Belgian F1 GP canceled due to rain: lottery hypothesis but no ticket refunds

After the rain, collected in buckets in the stands of Spa, another cold shower is coming for the spectators of the Belgian F1 GP 2021. In fact, the organizers of the event would not have planned any refund of the price of the tickets, despite the terrible show offered on that August 29, 2021 by Formula 1, in a day of trepidation that brought the category to touch one of the lowest points of its own. history.

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To report the indiscretion is the well-informed British webmagazine RaceFans, according to which the managers of the Ardennes racetrack – in recent weeks also affected by expensive modernization and renovation works concerning both the track (Eau Rouge curve included) and the infrastructures – they would have responded negatively to the letters of the unfortunate holders of a seat in the stands requesting a financial refund. The promoters of the Belgian GP, ​​on the other hand, would be studying a sort of lottery, the registration procedures of which will be communicated in the next few days, to raffle 170 accesses to the circuit on the occasion of the 2022 edition of the historic Formula 1 race.

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The available seats would be divided into 20 “Vip”, 50 “Gold” and 100 “Silver” tickets, usable in some cases for the entire weekend and in others for the single day of Sunday 28 August, the date on which the Belgian GP 2022. There would also be an annual subscription to F1TV, the streaming service provided by Formula 1 to follow the GPs, but which in some countries including Italy is not available in all its functions, and the possibility of attend an unspecified “exclusive event” to be held on Thursday 25 August. Certainly not what the fans would have expected, considering that the ticket office had sold something like 70,000 tickets.

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All in the silence of the organizers of the F1 World Championship who, in the days immediately following the flood in Spa, had announced via social network that they were working on “different options for ticket holders, in order to express their gratitude and thank them for their passion. “. And if a direct intervention by the company led by Stefano Domenicali is not to be excluded, for the moment the disappointment of the fans and the sensational media own goal following that “non-GP” in Belgium, which ended three laps behind the Safety Car afterwards, is understandable. a break of more than three hours. Especially the fans in the stands, who paid out hundreds of euros collecting only rain and mud, in a day that will pass in the archives anyway, like that of the shortest GP ever.