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The fall of the Valencia street circuit probably had as much to do with the financial crisis in Spain as it did with anything else...

What they did to Hockenheim should be classed as a violation of the Geneva conventions.

I miss Valencia in the games, the real life races were awful but the games were very good

Imola would be awesome. Istanbul would be really great to have back. Magny Cours, didn't provide amazing racing but was pretty high speed.

I miss the Istanbul circuit to be honest.

F1 needs to get back the Portugal GP , on Estoril or on AIA (Algarve Internacional)

Here is a little known one! The Australian Grand Prix was held in Longford on a public road in 1959 and 1965. 20 Minutes from where I live!

2:16 that is the kind of circuit Formula E needs!

Great job mate! The Indian Grand Prix for sure. I drove that track on F1 2011 such a fun track to drive!

My favorite track was the Nurburgring

You are SO right about the V10 noise at the old Hockenheim circuit. You could hear those cars 10 miles away and they would scream around there.

Old Hockenheim wasn't abandoned, it was destroyed. It's just a forrest now.

Sad, these old tracks had character and charm, the new "autodromes" are completely flat, corporate friendly and cookie cutter generic af.

Am i the only one who misses Fuji ?

Great series. As far as Hockenheim goes, I believe there was an even longer track originally that was shaped like a bizarre polygon. The old loop fit inside it.

My top 3 is Imola, Adelaide and Magny Cours. Buenos Aires grand prix was also a great track. Loved it.

I hope kayalami ( the old South Africa f1 track) gets put back in, a couple of years ago Porsche SA bought it and revitalized it. It is currently holding many types of races, from v8 super cars to f3000 to normal track days. ( I might be biased because it is literally 10 km from my house) Edit: also the track is brilliant, a few weeks ago I entered a track day there, it’s so much fun with 950bhp and awd from my r33 gtr.

Definitely Imola, Adelaide and Estoril. Many nights watching those GPs and racing on GP2 - those were the days!

The Monza Oval is interesting to me because it hosted a race in which Formula 1 cars went head to head with Indy cars of the day. It occurred prior to the mid-engined cars took over both series and the Indy cars ran away and hid from the Formula 1 cars, particularly in the first year. No surprise really as they were designed for ovals with big Offenhauser engines. I wonder how the Indy cars would have fared on the Monza road course?

There were two high-speed Indy Car races on the Monza oval in the late '50s. There were a couple of WSC endurance races in the mid-60s on the full course with a chicane at the entrance to each banking.

They need to redo the Monza Oval and have NASCAR run there.

And now Malaysia :(

The Monza track they use today is essentially the original track - with some modifications. The banked sections were added in the 1950s - 30 years after the circuit first opened - and was used for only a few GPs. It's probably more famous these days because it was used in the 1966 film "Grand Prix".

A feature of the Rheims weekend in the '50s & '60s was a 12 hour sports car race run from midnight Saturday to noon Sunday with the F1 race starting later in the day. Many top drivers did both.

i would like to see the South African GP at Kyalami Curcuit return to F1. I would also like to see an F1 race in Scandinavia, we had the Swedish GP in the 1970s, but it would be cool to have a modern day GP race.

Indianapolis and Laguna Seca, two American tracks that need to out back onto the formula 1 schedule. Another track that should be on the formula 1 schedule is Bathurst in Australia. What a beautiful track that is.

Awesome. Love a good geeky F1 vid. I miss the old Hockenheim like you'd never believe and the German GP was always my favourite on the calender as I loved those long run-outs into the countryside. It was also an awesome track to play on the PS2....

no idea how it took me this long to find your channel, but very glad I did. Subbed, awesome content cant wait to get into it.

Isn't Reims on public roads? Also how about Clermont-Ferrand? Kyalami in South Africa. Jarama in Spain. The old Spa circuit and Zolder in Belgium. Oporto in Portugal. Anderstorp in Sweden. St. Jovite and Mosport(still active)in Canada. The old Zandvoort circuit in Netherlands. Zeltweg and the old Osterreichring in Austria. Imola in Italy. Aintree in England. Interlagos in Brazil. Bremgarten in Switzerland.

The old Östereichring wasn't bad. I actually got to walk the old section of the circuit which isn't used anymore and it's basically a parking space for all the teams' lorries when the grand prix is happening.

I used to race bikes at Aintree an Ex F1 track. It has a long fast back straight but sadly now the rest of the track on the other side of the melling road has gone. It's still a great track for bikes, very fast.

bring back korea, omg that circuit had so so so much potential it's honestly a massive indictment on berney's last few years in charge that it was taken off the calendar. imagine if the whole project got completed with it's marina and the hotel too, absolute spectacle of a circuit for television.

