Electrical Safety
To all Electric Campers
VERY IMPORTANT
Please Watch this video.
This knocked out 100 Electric hook up pitches for THREE hours at F1 2024
It’s not very neighbourly
Please Think
We Are Looking Forward to Welcoming You!
BEFORE YOU COME!
- Check your Camping Booking & Which Day you have Paid to Arrive
- Non Electric – You need to download your QR Code to scan on arrival.
Lost Ticket? – Find My Non Electric Ticket – (Enter your email address & click send on the Lost your eticket?) - Electric – You need to check your booking (No QR Code needed for F1 Electric bookings)
Lost booking or need to Amend? – Find/Check/Amend my Electric Booking (Enter your Name & Booking Number) - Glamping – You will have received a QR code for campsite access. You can re-request QR code here
- Non Electric – You need to download your QR Code to scan on arrival.
- Silverstone will be busy again this year so:
- Consider coming earlier – Change your arrival day
- Consider going home on Monday – No Extra Charge. Just stay on site & go by noon on Monday
- If you have to go home on Sunday, be prepared to be very patient & delay departure to mid evening.
- Stay on site, use the food and shop to reduce congestion or enjoy the Silverstone entertainment a little longer
- Think about what you pack.
- Consider that you’ll need all your first aid and safety items including equipment for putting out any fire on your pith
- Remember it gets really dark as the campsite is open countryside – a head touch might be very handy
- Pack sensible shoes – the ground may be uneven in places. Please take care.
- Remember that sheep and cattle graze the land and so broken glass isn’t good for their feet – so ideally please only bring plastic bottles.
- Lastly we suggest you bring your card & cash, as when the phone signal shrink due to the vast crowds, may phones struggle to perform. You might also want to screen print or photograph important stuff before you come.
- Check DRC’s F1 News page for F1 site info, food, shop etc
Need to amend your Booking?
Camping (with Electric):
- Additions & Updates use this link Update/Amend Electric booking
- Use your booking number and surname then click ‘Amend booking’
Parking bookings:
- We are not doing General Public Parking this year except for Long Stay Parking and Friends & Family Parking in association with the campsite.
Camping (No Electric)
Either:
Bring Cash with you for the difference – prices at the bottom of this page. F1 Non Electric Pricing
Or
- Click Manage My Booking in your booking confirmation or go to https://www.ticketsource.
com/my-bookings. - Follow instructions to receive your magic link to access your My Booking Portal
- Select Exchange booking and select Book Now for your existing event.
- Adjust your number of tickets as required.
- Proceed to checkout where you will be asked to make a partial payment for the difference.
- You will receive an email confirming your updated tickets.
ON ARRIVAL DAY!
- Follow Yellow Triangles on signage, then follow Yellow ‘E’ or MK18 5LH for sat nav to our gate
- Arrive between 5am and Dusk (circa 9pm)
- Bear in mind that the Dadford Road will have some traffic restrictions and made one way out in the afternoons – so better to arrive in the mornings on Saturday and Sunday. – Saturday afternoon arrival could be problematic on the roads.
- NOTE If you are arriving from the Buckingham/Stowe/Dadford direction – the Yellow Road Closed signs mean no through road most of the time and you can get to our campsite and Silverstone Circuit. Check road signs and traffic rules in place as you come through.
- Make sure you have your booking information with you.
- Non Electric Camping – Have you downloaded your QR Code ready to Scan?
- Electric – Have your Booking Name with you. (No QR or Bar Codes)
- Make sure everyone & everything you have booked arrives together at the same time.
- Please Gather and Wait away from Silverstone to reduce congestion in the area.
WHEN YOU ARRIVE!
- Make sure you have your booking with you:
- Non Electric– Make sure you have your Ticket QR code ready to scan
- Electric – Have your booking details ready.
- Parking (Friends & Family)– Just have your Ticket Tailor QR code booking on your phone or on paper
- Parking (Long Stay) – You will have a Ticketsource QR code to scan on arrival. Follow Long Stay Parking signs.
Note those leaving cars overnight & not sleeping in them MUST park in Long Term Parking area. - Please follow on site directions or signage accordingly.
- You will be given Camping Wristbands if Camping with us – please put these on immediately.
- You will be given a Camping Vehicle Pass- Please write on it Name, Registration and F1 2026. Display at all times.
- Please be Patient, Please be Good Humoured and Please Smile!
- Also, please Remain in your vehicle when you arrive, as we need you to move off to your pitch as soon as we can!
WHEN ON SITE!
- Drive Slowly. Ground uneven in places.
- Do have a look at the Campsite Map
- Ensure your Caravans are 6m and small tents are 4m apart to reduce fire risk.
- Do not camp under power lines Fire Safety Advice
- Take as much space as you need, but please don’t be greedy!
