Kylami is still used for smaller local racing but is also now being used for endurance races soon it seems

That Belgian track dropped because it was boring with too much run off.... it would fit right in to today's F1 calendar....

You totally have to visit the Austrian GP. On TV, you cannot really experience how breathtaking the course is and how much altitude differences there are (especially when looking at the straight between turn 1 - nowadays Lauda - and turn 2 - nowadays Remus). It's like they are climbing a small mountain.

The track in Argentina is named Oscar and Juan Galvez and regularly hosts local categories such as TC2000, Turismo Carretera and Turismo Nacional. There are plans to bring it back into shape to bring back formula 1

That brazilian track with a long Portuguese name was actually known simply as Jacarepaguá, which is the name of the neighborhood where it was located. "Jacarepaguá" is a tupi (one of the main native brazilian languages) word and it sounds quite odd even to brazilians.

Jacarepagua in Rio was a great track!! I went there to watch MOTO GP in 2002! Unfortunelly was destroyed to Pan American Games in 2007...

Good video. I'd love to see a "Lost F1 Tracks" video so you could talk about tracks like Zandvoort, Zolder, Anderstorp, Brands Hatch, Magny Cours and so on.

Kyalami is very much up and running now. It's one of my favourite tracks. They've redesigned it slightly, made a couple sections wider, made the first section faster and taken out the penultimate chicane/corner. It's still got the amazing views from the hairpin at the top of the hill.

I'm a year late on this, but Kyalami was bought by Porsche and now we have the IGTC ( International Grand Touring Challenge ) , and yeah, alot of national events :D

Just to note that the Buenos Aires track is still active and hosts national races every year as well as many other tracks that have been mentioned (including Kyalami, Korea and india)

I'm not sure when Kyalami moved to Cape Town....! But, that aside, interesting stuff, thanks.

Kyalami is a track I would LOVE to see back on the calender, especially with new layout which I really like!

A side note, the image you used for the new Kyalami layout at 7:15 isn't actually Kyalami. That track is Killarney, another South African track.

Love this small series. Talk about the mythical Estoril in Portugal where Senna was so happy

The British grand prix was once held at Aintree!

As a South African I would LOVE to see F1 come back to SA! Hopefully Porsche can make it happen :D

I really miss Estoril. Amazing track

Fun fact about Nivelles, when it was abandoned, the local youths used the deteriorating track for illegal street racing in the 80s and 90s. It's now a mixed estate for industry and leisure, with the main straight being broken up by a roundabout (you can still see where the exit from the final hairpin is when driving down the roundabout). A good resource for many abandoned European tracks is Circuits of the Past, here's the article for Nivelles-Baulers: www.circuitsofthepast.com/lap-nivelles-circuit/

I miss Imola, Indianapolis, and Istanbul 😌

Alex, a Brazilian here to help you. Interlagos was the 1st place to held the F1, then it went to Rio. The ractrack was best known as "Jacarépagua" (DJa-ka-RÉH-pa-gua), was one of the best racetracks in Brazil and was demolished (sadly). Now a days many tracks are in rick of being destroyed , like Interlagos and Curitibas's International Track

Really enjoying a lot of these videos! Being from Canada I loved your videos from last year's Canadian GP, I haven't been. Anyways I have a track for a "lost tracks" video. I live fairly close to a to a circuit here formerly called "Mosport" home of the first Canadian GP back in the 60's, and continued through the 70's. It's still a very active track hosting some Nascar series, IMSA and Perelli World Challenge.

Do a lost tracks one!! Should put in the Adelaide Street Circuit. It lost the F1 and since then has grown to be home of the season opener of the Supercars Championship

Well done. If you do the lost F1 tracks, research Mosport Park (Now Canadian Tire Motorsport Park). It hosted a few Canadian GPs in the past.

I miss Estoril and the portuguese Gp.

Sou brasileiro e fico envergonhado de ver que a pista de Jacarépagua não existe mais diferente e em seu lugar foi construido um dos maiores Elefantes Brancos da história.

