Your hair screams "FUNCC". And I love it. Oh and what a great vid bro, as always, production quality is through the roof, content matter is top notch. Stronk, brother! 👊✌
@@ХристиянМитев-я2д I agree. Mark was one of the fastest F1 drivers I've ever seen. He had brilliant qualifying knacks like Trulli, but with that being said he also had good racecraft. He was a fun overtaker to watch. He also bested Rosberg, Coulthard and Heidfeld, who are all good drivers. He was actually the perfect package and in fact labelled as the next Schumacher, but sadly it didn't work out in his favor because of RB. If Vettel wasn't there Im pretty sure he would be a WDC.
This failure did immeasurable damage to F1 venturing into new grounds. I think the shift we’ve seen towards new countries running street circuits (Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia) is because they don’t want to build purpose built race tracks that may end up going the way of India and South Korea after 2 years. Street circuits require far less money to build and happen in large metro areas that are easily able to get fans to attend (no logistics problem).
@@KeirArmstrong yes, but they went with the street circuits first as the ‘safe’ option. If fan turnout is bad that permanent circuit won’t be built or will be seriously downgraded to save money.
@@KeirArmstrong I wasn’t aware of that, thank you. I doubt they would just because I don’t think it will have poor turnout. I still see the street circuit as a less risky way to prepare for the permanent circuit
@@KC1996LFC No bother, not many are aware about that and the Saudi track, but I agree in hosting the first few races on a street circuit is as good way of preparing for the permanent track when they move to it, hopefully the track layout is a banger on both tracks.
I liked this circuit such a shame it left F1 so early, also ironic how they didn’t want to make it a night race although the first race ended up turning into a night race due to how dark it was
@@Bale4Bond That track literally made me love Shanghai International Circuit (which I used to hate with passion) At least Shanghai has some flow, but I was just fed up with that piece of garbage after 3 laps on F1 2020. Literally worst Tilkedromen ever. Yes, it's even worse, than Sochi, imho.
As a korean, it really bugged me out. Officials only chose yeongam for the votes from the region. They could have chose a better place to open it. I hate those politicians
A shame this plan flopped, the track was decent I think but Koreas plans were just to ambitious 😒 The pit exit would have been much better if it was located at turn 16 and maybe it would've been cool if the track had an under ground pit exit like Abu Dhabi 🔥
I've been thinking for a long time on how to fix that pit lane exit, and a tunnel really seems like the best option. You don't want the exit to circle all the way around the runoff area, because to create interesting races with varied strategies, you want the time lost in the pits to be as short as possible, which for Yeongam would mean reshaping the entry to something more akin to Monza or Interlagos (directly parallel to the track, without this massive deviation and tight corner), and the exit as short as possible, which would mean a tunnel.
The pits were simply built on the wrong side of the track - they should have been on the inside, not the outside. Pit entry should have been a left between turns 17 & 18, and the pit exit should have been after turn 2.
The organizers were just a bit naive, weren't they? Even as a young teenager, I thought that the whole plan was a bit dumb and overambitious. However, I really liked the track and think it could have been a great event. In the end, this story is the reason why I'm always sceptical about new tracks with "plans to add facilities and a town and whatever".
I absolutely loved Yeongam, it's hands-down one of Tilke's best tracks for me, even while it's in the middle of nowhere. I'm pretty sure we will return some day though. Korea is too big a market for F1 not to want to get into, and it only takes one big Korean company to fund it and put its logos all over the place to get it back on the calendar. And even if that doesn't happen, Korea has a succesful car industry, and seeing how much the Hyundai group has ventured into motorsport this last decade, it might only be a matter of time before we have a Hyundai or Kia F1 team.
Indonesia also build track with the same concept called mandalika "street circuit". Instead of town they build resort there. The surrounding looks so picturesque tho. I hope we did well 😅.
This channel is so underrated if subscriber count is your measure. I keep expecting it to just blow up. Maybe after the next season of drive to survive.
I was 11 when the grand prix was held. It was total chaos. My dad bought a parking pass near the stand, but the workers just let anybody in, old people without any knowledge of what the F1 was everywhere, lack of any decent facility was just astonishing. At least I was interviewed by KBS's Documentary team. That was the only fond memory of that grand prix.
