The 10 weirdest tracks F1 has raced on 

wasn't the reason to protest something happening in Italy at the time? I don't think it was related to how dangerous the track was, I heard that was just a myth

He'd rather do this because he knew peoples would surely die in his cars again

Lol i live near Pescara

What was he supposed to do? Not replace a deceased driver?

GT Sunny D the point was the coldness behind it and the fact he made no attempt to improve safety

@@kuckoo9036 Yeah, I got the idea. I was just taking the piss

"And over there, you can see a wild racing circuit in his natural habitat"

WRC: let me introduce myself

The Nurburgring lies in a weak economic area of Germany and it's construction was a government program to get people into employment

Naturally-occuring racing circuits? Sounds like Baja

Wusste nicht, dass du F1 Fan bist. 👀

Main entrance ? Berlin has 6 Autobah-Connections, is it the most used ? I would like to know

@@SirUnleashedFTW One of the most important german Autobahn, the "A2", which connects west and east germany leads into the Berliner Ring "A10" . If you drive to Berlin from anywhere west of Berlin there's a good chance you'll take this route and come by the old Avus track.

@@Leon-pb4nt naja er hat mal ein Lets Play zu Motorsport Manager gemacht

Clemens? Hätte nicht gedacht dass ich dich hier wiedersehe haha

Hello you, love your content.

Wonder if there are games that let us drive modern cars on these circuits

@@ComputerBladet rFactor 1 have quite a lot of these odd tracks. Might be the closest you can get. Assetto Corsa, while having a great modding scene, doesn't have the amount of obscurity as rF1 has.

@@ComputerBladet There are! Assetto Corsa has mods where you can do it

I don't know why they don't just put old tracks in the games. Perhaps it would give the Devs too much to do.

they ruined hockenheim

It wasn't. Almost flat out for all the track and only a couple of chicanes in the fast section, the current configuration is harder, more technical and produces better racing.

@@Kale050 I agree, but there wasn't much choice unfortunately

@@felid.769 sooo does it make it also an almost oval as well? I mean the old version

@@felid.769 Wrong! People only say that because any overtakes in the forest were often unseen by spectators It wasn't the best for spectators but the racing was always competitive and when it rained it got really fun because the plethora of trees in the forest meant the track often would get fully wet even in heavy rain . The stadium section was also a challenge when teams ran lower downforce wings with drivers fighting the car to keep the car on track in qualifying.

Katsuki Bakugou Oh those days will be back eventually, guaranteed. F1 was bending over backwards for Ferrari up until about 10yrs ago. Since the new ownership took over Ferrari has been constantly pushing the limits and its backfired causing the them to not have the greatest relationship well if Ferrari continues to not be able to manipulate they’ll start doing their usually deal where they threaten to leave which could cause the new owners to appease them (tho I doubt it bc in America it’s always been viewed as distasteful how much Ferrari has gotten away with and with their “favoritism” treatment by always being the beneficiary of F1’s corruption).

Just like how party modes have just been banned when ferrari have a rubbish engine and are now struggling to keep up. Ferrari International Aid strikes again

Nice catch, this one :D

@@Tommy2shoe811 oh yeah, its the fia who has an eye for ferrari, definitely not ferraris management or staff that has limited them, and they wont threaten to leave the sport because its in their dna.

@@stevenrobinson3725 they were banned to see if they could slow mercedes. try looking at their pace for once, and youll know what i mean.

I've seen plenty of people on Reddit asking F1 to drop it.

It has always been my favorite Grand Prix on the schedule. I would hate to see it go, but it would be very doubtful that they would ever drop it from the schedule.

@@Joe_Okey I am sorry, but I found your second sentence confusing.

@@TheInkPitOx I meant that if they ever dropped it from the schedule, I would be unhappy about it. Also, I doubt whether they ever would remove it as it has become such a huge part of F1 racing now.

@@Joe_Okey Ok

In other words, more merc domination 😂😂

And Ferrari would probably be all the way at the back and out of DRS range of any cars in front by the time DRS is enabled

the amount of smoke that will be blown from the engines could be more dangerous than covid-19

Ferrari with the cheaty engine probably would have loved that place 😅🤣😂

Lol

I've lived in DFW my entire life. I am 44 and have vague memories of seeing the advertisements for the race. For the longest time, i thought it went through downtown, but driving the areas today that were used as part of the circuit are baffling knowing all the potholes that are there!

