The case for corner names 

> Doing Nordschleife > Yellow Flag at Turn 98 until Turn 107 > UH WHAT?

"No heroics into Ste. Devote please, we want to stay in one piece"

It made the Top Gear test track more memorable too so I know exactly what Chicago, Hammerhead, Follow through, and Gambon means.

I was thinking “how about F1 let the fans decide the name?” But then I remembered that we’ll end up with something like Corner mccornerface

Turn 1 at COTA ’The Phil Hill’

"Turn 8" Istanbul Park is one of the only corners that people know as its number

Brazil also does have the corner called "Is that Glock?"

There's a possibility for a series here? "Chain Bear's suggested corner names?" Bit of research, bit of digging and gives something for people to rally behind?

Yes, the F2 champion turned rising F1 star known as Dumbledore.

And Wellington straight in Silverstone is named after a bomber and that section was one of the runways

The final 2 turns at Hockenheim will forever be known as "The Ice Skating Rink"

One of my favourite names in F1 is the informal name the "Wall of Champions" in the Canadian Grand Prix.

Some of my favourite corners are Bathurst’s Forrest’s Elbow, Laguna Seca’s Corkscrew, and of course… Gambon.

I'm all for a public vote. "Corny McCornerface" sounds like a good one to me

Incidentally, Turn 17 at Singapore is officially called "Piquet Corner". And no, I'm not making that up.

I started watching F1 races in part because I'd heard of Eau Rouge and the mystique and challenge of that corner. When I saw that the next race was at Spa, I remembered that was where "that cool Eau Rouge" corner is, and tuned in. So literally F1 has me as a fan in part because of a memorable corner, and a name helps that stick.

Actually Sepang does have corner names, although only for certain corners. T1 and T2 - Pangkor Laut T4 - Langkawi T5 - Genting T7 and T8 - KLIA T9 - Berjaya Tioman T11 - Kenyir Lake T13 and T14 - Sunway Lagoon Even the 2 straights have names too, the Kuala Lumpur straight (main straight) and Pahang straight (back straight). They're all references to famous places in Malaysia, although it can be forgiven if they're often forgotten, I admit I myself can't remember the corner names too despite being a M'sian F1 fan.

0/10 used the name “Phil Hill” to not refer to COTA turn 1

'The Case for Corner Names' What, like no name corner like Spa?

Valtteri means something....like "Valtteri, it's James"........imagine hearing "Driver #2, its engineer #1"

6:39 Actually, I'm quite surprised we don't have AT&T, Coca-cola, and Budweiser corners at COTA

Suggestion for two corners at the Baku City Circuit: "Gloves" and "Steering wheel"

The old Singapore Sling... sends car flying that was a good name tho

i always refer to turn 9 at baku as the castle section

Petition to call turns 5&6 at Sapang "the Burninator"

I always called turn 1 in China "The Snail" because of how starts wide and gets tighter as you go through it

COTA gonna sellout and name all their corners after sponsors. -Sprint Esses -Verizon V -Fedex straight -Ford bend -Hard Rock Swerve -AT&T turn

Fun fact about "Curva do Café" (Coffee Curve) in Interlagos: the "tale/myth" of this name says the former Media Room was nearby this curve. The smell of the coffee of the journalists was so strong that even the drivers could feel. This was before the F1 Years and before journalists discovered cocaine (but since the 90 all journalists in Brazil are poor and have to drink coffee again).

Abu Dhabi should have corners like "Leave me alone" and "Hulkenberg's Cow".

And it sounds much better wenn a comentator talks you through a lap only by using the corner names!

Completely agree. I can imagine "3 into 1", or "Torpedo Corner", "Max Lookout," "The Vettel Carousel"

3:15 “That’s Radillion actually”

Can we please name the Abu Dhabi corners where Nico flipped in 2018 to "Hanging Cow Corner?" Or just: "Cow corner"

Sepang circuit does have perfectly good corner names, like Langkwai and Klia for example. The problem is that nobody seems to use them for some reason...

4:47 - It's not un-named, Brudle actually found a track map at the circuit 10 years ago that called it Liege Corner.

It would be cool if you could enter a draw to name a corner... Would love to have turny boy on an F1 game one day

I want to see Chain Bear and the other F1 RU-vidrs sit down and suggest names for the unnamed corners!