Goodbye Jacarépagua circuit,Brazil will miss you,i'm brazilian (i'm kid),this is painful :(

If you are doing lost f1 tracks a huge one to put on the list would be Watkins Glen. Used to run F1 there until 1980, and to this day it still holds NASCAR Cup and Xfinity races, IMSA sanctioned 6 Hours of The Glen, and several other small events.

Just a word on Kyalami. The track is open for international competition and on 23 November it will host the final round of the 2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge series with the Kyalami 9 Hours (the other races in the series are the Bathurst 12 Hour, California 8 Hours [Laguna Seca], Spa 24 Hours and Suzuka 10 Hours). The GT series is open to GT3 and GT4 cars. Lost Formula One tracks would be a good video as there are many that still hold major racing, just not F1. Tracks like Adelaide, Brands Hatch, Donington, Zolder, Dijon, Le Mans (Bugatti), Istanbul, Fuji, Sebring, Indianapolis, Watkins Glen, Magny Cours, Jarama, Long Beach, Jerez, Mosport, Sepang and Imola immediately spring to mind.

The abandonment of the Milwaukee Mile is quite sad for me living so close to it even though it is not F1 and an oval. There was a lot of history including Jim Clark’s first win in the USAC at Milwaukee in his rear engined Lotus bringing the revolution to the U.S.

Anderstorp in Sweden was used for some time. you can mention that in your "lost f1 tracks" video.

Zandvoort has this massive "abandoned" part that was used for F1... It's now become a street where homes are and such. Zandvoort still exists but the track is much smaller.

If you visit the Red Bull Ring than i hope i see you!

sorta surprised no US tracks mentioned. since the early years, there were 10 different tracks used here in the US. the more recent and known tracks include Riverside, now a housing development. It also saw the final race of the year for NASCAR for years. The others are Long Beach (street), Detroit (street), Dallas (street), Phoenix (street), Seabring, Watkins Glen, Indy Oval (Indianapolis 500) and Indy road course.

Lost F1 tracks I'd like to see more in depth history about are: Old Nurburgring(Nordschleife), Zandvoort, Adelaide, Estoril, Zolder, San Marino, Imola, Indianapolis, Long Beach, Brands Hatch, Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, Detroit, Donington Park, Fuji, Istanbul, Jarama, Jerez, Magny Cours, Phoenix, Sebring, Tanaka, Watkins Glen.

Hey mate, you got confused with the brazilian tracks. I´ve showed pics from the track on Rio de Janeiro and the track off Brasilia. The F1 was only held in Rio, never Brasilia. The Brasilia circuit was working till few years ago but now it´s closed due to lack of investiments. Great video, keep the good work.

Yes please to the "lost" F1 tracks. You made a fair point as your current videos are on abandoned F1 tracks rather than one unused now by F1. Looking for to your "lost" F1 tracks series....??

Great video Alex. Thankfully I can drive on most of these circuits on Assetto Corsa, except for Nivelle-Baulers. No one was made a mod of the circuit yet.

New subscriber gained from this video :D Absolutely on-board with the "lost F1 tracks" idea, as I'd love to hear your take on Estoril and Portimão, in my country, Portugal. Estoril is state-owned and poorly kept, but racing does still go on there. Not sure about Portimão, though. Anyways, great video!

i remember, watching A1gp in kyalami in 2008 or 7 or 9 idk i forget abt it ...

Indianapolis GP, Korean International Circuit, Adelaide Street Circuit, Istanbul Park, Magny Cours

Lost F1 tracks sounds like a great idea!!! Turkey comes to mind for example

Yeah go for it, there are so many tracks laying around that held races in F1 that are there and way better than most of the newer tracks. Donington Park, Okayama or Anderstorp just to name 3 of them

Should look at Bremgarten in Switzerland, Aintree in England, the AVUS in Germany or Montjuich Park in Spain. And maybe have a look at Riverside Raceway as well.

Kyalami South Africa. Hi form South Africa 👏 love your videos 😉💪😎

I've loved these 2 vids. Top job

If u wana see old f1 tracks and what they look like today check out the channel Circuits of the past.

The title of abandoned tracks is a bit misleading. It should be tracks that F1 has left. Many of the tracks are still in use weekly and daily.

You should do a video about the Pescara track in Italy. It is the longest track (and straight) ever used in F1. They only raced there for one year as it was too dangerous.

