Valencia GP, Cheste - any help or advice on best stand/seats?

duc

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To get from Valencia to the track, what's the best and easiest way?


 


I'm not going to be able to bring my camping gear with me on this trip, so I need to find a place to stay in Valencia, and will come out to the track on on each day.


 


This is my first time in Spain. I'm going to be a total newb. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.

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It's a long shot but, i stayed with this member back in 2006. He and his wife are Brittish expats who live in Valencia. They had a lovely little out building on their property that they rented out. It maybe worth messaging him to see if he still does this. You can say i told you about it. He would have known my ps id as Roger-m and this forum as Motogpforum.com. If you do get in touch i doubt he will know what powerslide or chopperman is lol .I stayed with my wife there back in 2006. They were even willing to drop off and pick up each day but i rented a car.


http://powerslide.net/forum/index.php?/user/668-valencia-expat/


Commuting by car everyday is a nightmare, just be sure to allow 3 hours to do a 20 min drive, especially on race day.


 


I believe they also had other expat friends that rent rooms  for the same purpose during race weekends.


 


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i have just looked through old emails. I do have his email, mobile number and address (if he still lives there) should you wish to give that option a try. Just PM me if you want those contact details.

Duc. PM sent with details. Good luck

Thanks!

If we can be of any assistance locally, please feel free to ask.


 


I don't drive a train or own a hotel but I'll be driving an estate car to the circuit on Friday and leaving on Monday if all goes to plan.  We have a spare room in our house and park bikes in the lounge (not in the middle of it) but at about 100kms it's not exactly a stroll to Cheste.


 


Although it's probably a bit late in the day, if anyone wants to send a tent or something like that, I would be happy to meet and drop whatever at the event.


 


Happy racing!  Weather looking fair at the moment.


 


Regards,


Chris

Hi Folks, can anyone help please .... I'm trying to book camping on the circuit website and its asking for;


 




 

 

Please enter the following kyes to access to selected tickets:

 

 

Introduce tu DNI

 


 

Nº Motorhome 3d.-Socio Circuit




 

DNI  



 


 


 


 



 


 


It won't let me go any further til this field is filled, any ideas or suggestions to get camping tickets would be much appreciated, thank you


Mick

Please enter the following kyes to access to selected tickets:     Introduce tu DNI     Nº Motorhome 3d.-Socio Circuit   DNI 


 


Hi Mick,


 


A "Socio" is a club member so presumably not applicable.  The 'DNI' is a national identity number but if you change the page to English (UK) that field updates to passport number.  I'm not sure about the motor-home thing but I guess if you're not taking a motor-home you would select car or motorbike as applicable.  "3d" would just indicate that you selected the three day pass.


Look out for a black VW Passat at the campsite!


 


Regards,


Chris

Hi Chris, I'll gave that another go...but every time you change it to English it goes back a page and back to Spanish ?! We are taking a campervan....flying onto Barcelona and collecting a VW T4 from Chilli campers at the airport and driving down, hence the 'motorhome' tickets...If I ever get sorted I'll let you know :wallbash: if you have any other idea's they would be greatly appreciated bud, maybe even a bacon sarnie !!


 


If we do get in look for a white T4 with a funny roof, !! :toot:

Hi  Mick,


I tried this myself and I see the problem but I'm not sure of the answer.  I booked for a car and two people so I didn't really pay any attention to the motorhome options.  I can offer two explanations; either the booking form is up the creak or the motorhome option is only available for club members and the membership needs to be verified by entering a DNI number.  The second idea is obviously daft but this is Spain!


All I can suggest is give the circuit a call or send an email.  I got a reply from [email protected] (in English).  The phone number seems to be: (+34) 902012899 although I haven't tried that.  If I can help at all, please email direct to: chris(at)panoalto.com.  Maybe I'll pop up there in the week and bang a few heads together.


Regards,

Chris

Hi Chris, thanks for the help bud...We will try the circuit tomorrow and hopefully be able to get sorted, my girlfriend is fluent in Spanish so hopefully this will help !!


I'll let you know tomorrow if we get sorted one way or another, worse case we'll have to park in a pub car park and have to rough it !!


Thanks again


MIck

Glad you got some advice there mate. I remember when i went it was all very confusing with what entrance i was supposed to go in through. I didn't camp so couldn't offer you any advice on that. Hope you get it sorted but by the sounds of it you have a B plane ready just in case.


I hope all those going have a great time. I have a feeling its going to be an epic historic race in the making. Hopefully you will all take plenty of pictures and post them up here for the rest of us to enjoy.

Cheers bud, that's always the best B plan !!! Definitely going to an epic in both moto3 and the big uns  :toot:  getting new camera to take and will post as many pics as possible..... tried to book the camping today with the circuit, impossible !!! Plan B's looking good

Mick1966

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Hi Chris, thanks for the help bud...We will try the circuit tomorrow and hopefully be able to get sorted, my girlfriend is fluent in Spanish so hopefully this will help !!


