Cracking weather for.my first ever MotoGP and first ever bike race at a track.
Out view from our seats and a few extras. Although today is very much about getting lay of the land.
Even my brother who is an F1 fan and been to tracks around the world has been 
about the sound.
@BigRedS is there this weekend too!
looks like a good weekend
I’ll keep an eye out for him!
It was fun today but great to have the day to work out what’s what before the mayhem of Sunday!
Think TrackDayJunkie (Mark) is there too
To be honest, it’s so busy that finding someone is nigh on impossible.
We do a 1.5hr drive each way everyday so don’t really do much of the other stuff. We did most of it on Friday so we could focus on racing Saturday/ Sunday and then head back at a reasonable time.
Today the timetable is packed so I can see us being in our seats pretty much all day.
So these are some of my observations from my first ever weekend of track racing. They might help some, confuse others but I also wanted to get all my thoughts down.
The below don’t take into account the price of the tickets. These were a gift from my brother, with whom I went, so I have no idea how much he spent. We were sitting in club corner FWIW and travelled everyday from Gloucestershire so have no idea on camping facilities etc.
My one regret - I never went to see MotoGP in the ‘good old days’ when I was watching it all the time and knew the riders, and you had the like of Vale battling Lorenzo, Pedrosa and Marques. Also having seen the Moto2 race which had English riders, I can only imagine what the atmosphere would have been like when Crutchlow was in it. I haven’t watched a single race for a long time and felt oddly disconnected from it all.
For point 8, that’s on purpose to smooth the flow of traffic off the site. If every car stops at the junction to look both ways then it takes hours to get everyone to leave. If everyone turns in one direction first then there’s no pause, no thinking required, and everyone gets home sooner.
agree with everything Alex said. I went to Silvestone back in 2005 with my ex courtesy of his parents who paid for everything including the hotel nearby, which coincidentally is the only reasonable one in the area (if you don’t want to stay at Silverstone) and Toseland and Susy Perry were also there. so I had a wonderful experience but I wouldn’t pay for it even if I could as the track is really really far away. If you want an unforgettable racing experience go to Brands Hatch or the TT where you can see them flying by your nose.
True, but it threw us off thinking the road was closed, luckily we quickly did a turn and headed back…
Despite the distance I think I’d still do it again.
Yeah unlike Brands in some aspects for being close to the action. We saw an 80s F1 flip in front of us there.
But I also don’t like the whole bumfight and standing in open fields to get a view. At 40, I need my creature comforts and a seat in a covered grandstand was just the ticket…
Watching the racing in person is never about getting the best coverage of the race, it’s all about the atmosphere. We love to do one MotoGP in person each year just to soak it all up.
Went to wsbk at Donington the other weekend and bumped into Hodgy. It’s that kinda stuff that makes it fun.
The atmosphere is great (apart from the rather large ‘redneck’ element, who seem to have both a red neck from the sun and the behaviour to go with it) and definitely the thing I went for, but Silverstone does need to up its game a bit with the screens cause one does want to know what is happening on more than a radio.
Bagnaia and Martin could have walked up to me, said hello and asked me about the weather and I would have had not idea who they were… Been out of watching MotoGP way too long. Ever since it went off the BBC, year by year I watched less and less.
