from a limited area inside.
But you don’t get any access to grandstands unless you purchase a specific grandstand ticket (obviously) where you can go anywhere on circuit, like GA, but to sit you have to go to your allocated seats.
(For reference I went in 2021 and am going again in 2023)
there's two problems:
1- if people will pay, prices wont decrease. no reason to charge less than you can
2- if you force prices to decrease, scalpers and bots will scoop up every ticket and resell them probably for more than they're priced now
its a sucky situation, but not sure what there really is to do
0:46 Lol the way you pronounce his last name is just so funny
It makes me really sad because my family were thinking about going for mine and my brother's 18th birthday present but unfortuanty we cannot afford it anymore. It's just a bit disapointing because we were really excited at the though of going but F1 has squeezed everyones wallets to an inch of their lives in the name for profit. If this is a general trend and prices never come down to what they were before, I don't think I'll ever get the chance to go to a grand prix weekend ever again, and I bet the same is felt by many other fans of the sport.
There will always be fans to fill the grandstands that will be prepared to spend that money because they can afford it as they are from wealthier backgrounds. My family isn't poor by any stretch of the imagination but F1 doesn't care about us as fan's, they only care about those with more money (which i get makes sense) but it isolates so many loyal fans and deters new fans from wanting to watch it.
Unfortuantly I don't think prices will come down though
I am as well NOT poor by any means and I live 10 minutes away from Monza but I simply cannot afford tickets. 400€ each is insane.
@@alessandromarino1874 yes I didn’t buy my city’s tickets for the same reason too - the pricing model is getting quite ridiculous
I really feel sorry for you. If it’s any consolation the TV coverage is much better now.
@@gemasboy Yeah, if only more people would not buy in into this insanity, prices would go down. It's becoming a sport only meant for the top 5%
My wife and I have wanted to go for the last few years. When looking this year, she said "Well, we could afford the closing costs on a house, or we could go to an F1 race."
That's how you know pricing has gotten insane.
My dad bought tickets for silverstone this year it cost over a grand including camping and I didn't want to get any merch because even that's expensive and the food is absolutely rubbish apart from some places
3:30 What would be a nice addition is leader/ interval times and tire info on the screens next to the names. Just like on TV./ Viaplay. BTW we payed about EUR 600 for our seats at the main-straigth in Zandvoort.
What really sucks is I’m from Las Vegas and have never been to see a race in person. I finally have a career where I can afford to go, and now my (funnily enough) former employer is buying 20 million worth of tickets just to upcharge the rooms. It makes sense for MGM to do it, but it sucks for the rest of us. I just want to be able to go lol
I'd love to see a race or even just a practice session, but the nearest race to me in California would be Las Vegas, and that's going to be outrageously expensive. Still awesome to watch on television and I'm super excited for three races in the US next season.
Just go to Laguna Seca and watch the Indy cars bomb down the corkscrew for a fraction of the cost.
Treated my dad to see F1 at Silverstone this year as a Christmas present from last Christmas. Paid £168 each for general admission and he missed nearly all of the race because people in front of us were standing on chairs and cool boxes blocking our view. So I said to him it will cost quite abit more but I'll pay for us for a grandstand (Abbey A or B) for next year.
Couldn't get onto the site to buy the tickets and when we did they were and still are £599 each so we decided not to go next year and try the following year, but by the look of it they will be even more in 2024. Really disappointed he couldn't see the race because of the view and even more now because its too expensive for us to go.
Zandvoort had entry level tickets at €420, with better locations and VIP tickets obviously higher priced. And that was for saturday and sunday. Then the train fares had to be paid, which cost me €7.50 x 4 (back and forth twice). Luckily, I had a friend in Amsterdam where I could sleep as I don't want to know what people paid for hotels...
The positive side is that the Zandvoort GP was well-organized, had plenty of toilets, food and drinks. It was busy, but not too crowded as there were rarely queues longer than 10 mins for food.
Yes it cost me about the same as a week long holiday, but this was like a once in a lifetime experience for us. Maybe we will attend another circuit, but not anytime soon.
I only went to Melbourne ones. Ticket was around 50€. The view was amazing (at the end of the start straight) with a big screen to see the whole race.
Overall mega experience. It was 2015 though... Not the prices in Europe are just too crazy.