Accurate reporting. I think the main point is nobody buying was tickets because Koreans are stoic towards anything trending in the marketplace or even items that are globally popular. I lived in Korea during the Grand Prix and the Korean tourism organization literally was giving tickets away for free to the public. You could simply call up the tourism organization asking for tickets and your wish would be granted.
Still a shame it was removed from the calendar because it's actually a good circuit and I really like it especially when driving it on F1 2013. Great video once again 👍. Oh and nice Red hair btw. Matches the red Ferrari 😉
I forgot about the pit entry and exit! Mind you, Paul Ricard's pit exit isn't much better now. Tilke tracks never seem to think about the pits, whether that's the entry or exit, or the paddock behind them. Yas Marina had to get inventive to fit in a pit exit and have no room behind the pits for a decent paddock.
This track was awesome, my favourite of all the Tilke designs. My least favourite was the butchering of Hockenheim. I used to love that track, but couldn't care less if we never went there again. Nurburgring is where the German GP should be
Excellent video mate. This whole saga was such a mess. I thought the track was alright, but compare the original city concept to what's there now... it was one hell of a misfire. I hope the track can get a bit more mileage in the coming years.
그 엄청난 경기를 유치하고도, 깡촌이라 실패했다라고 몰아가는 어처구니없는 현실이 안타까울 뿐이다. 우리는 6.25후 전 국토가 리셋됬다. 그곳을 버려둔것은 내가 아니라 우리들이고, 전 국토가 활성화 되고 잘 사는 국토가 되기 위해선, 균형적 변형이 필요하다. 맨땅이라 안된다라는 비판적 사고방식으로는 무엇을 해도 안된다.
@@user-ri8tx6vo1n 애초에 다른 그랑프리들은 아부다비나 멜버른 같은 대도시나 몬자 모나코 같은 전통 있는 도시고. 아무리 스즈카 같은 트랙도 있다지만 너무 산업 목적 인거 같음. 수도권이 아니라도 대전이나 울산 같은 광역시가 더 낫았을거 같음. 물론 그럴 땅이 있을지 모르겠네.
Tbh I never really got on with the track. Because everything surrounding it seemed a bit half assed I never really engaged with it. There was no atmosphere and the fact that the Sky F1 crew were talking about how there were still champagne corks on the podium from the previous years GP really didn't help.
I live near the track and attended the race each year it was here. Each year I had free weekend passes because some of my friends were forced to buy tickets (government pressured big businesses to buy tickets so they could fill the stands). The first year I watched the first practice from the main grandstand (they literally were directing peole with ANY tickets to fill the grandstands first). The first year they didn't have adequate drainage and the parking lots flooded. It was a farce. It also doesn't help that, especially at that time, car culture (and racing in particular) were not popular. So, most people just didn't understand it. Now the circuit is used by local series (and the odd international series that visits). It's sad really...
I was involved in 2010 inaugural Korean GP. The night race wasn't considered because the race organizer couldn't build light stand on time for the race. The circuit and its pavement was fine; in fact, the traction of the circuit was phenomenal. However, as it was a brand new track that never raced before F1 race, it contained a lot of oil in the pavement. On its race day, it rained. It wasn't that heavy rain, but because of the oil in the track smeared out to the track due to the rain, the water stayed on the track and not drained, making the track virtually undrivable, and red flag for about an hour. I think the race stopped for about an hour. If red flag was kept for additional 20-30 minutes or so, because it was autumn and sunset was coming without any light stand, the race could have ended right there, which could have been a disaster for both F1 and Korean GP. Luckily, the race could resume just on time, and it could be an exciting race. Korea GP was unprofitable for race organizer, because the circuit was built in the middle of nowhere. The closet city is Mokpo, with population of 230,000 people, who had absolutely no interest in motor racing. It was 5 hour driving away from Seoul. So the GP had really really low numbers of spectator. Race organizer thought it wouldn't look good to have empty stands, so as the race day came, the race organizer practically gave away free tickets to citizens in Mokpo. A few enthusiasts of motor sports, who paid a lot of money for the ticket and drove 5 hours to the circuit found out that next to him, a farmer who had absolutely no interest in motor sports was sitting with free ticket on his hand with his family members, amazed with the sound of race cars. That didn't go well with the following year's ticket sales and so on. However, I must say this. The race organizer did receive plenty of support from the provincial government, perhaps a bit too much. The race organizer could not handle the deficit from the race in the first year, and the race was virtually controlled by the provincial government from year 2. And when event like this is handled by government official, it is just a recipe for disaster, especially dealing and negotiation with F1. Korea International Circuit, however, is a very exciting circuit. I was able to drive my car around the circuit before the practice day, and it was awesome.
the location was about the worse imaginable - two main population center in Korea, Seoul and the Busan-Daegu areas - and they managed to find the most unconvenient place for both
Let's hope Formula E has more sucess with its Seoul ePrix. Now, it's a different series on a different circuit in a different city, so let's hope that the organizers do it better than the F1 guys did. I actually don't know which series costs more to host, but I doubt Formula E is more expensive.
