The BEST & WORST Abandoned F1 Tracks 

@4:56. If you just let the clip play a little longer you’d see James Hunt punching Dave Morgan to the ground after the last corner shunt

I want Istanbul, Malaysia and Hockenheim back!!😭😭😭

Vietnamese here, ill give you update on the track, basically the government have taken down everything, to my knowledge there is no racing there anymore, all that is left is a ghost grand stand at the finish line and a ghost pit lane

Fun fact?: Helmut Marko lost his eye in charade after a rock went through his visor into his eye.

If Valencia is C tier then Monaco is quintuple Z bottom tier.

As a Bottas suporter since his Williams days I miss Sochi, dude channeled his inner Hakkinen there.

I'm so glad Vietnam didn't happen. That track PISSED ME OFF in f12020

AVUS and that epic "Wall of Death" as it was called back in the day.

Ranking a track with Zero on track overtakes a C is an insane take. That should be banished to an F- tier

Wish we could get Malaysia , Istanbul, Kyalami , Nurburgring GP layout , Fuji and Hockenheim back

I wouldn't mind if the calendar would only consist of Melbourne, Monza, Monaco, Spa, Silverstone, Old hockenheim, Old nurburgring, Magny Cours, Brazil and Suzuka.

Fun fact: Russian GP was supposed to be moved from Sochi to Igora Drive in St. Petersburg in 2023 but due to the obvious reasons that didn't happen.

Valencia was abysmal as a racing track, but it had the great 2012 race. Again showing that a poor track can also sometimes produce something special, the conditions just have to be right. Oh, and Crystal Palace and Reims are/were great in Grand Prix Legends. The former for F2 or 65 mod stuff, and the latter for the original 67 cars with slipstreaming and speeds up to 330 kph.

Charade might not be used in F1 anymore but it is still being driven and maintained and a really cool track to drive with a classic car.

I went to Valencia in 2008. When we got to our numbered grandstand, lots of fans couldn't find their seats. They just weren't there. Apparently when the grandstand was erected and after the seats were bolted into place and numbered, someone realised there wasn't a gangway in the middle. They removed a swathe of seats but didn't re-number the remaining ones. The unlucky fans were told that the stewards knew about this and directed them to another grandstand where they would find seats. After about half-an-hour they all trooped back as there were no other seats so they sat on the steps where their seats would have been. Understandably the stewards weren't happy for health & safety reasons but the fans stayed put and we had to negotiate our way round them. Later, I walked miles to the merchandise area but was told only those fans with seats opposite the pits had access. As you can imagine the stall holders were furious. It was sorted by race day but by then I CBA to go back. I never went again.

Reims-Gueux (three straights) : nothing interesting 😑 AVUS (two straights) : look at this bad boy 😍 looks so difficult 😮‍💨

Dallas was also the track that Martin Brundle nearly tore his left foot off at just 8 races into his career.

At the French Grand Prix of 1972 those volcanic rocks littering the track affected the race. First, Helmut Marko (the director of Red Bull today) had one of them fly into his face which blinded him in one eye and then later on Chris Amon, who was leading the race by some distance, got a puncture after running over a rock and ended up third....costing him a well deserved maiden win.

It's a real shame that F1 never got to race in Hanoi, would have been interesting to see how it raced.

I have been waiting for this vid from some time now from other creators!!! U actually are underrated and amazing

that clip of norris going off at sochi will forever scar my memory.

7:42 as a Texan, I can confirm that it’s regularly in the 90s-100s in the summer. But hey, it’s still cold, even in March!

excellent video as usual, i hope you start getting more of the views you deserve soon bro

the reims track is very cool, cause it's very fast paced, imagine the overtaking speed, we could get near to 400kmh

Very nice edit while the info is a banger 😂 did you do all that by yourself?

Good list and a good video. You definitely have to do more circuits/track videos. If you are up to it you should make your own in Assetto Corsa. I am more of a new-track type of person. I want to see new ones and then they return old ones per se. De Charade is cool though. Pretty crazy how they had almost zero safety back then.

tbh 2011 and 12 at valencia were both good races especially 2012. DRS actually improved that track alot

I think Avus would have been S tier if it had more corners. That wall of death is awesome, but it only needed one giant straight, not two.

My personal favorite is mugello. Fast, smooth corners topped of with good overtake zones, qualifying is cool too

As an Indiana native, PLEASE BRING THE INDY GP BACK

When I think of the sochi circuit, I always think of the f2 accident where someone got buried under the barrier

I want Brands Hatch back 😢

"You wouldn't want to go over the banking"...French driver Jean Behra did in 1959 with fatal results.

