How accessible is the festival village for someone with mobility issues?
Within the festival village on the Grandstand side, tarmac paths link-up many of the venues and the exclusion of all but essential operational and emergency vehicles make the roadways pretty quiet. Access to some parts of this part of the festival village is still across grass and whilst not much of this could be described as perfectly manicured lawns it is by and large fairly well maintained ground and generally not too rough. From this part of the tented village a long and fairly steep tarmac slope runs up to the top end of the grandstand. It can be negotiated by wheelchair, but a rest part way can be welcome depending on levels of stamina and strength! If preferable a longer, but gentler, route can be navigated by skirting around the external car-parks (from the ticket office gate to the Hall of Fame entrance). The other part of the tented village (and the campsite areas) are pretty level but all on grass and lie on the other side of the Racetrack in what we call the centre course.