@@Karlsruhe00 modded, I picked 2014 over 2013 (which is better) because 2014 has more mods and a bigger modding community than 2013 (and you can just mod 2013’s god tier handling as well and mod the horrible engine sound to 2014 lol)
The problem with all these races in Asia/Middle East that poped up in the last 2 decades is the unstoppable quest by Bernie Ecclestone to tap into new and emerging markets while trying to expand F1's global reach. Needless to say most of those experiments failed to garner the attention Bernie wanted. And now those facilities in India, South Korea and Turkey for example, which had Millions of $ spent on them, now sit for the most part empty and decaying. The Istanbul Park for instance had to be repaved since it wasn't used for racing since 2011 and most likely won't be used again for any top level racing.
I don't think Ecclestone and Liberty are that different in their desire to break into new markets, but Ecclestone definitely was more happy to present a rose-tinted version of how a grand prix could look to potential organising countries. Kind of fits in with the absolute hack of a man he was, I guess... Still happy we got to go to those places though. Istanbul Park and Yeongam were both fantastic circuits and easily top five of Tilke's resumé, and while Buddh was the exact opposite, it did introduce F1 to India, where we'll inevitably return at some point.
Now that South Korea has more money they should try to redo the area with more hotels, updated track. Grow up the area if you will. Nowadays F1 brings in a lot more money, and eventually they could even start training racers.
as Korean Korea GP was most interesting GP. It was only asian circuit that is anti clockwise. And you might know Korean isn't well known in Motorsports. So That 4 Races are really commmemoretive.
Just so you know how bad the organization was, i went there and was able to get onto the track and get autographs from the pilots even though I just had a regular ticket
good question! Since then, i started being on camera more just so that i'm not that image reliant anymore and i can portray a little bit more personality :)
it's so hard to build the F1 circuit on famous and popular cities like seoul, busan, dae-gyeon, in-cheon, suwon etc...first of all those cities i mentioned and any other cities(even country side small city) have too mamy companies and factories like producing somethings such as life living stuffs so there's argument with government or local city hall for life zone right that there can be annoying noises from that race....becuz as u know most developed cities are designed for more industiral and human life(schools, hospital, library ...) and we have many population, 50M in too small country which got top 3 densely populated country most people say that location is result of the politicians that has interested in get'n fking votes but i wanna say "f1 circuit building plans have got CUT from popular cities like seoul...cuz of those reason" of course there are some constructional problems and controversies considering safety of drivers and cars and preferance for newbies in this motorsports in terms of bias and so on! i really wanna FIA reconsider having schedule on this korea granprix circuit because that is sooo well-maded circuit i think there so many fascinating points to f1 fans! o hope yeong-am circuit have big repairing working for the more confortable and speedable race 🇰🇷🇰🇷
It's ashame what happened to it, a bit too ambitious, but at least they tried though, but if they host other races other then F1, then maybe that may help, but who knows tbh
I can tell you as a Korean what went wrong with this. They built the circuit in the middle of nowhere. F1 back then was not really as popular in Korea or in Asia in general so if they wanted to get new audience attention they shouldve at least built is where its accessible easily from big cities like Seoul or Busan.
I'm Korean And Im not live Seoul Im live in Deagu But I cant go Yeongam Why? Yeongam is very very very fur American think Why 250km is fur? But Korea is very small I'm already used to this and I don't have the weekly infrastructure so I have to go back home to watch the game
@@MadeByPerspective I think this one is a bit unintuitive anyway though. It's pronounced Young-ahm, but it really looks (even if you know how to pronouce 'eo' in Korean) like it should be Yon-gam with a hard G. I guess that's why if you look at sattelite pictures of the track, there are big letters spelling out Yeong-am, with the two syllables hyphenated, in one of the runoff areas.