I'd like Adelaide back. Bookend the season with two Aussie bangers.

You forgot Long Beach from 1976 - 1983. It's a street track! It's still used for Indycar, but F1 raced there once upon a time.

Interesting to have Indianapolis in the thumbnail but not in the list? And it should come back, as the grounds for the track have been updated and it's central US location and of course, racing history, make it an ideal spot for the sport. The only reason I imagine it hasn't returned is that Roger Penske owns both the track and IndyCar series, and probably doesn't want competition at the track for now.

Dutch privateer Carel Godin de Beaufort actually went over the top of the AVUS banking during the Grand Prix of Berlin sportscar race on August 1st, 1959 as part of the support events of the German GP that was held there the next day. He tumbled down and somehow kept his Porsche in good enough condition to drive, rejoining the track at the end of the corner before being disqualified because the official felt his car was a bit too damaged from the drop. However, in the very same race at the very same spot Jean Behra lost his life.

Valencia is one of my favorite tracks, it is very fun to drive on the sims and the nostalgia aspect from the early 2010s and late 2000s really adds to it. Also being abandoned and “lost” sort of, just really adds to the specialty of it.

Reims, full straight, little turn, fast car and no very hard turn Bad track Avus If you Tyre, wheel, hand, anything fail, you die, responsible for a lot of death people = S tier

Isnt Korea also abandoned? That circuit was amazing imo

Cool video!

there is igora drive autodrom in Saint Petersburg ??? it should be hosted races starting from 2023, but we all know what happened

Would love to see a race back at Kyalami sometime soon

Idk why but I loved Paul Richard circuit

Harsh on Riems as you didn't even mention the fact you can still visit the grandstands and pit area today.

Personally, I would put Valencia A tier. Yes, like you said, the racing wasn't very good, 2012 race aside, but it did have genuinely imaginative and nice touches. The reusing of the Americas Cup facilities to form the paddock and a former Fish Market building being used as the pit building and podium location, plus the fact that near the swing Bridge, it had miles and miles of beautiful sandy beaches

Tracks like Charade, Rouen and the old Spa track are NOT street circuits, they are public road circuits.

If The Circuit de Charade is Bowsers Castle, then AVUS is surely Luigi Circuit from Double Dash

12:13 still hurts😢😭

@8:43 - "TIRE STOLEN FROM MOVING CAR IN DALLAS" Headline checks out.

Former F1 tracks: S: Nordschleife, Charade, Pescara, Brands Hatch, Watkins Glen, Long Beach, Rouen, Buenos Aires (#15 variant), Spa (old), Interlagos (old), Montjuic, Adelaide, Osterreichring, Kyalami (old), Mosport Park A: Reims (1951), Bremgarten, Mont-Tremblant, Boavista, Monsanto, Dijon, Indianapolis, Sebring, Riverside, Paul Ricard (80s), Istanbul, Fuji (70s), Estoril, Mexico City (80s), Hockenheim (old) B: Reims (1953), Kyalami (90s), Dallas, AVUS, Ain Diab, Detroit, Sepang, Jarama, New Delhi C: Phoenix, Yeongam, Fuji (2000s), Jerez, Le Mans Bugatti, Anderstorp, Pedralbes, Buenos Aires (#6, #9) Complete shit: Sochi, Caesars Palace, Valencia

11:02 the track almost looks like special stage route X (10)

So you guys really enjoyed this (which is awesome, thank you!) Like this comment if you want to see a part 2... And reply with your nominated tracks for it... 😁

I actually went to the valencia streat circuit half of it was a apart of the road (main strait and pits) and other half purpose built which was faded and had a bunch of litter on it

AVUS with current cars would be a blast.

Hockenheim, Malaysia and Sochi. I loved all of them. I wish we could just pick up the Sochi track and move it to another country. I started watching F1 when I was a young kid back in seb domination years so those tracks are nostalgic for me

Avus would be a cool thing. I live a few minutes away

How could you not mention the fact that Valencia had four abysmal races and then one race which was one of the best of all time 😂😂

You should’ve done Igora Drive which was meant to replace Sochi by 2023

About Sochi being a Bottas circuit, he did get his first win there in 2017, maybe should've won the year after when he lost out to team orders, but that 2020 race you showed was the one that was pretty much gift-wrapped for him when Hamilton compromised his own race before it even started in a classic "not knowing the rules" moment. It was not the hardest-fought victory, and I remember him getting mocked a little bit for celebrating like it was an Australia 2019-type performance, but I guess he was owed one after what happened in 2018.