I'll let you know tomorrow if we get sorted one way or another, worse case we'll have to park in a pub car park and have to rough it !!


Thanks again


MIck

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Hey Mick, I have just remembered some of the houses near the train station rent out camping pitches in their gardens,


One of them may have a driveway for you to park on,


But be warned, the one time I crashed a party there they were rolling in old bike engines on pallets hooking up to fuel and a battery and red lining till they hit the preverbial bang :lol: TBH it was fun, but not if you want to sleep.


Good luck in your quest

lil red rocket pilot

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Hey Mick, I have just remembered some of the houses near the train station rent out camping pitches in their gardens,


One of them may have a driveway for you to park on,


But be warned, the one time I crashed a party there they were rolling in old bike engines on pallets hooking up to fuel and a battery and red lining till they hit the preverbial bang :lol: TBH it was fun, but not if you want to sleep.


Good luck in your quest

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haha, i remember seeing a bike on the campsite with a home made megaphone exhaust big enough to climb inside. I doubt anyone got any sleep that night.

chopperman

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haha, i remember seeing a bike on the campsite with a home made megaphone exhaust big enough to climb inside. I doubt anyone got any sleep that night.

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Ha ha ha quality.


Ive got to say the maddest place in the world is Sachsenring campsite gp week.


No rules! Police come into the campsite just to escort the fire engines putting fires out, Then leave!


Crossers and quads tear up the walkways, if it breaks, burn it!


Not to mention ....... awful techno at 200dbls all night.


Blokes walking round naked, I am not joking!


And get this, 250,000 on the campsite and only 110,000 attend, you do the math


Fcuking great place, deffo going back

lil red rocket pilot

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Ha ha ha quality.


Ive got to say the maddest place in the world is Sachsenring campsite gp week.


No rules! Police come into the campsite just to escort the fire engines putting fires out, Then leave!


Crossers and quads tear up the walkways, if it breaks, burn it!


Not to mention ....... awful techno at 200dbls all night.


Blokes walking round naked, I am not joking!


And get this, 250,000 on the campsite and only 110,000 attend, you do the math


Fcuking great place, deffo going back

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Always wanted to do Sachsenring and Brno. To be honest i didn't like Valencia that much. The traffic was a nightmare and very frightening when you're driving a left hooker and got thousands of bikes passing you on both sides. I parked up and had to walk miles in the blazing heat. Got there and there was .... all to eat, just some bread with olive oil and bags of sunflower seeds. They had a stall set up right by the entrance selling cans of beer. I bought some then walked the 5 paces to the entrance only to be told you could not take beer bought outside into the track. I was not the only one caught out by this scam as they had a huge wheelie bin full of beer confiscated from people trying to get into the track. I kid you not, i told him to .... himself then downed all 8 cans in front of him. He then let me in only to be confronted by to spanish cops in bother boots berret and machine guns, ....... searched me. Misses then tells me she needs a piss real bad. we see the toilets only to be told only yellow grandstand ticket holders can use them and the toilets we can use are right over by the hill. After 8 cans im starting to feel quite pissed and hot and bothered. I tell security she is using that toilet, i suggest you stand aside. Fortunately a very pretty young lady came over to calm me down and see what the problem was. We struck an amicable deal that my wife could use the loo if i sat by security and waited. Misses come back out, we look at the few and i mean few stalls selling over priced crap. Make the trek towards the hill which is ....... packed so we end up half way up. So far away in fact i had to phone a friend in england who was watching the race on tv to find out who was where on track. Still hungry we walk down the hill to the tent selling piella, que a mile long, time i get close enough to actually see the big .... off frying pan i can see i aint getting any. walk over to the toilet brick building, walk in for a piss only to find the place so coated in .... it looked like the cell of Bobby sands in the maze prison. Pissed on the floor like everyone else and trekked back up the hill, only higher this time as about a million more people had arrived since we left for food. Race finishes, rossi blew it, hayden is balling his eyes out and the sky is filled with bright yellow smoke (that was the highlight). walk back to the car which took hours as the que of people was like the London subway in 28 days later. Get to the car only to find the carpark now completely fenced in and police preventing anyone from leaving. Im now dehydrating in pain with the brightest orange piss you have ever seen. My lovely misses set out on an expedition of life saving mercy to get water. Hands it to me about an hour later and said " dont ask how much those .......s charged me for 2 small bottles of water". Sat in the car cops gone but still fenced in. A group of lads said .... this after about 4 hours and started to pull the fence down. I jump out to help and fence topples down. Now we have ....... green trousered cops running towards us blowing whistles. We all just started our cars and went for it in like a Le manns style gp start of yester year. Further up the road we hit traffic, the police direct us onto the wrong side of the due carriageway only to be confronted by on coming traffic. Get the hire car back to the rental only for the greasy ....... to charge my credit card the price of a full tank of petrol all because the needle was sat a fraction below the full marker. Get to the airport and que for ages at the correct gate (Ryanair) a stewardess appears and screams "hurry, go to gate # whatever, only a few seats left". panic in the terminal with peeps running about like headless chickens, this is where i spot that bitch with her bitch friend hiding buy the counter pointing and laughing . Needless to say we all got on the plane and home sweet home. I realise my lack of paragraphs and how painful its been for you to9 read. If you suffered this pain without giving up you just may have what it takes to survive that ....... dump they call Valencia. Oh yeah, and the locals like you to call it Bal en thia.  I expect i will return one day because i'm a ....... idiot. oh yeah, forgot to mention, by the time we got to the place we were staying sat night we had been up for 24 hours. 4 hours sleep then head to the track for the above experience. Time we get home we had been up for another 36 hours i think it was. I wont bore you with the story of the M25 traffic jam and the diversion that pretty much took us through the centre of london at a snail pace in the middle of the night.