Mais um vídeo excelente, mas muito triste...... Obrigado pelo vídeo e parabéns pelo canal....... Abraço do Brasil......

Really like your style of presenting. Interesting vids

Nivelles-Baulers, first it was too safe, then it became too dangerous: " Designed by Roger Caignie to be a safe alternative to Spa, Nivelles was perhaps too safe. It had massive runoff areas, was flat and featureless, and was described by many drivers as being bland and sterile. Nivelles was not popular amongst the paying spectators since they thought that they were not close enough to the action. The track ran into economic problems very early in its life. The organizer went bankrupt in 1974. They were however able to find enough sponsors to organise that year's Formula One race. In 1976 it was once again Nivelles's turn to organize the Belgian Grand Prix, but the track was not considered safe enough for Formula One because of the condition of the tarmac."

Regarding the Argentinean circuit here's some info. The circuit changed hands many time and in the early 2000's due to financial issues it lost almost all Argentinean local races. There wasn't any maintenance done and it still stands as it was when the 1998 GP was held there. About two years ago local government and private companies started a project to get it back in place. Some work was already done and they're expecting to take FIA grade 2 certification shortly. In order to get grade 1 and host a F1 race again there are some major modifications needed, Charlie Whiting visited the track not long ago. Still, the mayor limitation they're facing to bring the F1 GP back is the fee that needs to be payed (around 40 millions US). The new layout combines the old track (used until 1981) and the new track (used between 1995 and 1998). You can see the proposed track layout in this link: www.clarin.com/deportes/automovilismo/autodromo-buenos-aires-poder-recibir-formula_0_B1b0_Bu5b.html

Comment's 8 months too late but I just want to say that I live not far from Spielberg (AustrianGP) and the ,,westloop'' does still exist. It's used as a car park. During the F1, DTM and MotoGP weekends there is a fan area where the former ,,Hella Licht-S'' chicane was. There they built a (very slow) chicane again at the end of the run-off area of corner 1 at the red bull ring. The chicane goes in the different direction than the old one used to be (left-right-left). But you could possibly drive a lap at (nearly) the old layout...

Kyalami is popular in South Africa but not as much, it still has many motoring festivals and some races but it is under new ownership and they stopped the karting races

Do you think any of our current F1 tracks are in danger of becoming abandoned?

I always used to love Rio. Opening race of the season . Always a sketchy tv picture & the track was a bit scabby but the racing was always good & the backdrop was always picturesque. Such a shame the circuit has gone

Going down the old mine shaft corner at Kyalami took serious balls, dropping and turning, you essentially cant see where you are going at 280kph. Not sure the current track will work for F1 sadly, so they wont return.

The olympics in 2012 were in london. 2016 was when thwy were held in Brazil

When he said spa old track was so big at:3:34

Great Vid! Lost track suggestions Adelaide, Okayama, Zolder, Zandvoort, Dijon, Imola, Watkins Glen, Long Beach, Anderstorp, Plenty more

Little mistake in the Thumbnail "Abandonded", but great video of course

I'm really impressed with your research. Keep up the good wordk Alex

Estoril used to be huge here in Portugal, we have Portimão but its not as well-known as the Portuguese GP

Very interesting topic thank you for making this.

The ones I miss the most: Old hockenheim(new one isn't that exciting), Korea, Istanbul (turn 13) and best of all Sepang

Lo más lamentablemente del circuito de Río de Janeiro que, fue demolido para construir la Villa Olímpica de Río, es que actualmente la Villa olímpica está abandonada.

Could call the first track Jacarepagua too

Indian Grand Prix circuit is still used for lower racing categories and many company held motorsport events by Mercedes, Audi, Porsche, Ducati, TVS and a few more. It is also a place where car magazines review some performance cars. So it's not completely abandoned.