I will not visit any race under those circumstances. When nobody goes, the prices will fall again
I'd love to visit an F1 race weekend someday but I feel the same. With these bloated prices it's not worth it. First they cancel F1 TV in my country to force me to go to Sky and pay triple to four times the amount I payed for F1 TV without any notification, they just cancled my subscription in silence, and now the ticket prices are even more of a joke. Problem is there will always be people who pay the prices.
Let's say 250.000 people visit a race weekend on averrage. If you think about how many million people want to see a race and are willing to take a flight for it etc. then F1 won't change their pricing in the next 10-15 years.
@@johannesschiele1513 where did they cancel F1 TV? I still have it, but I think it will be cancelt soon in Germany.
Yeah the extrem high prices for sky are crazy. I won't follow there. They already took my football.
@@Grabrube I was sooo excited for the 2021 season and wanted to watch some of the old stuff in january '21 but when I logged it I couldn't do shit. Then I checked my subscription and they had cancled it without any notification. When I wanted to resign I could only choose the lower priced option for the archive but not for the live service. After some research I found out that Sky had obtained the monopoly from 2021 onwards and since then I had to rely on other methods. Do you come from Germany and still have F1TV? If so you're a very lucky person
@@johannesschiele1513 yeah if you subscribed a year earlier you would have been fine. For people subscribing like me I still have the Service until 23 or 24.
Luckily I got too annoyed by the ads on RTL.
F1 IN Germany is treated very poorly.
@@Grabrube I subscribed for the 2019 season and was very happy with it for the 2 years. I hated watching it on RTL...
But it all was really strange how it went down. And that's the same thing as with the tickets. It's not enough to make money of your business and be profitable, you also have to be a dick about it and make it as hard for everyone as possible. The track owners have a hard time too. Can't tell me that it's reasonable to pay 10-20 or even 25 million dollars to host an event. No wonder Hockenheim pulled out with that insanity
320 seems like a decent price to me for a 3 day event in the year 2022 honestly. What would make the experience generally better imo would be better thought out entry/exit from the venue. meaning the entrance/exit for the actual track, as well as the surrounding parking lots and roads. I feel like that is the most common issue across the majority of tracks on the calendar.
As for during the time at the actual track, like you said in the video having ample toilets and food/drink options is the bare minimum honestly. they know how many tickets they are selling for each day of the weekend, so there is no reason there should be 30-60 minute lines for the bathroom or a drink. for GA specifically, having banked grassy areas around the circuit, like Turn 11 in COTA where I spent most of my time last year during the weekend, makes for a great way to actually experience the cars on track
I went to my first race at silverstone in 1990 and my brother brought me a child ticket for £5. I never forget the first sight of clambering over the gracel brow to see a view of copse and the first f1 car of Mansel came racing past in a blur of red ferrari, the sound, the smell and the atmosphere was incredible. There was no toilets really, models handing out free packets of marlboro and mainly men. I went for 15 years but stopped in mid 2000s as it was too expensive. I've been to spa and Spain, both have pretty bad facilities but never had an issue with it. The new Netflix crowd has brought a new fan which want a much higher experience not to mention a cracker race each time, hard live up to, but with the current prices that's what they should deliver.
I live like 5 minutes away from the Miami circuit but couldn't go because of the prices...
i really want to go to a race with my dad but we cant afford it :(
I was planning to take my dad to the British GP as a birthday surprise next year but the ticket prices are far too expensive for us with us going on holiday later in the year too
@@tomgriffingames5745 Damn that sucks. I really wanted to go to the dutch gp this year with my dad but it wasnt possible because well its to expensive with inflation and stuff. But even without inflation we could barely afford just like a friday (which is also cool tho)
I was planning to go to Silverstone this year, worked overtime so I could afford the ticket in the first place. Wouldn't be able to afford anywhere to stay so would be sleeping in a car, that's how much I wanted to go to my first in person GP, checked prices when was going to buy and beckets had increased over £100 since when I last viewed the tickets meaning I can no longer go. 10/10 fan experience right there.
Have you considered not being poor?
@@antonielaing it’s called being a student lmao
My wife and I paid nearly $800 each for regular tickets in the grandstands on the pit straight in Monza. (We had to buy them from a 3rd party because they sold out.) We had no clue it was notorious for being unorganized. The race itself was awesome. But the venue was one of the worst I've ever been to in terms of it's ability to handle that many people... Definitely not worth the price and this is a bubble that will eventually pop. Enough bad experiences like that and people will stop going.
