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CampingF1
The CampingF1 Team would like to thank all of our guests who have joined us at the Spanish, Monaco, Austrian and British Formula 1 races in 2015. So far we have been blessed with sunshine, thunderstorms and some spectacular racing action too!
Demand for the 2015 Belgian and Italian Grand Prix is impressive, if you fancy a late summer bargain with Race and Ferry Ticket Packages Call Us on:
+44 (0) 207 193 2636
Bookings are now open for the 2016 Monaco, Austrian and British Grand Prix
10% off all website prices for returning guests, call to book.
If you fancy an unforgettable trip abroad we can offer amazing deals on camping, race and ferry ticket packages for the 2015 Belgian and Italian Grand Prix.
Be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Youtube to stay up to date with all our latest offers and to spot yourselves in our photos and videos.
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Wednesday, 22 April 2015
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Monday, 13 April 2015
New Campsite Locations at Silverstone and Spa-Francorchamps!
We Have Moved!
New Campsite Locations at Silverstone and Spa-Francorchamps!
We have moved our Silverstone Campsite closer to the circuit. Only a 3 minute walk to the circuit, the campsite is right next to the action.
Winter-Hills Access Road,
Off the A413,
Silverstone Village,
NN12 8UG
Visit our British Grand Prix site for more information.
Belgium Campsite
Our Belgium campsite is now also closer to the race circuit. Situated North of the circuit, only a 25 minute walk to Entree Ster.
Route De Tiege 45,
4970 Stavelot, Belgium
Visit our Belgian Grand Prix site for more information.
Thursday, 10 July 2014
CampingF1 Silverstone 2014
The CampingF1 team is now back from Silverstone. It's been an amazing weekend! Here is a summary of what happened:
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Martin Brundle at CampingF1 Spa 2014
Renowned Sky Sports commentator, motorsport legend and former F1 driver Martin Brundle has just been confirmed as our Guest Speaker for our Belgian Grand Prix Camp Site! He'll be on stage on Friday 22 August 7pm for a stage talk followed by Q&A and live music by The Lettuceheads.
Our Spa-Francorchamps campsite offers tent & motorhome pitches, as well as spacious pre-erected tents with air beds. An Entertainment Marquee is available, full with an Food Outlet serving all day till midnight, a licenced Bar, Celebrity Guests, Live Entertainment by The Lettuceheads and DJ Phil on stage every night.
Book your Pre-Erected tent or Camping Pitch now at www.campingf1.com/events/belgian_grand_prix !
Our Spa-Francorchamps campsite offers tent & motorhome pitches, as well as spacious pre-erected tents with air beds. An Entertainment Marquee is available, full with an Food Outlet serving all day till midnight, a licenced Bar, Celebrity Guests, Live Entertainment by The Lettuceheads and DJ Phil on stage every night.
Book your Pre-Erected tent or Camping Pitch now at www.campingf1.com/events/belgian_grand_prix !
Saturday, 24 May 2014
48 Hours In: Monaco
Thursday, 8 May 2014
British Racing Drivers’ Club withdraw plans to sell part of Silverstone
The British Racing Driver’s Club (BRDC) will no longer sell off a part of the Silverstone racecourse after talks with the investor fell through.
The BRDC confirmed a £32m deal with commercial property firm MEPC had been struck, with the company acquiring a 999-year lease on the industrial estate and development land around the circuit.
Despite this, negotiations with a second investor for the lease of the circuit and sale of Silverstone Circuits Limited have not been as successful, and as such, the deal has fallen through.
BRDC chairman John Grant said: “After intense efforts to secure an acceptable deal, we have not been able to bring negotiations with the second potential investor to a satisfactory conclusion.
The BRDC will now retain full ownership of SCL, whose highly experienced management team will continue to operate, promote and further develop Silverstone as a premier racing destination.
With or without another investor, the futures of both Silverstone and the British Grand Prix are secure.
The circuit business has enormous potential and MEPC's development of Silverstone Park - a high-tech business park on land surrounding the circuit - will enhance the circuit's image and value over the next several years.
We are delighted with the progress MEPC is already making. They are proving to be excellent partners and strong believers in our shared vision for Silverstone.