Österreichring - urrster-rike-ring. Don't worry about pronunciation, people always bang on about mine on my channel lol

I'm from Argentina and i can tell you why they stopped coming here: 1 As you said, money. The Argentine economy wasn't good back then and it isn't now. If they try to bring it back, it will be an unorganized disaster, i swear it. 2) The track was good in the 80's and shit in the 90's. Why, you might ask? The track configuration. Between 71 and 81( The 76' race didn't raced because we had a takeover of control by the militaries that lasted 8 years) the track was run on the n°6 configuration,which was pretty good and liked by many drivers,but during the 4 years that F1 came back (95 to 98, with financial problems eliminating the 99' race with the season already started, leaving a 5 weeks gap between the 1st race and the 3rd) was run on the n°15 configuration. This last one made overtaking nearly impossible if it wasn't on the backstraighway. And if they try to bring it back, with how wide are F1 cars today, it will be the same as the 90's. Good video!

What about the three Portuguese tracks (Boavista, Monsanto, Estoril) or the Moroccan Ain-Diab Circuit which hosted only one World Championship GP in 1958? I think it would be a good idea to include them in part 3 (if it's ever going to be made).

Maybe video about tracks you would like to see in F1?

Argentina racetrack is active and held several Argentinian national champioships like ACTC Turismo Carretera, Super TC2000, Top Race and others

if there is a Lost F1 track video... well Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari (Imola) the former San Marino Grand Prix the track is pretty much there but I don't know if it was use in racing or something

Yes please with circuit park zandvoort😄

Hell you can a whole video on lost f1 track in American alone

Yeah lost f1 track video would be awesome!

where is Istanbul , Constantinapole where the Gladiators of Roman empire fight ?

Just checked some onboards of the old Kyalami track and it looks much more flowing than the current one. I understand it got dropped after the changes they made, I remember watching an A1 race round there and I think there literally wasn’t a single overtake

I would love it if you could talk about The Scandianavian Raceway (Anderstorp Motorbana) in Sweden.

I think World RX now goes to Killarney for the South African race. Really good track with exciting racing. Glad they could use it after all.

yess lost circuits DO IT

Hi alex! i am argentinean and live in Buenos aires. the buenos aires track continue give race events for the local touring car championship called TC2000 and others categories

The most interesting facts is that also the Olympic Park in Rio is abandoned!

Fantastic 2nd edition. Loves these type of videos. Interesting and informative and you had a couple there I didn't know about. Keep up the great work. I have just started my channel back up, hence the flying pig logo, it will have film reviews added every week. If you get a chance feel free to pop over and drop me a comment.

I really miss Magny Cours. I liked racing on it on PC. Also Estoril is quite famous and is missing from the calendar. Also I don't like the redesign of Silverstone. I am surprised that you didn't mention Imola.

Would like to see the lost f1 tracks idea :)

I want a track that is a literall oval on the modern F1

Adelaide could've easily gone the way of the tracks mentioned, but it lives on today thanks to the Australian V8 Supercars event it holds each year

No. We saw Austria back in 1997. It then went away again and THEN Red Bull took it over.

The revered Kyalami is no longer, it was hacked to bits and the current track is absolutely shit. The long straight is now Kyalami Boulevard, and passing on the new layout is virtually impossible.

Mate.. your section on Kyalami.. you've used an aerial view of Cape Town (table mountain is in the back ground), whereas Kyalami is in Johannesburg?? You may have confused Kyalami with Killarney race track in Cape Town... also, Kyalami is once again at FIA Grade 2 status with a lot of reprofiling of track sections having taken place, along with a brand new pit building. Lastly, Jean Todt recently visited and it has been mentioned that they simply need to invest in TecPro barriers to get it to Grade 1 status

South Africa for 2023! It’s almost official..

Mosport in Canda used to be an F1 track. It is still in use for many race series. Watkins Glen used to be the site of the USGP (long live the bog people) is still in use.

Atleast they had races at some point. I am still waiting for Finland to have its own F1 track, but i dont think that will ever happen.

argentina one is probably holding TC2000

I know Riverside held one US GP and its destroyed. Would you do a video on that and the US street circuits that do not have any races anymore?

I live in South Africa!!!

You haven’t mentioned Zeltweg. It was a temporary course on an airfield just south of where the A-1 Ring now stands. It hosted the 1964 Austrian GP and wasn’t used since. You need to mention that if you do another one of these videos.

Its so sad that these good tracks have gotten abbendon and that just gets destroyed it's sad