Nah you ain't the only one, it's actually a good track

@@vyasponnuri3375 what's your favourite part of the layout?

@@SiVlog1989 actually the whole track

Yeah I liked it too

In my opinion it creates some of the best racing that there is.

I know the game. the EXACT one.

@@Catcrumbs probably F1 94 if it exists

@@jorge8596 You mean Psygnosis' first F1 game? It was only called that and released in 1996, but featured the 1995 season.

@@Catcrumbs it was 'formula 1' by psygnosis on ps1. It was from the 1995 season but the canada track modifications were still in place that year...

@@jorge8596 they were showing 'formula 1' by psygnosis on the PS1 which is from the 1995 season although Geoff Crammond Grand Prix 2 on PC follows the 1994 season...

The modern Mexico track goes through a former baseball stadium, so in behalf of all Mexicans.... Dude, uncool

When did Indycar use a hillclimb

@@gamerageandhobbyrcdu Back in the 60s they ran non-championship races at the Pikes Peak hillclimb.

@@gamerageandhobbyrcdu that sounds like an absolute nightmare

@@botigamer9011 oversimplifed reference

Yeah I mean p-17

yikes, savage!

Lucky there was no crowd at monza today... Would have been a riot.

You are joking, but in the late 1930's streamliners were passing each other at 380km/h on Avus, and no one knows what their top speed in slipstream was, because they could only measure speed by timing a section of the track.

That just make it even funnier, but i hope Ferrari gets well soon.

@dein Pech mein Glueck You mean... pre-broadcast times?

Same

I don't think you'd miss it anymore if you got to see what a race there today would look like.

Old Hockenhein require : 20% Driving Skill 80% Engine Power/Reliability

@dein Pech mein Glueck That's why I asked if you mean pre-broadcast. Because by the time the races were shown on TV, there were tv cameras around the track and the race shown on big screens. So unless the grandstand at the first chicane(I think the only grandstand for spectators in the forest) didn't have one, you could see everything happening.

That banking at high speeds would shake the cars apart.

*Indi 2005 flashbacks*

@@Arthurzeiro Pirelli need to up their game

well it certainly is fun to drive in a sim, that's for sure

ArthurAlcantara they need to fix the banking to make that suitable. If they fixed that, maybe we’ll also see Indycar at Monza one day.

You must have gotten lost, they said weird tracks, not freaking amazing tracks. :D

The historic Charade was 8K. The modern Charade is just below 4K, but still a heck of fun to drive.

Montjuic as well

bremgarten

No wonder people call it “The French Nurburgring”.

Assetto Corsa has it

And project cars 2

Project cars 2 has it as well

@@redking8274 I said that lol

BList Asseto corza it's on there

They grow up so fast.

I believe WTF1 said something similar, something along the lines of "Pescara is so insane that it makes the Nordschleife look like Shanghai!"

That's why it's gone for good.

Brands Hatch has claimed more fatal crashes, then most of tracks of today's season. With 56 fatalities, during races.. Spa (which was a embarrassing show this year) is also high on the list. As is Monza..

Yeah, valencia was awesome

European GP was awseome

No

I mean I Guess it’s just ok it feels a little forgettable

The races, except the one Fernando won, were very boring. To drive on a circuit on which you cant overtake with cars which are very difficult to overtake with, is just dumb

NO AVUS is the best TRACK in the world all circuit should be based off it

Miami's proposed F1 track seems to have taken some inspiration from it. Viet Nam also.

Racing went on until the late 1990s.

avus kinda looks like luigi's circuit from mario kart :P

@@shoukonya4257 Yeah It Kind Looks Like Luigi's Circuit From Mario Kart 64.

Except Eddie Irvine isn't English!!!

@@mattpotter8725 He didn't say Eddie. He said Sheddie. Who IS English.

I understood that referrance

I almost knew someone would mention the shed boi

shack villeneuve

@Gary Garratt There is a spectacle to the whole weekend that I hope we never lose, as well as a storied history that in my opinion, is worth returning to every year for that alone. It clearly still means something to the drivers too, if Danny Ric's Monaco Crusade is anything to go by.

Monaco is lifting F1 racing from just driving a car on an asfalt track to giving the race a beauty, a soul and a human touch.

Formula E cars around there are really cool to watch. Certainly more exciting than F1

@@biketheperson6919 Yeah the FE race there at the full circuit was fuckin pure fire.

