65 miles from Silverstone · Delivery included
Full-size F1-style simulators, GT sims and Batak delivered into Cambridge colleges, science parks and conference centres, all racing on one live leaderboard and run by our team.
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Cambridge is about 65 miles from our Silverstone base, roughly 1 hour 30 by road and inside our included delivery.
Local knowledge
Cambridge asks for simulators for reasons that are particular to Cambridge. The working population here is concentrated in research and technology, the cluster of software, semiconductor and life science companies people still call Silicon Fen. AstraZeneca runs its global research and development centre on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Arm sits on the south side of the city, and there are science parks in every direction, each with its own calendar of conferences, open days and recruitment evenings.
That audience shapes what we get booked for: recruitment stands that need a reason for people to stop walking, conference sponsorship where a client wants their name on something guests will queue for, team socials for R and D groups who’ve spent six months on the same problem, and Christmas parties in college halls. A lap time’s a number, and Cambridge is full of people who won’t let a number stand.
The old city takes a little planning. Vehicle access to the historic centre is controlled by rising bollards and camera-enforced gates, so college and city centre load-ins usually happen first thing or in the evening, around your venue’s permit window. Flight cases roll easily on a science park floor and badly on gravel or cobbles, so tell us the route and we’ll bring the right size of team for it.
Cambridge Science Park has its own events space at the Trinity Centre and takes a full line-up without fuss. Granta Park, Babraham and the Wellcome Genome Campus at Hinxton have level access, wide doors and car parks, among the easiest venues we work in anywhere.
Duxford, about nine miles south, is the venue people remember. A hangar full of aircraft is an unusually good place to park a row of F1-style simulators. Newmarket Racecourse suits the larger hospitality days.
College halls and courts host formal dinners, alumni events and summer parties in rooms built centuries before anyone thought about load-in routes. The Corn Exchange and the Guildhall take the bigger parties.
Madingley Hall, out on the western edge, handles away days and weddings in parkland. Older buildings sometimes mean a longer carry or a flight of stairs, which just changes the team size we bring.
Racing at a venue we haven’t named? Tell us the room
Cambridge is one stop on a delivery map that reaches most of England from Silverstone. See every city we cover on our simulator hire locations page.
The line-up
Up to 16 full-size single-seaters race on one live leaderboard, and they work as well in a science park atrium as in a college hall. From £790 a day.
F1-style simulator hire →
The reaction board F1 drivers train on. It takes almost no floor, handy when a conference room is already full of stands. From £450 a day.
Batak hire →
Seat decals from £42 through to full wraps and in-game liveries are popular with launches and recruitment stands, and all the prices are on our branding page.
Branding options →We're here to make the racing a highlight
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.
Tell us the basics and we'll come back with an itemised quote within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.
Cambridge pricing
| 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.
Local questions
No. Cambridge is about 65 miles from our base at the Silverstone Innovation Centre, up the A43 to Kettering and then the A14 east through Huntingdon. That puts the whole city and the science parks around it inside the 100 miles of delivery included in every price, so there’s no mileage on a Cambridge quote and no overnight to pay for. The extras that might apply are a £300 charge if your event finishes after 10pm and 10% per hour for extended hours, both on your quote before you book.
Yes, with some planning: vehicle access to the historic centre is controlled by rising bollards and camera-enforced gates, so we normally load in early in the morning or in the evening around your venue permit, and setup takes about two hours. Tell us where our 6.9m vehicle can legally stand, how far the carry is from the tailgate to the room, and whether it crosses gravel, cobbles or stairs. None of that’s a problem when we know first; it changes the team size we bring, not the price you were quoted. One 13A socket runs two sims, and in an older building we’ll check how many sockets share a ring before we plan the layout.
More than most planners expect. Each simulator occupies roughly 1.61m by 0.6m of floor and stands 1.42m tall, so six sit comfortably along one wall of a decent atrium with room to queue and watch. Up to 16 F1-style simulators can race together on a single live leaderboard when the space allows. Send us a floor plan, or even a photo of the space, and we’ll tell you the realistic number.
2 hours
Typical setup time
13A socket
One runs two sims
125cm+
Adjustable fits
100 miles
Delivery included from Silverstone
Enquire
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.