Comments on: Are F1 fans getting ripped off? Cheapest and dearest tickets prices revealed

By: Hare

Hare — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:04:39 +0000

that’s a lovely avatar you got there… looks, vaguely familiar..

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:00:16 +0000

No but did run this in January:

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2011/01/03/2011-f1-race-ticket-discounts-run-out-soon/

By: David Swinstead

David Swinstead — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:44:46 +0000

A follow up article for the ticket prices of the 2011 season would be awesome. Any plans for one?

By: Jarred Walmsley

Jarred Walmsley — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:01:50 +0000

Well thats because you only want to see the F1 race for those that want to go for the whole weekend like me and I assume most people on this site then it is good value. Also what currency are you writing in?

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:52:05 +0000

Surely, of all of these then Turkey looks like great value. Cheapest tickets, good circuit, plenty of capacity and in a very interesting part of the world from a tourism point of view. Thinking of going this year – turn 1 seems best place to be I think.

By: fff

fff — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:39:21 +0000

Yes, your analysis is pretty general and, forgive me, naive.

I happen to own a business that does some economic and credit analysis for bigger companies. Countries that today form the so called BRIC (brazil, russia, india, china) are in better shape, economically speaking, than countries like australia, which used to occupy a lower tier on the “first world country club”.

Brazilian middle class is, comparatively, huge compared to other even some first world countries. People tend to think that poor countries have a very small amount of rich people and a majority of people living in poverty which is not true. The city of Sao Paolo alone have about 800k people, yes, 800k people, living in the so called very wealthy segment, what would explain the recent boom on the cities luxury facility, luxury car sales, etc.

People need to understand that there is still a very strong CULTURAL factor. I’ve visited India with a very wealthy native investor, he took me to his home town and his family was indeed living in what TO ME was poor conditions. Interestingly, to them it was normal and usual living with so little confort. It was a cultural thing.

In Brazil, likewise, the middle class is culturally COMPARED to our middle class still poor BUT THEY ARE NOT, but as Strauss said, you can’t compare culture, there is no better or worse, only different.

In the economic business that I am luckily part of today, the BRIC block is very much unaltered by the recent economic crisis. Their economy is booming and many of our larger industry found on those countries the money necessary to survive. They left the third world country definition in the early 2000′s.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:29:46 +0000

Accurate attendance figures are hard to come by - there's some of them for last year's race in this article: F1 leaving Britain would be madness

By: Jay Menon

Jay Menon — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:53:17 +0000

Oh yeah, the curse of being born in a third world country. Tell me about it!

All over-worked and under paid by the so called “First World” countries. Gotta love capatalism.

This first world third world thing is so out of date. Technically, these terms should have been deemed not applicable since the Soviet Union fell, the great moral “victory” of the First World!

South Africa was and still is classed as a first world country…so yeah, go figure.

By: BMW boy

BMW boy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:14:51 +0000

Interesting. Just to get some perspective, could we also have some idea as to attendance figures as well as circuit capacity?

By: Mandev

Mandev — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:42:01 +0000

Yeah. The ITV4 coverage is pretty good. But I just can’t afford the ticket prices for F1 and BTCC tickets costs around a tenth of that of F1, so if I want to see some racing for real BTCC is the way to go.