News Details

Low cost tickets impact Silverstone finances

While 139,000 eager fans passed through the turnstiles over the course of this year's British Grand Prix weekend - admittedly, a thousand down on 2015 - the circuit still faces another hefty financial loss. An airline style pricing sysym saw tickets on sale for as little as £99, but with the increasing hosting fees (currently £19.9m a year) and no government assistance, the circuit, the circuit, which reported a £55.9m loss in 2015, looks set for another bad year. 'With an ever-increasing hosting fee, this means that the Grand Prix's contribution to profit will be less than last year,' said Silverstone's chairman, John Grant in a letter to shareholders, 'so that we now...
Full Story »
9y ago from Pitpass.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Mercedes revises engine parameters after Malaysia...

Mercedes has decided to introduce revised running parameters for its...
9y ago from Motorsport.com

Perez: I cannot wait much longer

After Silverstone it appeared that Sergio Perez was staying on at Force...
9y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Hamilton – “Time will tell how that is.”

Lewis talks about the psychological impact of going through the...
9y ago from F1.co.uk

BRDC sets end of October deadline for Silverstone sale

 XPB Images The British Racing Drivers’ Club says it is...
9y ago from F1i.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Marc Marquez expects ‘even faster’ times from 2027...

Marc Marquez has cast doubt over claims that the new 850cc MotoGP engines...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Takuma Sato makes Indy 500 return with RLL

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing has announced that Takuma Sato will drive...

Helio Castroneves confirms return for 26th...

Helio Castroneves has confirmed that he will take part in the upcoming...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

WRC Rally Scotland brings top tier rallying back to...

The 2027 WRC calendar should have an exciting new event on the calendar:...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Agent confirms Arsenal interest in attacker with 70...

Pio Esposito’s agent has confirmed that Arsenal are interested in...
5h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Paul Merson predicts winner of Arsenal vs Manchester...

The Carabao Cup final between Arsenal and Manchester City at Wembley is...
4h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Arsenal and the League Cup- a complex history

Maybe I shouldn’t be typing these words ahead of Sunday but Arsenal and...
4h ago from Arseblog.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.