So I'll apologise first, just got back from a European track day planning session at the local Pizza Express and I have consumed a lot of Peroni ead:. Anyway to the point, it has been suggested that we go to Mugello next year for the Moto GP and having never been to Italy, I have no idea where to fly into or where to stay. I would greatly appreciate being able to benefit from other peoples' experience. I'm happy to drive so don't need to be on the doorstep of the track and if I pay for things whilst I'm still in work, the budget isn't a prime concern. I would like to stay somewhere pleasant and friendly.where the food is good and the beer is plenty. Andy
Hi android went this year camped at track had a great time party party party I will be going next year to
Thanks for that but at 62 these bones don't do camping any more and I also have to consider my girlfriend's 17 year old daughter. If it dosen't have electricity for the phone charger and heated hair straighteners, I'd be toast ! Andy
Honestly, Mugello is a shit place for hair dryers and nail polish. It's total bedlam and all the better for it! 100% camp at the track. Fly to Florence/Firenze. Would take *hours* to move a few miles in a car on race day, the circuit is down some poxy country lane. Honestly I'd choose a different circuit for your criteria. Misano's easy, nice pleasant principality with good connecting roads and lots of good nearby towns with lots of cheap and otherwise hotels and B&BS, right near nice beaches too. No one sleeps at Mugello
We rode to Mugello. Friends dad had a place out there so we stayed there. Pissed it down race day so we didn't bother leaving the house. Hot tub and TV instead. Was still worth the ride just for the adventure.
Saturday night's (all night) mayhem has to be seen to be believed... Italian-English translation: Mugello - An enclosed open air looney asylum surrounded by ad-hoc bars, cars used as barbeques, chainsaws, and fire-breathing engines 'exploding' and/or generating noxious smoke stacks, all encircling a sunken race track. Never seen so many thousand yard stares on a race day.
One of the best MotoGP places I have ever been to, if you stay in Florence and rent a bike its a nice ride to the track but leaving after the race is hard work. People were riding through fields and trees trying to get out !
it is the ultimate Moto GP experiences IMO, you have to experience it once if you follow MotoGP, as there have said it is completely bonkers. Fly into Pisa, Florence or Bologna and be prepared to take a long time getting out of the immediate circuit area, the best thing is to go to the circuit on the sat and plan your parking and escape route out, we did this last year and it wasn't too bad but we did have a couple of coffee's and did our shopping before we wandered out. If you are expecting a quick getaway you will be disappointed, just treat it as part of the experience. Last year we camped at camping mugello verde but have rented chalets here before (this should tick your boxes), there is a swimming pool, restaurant and bar etc. it's close to the circuit but too far to walk (8 miles if I remember) but I do t think there is anything closer.
Is there camping at the circuit ? The Mugello web site is rudimentary and I could not find any mention of it although there is a link to Mugello Verde. Considering renting an RV like we did for Laguns Seca which worked really well. Andy
There is loads of camping at the circuit and from what I have been told it can be as mild or wild as you want, be aware that wherever you are you wont sleep much. As others have said there is one big party, if you go in on the Sunday morning expect to see burnt out mopeds, engines revving in frames and people staggering around like zombies When we were there we came across a roadblock staffed by the undead, the only way past was to rev your engine! I have photos of a car engine in a frame that was running all day and all night on the rev limiter, it had bundy pipes tapped into the inlet manifolds and brazed into a funnel, all sorts was being poured into the engine ranging from beer to petrol and everything in between. How it kept going I never know - I will post some photos when I get home later tonight. The track invasion after the race was brilliant, the start finish straight was packed and everyone was chanting 'Rossi', I got the feeling that they weren't going he until he had addressed the crowd. That was last year and he didn't even get a podium, i can't imagine how I would have felt if I had a podium finish and the crowd just wanted to see someone else. It sounds awful but we never felt uncomfortable there and I would take kids.
Ah yeah, the roads from Faenza and Forli to Florence are friggin awesome... Best do two 'laps' of each or a loop incorporating both, both ways!
Lovely mate, say hello from 'AD'. Yes bro they fight, swear, talk shit about politics-and-everything-else it seems - pretty cool eh?