If the track was wider, I would agree with this idea. As it stands, qualifying is a substitute for race day, in most cases, and the majority of the overtaking happens during the pit cycle. Azerbaijan is a much better road circuit imo because there's still a few decent places to overtake that aren't on the straights, and it doesn't feel like you're trying to rotate the car while standing still.

renault's dream

Ferrari’s nightmare

Haas nightmare

Avus doesn't exist anymore, they stopped racing there after a death in Dtm in the 90's

@@michiadams AVUS still is one of the main motorways to get into the South of Berlin. It's a simple, straight 10km road. The banking is gone, but it's still very much usable. Source: I've been on the AVUS every day I drove to university.

Yes yes. Truly weird track.

I freaking hate that track in F1 2020

The proposed newer track in Miami looks wildly different to say the least!! wonder what the drivers will think of it

There will never ne an F1 race there again, but I'd love to see IndyCar go there. Can't be more dangerous than a street circuit.

Ricardo Tomo is a great circuit

And cars could literally fall straight into the harbor

The old Spa circuit had a high speed kink between two houses so if drivers crashed there they would likely kill several people.

​@@skyscall theres still a point where in case rescuers in scuba gear standby there

And he didn't mention that?

And one year a number of cars were literally knocked out of the race when a large wave broke on the circuit and made it too wet!

That chicane was actually built for the bikes a year earlier but no-one talks about that

Most of the changes to tracks forced by the FIA after Senna & Ratzenbergers deaths ruined tracks. Tamburello didnt need a chicane, it needed a gravel trap and a tyre wall. Same goes for the 2nd to last corner at Barcelona. Those temporary tyre chicanes were a knee jerk reaction, but one that was understandable at the time.

@@npc310177 Isn't the issue with Tamburello that there's nowhere to extend the run-off - unless you want to end up in the river.

@@npc310177 Tamburello obviously needed a chicane, no question there.

and long, 15 km.

Still the best track

The remark about the sharp left turn at Eau Rouge, that was mentioned as "Used only once", was not entirely correct. In the pre-WWII layout (30's) the cars would make a sharp left turn at Eau Rouge to go up to 'L'Ancienne Douane' (a hairpin turn that is still there) and then further up to Kemmel straight. ;)

I don't recall any.

Even after the safety concern, the practical problem with the circuit crossing over itself in de driving direction is that it results in way too many right corners, especially with the old Ascari. The circuit in the video has 6 very long right turns and only 1 left kink. It would be near impossible with the modern tyres to race there due to wear.

Yeah, the design of the Astroturf is very odd ^^ But i actually quite like the circuit, its unfortunate it has produced only boring races so far.

kaMos *CS:GO* I think it would be a great circuit if it had some kerbs and some grass

The thing is that Paul Ricard is actually a great track. But they ruined it by replacing the grass and the gravel by more concrete with flashy sticky rubbons... it got absolutly ruined. It's like putting these terrible things at Monza...

Its a testing track and should have stayed a testing track, as a race track its awful

I like the look of paul ricard's runoff

They use it in WRC

They still use it but for some motorsport shows and tourists.

And both were a disgrace to f1

If they had used the Belle Isle Circuit that Indy use itd be pretty good

@@someguy5487 And let's not even mention Phoenix!!!

Basically all USA street circuits for F1 from 1981-1991 (except Long Beach) were trash (Said someone who likes Phoenix lol)

Everyone has to go there one day, it must be staggering to be there in person watching the cars fly by at nearly two hundred miles an hour down the main straight...

Las Vegas was a high speed autocross.

I swear the only reason it's still on the calendar is because of it's history.

The scenes

Narrow, bumpy, L-shaped, no stands for the spectators. Should have been on the list imho.

IIRC he hit the barrier and damaged his car, and said that the barrier must have moved as he was driving exactly the same line on every lap. At first the team didn't believe him, but he was so insistent that they went out and measured it and found he was correct!

@@RJSRdg That’s exactly how I originally heard it

Case in point, Monaco.

