Race Of Champions - Page 4

ford prefect · 19 Dec 2007, 13:14 (Ref:2091940)

wembley stadium is a hole!!!

the food was over priced and the staff had not actually cooked enogh for the break!

That said, the event was fab, had a great day and would go again. Shame it was at wembley, our national stadium is a unimpressive disgrace

chunder · 19 Dec 2007, 13:26 (Ref:2091944)

Thats my only beef to be honest, not heard many good vibes about the place, and I use of word of mouth to decide about many of these things!

Such a white elephant, such a shame!!

jonboy1066 · 19 Dec 2007, 14:08 (Ref:2091954)

Yeah my only critisim of the event was the poor quality of Wembley's own facilities.

The evnt itself was spectacular and I'll definately go again but.............

When the gates opened at 1200 they didn't have any hot food cooked. I'd have thought that they would have lined up loads of hot food before everyone came in but that would make too much sense I s'pose

Then, during the break, they ran out of Lids for the cups, then Hot Chocolate, then Tea Bags, then sugar, then milk all the while the man standing there shouting out what they had run out of was just pressing buttons on the drinks dispenser. He could have gone off and got supplies but it seemed he felt more gainfully employed by shouting out what they didn't have rather than going to restock!

Then magically about 15 minutes after the start of the Champion of Champions race they suddenly found Lids, Chocolate, Tea, Milk, Sugar etc

Very bad organisation! No-one seemed to be in charge, or whoever was, was hiding.

**Craig** · 19 Dec 2007, 15:43 (Ref:2091984)

Far, faaaar too expensive sadly.

Knowlesy · 19 Dec 2007, 16:36 (Ref:2092021)

Wembley was always like that, it is not specific to the new stadium.

**Craig** · 19 Dec 2007, 16:49 (Ref:2092033)

What? Expensive?

**Craig** · 19 Dec 2007, 16:51 (Ref:2092034)

Not sure that this thread actually belongs here. Not sure where it belongs really. So I'll move it to Trackside... feel free to move it on from there if you wish!

safc_fan89 · 6 Jan 2008, 12:24 (Ref:2100565)

Just found this thread...not sure what you all expect from what is a football stadium! After being to the Stadium of Light in Sunderland about 200 times, I am used to queuing for drinks and the toilet. It's best to take your own food, the stuff served at football grounds isn't worth eating, and certainly not worth paying a fiver or so for! I took a sandwich for lunch, a sausage roll for tea, and sweets for inbetween. Worked fine.

I thought it was a great day out. I got a £35 ticket and the view was excellent, I was just to the left of the start-finish line. The lower you are, the worse the view would have been. If it's held at Wembley again this year, I would definitely try and go again. The ticket cost I thought was great value considering it is an annual event and lasted for a good 6 hours. Only downer was that my water was confiscated (why?) and the bottles of water at the stadium were £1.80. Which is shocking really, but it's Wembley and London so you have to expect such crazy prices.

Down F0rce · 6 Jan 2008, 12:58 (Ref:2100588)

I was pretty low and had a great view! I too was left of the start/finish line, so I must have been just below you. I had a £75 ticket.

It is best to bring your own food though. I had water with me but they didn't take it off me, onmly the lid! I knocked it over and spilled most of it which was a right pain. Don't see why I couldn't take the lid in...

Tainan · 6 Jan 2008, 16:36 (Ref:2100689)

Next time take a few spare lids with you!!

Suze · 7 Jan 2008, 08:43 (Ref:2101054)

Quote:

Originally Posted by safc_fan89

Only downer was that my water was confiscated (why?) and the bottles of water at the stadium were £1.80. Which is shocking really, but it's Wembley and London so you have to expect such crazy prices.

If you're used to going to football grounds, I'm surprised you hadn't expected this.....I've had lids taken in the past as well as lids being removed when buying drinks inside the stadium.

Down F0rce · 7 Jan 2008, 12:15 (Ref:2101130)

Never been in a stadium before, so it was news to me.

