Viewing.

[joey1]

can someone confirm, as i'm preety sure that at Rockingham we can only stand or sit in the main grandstand, can we stand on the 2 top bends or not??

also something for you to look forward to a 1/2 hour porsche race, wahey
but the legends final is only 7 laps and the heats only 5 laps!!

[Little]

You have a choice,

• The Rockingham Building, at top or in the middle,
• Turn 1 & 4 Grandstands
• The grass bank infront of the Rockingham Building
• The top of the pit garages
• and MAYBE the North and South Grandstands

We will have to wait and see!

http://www.rockingham.co.uk should give all the information you need.

[Chigley]

can we stand on the 2 top bends or not

If you are referring to Turns 2 & 3 the answer is, no! there is never any spectating areas here.

However if you are asking about Turns 1 & 4 then the grandstands go virtually all the way down to the debris fencing; only a small trackside road seperates the grandstands from the track. The viewing is so good you don't need to stand and I doubt very much if any seats will be pre-allocated.

Given the size of the Rockingham building and the Turn 1 & 4 grandstands it will be doubtfull if the North and South grandstands will be open, but I could be mistaken. For the 1st ASCAR meeting we had 40,000+ at the circuit and the main grandstands had many open spaces visible then.

[Rob29]

BTCC fans will be very dissapointed with this circuit.Viewing is very distant.You cannot get on the 'road'part at all.Fit only for 200mph oval racing.

[Little]

Originally posted by Rob29
BTCC fans will be very dissapointed with this circuit.Viewing is very distant.You cannot get on the 'road'part at all.Fit only for 200mph oval racing.

I dont think first time fans will be disapointed, there is alot more that you can see from any seat in the house than you would see standing in a muddy field (that is silverstone.... oh, or infact any other circuit that BTCC goes to.)

[joey1]

yeh but i don't want to see dots going round.

[Jamie P-E]

the top of the pit building is the best

[Chigley]

Look at it this way, if there's a hum dinger of a battle going on for the lead (or elsewhere) would you prefer to see it only as it flashes by you or is visible for the small portion of the circuit that you can see. Or, watch it for 99% of the lap, every lap. 99% because the track drops out of sight briefly due to the contour changes. It's not as flat as most expect!

[Chigley]

Having witnessed two cracking races and having been able to see all of that action continually what are the reactions to The Rock's facilities now. Awesome or just watching dots in the distance!

[Les]

well I did a bit of everything - watched some qualifying from the pit roof - lovely to see tyre changers etc etc

watched most of the racing from Rockingham building - superb view but a little too far away for my liking.

watched clios from the chicane/pit lane wiggle at the bottom of Turn 1 grandstand - way heh - got my fill of close views there. But the seats were uncomfortable, and that lightening was getting closer so we moved.

quite impressed