Yes, the old Hockenheimring was definitely unique, but it never got really good racing. Most of the track is basically flat out with 2-3 chicanes just to make unnatural overtake opportunities. The new layout in my eyes does not just only provide better racing in general, it is actually much harder to master it with much more corners. Also, I am not sure if the aspect with "It can rain on one side and be dry on the other side" is really a good one. Yes, it is definitely more likely than on a compressed circuit, but even then: Is it not a bit sad that most races at a track like that only got exciting because of the rain? I am not sure. Rain in general makes more interesting racing, not just at the old Hockenheimring. The Southkorean GP is actually quite a nice track. It feels a bit weird to be honest with three big straights literally in a row and then this huge and hard 2nd and 3rd sector where you cannot really overtake without a 2-3 second time advantage, but it actually has quite a nice flow. Also, the races there were quite likely to have weird weather, because of the geographics. It´s interesting and decent, but also a bit awkward. I am not sure If I would put into the Top 10 though.

Ur mad the old Hockenheim is nothing special its just a super long dragstrip, the newer one has more characteristics and soul

@@Rocky712_ Regarding the Korean GP, we're in total agreement. Regarding Old Hockenheim, I think one needs to look at it in the context of other circuits on the calendar to truly appreciate its uniqueness. Whether one loved its layout or not, one cannot argue that it wasn't a unique challenge. For the F1 calendar in general, having these curve-ball circuits is a good thing. It mixes up the pack too. For example cars which usually did not do well because they had bad downforce but in turn had a powerful engine, used to look forward to Hockenheim as they often scored valuable points there.

@@jwork5680 Get out of here Tilke!

@@TeemoQuinton lol nice joke

same

It's still there, you mean the endurance version?

@@nickkarion Sakhir GP, a variation of the Bahrain Circuit. 3.5km track length with lap times of under a minute. Was not in 2021 calendar.

Oh, the oval one, I doubt it will come back but it gave us a memorable race, if only Russell wasn't knocked out by his own pit crew

For real. No banking, tight turns, definitely not an oval.

It's more like Pocono Speedway. Pocono is also called the tricky triangle. And now I want to see an F1 race there.

@@jeremymenchaca Pocono is an actual oval tho (tri oval but still)

It's more challenging, but the problem was that overtaking was not promoted through that configuration, so many spectators found it to boring. For me it's not the best track i've ever seen and i like the normal layout more, but still i find it more interresting than tracks like Abu Dhabi or Sochi

It's definitely more a track for exciting qualifying than exciting racing.

The sponsors like it and that's why it's still there.

absolutely, david. a track where the race is mostly won in qualifying makes very little sense.

@@russell2165 Though it is possible to overtake at Monaco - as there were a number of overtakes in this year's Historic and Formula E races. However modern F1 cars have really become too wide. The addition of the swimming pool section, the Nouvelle Chicane and the sharpening of Ste Devote probably don't help much either.

I miss the old Long Beach street circuit. The turn on to Pine must have been breathtaking.

Heidfeld wasn't going full tilt. open that F1 car up and the fastest lap record of today wouldn't have ever been set... with the downforce and lateral g capabilities of an F1 car would have put the heidfled lap into the sub 5 minute range... even in 2007.

its very old structure, i would only plant there flowers... better to build a new track than restore that, probably cheaper too

Monza rally use the bankings if I remember correctly

@@AgentH8voc I think they drive on the apron for the rally for one lap.

It wasn’t that great.

It had a nice layout. I think the problem was, that in one year there were zero overtakes throughout the Grand Prix and that Ricardo Tormo is not to far away, which made the streetcircuit idea pointless

The problem was that the politicians who made this circuit were not re-elected, after taking our money with the excuse of America’s cup, F1 circuit and a lot of other stupid things.

There were no overtakes in the 2009 race!

That layout was designed by Juan Manuel Fangio.

really? i loved that track

that track was a joke

@@Sem5626 Apparently Fangio had a predilection for twisted circuits and he designed that part of the track back in the 50's when it was built.

@@AlonsoRules Unfortunately the contract for the new era of the Argentinean Grand Prix was signed a few months after Senna's death back in 1994. The original idea was to use the same layout used during the 70's with the two long back straights around the lake but the FIA forced the promoters to use this small twisted layout for safety reasons.

Interesting programme, but, Tony Brooks won at AVUS in a Ferrari, not a Vanwall.

It's just bits of discarded rubber that is off the racing line and has been picked up after the race is over to help increase the weight of the car for final weigh in. The tires run very hot and make them very sticky, so it is quite easy to collect some of the debris. It's quite normal. Check it out next time you watch a race and they are parking up, the wheels always look like crap.