I paid $500 or so for a one day GA pass to the USGP in 2021. This price was the crazy inflated price of buying through a reseller (Ticketmaster). The parking and walking to the track was the first downside (it was easily 2+ miles to get to the entrance). I can't really fault COTA, but more of a rookie mistake on our part in timing; by the time we made it into the circuit, every GA area was already super packed. In this peak Drive to Survive era, the crowd was there at 8am waiting to storm up to the turn one hill. Concessions were all easily available and credit card payment was seamless. It was a fun experience, but I get better race viewing from F1TV and my couch.
Honestly, Zandvoort did an amazing job. The only thing I would say could be better were the amount of places where you could get out of the sun and into the shade
…Besides the racists
I love how Matt does a lot of complaining on the channel and the podcasts
Being a f1 fan from Chile I have only one possible to to attend that won't break the bank and it's also not cheap at all, bc I have to travel to Brazil, get some place to sleep and all that just to get to the country of the race, then pray to find a decent ticket prize + food and water for the 3 days, being in South America as an f1 fan is a sentence to watch the races on tv, thankfully on Chile we have access to f1tv, but that's about it
I went to Silverstone about 20 years ago with 5 friends. We all bunked in & then blagged our way into the inside of the track & got a great spec next to a beer tent! After the race we bunked into the pits & I grabbed the winner, David Coultard's hand & congratulated him in a very drunk manner before helping to push Damon Hill's car back into its trailer & then got a wave off Sterling Moss riding a moped! Pretty good day out & cost nothing except for a few beers!
The law says that the purpose of a company is to create as much profit as possible for the shareholders. I don't know how cheaper tickets could be justified if it would affect the bottom line. Business is business… Sad to be the only defender of capitalism 😅
Thats not capitalism. Capitalism is supposedly the best way to provide goods and services at low prices
I went to Montreal last year for the first time, tickets for three days was $750
Cad, average hotels for three nights is $2500 - $4000. $10 cans of beer, $180 for a red bull golf tee and $80 for a hat. Boy was it an expensive 3 days
I would choose to spend that same 4/5 digit number money to upgrade my car. That way, I got to experience fun driving not once, but for as long as I still own my car.
I've only ever been to one F1 event, the 2013 Abu Dhabi Grand prix. the cost was then £350.00 for 2 days (Saturday and Sunday). The price included Entry, Site Map, Seat in the South Grandstand and entry to the evening concerts for both days, Saturday Night was MUSE live which was Ok, and Sunday Night was DEPECHE MODE which was crap.
The racing was pretty good, but you can see much more on TV, which is why I won't be going again. The cost of refreshments was huge, and F1 merchandise was astronomicically priced.
At the concerts, a pint of "No Name" Lager was £12.00 and tasted like piss.
I lived in Abu Dhabi at the time, so flights and hotels were not in the equation, but still over the course of 2 days I spent around £500.00.
I was on good money, so no problem, but if you're on a budget, I'd advise you to watch on TV. Or go to a local event like touring cars, or rally cross, or Motorbike racing etc great racing at a fraction of the cost, and they are all over the UK.
True. Prices for Interlagos just kicked me out of 2022 race. Thank god we have other great categories here like Copa Truck, GT3 and our main home racing championship, Stock Car Pro Series. Stock car has names like Massa, Barrichello, Piquet Jr, Tony Kanaan and many other very talented drivers. Even my city is represented in Átila Abreu. I would love to attend a F1 GP but prices are not fair.
Paid 165 Euro for 4 days at Spa in 2019. General admission. Didn’t have to pay for the campsite.
In 1998 a seat at the Dunlopkehre at the Nurburgring was +-320 Deutschmark (don’t know what that is in today’s euro)
Seen crazy prices for grandstands. At Zandvoort people paid over 800 euro for camping. Add atleast 400 for a ticket. Quite expensive.
F1 ticket: 1k and you get mediocre seats with a view of not even 1/5th of the track
Nascar tickets: $15 and you see the whole track, plenty of open seats so you’re not crammed in, and easy access to food and drink (at least for the lower series)
Miami is my closest GP, but the prices were absolutely insane. I can go see the 24hrs of Daytona, 12hrs of Sebring, Indy St.Pete, Daytona 500 and Coke 400 for less than the F1 cheap seats.