 


I know you have been Red and i hope you guys going have a better experience than we did.

Dang! And I thought I was an unlucky fcuker at tracks. 


TBH my experiences of Valencia have been pretty good.


I was lucky to drop on Shovelhead at our hotel and they showed us the route on the train.


If you do do it again try it, and the earlier trains aren't that jammed, I don't think we had to stand once going.


And stayed to watch the support races after the gp, as a result that wasn't bad either, a bit packed but not to overflowing.


Your a braver man than me Driving out there, Believe me I tried in Assen on the wrong side, But that is another story

lil red rocket pilot

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Dang! And I thought I was an unlucky fcuker at tracks. 


TBH my experiences of Valencia have been pretty good.


I was lucky to drop on Shovelhead at our hotel and they showed us the route on the train.


If you do do it again try it, and the earlier trains aren't that jammed, I don't think we had to stand once going.


And stayed to watch the support races after the gp, as a result that wasn't bad either, a bit packed but not to overflowing.


Your a braver man than me Driving out there, Believe me I tried in Assen on the wrong side, But that is another story

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Driving there was a nightmare, its just one big free for all. Then factor in that most are pissed out their minds because they drink about 2 bottles of wine for breakfast, then hit the booze again during siesta. Then there is there crazy road sign system. I kept getting lost and couldn't work out why, i thought is was just me being so fatigued due to the nightmare trip and no sleep. What it ended up being was the road signs at an intersection are not for that intersection, they're for the next one. So you have to remember what the sign before said . Not easy when they're in Spanish and the last intersection was bloody miles ago. I doubt i'd do Valencia again but Catalyuna is tempting.

I'm gonna concentrate on BSB next year.


And the thundersport UK series.


Fcuk Dorna and I urge others to do the same, Vote with your feet and wallets, It is the only language corporations understand,


However!


I'm only going to make one exception and that is for Aus,


I'm deffo going to see Roo, he has inspired me so much just travelling his journey.

lil red rocket pilot

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I'm gonna concentrate on BSB next year.


And the thundersport UK series.


Fcuk Dorna and I urge others to do the same, Vote with your feet and wallets, It is the only language corporations understand,


However!


I'm only going to make one exception and that is for Aus,


I'm deffo going to see Roo, he has inspired me so much just travelling his journey.

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With the Rossi phenomenon subsiding and the shift to pay for view, people will desert the sport en masse in the U.K. - a huge market deserted which could have been expanded so much wider. Bikesport will be marginalised once more and GP attendance will be reminiscant of the apathy of mid 90's (spare the neo-Marquez movement) characterised by one bloke and a dog; those die hards that typically pin enamel Dunlop or Hailwood badges to thier body warmers and canvas souvenir 1977 TT hats and the odd hot dog concession dotted around largely empty stands.

Arrabbiata1

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With the Rossi phenomenon subsiding and the shift to pay for view, people will desert the sport en masse in the U.K. - a huge market deserted which could have been expanded so much wider. Bikesport will be marginalised once more and GP attendance will be reminiscant of the apathy of mid 90's (spare the neo-Marquez movement) characterised by one bloke and a dog; those die hards that typically pin enamel Dunlop or Hailwood badges to thier body warmers and canvas souvenir 1977 TT hats and the odd hot dog concession dotted around largely empty stands.

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I agree pay per view will do untold damage to the UK viewing,


People who have followed for ages are saying fcuk it I ain't paying!


 


On another note, does anyone know how many appliances can be on a vid pass at the same time?


Might be worth getting a few together and all viewing though the same account.


4 peeps sharing it would be less than £25 each, food for thought