There was a street circuit in Cuba as well, it was through Havana and was won by Fangio

I enjoyed your video, and your comments on the circuits. I'd love to see the Charade circuit return. As to Dallas, I lived there and did not even try to go there in July. Whereas I used to go halfway across the continent to Mosport for the grand prix races there. (Sadly, I DID attend Caesar's Palace in its first year, but in my defense I had press passes for that one. Hot as it was, it was October and no where near the debacle Dallas was.)

If avus F1 track was ever in a sim racing game I would be flying

Lando refusing the switch tyres will never be unfunny, till now he still doesnt learn

Valencia wasn't that bad. The 2012 race was awesome and had the best podium ever in F1

Weirdest sentence I have ever heard in my life was at the end.....what is Stroll fan? Do those exist?

10:09 wtf are you serious rn I’m gonna find you 😂, nah seriously Reims gueux was one off the coolest and beautiful race track back in the days the fast corners of the track make it special and now the remaining part of the track are renovated by an association of fan and if you visit the track one day you can understand why it’s special like the atmosphere is unbelievable one of my favorite race track

11:56 *SHINGO MOMENTS*

8:30 38 degree Celsius? rookie number I go outside everyday and it’s 45-50

I am surprised Bremgarten wasn't in there another fact it was originally planned for Avus to have 2 banked corners but thanks to WW2 it was never finished

I'm sorry but I can't get over how much this guy looks like Enzo Fitipaldi

You should watch best overtake of 2010. It was in Valencia done by Kubica

"You wouldnt wanna go over that banking, thats for sure" 😭 oh my god, you didnt.

For me Valencia is my favorite track, and I think I am the only one who does. As the 2012 Valencian gp was my first ever race I watch

Wish we got the glen instead of LA

Where is indian gp ?

Love Valencia due to the thrill I had watching Barrichello win on 2009

AVUS does not exist anymore, the excellent youtuber and F1/motorsport engineer has a video where he goes to the forest that now houses the banked turns. The straights are now a highway... So I don't think F1 will return anytime soon

I absolutely loved Valencia

Drive Reims in a period race car and you'll change your tune. It has great flow.

My appreciation of most of those street tracks : 🤢🤮 Their ONLY advantage is that they are very accessible for the spectators as they are IN a city.

On the F1 games I enjoyed racing Sochi… watching it though, good lord it was a bore.

9:17 as a French it hurts my ears 🤣(it's a sound that do not exist outside of France I guess so you have a solid excuse 😁)

Agree with you, the track in Sochi was not that bad

As a vietnamese fan i really want to have GP in VN so much, the circuit rn actually being used for public, u pay 10 bucks to get in the track and travel around bout 2/3 of the track. Honestly the corruption was the guy who make F1 to VietNam was taken the money make the circuit and keep it for his own 😂. The track layout was really interesting but i think the time VietNam hold a GP is long haha

Sorry, I was watching this on my TV but out of rage I'm jumping on my phone just to write this lol. Mf you're the first person EVER to put Sochi above a C (being generous) on a tier list of good tracks. Hands down one of the most BORING tracks I've ever seen. Banger races in Sochi: 2021 Good races: 2015 Shit races: 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 some of those genuinely having 1 or 2 overtakes all race What is this revisionism on such a shit track?? How is this an A tier ?!

nice video👏

I want Sochi becouse in f1 2020 i was playing it often

“REEMS”

Im gonna visit the valencia street circuit because i live in valencia

God i wish the Buddh Circuit wasn't created in India. Such a good track wasted over some mismanagement and one of the most dirtiest places in the world.

What's the last track in the thumbnail? I'm sure I've seen that layout somewhere but can't remember.

great editing for a smaller channel! less face i'd say as viewership drops. but you'll be kicking off for sure!

why did you have to show that one russian Lando clip 😢

S tier ❌ AvuS tier 😎

Sorry pal, Crystal Palace never hosted a F1 championship race. Non championship yes, not championship. 1962 British GP was held at Aintree. Great video otherwise 😘

Bring back Indy but race on the oval.

How do you not have Sepang on here? Easily one of the best former F1 tracks.

What about charterhall Nurburgring and Dijon prionds

I want AVUS circuit return to F1 calendar.