We look forward to working with them towards implementing our joint vision for the development of Silverstone as a globally recognised centre for world-class motor sport and advanced technology.”
Source: isportconnect.com
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
Formula 1 engine noise action group eyes tailpipe solution
Tweaks to the exhaust systems on Formula 1 cars are being targeted as the best way to improve the engine noise this year.
An action plan is set to be decided at a crunch meeting on May 6.
Following a preliminary gathering of F1's engine manufacturers and the FIA in China on Friday night, it has been decided that work will now focus on revisions to the tailpipe.
Sources suggest that it has been agreed that further evaluation of tailpipe solutions will take place over the next few days, with the data pooled together by the FIA to try to settle a way forward.
One idea being considered is the introduction of a standard dimension tailpipe that has been optimised to try to boost the noise.
AUTOSPORT understands that the FIA has called a meeting with all interested parties for May 6, in the week before the Spanish Grand Prix, to try to finalise how to implement any improvements.
FIA president Jean Todt said in Bahrain that he hoped that the first tests of the new louder engines could take place as soon as the post Spanish GP test at Barcelona.
BIGGER CHANGES RULED OUT
Preliminary analysis of a different tailpipe design tried out by one manufacturer on a dyno has shown a promising jump in engine volume, which should be enough to appease the noise critics.
Any further changes to the power unit itself to try to improve the noise have been effectively ruled out because it would require a change to the entire philosophy of the new fuel-efficiency regulations.
The decreased noise this year is the result of the introduction of turbo engines and the way that energy loss - which manifests itself as noise - is minimised.
Renault's head of trackside operations Remi Taffin told AUTOSPORT: "If you look at rally cars, their turbos make a good noise because they use fuel through the exhaust - which is not something we are looking at because we have a fuel limitation.
"Everything is possible but when you settle the energy regulations, you more or less settle what is going to happen."
Source: AUTOSPORT.COM
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Red Bull F1 team loses fuel-flow appeal, FIA upholds stewards call
The FIA Court of Appeal has rejected the Red Bull Formula 1 team's appeal against Daniel Ricciardo's disqualification from the Australian Grand Prix.
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Some amazing facts and figures about Scuderia Ferrari's F1 engines and the Shell fuel used.
Come behind the scenes and follow Scuderia Ferrari's mission to be back on top of the podium. Watch as they work closely with their technical partner Shell to try and engineer the winning formula for the 2014 season.
Unprecedented access to Ferrari's Formula One factory makes for a fascinating behind the scenes look at how the most famous race team in the world prepares for the FIA Formula One World Championship™, featuring candid comments from key personnel, as well as drivers Fernando Alonso and Kimi Räikkönen.
Source : Shell Youtube
Monday, 17 March 2014
Mercedes's Formula One title hopeful Nico Rosberg admits Lewis Hamilton rivalry is increasingly 'heated' - Telegraph
Nico Rosberg is recalling his earliest memory of Formula One. “I was sleeping on the roof of a boat in the harbour in Monte Carlo – it must have been 1988,” he says. “I remember being woken up on a Sunday morning by the sound of Ayrton Senna roaring out of the tunnel as they were doing warm-up. I sat up and saw the red and white McLaren, with his yellow helmet. I can still clearly see it – as a little child it was like camping outside.”
Some camping trip. But he was not any old F1 fan. The man who has a first drivers’ title in his sights this season has the sport woven into his DNA.
The 28-year-old German is the son of the 1982 world champion, Keke Rosberg, and had the pleasure of growing up in Monaco and flying around the world following the fortunes of the ‘flying Finn’ Mika Hakkinen, who his father managed. “I followed his races very intensely always, with my dad. They were always great times.”
Fast-forward to 2014, and the low-pitched grumble of turbo-powered engines will be heard in Formula One for the first season since Rosberg was woken by Senna tearing through Monaco’s streets in 1988. It is a season of immense change in which the Mercedes driver is considered one of the favourites, as he seeks to become the second son of a world champion to win the crown himself, after Damon Hill. In some quarters, he is favoured even more highly than his team-mate, and long-time friend,Lewis Hamilton.
