Silverstone GP Parking Fine Help

[Andy Zarse]

Hang on chaps.
It's very difficult to classify the above as "fraud". In fact it's easier to classify Kev's letter to the bank as libel!
The fact is that Silverstone intended to charge £30 for parking, as evidenced by their website. Silverstone appointed Vinci as their agents to collect that charge and for whatever reason Vinci are now seeking to recover that £30 from Kev with no surcharge, so long as he pays within a fortnight of last Friday.
Personally I wouldn't go anywhere near Silverstone, as I won't pay their ticket prices, but turning up and then labelling a perfectly legitimate charge as fraud is out of order.

Yes I reread the OP, and you're correct, i had thought this was a scam. However, seeing as kev was "herded into a field" and nobody saw fit to take any money off him at the gate nor was there any apparent signage advising of a requirement to pay, nor were there ticket machines, then please advise where is the basis of a contract?

[Kpy]

 then please advise where is the basis of a contract?

I'm not say there was a contract, but calling it fraud is another matter.
I wasn't there, so I can't say that there were signs or no signs, just that Kev didn't see one.
However other people seem to have known how to pay.
I seem to remember a similar situation at Goodwood last year. Wherever it was I know I paid after I worked out what the system was.

[Bob U]

For what they are worth, my thoughts;

  I attended the BGP for many years in the 90's. Parking was always free, but in the post along with the entrance tickets came a parking permit, which had to be displayed on the windscreen. The fact that the parking was free was irrelivent, all that the permit showed was that you had bought entrance tickets and had every right to use the car parks for free. Kev did state that not every car had a fixed penalty notice on it. Did these cars, or some of them at least, belong to people who did not go to the race and were only there to steal hubcaps or whatever. A lot of us know from bitter experience that a car park during such an event is an ideal place for skulldugery. If Silverstone still send out parking permits as they used to, and ask that they be displayed then surely they have every right to place a fixed penalty notice on cars not doing so as in theory they have no right to be there.

[Chris24]

Sorry but if they intended to charge for parking on a field (ie not a permanent car park with ticket machines etc) then they should clearly take the money off you at the gate as you enter the car park and have up clear signs on the way in of the car parking charges.

Giving out tickets like this afterwards is bang out of order. But £30 for car parking for the day, no chance of me ever going to a GP at Silverstone. As Andy has said ignore it, they will be laughing at those that sh*t themselves and pay but won't follow up those that don't, its just not worth the hassle for them.

A book of tickets costs about £5, say 100 people panic and pay a £30 fine, thats £3000 just for sticking a few tickets out and they are laughing, so they have no need to chase up all the others.

[Kev_mk3]

Yes it does state on there site a fee for parking it doesn't tell you what car park this is for out of the many car parks there was. This is a quote from another forum -

I was up there on the 9th and noticed loads of these on the floor! I also tried to figure out why people were getting them?

Didn't seem to make any sense

There really was no signs anywhere and the 2 boys (early teens) that where parking people up where more amazed at a old honda preludes rear wheels turning than anything else.

I think im not going to pay it and then go from there as there where plenty of car parks and the field i parked in wasnt even close to the circuit.