Ashton Gate Stadium
The largest events venue in the South West and the one we’re asked about most. The Lansdown Suite runs to around 1,000 theatre style and 850 for dinner, with level access and loading designed for match days.
97 miles from Silverstone · Delivery included
Racing Simulator Hire Bristol
Full-size F1-style simulators, GT sims and Batak delivered into Bristol venues and run by our team. Bristol sits just inside the edge of our included delivery radius.
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No travel charge
Bristol is about 97 miles from our Silverstone base, roughly 1 hour 45 by road and inside our included delivery.
Local knowledge
Three Bristols, one line-up
Bristol has a stronger reason to like racing simulators than most cities. Airbus has its UK base at Filton, Rolls-Royce civil aerospace sits alongside it, and the wider West of England cluster supports tens of thousands of engineering jobs. Put a force feedback wheel in front of that audience and the questions are about tyre models and telemetry, not whether it’s a video game.
The second Bristol we work for is financial and technical: Lloyds Banking Group, Hargreaves Lansdown and Computershare all run big operations here, with Graphcore, Ultraleap and OVO Energy in the cluster around them. That world books all-hands days, client hospitality and summer socials. Then there’s creative Bristol, the city of Aardman and the BBC Natural History Unit, which usually wants the sims wrapped so they look like part of the set.
Everything we bring lives at Silverstone Park in Northamptonshire. There’s no Bristol depot, and the city sits just inside the 100 miles of delivery included in every price. We cover Bath, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Swindon and Chippenham from the same door, and the full list is on our simulator hire locations page.
Aerospace Bristol, Patchway
Dinner under the wings of Concorde, seating up to 550 in the Concorde Gallery. The aerospace crowd who book it know exactly what a force feedback wheel is doing, and the venue has its own parking and a level route in.
The Passenger Shed, Brunel’s Old Station
Grade I listed and one of the biggest event spaces in the city, up to 650 for dinner. A hard-floored Victorian shed with height is close to an ideal simulator room, although its central location means unloading needs a plan.
Harbourside spaces
M Shed, We The Curious, the SS Great Britain and the converted warehouses around them. The rooms suit simulators well, but cobbles, pedestrian routes and short loading windows all shape the timings, so tell us early.
Bristol Beacon
Reopened in late 2023 after a £131m transformation, with spaces from a 200 capacity cellar up to the main hall. Foyers and reception areas suit a small set-up alongside a conference or an awards night.
Filton, Aztec West and the northern business parks
Where most of our Bristol corporate work lands. Atriums, staff restaurants and car park marquees for family days and summer socials, with their own parking, level access and plenty of sockets, which makes them the easiest build of the lot.
What we bring
Pick the kit for your Bristol event
F1-style Simulator Hire
Up to 16 full-size single-seaters race on one live leaderboard, and they’re popular with Bristol conferences, family days and awards nights. From £790 a day.
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Batak Hire
The reflex board F1 drivers train on. It takes almost no floor space, so it suits a tight harbourside room. From £450 a day.
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Branded Simulator Hire
Seat decals, full wraps, in-game liveries and custom tracks, from £42. Put a Bristol brand on the car and the circuit. All the prices are on our branding page.
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Our team
runs the experience
We don't just drop off and disappear. Our team delivers, builds, welcomes your guests, runs the racing and packs down at the end.
We're here for you, and if there's anything we can do to make your event special, don't hesitate to ask.
Got a Bristol date in mind?
Tell us the basics and we'll come back with an itemised quote within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.
Bristol pricing
List prices, delivery included
| Simulators | Per day |
|---|---|
| 1 F1-style simulator | £790 |
| 6 F1-style simulators | £2,330 |
| Each extra sim, up to 16 | £375 |
All prices exclude VAT. GT sims are £840 for one, £940 for two, and Batak is £450 a day.
Every Bristol booking includes
- Full team, setup to pack-down
- Live leaderboard across every sim
- 8 hours on site, setup included
- Subsequent days discounted 25%
Local questions
Asked about Bristol events
Is Bristol inside your included delivery area?
Yes, with about three miles to spare. Delivery’s included within 100 miles of Silverstone and Bristol sits at roughly 97 miles by road, so there’s no travel charge on a Bristol quote. Carry on into the wider South West and that changes: Weston-super-Mare, Taunton, Exeter and Cardiff all sit beyond the line, and past 100 miles the extra miles are charged at £1.50 each, itemised on your quote.
How early can you set up at a Bristol venue?
Setup takes around two hours once we’re through the door, and the drive from Silverstone is close to an hour and three quarters on a clear run. For a morning start that usually means an early departure and an arrival before your venue wakes up, which is normal for us. If the room isn’t released early enough to finish the build before guests arrive, an overnight stay can be the sensible answer, and hotels go on the quote at cost.
What access do you need for a harbourside or city centre venue?
Somewhere legal to unload and a sensible route to the room. Our delivery vehicle is 6.9m long, so a loading bay beats a cobbled quayside with a pedestrian route across it. Each simulator needs roughly 1.61m by 0.6m of floor, with one 13A socket running two sims. Tell us about stairs, lifts and loading windows before we quote, because they decide the team size and the timings for the whole day.
2 hours
Typical setup time
13A socket
One runs two sims
125cm+
Adjustable fits
100 miles
Delivery included from Silverstone
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Get your Bristol quote
Send this and you'll have an itemised quote within 24 hours, Monday to Friday. Prefer to talk? Call 01327 856155 or email sales@virtuallyentertained.com.