Parts of the Rouen-Essartes track are still used to this day, and Rheims (pronounced "reem" or "reems" with a soft s at the end) is being seriously looked at for being brought back into use, at least partly. Rheims, like Rouen-Essartes, was also a public road course as Spa-Francorchamps was and, most famously, the Le Mans-La Sarthe circuit still is and it was largely this reason that caused it to close. While the track was closed to the public for racing a number of towns and villages on the route were pretty much cut off, though the safety of the track, as a lot of the tracks at the time, was questionable with their being a lot of very large crashes over its history...

if sepang circuit in malaysia becomes like this swear ill start crying :(

I like how tracks have evolved, if you look at old tracks they’re mainly long straights with few corners (just the layouts, not the history/beauty)

Don’t know when the photos of Valencia were taken but I was there in February this year and people were walking it and enjoying the harbour view, it’s a great place to go and walk!

Let me know if there are any topics you want me to look further into and make a video on :)

I really liked driving around Valencia in the F1 Games.

Great video, really nice work. I live on the Channel Islands and every time I drive through France I mean to visit the old Reims buildings, must do it one year. However I have visited Monza on a weekday when it was so quiet you could walk the track and the banking section is unreal. You can't believe they would race there at such high speeds. Not an F1 circuit but one of my favorite old circuits to visit is Brooklands. An incredible place with amazing history. Unfortunately like you show with other tracks on your video the circuit is pretty bad in places and most of it was smashed to make way for car parks and offices. The one point I would make is a lot of the modern Grand Prix's drop of the calendar due to money. India, and Valencia were in terrible debt (the Indian race was in debt to the tune of millions of dollars and just couldn't recover) and due to the terrible mess they found themselves in they were unable to keep the races going. Most modern venues are unable to recoup the millions they spend building the place and then further millions paying the F1 organisers to hold a race as well. If what I read is to be believed, apart from Monaco every single race on the calendar loses money on running an F1 event.

That’s a really good documentary man. Good job and thank you.

Estoril GP - Portugal 😢

This is a great video, sad to see so many tracks lost to time. Get in touch with a TV company for £20k of fundsing and we'll do a road trip filming at old tracks around Europe for 3 weeks, you, Sean, me and Chaz. Then sell it to Sky Sports ;) It's a great idea! Also #toyotaTwing at 0:55

Word cloud for this video: sad, abandoned, it’s a shame.

There's a race track being built in Northern Ireland called Lake Torrent as far as I'm aware. It's about 3.6km long and is built to bring in world race events.. I doubt that it will ever host a F1 GP, even though the layout seems pretty interesting, but one can dream that there's always potential for new tracks around the world to become part of the F1 calendar.

TURKISH grand prix that was an awesome race track

I would like to see Donington Park come back in.

I'm really happy that people are making mods of these circuits in games like: Assetto Corsa, rFactor 1 and 2 and Automobilista. I really enjoy racing on the 60's and 70's circuits a lot with the old F1 cars.

Yes, a very good video. Very sad to see some of these classic and historical venyes abandoned.

The old South African grand prix was the best in my opinion. At the kyalami track

Very interesting video.

Just realized, thanks to your video, I walked on a F1 circuit once. Without even knowing back then... Thanks

A guy I was watching said that Ricardo Tormo should have held the race in Valencia.

Valencia was a street track so most of it was a temporary but the purpose-build part is indeed pretty dilapidated. Seems like a beautiful city, actually visiting it in less than 2 weeks but this is surely not one of the more nice area's. Maybe they are hoping to see a return of F1 some day, or they will just redevelop the whole area?

I've been to Reims you can do about 130mph along it in a road car

Good job, keep working and growing man. Thanks

Great video and great memories there Alex. Especially for those of us who are a bit older. I don't know whether you're aware but the Adelaide GP circuit was revived in 1999 and continues to operate in a slightly shortened version to this day. It hosts the opening round of the Australian Supercar Championship, usually around the last week of February each year. The old Longford circuit in Tasmania used to host the Tasman Series for Formula 1 drivers and cars in the early to mid 1960s. That track has had a highway bypass built through the middle of it, but features like The Flying Mile and The Viaduct still exist.

Turkey Istanbul! That was a track you could race and over take on. I miss that track. Button and Hamilton! Vetted and Webber! Th back straight the the chicane then the start finish straight and right into a left right chicane.

