The Formula 1 Grand Prix offered a great show to spectators this Sunday. Coming out of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, however, the atmosphere was quite different.
Several witnesses pressed our orange Alert Us button. The reason: they found themselves stuck in traffic for several hours. “We arrived at the car at 5:05 p.m. It’s 8:57 p.m. and now we’re just stepping out of the field. We paid 16 euros a day to be able to park. The two days were complicated. Friday and Saturday it was complicated, but today it was catastrophic. There are people who were fighting in the parking lot because they couldn’t take it anymore. We were left there without an explanation. We are still stuck there. We wait“, told us Geoffrey witness around 9 p.m.
Geoffrey sent us a video of the situation in the parking lot:
On Quentin’s side, the atmosphere was visibly calmer despite the long wait. “Around 5 p.m., when joining our vehicle in the parking lot, we were blocked for 4 hours. We do not know why. Luckily, people didn’t get upset. They waited, let’s say in a good mood, even if the last moments were a bit long for everyone. We had no explanation. No one came to tell us what. Now we are on the road and we follow very slowly. But we don’t know when we’ll get home“, Quentin explained to us shortly after 9 p.m.
We have received other similar testimonies. “A scandal at Francorchamps! Four hours to get out of a parking lot and still stopped in the same place!“, described Bruno to us. “Blocked since 5 p.m. in the Francorchamps car park“, Sylvie wrote to us at 8:40 p.m.
We tried to call the communication manager of the circuit, but she could not be reached.
100,000 people
This kind of problem at the end of the F1 Grand Prix at Spa occurs at each edition. Remember that about 100,000 people went there this year. Other Formula 1 circuits are experiencing the same kind of problem, sometimes more serious. This is for example the case at Silverstone, Barcelona, Budapest or even Monza.
On the sporting level, it was Max Verstappen (Red Bull) who won. Sergio Perez (Red Bull) and Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) took second and third place respectively.