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Old 31 Dec 2010, 12:11 (Ref:2809670)   #1
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Autosport Show

Many people going this year? I have found the show to become a bit dull and boring over the years and gearing more towards the boy racer market with huge displays of Max Power style.

The cost is another factor I payed somthing like 80 quid last year, including petrol, parking and show tickets.

I can say that this year I will be staying home.
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Old 31 Dec 2010, 12:19 (Ref:2809677)   #2
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Not when it costs as much as it does!! Is for me the most expensive race meeting of the year I would go to, so what do you think!

If you were ALLOWED to just buy a ticket for the show instead of being forced to pay the fee of whoever is poncing about on the stage then I would go. But you HAVE to watch the show thing, what a rip off!!

But 30 quid, 8 quid to park and petrol! Dearer than anything for me but MotoGP and F1 which I wouldnt go to anyway!

So stuff the rip off merchants, when the bike show was 15 quid! You are having a laugh
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Old 31 Dec 2010, 12:48 (Ref:2809680)   #3
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I go, but mainly for the Watkins Lecture which this year is hosted by Martin Brundle, who will be interviewing the Red Bull people - Adrian Newey etc.
I find the Classic Show @ Stoneleigh much better, but then I'm probably biased as I'm on a stand there.
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I go, but mainly for the Watkins Lecture which this year is hosted by Martin Brundle, who will be interviewing the Red Bull people - Adrian Newey etc.
I find the Classic Show @ Stoneleigh much better, but then I'm probably biased as I'm on a stand there.
lol Ditto and a Happy New Year to you and your better half.

Im going to Autosport because of 360, as Paula has said to see people I havent seen for a while, to also go to the Watkins Lecture ...and get my son his annual Le Mans model of some sorts.

Race Retro is the better show for me.
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Old 31 Dec 2010, 13:35 (Ref:2809701)   #5
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Retro is a far better show overall, far more intimate and what the NEC used to be like years back.

NEC is pretty much a show for meetings and trade and they charge us inasne money cz they know they can coz there is naff all else to do!

If people didnt go they wouldnt charge as much, simple!
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Old 2 Jan 2011, 14:25 (Ref:2810211)   #6
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Don't think we'll be going this year, as said, too expensive for what there is of interest, even with the MSA £5 discount, when all the other NEC rip-off charges are added to the fuel cost.

Pretty sure will be at Stoneleigh, though - much more "clubby, if colder!
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Old 2 Jan 2011, 15:35 (Ref:2810226)   #7
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if anyone does go, and wants to reduce the car park costs i can recommend looking a few stops closer to you on the train line. it's a shorter walk to the station and it's warmer
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Old 2 Jan 2011, 16:20 (Ref:2810235)   #8
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I remember when.........1966 and all that!

Way back we had a Racing Car Show, and it was held at OLYMPIA in London. Mind you the roads were not as busy, and we saved money by parking our caravan on Olympia station right outside. It cost us ten bob for the weekend.
We got in the show for 2/6, and there was so much to see, including a hillclimb! Apart from that we had a good old chat and a fag with the F.1 drivers that were knocking around, and that new coffee from the USA was on sale...er..Maxwell House that was it.
I would have added some pictures, but it appears I can't on this page?
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Old 2 Jan 2011, 22:19 (Ref:2810329)   #9
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Have a read of this Gerry to answer your questions
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Old 3 Jan 2011, 00:29 (Ref:2810361)   #10
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OK, I read it, thanks. Just thought perhaps current members interested in the RACING CAR SHOW 2011, would have liked to see just what it was like in 1966.
Who was there, what the innovations were, what new race cars were on show.
Paul Emery had his new Imp, Cooper Car Company had the Type 81 Cooper-Maserati F1.
Great fun, great show.
Anyway, thanks for putting me right about pictures.
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Old 2 Jan 2011, 18:37 (Ref:2810271)   #11
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Not sure why not Gerry.

