What makes a track suitable for Formula 1? 

FIA: these are the rules Circuits: No FIA: K

Why do you get to be special on the F1 calendar? Monaco: I'm traditional. Spa: I'm legendary. Zandvoort: I'm brand spanking new. Abu Dhabi: My parents have money.

What makes a track suitable for F1? Lots and lots of money. Everything else is secondary.

What I’m taking from this is that technically there is nothing in the rules preventing you from having a loop-the-loop.

"The way that having no overtaking at all, is a feature of the Russian GP." LMAO nice one... 😂

You forgot one of the most important rulings whenever a new country wants to host a race. "If a circuit is build from the ground up it must be designed by Hermann Tilke."

"Lapping backmarkers is part of the game" See: Any race at Martinsville Speedway (0.85 km)

"At least 12 meters wide" Baku turn 8-10: 🙄😳

Another problem with long tracks not mentioned: The weather. Not only does having a longer track increase the chance that one part of the track is wet, and the other dry, but that a 6 minute lap gives much more time for the track to go from "dry" to "too wet for slicks", which is, if not plain dangerous, either allows for even more malarky where a slower car ends up passing faster cars because they were able to pit in time, before the track got too wet/dry. That, or it requires tire manufacturers to make more all purpose tyres. Also, Start finish line related- it's also *very* important that the finish line isn't a braking zone. Something that becomes an issue when you have two drivers fighting for position on the last lap, and neither wants to yield...

Second time's the charm

Something that I'm curious about and you could do a video about it, is how it's decided where to mark the three sectors of each track. In some of the circuits they seem similar sized, and in others it's clearly mismatched.

When they squeeze F1 races to places like Singapore, Baku or Hanoi, those rules seem laughable at best. I want F1 on Bathurst in this case period.

I'm pretty sure 5:49 has pegged you onto some kind of Kremlin watchlist, well done

The most important thing: Money

3:15 : TRACK GROWS LARGEST PUMPKIN Mr and Mrs Carlo are please to congratulate their son Monte on growing the largest pumpkin in the western mediterranean. The auspicious pumpkin will be displayed at the Grand Hotel for viewing at a cost of fifteen Euros per look until 2nd November. The pumpkin will then be carved into the murderous visage of Kimi Raikkonen and sent to the finnish driver's home for his personal consumption. We send warmest regads and celebration to Monte in these spectacular times. Thanks for this gold nugget ! Even thought the rest is gibberish beside de funny titles (or Lorem Ipsum, i had to google it, i learned something).

idk I feel like this video is missing something, like a black screen that lasts for 30 seconds.

love the way zandvoort has thrown some rules out the window to instead make a damn cool track. motorsport needs more of that.

less than 2km for 26 cars imagine 26 f1 cars on tsukuba

Maybe because I’m biased as an Australian, but I’d love to see an F1 race around Mount Panorama.

Everyone: talks about seat changes Chainbear: Tracks!

9:46 - "Charlie said" 😥 I love tracks that are in the woods. Feels so natural and beautiful. Like Austria and Spa.

“Iknow we have Monaco, but I mean like a proper track.”

If every track stock with the regulations we would have 21 Paul Ricard's

5:51 Sorry but having the green (LMGTE PRO) dots slower than the orange (LMGTE AM) ones is really messing with my head.

I know it's apples and oranges but Iowa is always a crazy Indy race and gives credit to the idea that a short crouded track makes good racing.

6:20 Is anyone else bothered by the fact that the top of the “T” doesn’t appear to be in line with the top of the “L” or “W”?

Amazing timing for the release of this video, I've spent the last 2 months mapping a street track in my hometown. The first New Zealand Grand Prix!!

These huge swings in track length is one of the things I love about 80s/90s NASCAR. You have the mega speedways like Daytona and Talladega, but you also had these tiny half mile (.8km) ovals like North Wilkesboro where it was more about where you put your car while driving and how aggressive you can get during the race than raw speed.

7:19 So? Let's take Baby Park from Mario Kart.

Who else watched the original before he fixed the blackout?

5:50 Savage! 😆

Thanks a million, Chainbear! Excellent. Can't wait for you and Sean at F1Word to discuss races later this year

I've never understood why F1 only has 1 medical car. Series here in the states like IndyCar and IMSA have trucks with basic medical equipment and trained medical workers at almost every post around the track.

Nice to know I'm not the only nerdy F1 fan that enjoys looking at the FIA circuit homoligtion rules and regs

One of the most senseful insight in circuits regulamentation! Keep it up!