- DO NOT park on mowed access roads You will have to move if you do! – Fire trucks might need to get in…..
- Vehicles Must stay next to your pitch at all times unless you are leaving site completely.
- Toilet/Shower Blocks:
- Block One: Purpose built permanent Toilet & Shower Block between Fields 1 & 2.
- Block Two: Purpose built permanent Toilet & Shower Block edge of field of field 3
- Block Three: Middle of Electric Hook up – Temporary Toilet & Shower facilities in Field 4 In two locations.
- Block Four: In Staff/Trader Camping Field 6
- Additional ad-hoc toilets and showers in various locations.
- Water points in various locations – see map.
- USB charging points & Freezers @ Blocks 1 &2 Additional USB Charging points in Staff Camping Field 6.
- Electric Pitches – Please read the email about Electric Rules and information or ask at EHU Office.
- Leaving site will cause congestion. Stay on site unless you really do have to leave. There is food & small shop on site.
- Be aware that there are new One Way Systems in place on the Dadford Road (Generally in to Silverstone in the mornings and out from Silverstone in the afternoons)
- Please reduce the number & length of your showers – Don’t Shower at Peak Times – Shower early or overnight!
- ENJOY YOUR STAY AND VISIT TO SILVERSTONE & DRC
Extra Electric Hook up Specific Info
Hook Up FAQ
We have this guide to help you know what you’ll need:
Download info on Electric Hookups
We have provided additional and water point in the hook up area
Lost booking or need to Amend? – Find/Check/Amend my Electric Booking (Enter your Name & Booking Number)
Electric On: Wednesday 6pm onwards. You can set up on the electric pitches earlier – just no electric!
Electric Off: Monday 9am sharp
Toilets, Showers & Toilet Waste
Toilet/Shower Block is on the edge of the field near to the Electric Office.
On Arrival & Pitching on Electric Hook Up
- When you arrive you will be greeted at the main entrance, your booking will be checked and you will then need to proceed to the EHU Office
- En route to the EHU Office you may wish to fill your motor home water at shower block 2 on the left hand side of the track before you climb the hill to the Electric pitches.
- At the EHU Office please STOP & WAIT to be booked in. Please wait for instructions.
- Please note Electric booking in possible from 7am to 9pm only
- Whilst you can pick your own pitch, you MUST fill the Electric Pitches from the furthest point across in each Grid of Pitches – otherwise it is very difficult for later arrivals to manoeuvre into position. Do not leave Empty Pitches.
- Please note that not all Generators will run until Saturday as the site fills, so if you want electric you will need to pitch on the Electric Grids that are Live with Electric!
If you are unsure it’s probably best to ASK!. Wait at EHU Office as EHU staff may be busy helping others. - Fire Safety Advice is that ‘Live In’ Items (Caravan, Tent, Campervan etc) are NOT pitched side by side in case of gas bottle explosion or fire spread.
THIS IS IMPORTANT when you lay out your pitch. - You MUST Keep everything in your 7mx8m electric pitch. Extra cars can be parked elsewhere if needed. You MUST ask where to put these, they should be within 100m
- Filling up your Water – Please wheel water to your pitch once you have pitched it will not be possible to manoeuvre your van once you are pitched.
Please Arrive Full of Water, or if you really must…. please fill up as you arrive at the Second Toilet/Shower Block which you will pass en-route to the Electric Pitches. You need hosepipe to join the taps as we are not allowed to provide these.
STAY PARKED!
It is NOT POSSIBLE TO DRIVE PART WAY BACK FROM THE HOOK UP AREA.
You MUST REMAIN PARKED AT YOUR PITCH unless you are leaving site completely. Bring your Push Bike!
RACE DAY & GOING HOME!
- If you wish to leave site on Sunday Morning by vehicle – we suggest you leave BEFORE 7am. Silverstone Traffic Management have been known to make our entrance one way in only on Sunday morning.
- Remember all the people at Silverstone have arrived over the last SEVEN days. If they all go home after the F1 race…. it causes Silverstone Gridlock!! Happens every year…..on the main roads. Our Sunday back exit however has worked a dream for the last two years.
- ON SUNDAY STAY PARKED WHERE YOU CAMPED ALL DAY
- There is NO point in moving your vehicle, you will NOT get away quicker. You will just cause chaos and probably get away slower.
- The only exit on SUNDAY afternoon will be the temporary back exit. During these times you will NOT be able to exit the campsite via the main entrance due to one way systems. You will not be able to enter via the back exit. – You will have to come to the main entrance when one ways systems have ceased.
- Saturday afternoon exit may also be the same as Sunday exit above.
- Delay your departure to after 7pm on Sunday. You do not need to take your tent down or pack up in the morning – you can do that afterwards and delay leaving.
- Stay until Monday instead – No extra cost.