In Interlagos (as in most brazilian tracks), each turn has a name with a real meaning to it, each attributed in the good old days (mostly 40s and 50s): Curva do Sol (Sun Turn): When drivers approached it (in the old layout, not happening anymore), the sunlight would affect drivers vision. Curva da Ferradura (Horseshoe Turn): Self explanatory, just look at the shape of the turn. Curva do Pinheirinho (Little Pinetree Turn): There were a pinetree after the turn, where drivers used to collide with. Curva da Junção (Joint Turn): Where the oval and mixed track layout merges. Curva do Café (Coffee Turn): Has this name because in the early days, commentators and journalists would prepare coffee in a shack over there. The smell of the drink was so strong that drivers could smell from far. Subida do Lago (Lake Climb): Has it name because there is a - guess it? - lake after the turn. In the old layout, it was Descida do Lago (Lake Descent), since it was backward at this point. BONUS: The track is called Interlagos, the name of the neighborhood where it's located, and it means "betweek lakes". The track is located between two dam reservoirs and not actual lakes.

We should all start calling him Ludwig Hamilton.

"A name confers a soul unto an inanimate object and grants it power!" -Owain Dark

So many great points. I agree. We need more names in corners. Although for Tilke tracks, can we reuse names as Tilke reuses a corner?

The Phil Hill would have to be the end of the main straight and turn 1.

Petition to change the name of corner 9 to "Barrel turn" 1: Abu Dhabi is a country with lots of oil. 2: Nico's barrel roll from last year

We should call the esses in COTA "Mississippi" or "Missouri" after the rivers!

3:16 Chain Bear: Names whole set of corners Eau Rouge Tommy from WTF1: *THAT'S RADIOLLN ACTUALLY*

I totally agree about everyone accepting Eau Reuge as a whole masterpiece, similar to the corkscrew at Laguna Seca

6:34 singapore corners already have names by the way. Like Raffles Boulevard or the Esplanade corner

China Turn 1 "The Torpedo"

Could someone just make a website where the F1 community could suggest names for the corners? I know that would certainly descend into "Corner McCornerface" territory and almost certainly worse areas, but I think there's a project for someone to mastermind the mass naming of corners at Tilkedromes. Maybe it's a public vote, maybe the community bring suggestions to a panel of F1 experts, like yourself, who then make a final decision, or draw up a shortlist which then gets voted on. Let's just do it unofficially if F1/circuits themselves won't do it.

I'm still waiting for this summer break bingo update :(

I really like how you animated this Video. Everything you talk about is on the same Page and the Movement follows the Topic. Nice Work!

Theres a local track near me that has immediately named their corners when they opened, and theyre great names and known throughout California. Buttonwillow has corners with the name: Off-ramp, Cotton Corners, Grapevine, Dog Leg. Thats one of the main reasons everyone loves that, because we just know the turns that create those names.

I remember playing F1 2002 and every time on the loading screen, it shows the circuit map with corner names . Is sad that nobody remember those awesome corners name

We all know ste. Devote because of Jeff’s speeches before every race.

Let's officially call some corners as "Snaily Boi"

you forgot "Is That Glock?" corner

Petition to name turn 1 at COTA just, "Phil Hill"

I 100% agree with you. like dragon tail for shanghai's first complex or whatever. it's cool.

Time for 2019 end of season review + bingo charts ! Can’t wait to see how you’ve done and what you thought of this season, love your content !

I dont know how to describe it but, you have such a soothing voice it just makes me want to listen and learn. Like everything you say is important. Keep up the good work

"It nicked most of the corners" LOLOLOL

Sepang actually have names for their corners if you look up the sepang circuit wikipedia but they’re not widely used

Thank you! I have argued the same for years, since danish TV announcers started referring to corners with numbers. Every time a corner is referred to with a number, you have to mentally drive through the entire track to figure out what corners they talk about. Refer to corners by name; Tosa, Spoon, Pouhon, and I’m there in a flash!

Finally another video I was waiting and waiting

Monaco 2021 Bono: Lewis, you‘re loosing too much time in turns 15 and 16 Lewis: Where is this? Bono: End of the swimming pool section Lewis: Why didn‘t you say that earlier? That is much easier to understand

8 minutes of good point, welcome made!

I would like to see a video on top drivers and engineers of f1. Anyways your videos are of great help. Easy learning. Thanks man.✌

Excellent vid. Its thorough and informative as always👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

You lost me when you called the skoda "a nice set of wheels"...

the Dumbledore bit made me laugh so hard

I think this is one of my fav RU-vid vids! I can *feel* Stuart’s passion.

For some courses is to base their corner names on actions from previous races... like name after drivers or weird bits from previous as well as local stuff.

Can you do a video on HANS devices? something that i've always been intrigued about, especially when Kubica said it saved his life in the Canada crash

The weird bit sticking out of Bahrain's T2 is mildly annoying

Having the corners at COTA named after their inspirations would be amazing.