Personally it's a bit of a hit and miss. I could go and end up getting a deal on a racesuit or a helmet. But to be fair it's just going to cost me twenty five quid to get in without anything else. I don't really care for cars razzing round in the arena. It's like a zoo and safari.
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I've always wanted to go ever since I got my first subscription to Autosport back around 1995. But in that time I've either been financially skint or up to my neck in work. Or the time I went to the UK, I mistimed the trip(it wasn't a well thought out trip, but we all make mistakes in our college years)

Going to the UK is so expensive now, even with a direct flight from Philly or Newark, that I'd have to combine it into a trip with other activities and January is certainly not the best month to go.
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Old 3 Jan 2011, 13:58 (Ref:2810513)   #13
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Going to the UK is so expensive now, even with a direct flight from Philly or Newark, that I'd have to combine it into a trip with other activities and January is certainly not the best month to go.
Flying in and from America is crazy expensive with all that security paranoia. I'm in Birmingham for the year and I'm excited to see exactly what kind of show it is. The entry price is crazy, especially when converted to American/Canadian $. Hell, I could fly to Amsterdam for the weekend for that kind of money!
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Old 2 Jan 2011, 22:17 (Ref:2810328)   #14
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Never miss the show. Going on Saturday 15th.
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Old 3 Jan 2011, 10:06 (Ref:2810423)   #15
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Happy New Year folks.

I used to go taking fotos for Karting Magazine and I am still offered media accreditation by the organisers.

Maybe I am getting too old now but I find this kind of show utterly exhausting and the expense getting there nowadays is prohibitive.

Also IMHO the show was far better 10 years ago.

Mind you, I do miss meeting old friends there....

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I would like to go for the Short Circuit part of the show and to have a look at some of the other stands. I would, I'm sure buy some parts and bits, but I have no intrest in a live show and will not pay the inflated stupid price to get in. Once it was a major part of the season for me but now it's just a boy racers show. Oh, Happy New Year
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Then I would do exactly that! They have some good shows in Europe this time of year, far better than the Autosport one I would imagine.
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Plenty of shows in Amsterdam, not all relating to two or four wheels either ...
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Went to the first show at Horticultural Hall in London 1960 and most shows since at Olympia ,Donington & Birmingham.Last went in 2008-last time I went on a Saturday I remember feeling ill with the crush of overcrowding. You used to be able to buy a ticket in advance for Friday which was tolerable.Now I guess its just a trade show-the early Racing Car Shows I think were on for a week?
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I went between 2002 and 2009, but I'll never go again. So expensive these days and I only ever went in the latter years because a subscribing friend had a BOGOF offer and we split the cost of one ticket between us. The best part of forty quid per person just after Christmas isn't ideal. 2009 was the last straw, they totally changed the layout of the place from the one everybody was familiar with and it seemed such a smaller show. Not a lot worth seeing either.

The best show I attended was in 2008 when there was a loophole which let you buy tickets for the adjoining Pistonheads show and in turn gain access to Autosport International on the Friday and it was much better. Less of the Max Power brigade with bags and bags of posters and freebies going about. More of a chance to take photos and admire the cars on show. Unfortunately they closed that for 2009 and it was a Sunday I went.
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Like Craner Curves, 2009 was my last year there and I had my friend Johanna with me from Albuquerque, New Mexico,USA.

She enjoyed it, of course, as it was her first time there.

We stayed in my usual B & B on the Wednesday night which was rather nice and the breakfast was awesome.

CC is right, the stands were spread out far more and the place looked empty compared to earlier shows. This I feel was to help bigger crowds flow more freely.

The reduction in stands were no doubt due to economic pressures but I gather that the cost is prohibitive so even some of the bigger firms were not there.

I found the Live Action Arena very lacklustre too.

The best part of it was to going home on the Thursday evening.

The Virgin train back to Kings Cross was very full and we could not find a seat so we upgraded to 1st Class which included a good meal and drinks in the price.

Johanna paid by Credit Card but she was never charged.

We think that the person who took her card details felt sorry for us and never put it thru.

Thank you Virgin....

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The reduction in stands were no doubt due to economic pressures but I gather that the cost is prohibitive so even some of the bigger firms were not there.
I thought the same. It really hit home that there was a financial problem out there.
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Went once, on a freebie. While it was enjoyable I couldn't see anything that I'd want to pay significant amounts to get in for, so I've never even been tempted back. If it were a tenner I might consider it.
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£10 is about right, but £30 plus £10 for parking and about £35-£40 for petrol, plus food and so you end up spending close to £100.
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Have never understood Haymarkets positioning with this?

If you offere a price of say 18 quid without the boring live show then I would consider going? I would meet up with loats of people I know and make a day of it.

But to almost price normal people out of the market seems a very direct and conspicuous move? They clearly dont want the general public there? IN years gonre by the space was taken up by loads of trade stands and sellers. The last time I went it was manufacturers, teams with far more money then sense having stands and equipment stands.

I guess that answers it, like it or lump it punters!

Can't see it lasting
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