As always great content keep up the good work!!!

Good God you make amazingly informative videos. Thank you and please keep up the good work!

Very nice vid!!! Super informative!

Informative and was looking for this.

1:11 You forgot the oval.

Idea for a video - make your ideal racetrack, either on your own, or using F1 track pieces.

7:25 'I mean I guess we have Monaco but I mean like a proper track!' Shots fired! 😂

A very informative video. Great job!

Wow that would be a cool feauture in the f1 games “build your own track” 😅

Excellent as always 👍👍

I would love to see an F1 race, run to F1 regulations, on an Oval. Imagine F1 back at Indy (not least because of the 8-year-old fanboys who think 2005 will happen again).

Whan you need to host a F1 race in 2020 1. Street going in a circle, you can even decide the shape on your own! 2. Make VERY SURE to either host it in the midst of a city with narrow streets or make overtaking nearly impossible by any means necessary 3. Money, big piles of cash freshly served into the pockets of FIA Pro-tip: When you are annoyed by your image as a "boring race track" make the race start at night flooding the scene with cool lights

"Having no overtaking at all is a feature of the Russian Grand Prix" Shots fired! I repeat! Shots fired!

The time it takes to put together these animations, you make them look easy. They're anything but.

7:21 Martinsville has entered the chat

the 18 degrees on zandvoort is the corner after you put the 18 degrees in the picture.. As always cool video keep up the good work

great video man

Lovely animation, I exceptionally enjoyed this video

When you scale the numbers up and disregard 1/2 the rules, in theory an F1 race van be held at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio. It is a half mile dirt(well, actually packed clay) oval nicknamed the "Big E". The biggest event held there is a race of the Camping World Truck Series. A 3rd tier NASCAR series that races, well, trucks.

Great vid, thanks Stuart.

11:31 only true og’s know

hi chain bear, can you do a video were you break down how long a f1 driver actually drives a f1 car in a season including fp1, fp2 , fp3 and qualifying , if you would like you could maybe do the whole year that includes winter testing and other things , i think it would be really interesting on how long or how much a person at the pinnacle of motorsport actually drives their cars. That they have worked so hard to get in .

One of my favorite tracks is my local track Sonoma raceway. Sure it's a Nascar track and former Indy car and a drag strip. Not exactly a European track. But I think it would be interesting to see f1 race it. Race the Indy car circuit. The glorious thing about Sonoma is there are so many different configurations. It is however a rolling start track. So that would be a big issue. A rolling f1 start would be something really interesting to see. It is also a narrow track. Probably will never happen but I can dream.

I always liked circuits with elevation, Bathurst is one of my favorites, would be cool to see a circuit built in a mist mountain forest with all kinds of exotic road.

I wish my professor do his presentations like this. I'd watch it over and over again.

I was watching just when you put it out. I thought I was having troubles with mi WiFi.

Great Video!

Basically: Let's have a F1 race at Lime Rock Park. The ALMS made fields of up to 5 vastly different classes - with lap times ranging from about 45 to 55 secconds - work there. Let's not have the circuit being fundamentally at odds with F1 specifications be the reason not to do it.

Great video! how about a follow up on the definitions of the various FIA grades of track. As for safety at long tracks, where I work, a track over 6km in metric world, we employ 2-4 safety truck and ambulance posts during most events, and high acuity events that can go up to 7 or 8. Many staffed with 1 or more paramedics. While a series physician who knows the drivers is a great asset, at least here in the USA, pre-hospital care (or pre-paddock medical in the case of racing) is the world of the paramedic and EMT. (The great early pioneering 99 doc's of CART/Indycar not withstanding)

Great Video. Very interesting

Ah, it’s been a while. Finally I see you again

for anyone asking (probably no one) - the image of austria at the left side in the newsletter (03:17) is the Maria-Theresien-Straße in Innsbruck.

can i applaud you for your animation work? yes? good. you deserve it.

Loved this one. Could you do a sort of follow up video on why the circuit de la sarthe couldn't hold a grand prix other than the fact that it is only grade 2?

Not sure if it's the first video you use them but those new 3D graphics (10:00) look fantastic

Turn "2" at Zantvoort looks more just like a "kink" than a proper corner. I was gonna reference the second hairpin at Tsukuba as an example but apparently there's 2 "corners" in between the first 2 hairpins as well labeled T2 and T3..

