230 miles north · Travel itemised
Full-size F1-style simulators and Batak reaction boards delivered to Newcastle and the North East from Silverstone. Every event is fully staffed and raced on one live leaderboard, with travel itemised on your quote.
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Delivery to Newcastle
£195
Travel charge, plus VAT
Newcastle is about 230 miles from our Silverstone base, roughly 4 hours by road. The first 100 miles are included, and the remaining 130 miles are charged at £1.50 a mile. That's £195 for the whole booking, however many simulators you take.
At this distance we'll usually travel up the day before, so we're set up and race-ready in good time. If that means a hotel, it's added at cost and confirmed on your quote.
Everything else stays the same: team, live leaderboard and 8 hours on site, setup included.
Local knowledge
The Tyne is an energy and engineering river again. The Port of Tyne runs operations and maintenance for the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm, with Siemens Energy, Baker Hughes and TechnipFMC in the cluster around it. Sage is headquartered in the city, the digital firms around Newcastle Helix have grown up alongside it, and the automotive supply chain runs down towards Sunderland, with both universities feeding the lot.
Out of that mix comes a calendar of supplier days, graduate recruitment events, awards dinners, exhibition stands and Christmas parties, all of them looking for something guests will queue for. A line-up of full-size simulators, everyone racing the same circuit on one live leaderboard, holds that crowd for as long as you’ll let it.
Newcastle’s a proper run from our Silverstone base, the A1(M) past Leeds, Scotch Corner and Durham with a loaded vehicle, so we plan the day backwards from your doors opening, and the earlier we see your access window the smoother it gets. A bigger line-up spreads the journey too, which is why most of our North East work is four simulators and up. You can see everywhere we cover on our simulator hire locations page.
Utilita Arena, beside the Tyne, has the floor for a serious line-up and the suites to run a gala dinner alongside it. St James’ Park hosts corporate days in suites seating several hundred with the pitch in view, and it’s the venue we’re asked about most here.
Across the river, The Glasshouse and Baltic give a conference or a product launch a backdrop that does half the work for you, and the load-in at both is straightforward.
Boiler Shop, built as part of Robert Stephenson’s locomotive works, and Wylam Brewery at the Palace of Arts in Exhibition Park both have the volume that suits a row of simulators.
Handsome and frequently listed, which in practice means narrow streets, restricted loading windows and the occasional flight of stairs. Tell us about lifts and kerbs and we’ll size the team around them. The Laing Art Gallery and the Royal Station Hotel suit smaller, smarter evenings.
What we bring north
Full-size single-seaters, up to 16 networked on one live leaderboard, all racing the same circuit. From £790 a day, the same rate in Newcastle as anywhere else.
F1-style simulator hire →
The reflex board F1 drivers train on. It fills a corner rather than a room, so it works well in an arena concourse or a stadium suite. From £450 a day.
Batak hire →
Seat decals, full wraps, in-game liveries and custom tracks start at £42 and are popular for supplier days and launches. All the options and 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.
Newcastle 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
Newcastle’s roughly 230 miles from our base at the Silverstone Innovation Centre. The first 100 miles are included in every price we publish, and the remaining 130 or so are charged at £1.50 a mile, shown as its own line on the quote. If the schedule needs our team on Tyneside the night before, hotels are added at cost. Travel’s charged once per event rather than per simulator, so the line is the same for two sims or twelve, and you’ll see both numbers on an itemised quote before you commit to anything.
Yes, given the floor space. All 16 F1-style simulators network together on one live leaderboard, and rooms like the arena floor beside the Tyne or the larger suites at St James’ Park have the volume for it. Each sim occupies roughly 1.61m by 0.6m, stands 1.42m tall and draws under 1kW, with one 13A socket running up to two sims, so power’s usually the easier half of the conversation. Setup takes around two hours once we’re through the door.
That depends on your venue access. If the room opens at 7am for a 9am start we’ll travel up the day before and stay locally, rather than leaving Silverstone in the small hours. If the room’s free the previous afternoon or evening, we can build then and be tested and ready overnight. Tell us the access window when you enquire and we’ll price the option that suits your running order.
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.