Actually , Sepang does have its corner names , but it's not really that well known or mentioned in the broadcasts They're named after famous landmarks in the country

[My name is Lewis] CB: "Lewis doesn't mean anything" :o Also CB: "Well actually it means warrior" :)

Pretty soon every corner at Zandvoort will be the “Verstappen” corner

This is a really good argument. I’ve gotten so use to the teams referencing turn numbers that I never noticed. It would be a great thing for viewer reference as you say, plus it gives the opportunity to create history. “Remember that overtake at (whatever) that won him the championship?”, for example. It was a tradition that has gotten lost on the newer tracks definitely.

Mr Bear. Will you be doing an "extended" video like last year of the season overview from f1? I really enjoyed that last year and look forward to seeing it again this year.

Agreed! I love the corner names. -- I was hoping for Zandvoort to pop by, since its on the calendar next year and has some history. It also has some commercially named corners (Audi S, Renaultbocht, Marlborobocht) and was interested to hear about that. (I'm not sure if other cuircuits have that, but it wasn't mentioned) corners named after people (both historical and Disney characters) and places. it even has a cornername a bit like 'revkiller' of 'Gforce extreme', namely: "Scheivlak", which litarally means 'seperator plain'; seperating the boys from the men (at least in my mind) :). This corner even has its own website: www.scheivlak.nl/

Awww, was hoping for a mention of Zandvoort and its corner names :D

There are some informal names for parts of the track at Bahrain. University straight between T3/T4 (not many people call it that yet, but a few do because the stands there are the University stands... because the University is across the street behind the stands, naturally), the "esses" for T5/6/7, and the Oasis Straight for the backstraight from T10/T11 (again, as the stand there is the "Oasis Stand"). However, my favorite corner name is actually from the "Inner" Circuit (backstraight becomes the main straight and GP T11 is the first corner; the track leaves the GP layout from GP Turn 12 and reconnects at GP Turn 5). Where the separate part of the Inner Circuit rejoins the GP layout at GP Turn 5, that hairpin is referred to as "Patience," because it is a very tight and long hairpin to get you back onto the Esses, and it has such a late apex that nearly everyone tends to apex too early. So, to apex it properly and setup for the Esses, you need to remember to have "patience". 😁

Over here in Australia we have the Bathurst circuit with the skyline complex on Top of the hill leading to the esses featuring the dipper. That segment of track produces some of the most intense racing in any motorsport and has the lowest margin for error as the car frequently becomes unsettled as the descent starts. It's not turns 11 through 16. It's the skyline

3:23 That's Raidillon actually.

"Especially if you live in biggin hill" Only like

3:32 The left at the bottom is Eau rouge because the Eau rouge stream pass under it and the left on top it's called Raidillon. 4:55 In Belgium we unnofficially name it Speaker's Corner because you can see it from the old speaker's tower

One of the questions I'd have about this is, how much of it is due to these tracks being newer? Is it not possible that, over time, we start attributing nicknames to turns that then become their names, much in the way Singapore Sling got its one, or the Wall of Champions? Is it possible that corners will once again be named once the newer tracks start gaining a bit of history themselves?

Sooooo, as a youtuber with a 300K subs, you could just give a random corner of your choice a name. Then we as a youtube community will meme the f*ck out of it until it really becomes the name of the corner. Gotta start somewhere.

3:16 That's Raidillon actually

The Singapore GP organisers did ask the locals to name some of the corners in 2009. Turn 1 is called Sheares as it went underneath the Sheares flyover. Turn 7 is Memorial as it was near a WWII remembrance monument. Turn 10? Singapore Sling. Much like the famous cocktail, it packed quite the punch when it was a chicane.

American advertising at COTA intensifies. Here we have an overtake at the fabulous uphill kalashnikov Corner. Buy a handgun for only $49.99 (I don't really know gun prices in the US) or max verstappen goes down the inside of Charles leclerc at the Starbucks corner brought to you by American Express

Quicker than the bell

The corners at Sepang (Malaysia) are actually named after local landmarks. For example, turn 14 is called the Sunway Lagoon corner and turn 4 is the Langkawi curve.

An idea is to do a video series with each track on the current/next years callender. Maybe give a little bit of the history of the track and how it got its corner names. Love the content

turn 11 at spa should be called “hubert”

"The F1 community has accepted this to be eau rouge" WTF1- am i joke to you

The TI now Okayama Circuit from 94-95 season had some good ones like "hair pin corner, revolver corner and last corner"

I love when corners are called after places. I have been to Spa for example and yes the rice running under the race track is red

That’s radion actually How do you spell radion because I can’t spell