View from the Ring?

[Fax]

Just looked at the photos taken from the Ring in Race Coverage....Is that the best you can do from the spectators areas at they call that little scalextric track they call the "Nurburgring" these days.
Jesus!  You get a better view than that from the cheap seats at Indy for the USGP.  Whay out in the boonies!
You guys need to go to Sebring, Road Atlanta or Mid-Ohio......Really!
John

[Robbo SPS]

Fax, the best view i have had was at Thruxton a few months ago, No catch fencing and 2 metres from the cars. Excellent, and probably never bettered.

[Fax]

Hi Robbo,
Someday I would like to see a race at Thruxton.  It was the venue for some of the classic battles of the old Euro F2 Championship and the sweepers out around the back of the circut have always looked like real sorters of the men from the boys.  I should clarify tthat I wasn't being critical of the pics from the Ring (they're quite nice), just the vanatge point you guys had to spectate from.  Looks like they've got the spectators a hell of a long way from the action.
John

[Robbo SPS]

John, it seems all the circuits are doing the same,

A long way back, either up high, or on a backed grass area.

And always behing catch fencing.

It states on most tickets

MOTORSPORT is DANGEROUS, but i find British roads are more deadly than most circuits i have been to.

[pretzel]

Someday I would like to see a race at Thruxton.  It was the venue for some of the classic battles of the old Euro F2 Championship and the sweepers out around the back of the circut have always looked like real sorters of the men from the boys.  

Fax,

It is a good circuit and no mistake, the only problem is the very corners you would really want to see Goodwood, Village and Church, etc.. are (or at least were) out of bounds to the paying public.

Last time I went it was only possible to spectate from the pre start/finish chicane around to the Campbell/Seagrave/Cobb complex. This represents about half of the lap. Shame really....

Edited to correct obvious spelling mistake.

[Steve Pyro]

John, it seems all the circuits are doing the same,

A long way back, either up high, or on a backed grass area.

And always behing catch fencing.

No catch fence here  :-*

[Fax]

Hi Pretzel,
That's a shame about Thruxton, sounds a bit like Road America.  Some of the most exciting parts of the track (the kink on the run down to Canada Corner, etc.) are off limits to the paying punters.  Debris fencing unfortunately is a way of life over here as well.  It serves its purpose though, Matt Harper was almost decapitated by the nose section of a Porsche 962 at Le Mans several years ago and I had the wheel torn from a Formula Atlantic car deflected over my head at Mid-Ohio once by the debris fence.  It would've hit me right on the noggin if the fencing hadn't been there.
John

[pretzel]

Fax,

If you are ever over here and want to see some racing at close quarters AND see almost all of the track from one vantage point, as well as being able to spectate all around then I recommend Castle Combe in deepest darkest Wiltshire.

It's another deceptively fast track (though not as sphincter clenching as the really fast bits of Thruxton) and with a really good clubby atmosphere. There's no catch fencing to speak of and they even have their own GT series.

What's more it's in a lovely setting, situated just off a beautiful rural village that has tremendous pubs and accommodation.

[hgb]

Just looked at the photos taken from the Ring in Race Coverage....Is that the best you can do from the spectators areas at they call that little scalextric track they call the "Nurburgring" these days.
Jesus!  You get a better view than that from the cheap seats at Indy for the USGP.  Whay out in the boonies!
You guys need to go to Sebring, Road Atlanta or Mid-Ohio......Really!
John

What do you expect from a F1 circuit ? The grand stands are miles away from the cars and it's mostly fenced up nicely. Still, I tried to do my best, honestly.  ;D

[Ruptured Duck Motorsport]

I quite enjoy Thruxton, tend to view from the grandstands at the Club Chicane - almost guarenteed that every lap after that lovely run through Goodwood, Village and Church (making it the fastest circuit in the UK), cars tend to hit the chicane 3 or 4 abreast, with enough room on the exit for just one.  Spectacular.  

The Clios that supported the BTCC last year was the most entertaining motorsport I have ever spectated! 8)

Yet to get to Coombe, even though it is just up the road.  Off to Croft this weekend...

[Ron Jeremy]

or this close at oulton park