The dynamic with Hamilton will be one of the season’s most fascinating sub-plots – a modern spin on the rivalry between Ayrton Senna, whose instinctive brilliance is echoed in the skilled, occasionally reckless Hamilton, and his McLaren team-mate, the ‘Professor’ Alain Prost, an ice-cool technician to whom Rosberg is a natural heir.
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| Rosberg and his girlfriend Vivian Sibold at the Thomas Sabo Rebel |
"It was the same when we were young - it was so competitive between us. In the amount of pizzas we could eat, the wrestling matches in the hotel rooms, whatever it was. It’s the same today."
Prost and Senna’s relationship at McLaren was characterised by bitter dislike at McLaren. Rosberg and Hamilton are not in that category – indeed they still maintain a large degree of the friendship first kindled when they were team-mates in karting, aged 14. But Rosberg is honest enough to acknowledge a competitive edge that occasionally spills over.
“We’re not best friends, and we’re probably never going to be best friends just because it’s difficult in this industry, especially when you’re team-mates, fighting for wins. We get in well, we have a laugh, neutral, very competitive. We even have some heated exchanges, but then afterwards it gets back to normal. That's it.
“It was the same when we were young - it was so competitive between us. In the amount of pizzas we could eat, the wrestling matches in the hotel rooms, whatever it was. It’s the same today.”
Rosberg is wise enough to acknowledge that if, as expected, they are fighting at the front, maintaining their friendship will be difficult. “It will definitely be harder, yes. The more success we have, the tougher it is.”
Mercedes in 2013 were also not afraid of employing team orders, which never helps foster harmony. In Malaysia last year, while Red Bull were mired in their own controversy, as Sebastian Vettel ignored a direct order to pass Mark Webber for the lead, Rosberg was enduring his own frustration. Unlike his compatriot, however, he obeyed the order to hold his position. After the chequered flag had fallen, he ominously told his team on the radio: “Remember this one.”
There is a weariness in his voice when he is reminded of the controversy. “Ah, this subject again. I’ve been through it so much. I just wanted to reiterate that I really was a team player, which is what the team wanted from me.
“I wanted to make sure that the team remembers what I did for the future, which they very much did. It all worked out well, and I would do exactly the same tomorrow if I had to do that decision, because in the end it’s a team sport. I need my team to do it together, and I respect my team, and their decisions.”
Fundamentally, however, whatever role team orders play in 2014 at Mercedes, this is the season for Rosberg to emerge from Vettel’s shadow, and to truly establish himself in the very highest echelons of the sport.
Justly or unjustly, in recent seasons Rosberg has struggled to be recognised among that select few of Vettel, Alonso, Hamilton, and perhaps Raikkonen. After three years in which he outclassed the returning Michael Schumacher, the consensus was that the seven-time champion had lost his way, not that his younger team-mate had stepped up.
And in 2013, when he matched Lewis Hamilton in the same machinery, popular opinion had it that Hamilton's standards had slipped, rather than Rosberg’s being elevated.
Rosberg harbours no resentment – “I respect that opinion, but it’s not something that annoys me” – and prefers to focus on the verdicts of those within the Mercedes family.
“I need the support of everybody to be able to win,” he says. “I’m very conscious of that. I really like to try and work together with everybody and get the best out of everything that we have.”
We meet at an event for Thomas Sabo in Munich, a brand for which he is an ambassador, but when asked if he enjoys these kinds of events as a relief from Formula One, his mind immediately turns back to a frenzied pre-season.
Rosberg admits Mercedes “underestimated” the challenge of Formula One on their return to the sport after half a century in 2010. Since then, however, they have invested hugely, assembling a technical team which is the envy of the paddock.
In pre-season testing they showed little sign of missing the retiring Ross Brawn. While Red Bull floundered, the silver arrows racked up the miles, setting a searing pace in the process. Rosberg, with just three career wins to his name to date, can expect many more this season, with his eye for technical detail well matched to the plethora of new regulations.
“There’s so much that’s different this season. It’s really a matter of practising to integrate it all, and making it sub-conscious. The more you have to think, that’s when things are going to go wrong. There’s a very positive energy and momentum in the team. Everybody is really firing up. It’s obvious in every single person. We’re ready to step up – we feel it.”
Source: Daily Telegraph
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