The animation on this racing channel is TOP NOTCH

Mate, I studied all of this for my thesis in architecture, this video is 2 years late XD, the reactrack was a mix of a small purpose built track and a looping park, I exploited the "recommended" length clause, since it went +8km, the restriction was that the track had to connect various distircts of the city as a looping park, i posted the walkthrough of my track on my account if you want to check it out

Very interesting. I have thought it would generated interest if each year the F1 calendar included a one off special interest track. Such as lagoona saca in the US or Bathurst in Australia. I'd be interested for you to pick some tracks that you think would make an interesting F1 race and then run the FIA rules over them to see if they comply. All the best.

Missed Chain Bear's content

Grate Video! Does Baku not have a more than 2000m straight? And Vietnam gp also?

Where can I find the documentation that specifies all this? I found the Sporting Regs and Technical Regs on the FIA website but never found the specs for the tracks. I was interested in where the safety car line is defined, and the pit exit, etc. I haven't looked recently though.

How the f do you manage to have over 100k people who are very likely not in any way related to designing an F1 track to watch this video?? -Great production -Great narration -Factual & backed up research

I would love to see a video on the new proposed saudi gp since they said it will be longer than spa

concerning the number of the corners, there is a rule to call corners. radius has to be at a certain size to be called a corner. if it's too shallow, it's concidered a straight. hence why it's turn 3 at Spa instead of 4.

I wonder why at nearly all F1 tracks, the finish line is in a different location to the start line.

i personally would love to see f1 drive at the Circuit de la sarthe. i know it is 13,5 km long, but i would love to see cars, that are designed for those restrictions, drive this high speed track.

Camber referenced is called transverse grade and super elevation. Camber in roadway mostly relates to bridge spans.

I recently moved to Las Vegas and had a dream about a proper F1 street circuit where the Vegas Strip was the start finish straight. No idea how that'd work, but it would be epic to have a night race on the strip with F1 cars flying down Las Vegas Boulevard.

It might seem absurdly dangerous, but there’s a part in me that feels spa should have, and always should’ve had its start on the run down into eau rouge - raidillon, but still have the finish line on the straight into la source. They do that in the 24 hour race and I think there’s more distance into eau rouge for turn one unlike la source, also that side of the track is set up for starting a race and f1 has had this scenario before at long beach from 1978 to 1982.

Ohh ohh i know! Being in estoril or portimao and making portugal a great addition to the calendar!

7:26 we had the Sakhir GP on the Bahrain Outer Circuit which had a shorter lap time than Monaco

9:34 "I have no idea why it's called Turn 3 at Zandvoort." It's actually called Hugenholzbocht, but it is the third named corner. The left-hand flick after Tarzan is unnamed.

Hope you make a video on how f1 track evolution happens.....

It’s interesting to see a few ‘recent’ F1 circuits are no longer grade 1 - Adelaide, Buenos Aires, Donington, Kyalami...and Zhuhai that was originally built for F1 in the late 90s.

9:56 Think some underground tracks in Singapore's MRT's (subway/metro) Circle Line have a slight adverse incline too @ curves, which results in trains passing through them remaining level even as their wheel geometry causes them to naturally bank slightly towards the inside edge of the curves. Not sure why such a design is used here though

I would not have expected to see a photo of my hometown on this channel, but at 03:21, here we are

You know, this is very similar to the way in which airports are designed, following very precise regulations established by the governing body regarding the geometry and characteristics of the track/runway. Very interesting! (Source: Im an aeronautic engineer)

When Sepang got rid of F1 to focus on the much more popular MotoGP in Malaysia, they immediately changed the final turn to an adverse camber of 12 degrees, as they had issues with drainage there. The rules of F1 didn't allow them to do that originally.

So many regulations that all intertwine with some tracks that are outside them contradicting, or being an exemption to, the regs. Classic F1

Errors: 3:54 Spa Francorchamps length is given a faulty mix of unit symbol and prefix - KM instead of km. 6:33 The number of allowed F1 cars is calculated using the value of coefficient G for single-seaters with engine capacities over 2000 cm^3, though the regulations at the time this was made specify a max engine capacity of 1600 cm^3, which corresponds to a value of 0.8 for coefficient G.

can u make a video on what existing tracks around the world would suit moderen f1 or even 2022 spec

2:40 but monza on the start finish straight is at least 16/17 meters wide, seeing it in person is just crazy, it looks like a small airfield

idea for an insane short circuit F1 race: Tsukuba :D

This video is very visually satisfying