Suze · 22 Feb 2008, 21:13 (Ref:2135285)

Some here may want to check - we paid £75 each for tickets but found out later we were sat in an area where the tickets sold for £55 each and so the RoC organisers have refunded £20 each per ticket - could be worth just double checking.

Burnsie · 30 Mar 2009, 01:11 (Ref:2428579)

Race of Champions drops Wembley...

Quote:

Race of Champions organisers have dropped Wembley Stadium as the venue for the end-of-season all-star event.

Event boss Fredrik Johnsson revealed to AUTOSPORT that a new venue would be announced in the coming weeks, and that Wembley had been dropped after two events owing to a decline in spectator numbers.

"It has been really good to work with Wembley, but we've got five different proposals for next year," said Johnsson.

"Last year, we thought we would get a bigger crowd because the first year at Wembley was 50,000. But in the end we had only 48,000 despite the fact that we had a better starting line-up and a better campaign, so we decided that it was time to move.

"Looking at the five different options, there were many good ones and we hope to finalise a deal within the next few weeks."

redshoes · 30 Mar 2009, 07:44 (Ref:2428732)

I can't say I'm surprised, there were enough complaints over price in the first year and things didn't really change in '08. Looking on the website about a month before the event you couldn't buy the cheaper seats yet from the pictures I saw they clearly weren't sold out.

The comment "despite the fact that we had a better starting line-up" shows to me that they don't understand their audience. For me the decision to go or not wasn't based on the fact that [insert favourite driver] was or wasn't racing, and I suspect the same is true of many people here.

Down F0rce · 30 Mar 2009, 08:58 (Ref:2428790)

I'm disappointed that the RoC is moving on from Wembley. I went both years it was held there and had a brilliant time both times. Maybe if the want to come back to the UK they could find a venue that won't put so many people off over ticket prices, but I guess they would want a "prestigious" venue like Wembley.

Burnsie · 16 Apr 2009, 10:41 (Ref:2442097)

The 2009 Race of Champions will be held at Beijing, immediately after Formula 1's inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, organisers announced today...

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74486

Suze · 16 Apr 2009, 12:52 (Ref:2442219)

Hms don't think will make it this year!

Could be a good move though.

duke_toaster · 16 Apr 2009, 17:27 (Ref:2442416)

This decision makes no sense. It's being held in a country that can't sell out it's Grand Prix, it's in a dodgy time zone on a weekday so most of Europe will be at work during the event, and it's a few days after the last GP, so that F1 drivers will be less likely to do it. I'd put this one down as a suicidal move.

Peat · 17 Apr 2009, 11:51 (Ref:2442983)

Yeah, its a particually 'interesting' move. Personally i'd like to see it back in Gran Canaria. Thems were the dayz!

Burnsie · 3 Nov 2009, 16:16 (Ref:2574988)

Congratulations to Mr Schumacher and Mr Vettel on winning the Nations Cup for Germany

They beat USA in the semi, and GB in the final.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79996

d.rocky · 4 Nov 2009, 14:14 (Ref:2575632)

just watching the ROC live and john hindhaugh was talking about schumacher not being allowed to drive anything thats not in the FIAT group.
schumacher has just raced in a KTM?
anyone know anymore about it?

Burnsie · 4 Nov 2009, 15:50 (Ref:2575682)

Jenson Button
	Jenson Button
Andy Priaulx
		Mattias Ekström (2)
Mattias Ekström
	Mattias Ekström
Tom Kristensen
			Mattias Ekström
Sebastian Vettel
	Sebastian Vettel
David Coulthard
		Michael Schumacher (0)
Michael Schumacher
	Michael Schumcaher
Miko Hirvonen

Déj�*-vu? I was in Wembley in 2007 when Schumacher went head-to-head with Ekström in the Champion of Champions Final, and once again the DTM driver has come out on top. Maybe next year Michael!

Quote:

Originally Posted by d.rocky

just watching the ROC live and john hindhaugh was talking about schumacher not being allowed to drive anything thats not in the FIAT group.
schumacher has just raced in a KTM?
anyone know anymore about it?

I was wondering that myself. Apparently Schumacher was allowed to drive the X-Bow because KTM are independent of any of Fiat's rivals.

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