Magny Cours - World Class Facility?

I read somewhere that the French Grand Prix circuit at Magny Cours is a world class facility, the best in the world. I don't think so! Well, if that is the case then I'd hate to see what the others are like.

Here are a 10 reasons why you should never go to the French Formula 1 Grand Prix.

1. There is no public transport. They might have some shuttle buses organised but it is no where near enough to lighten the traffic.

2. If you choose to sleep in your car or in a tent, seeing there are not enough hotels to go around, then be warned, the toilets are FILTHY. Filthy to a point of being unusable. I almost vomited just walking by them let alone going inside. Not to mention no toilet paper and soap.

3. No showers in the car park/camping area. I think some areas did have showers but not at the Parking Sud. I can imagine the showers that are there are pretty disgusting anyway so who'd want to use them.

4. Poor quality food. The only food available are crappy baguettes, chips, and sausages. Pretty disgusting.

5. Ridiculously expensive food and drinks. 6 euros for a baguette, 4.50 for chips, and worst of all 4 euros for 500mL of water. There are taps around the circuit but some of them smelt of urine!

6. Disgusting toilet facilities. I know there are a lot of people at the event but still. Why weren't there cleaners working not stop? I went to the toilet first thing in the morning and there was no toilet paper or soap. Some of the doors didn't have locks on them. There were some other toilets near Tribune K which had toilet paper but still no soap. Not to mention the disgusting urinals which were out in the open. Who wants to see, and smell, men standing around against this thing peeing? Weren't they embarrassed to go in front of thousands of people? Plus there was clearing no chance of washing their hands afterwards.

7. No soap anywhere. I can understand that they might run out of soap at the end of the day but there wasn't any to start with. This was just another reason not to eat anything as how did the people wash their hands if there was no soap in the toilets? I won't be eating that food, that's for sure.

8. Not enough shade and seating. The race is held in the middle of summer and so was pretty hot. There were lots of grassed areas but not many trees for shade. People were burnt to a crisp. I couldn't believe how red some were. Have they heard of skin cancer? They should have had the Red Cross or someone giving out free sunscreen. It was really dangerous and some people would have been quite unwell afterwards. There weren't many places to sit either as the grass wasn't in very good condition.

9. Cars getting blocked in. The organisers in the car park told people to park behind my car meaning I couldn't get out until they left. What if I had to leave early? That was unacceptable.

10. A 3 hour wait to get out of the car park. There was one exit from the car park for at least 20,000 cars. How can that be? Plus they only let one row leave at a time so if you were at the end you were looking at a 4 hour wait, at least. I got out in 2 and a half hours by going around the back of the paddock and crossing a ditch. I pity the poor people who continued to wait in the queue.

Overall the facilities were very poor and the organisation was very poor. The tickets were very expensive but you don't get much for your money. I'll never go again.