I actually kinda of like the Korean and Indian GP circuits. I also like the Valencia Street Circuit. I think it is a shame to see them not be on the calender but at least the Korean and Indian circuits are still somewhat used.

A couple years ago I visited the Estoril Circuit where Senna got his first ever victory in Formula One... it was amazing. Not abandoned but certainly in decadence now. It’s a very cool area of Portugal and the track layout was quite interesting (very similar to the the Catalunya’s). I presume the problem was it being too narrow for the modern f1 cars. It was great though back in the day...

It's my understanding Hockehenheim was reconfigured because of safety concerns. Specifically how little infrastructure there was in the forest section, and how fast medical cars and ambulances could get to a crash scene.

I hate to say it but Monaco is the most boring track on the calender, especially since the Azerbaijan GP came along. Probably better back in the day when the cars weren't as wide as the cars around today. Can't see why the Hockenheim track can't be remapped to the way it was. The Azerbaijan and Russian GP both have huge straights and are absolutely awesome tracks. I miss the San Marino GP.

Valencia was an awful track. Ugly, bland and characterless. No loss whatsoever.

I love to see Imola back in F1,or Magny Cours,or Estoril! Some proper racing circuits with a proper history behind it

I liked the old Hockenheimring. One of the few full speed tracks back then. It was fun in the F1 games of the time :D

Australia @ Adelaide GP not Melbourne GP

Brands hatch is a better track than silverstone

I'd like to see Estoril added back to the calendar. No reason it couldn't be. It's a fantastic track.

I think what makes most of us fond over these older circuits is mostly the fact alot of the older tracks had character whereas most tracks nowadays remind me of the concrete cookie cutter multipurpose stadiums in the states from the 60s-90s whereas the older circuits like Spa, Solitude and Old Hockenheim were the Jewel Box parks of before. I look at modern tracks and I generally see, endless runoff, chicanes, overtake zones and some tracks share the same features look at Yas Marina and COTA they both have a very tight left turn to a long straightaway, not all modern tracks are bad or horrible there are good ones like Singapore but most are too similar to my taste I understand safety being an issue but as for the overtakes,, this may be controversial but in my opinion FIA has turned what was once a form of art into something else. As for changing older tracks its a hit or miss Spa's redesign in the 80s was a hit whereas the 2002 Hockenheim and 2010 Silverstone are a miss.

Indian, Korean and Netherland GP would be interesting for the F1 calendar. USE MALAYSIA FOR TESTING LIBERTYMEDIA

the indian gp was a good circuit

Imola is just iconic and Stil in good shape

You left out the old Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in South Africa which also has a lot of F1 history, the old East London circuit also in South Africa raced in the 50s and 60s. You left out the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, Fuji, the Phoenix street circuit in the U.S (with the memorable Senna and Alesi battle in 1990.) great video, love the shots from Reims and the old Parabolica curve at Monza

Bring back Watkins Glen! Austin Texas is to far from my house! And I'm banned from Canada!

One track. Two words. Laguna Seca.

Let's get Zandvoort on the calendar again. It's a great track, I basically live there and it has such a rich history!

Great video!

OK, pretty good but please limit the "um, yeah" to only three per vid.

San Marino was a great track

I really want Delhi and Istanbul to come back... the best tracks from among the new ones

Now with Malaysia gone, the calendar of the Singapore-Russia-Japan leg is so awkward because it will be long distance to go back and forth to fly back to Europe after Singapore and Japan and the US

Tracks I'd like to see formula one revisit: Watkins Glenn, the long-time home of the US Grand Prix. The teams didn't like the facilities, the jet-setters didn't like the lack of big city nightlife, but it was a classic track. And still in use for everything from club and vintage racing to NASCAR and Indy Cars. Die Nordschleif der Nurburgring. The full 14.7 mile track, not the decerebrate south circuit in use now. If any track could be called the proper place for a Formula One circuit, that's it. 178 corners, every kind of driving/cornering situation imaginable and a challenge for man and machine. It was abandoned as an F1 venue after the 1976 race, when Nikki Lauda was nearly killed in a fiery crash.

You missed the old Australian track, Adelaide. A smaller version of is still used for races in the V8Supercars series. That was a GREAT track. With some GREAT overtakes and championship winning/loosing moments.

Nice video Alex👍🏼

Two come to mind. Magny-Cours and one of my favourites Adelaide. These are two the rarest circuits in racing games as well. I believe the f1 game on the psone waasy back in 1995 was the last time I saw it in a f1 game for the console. GT: Sport and Project Cars 2 should definitely add this one to the roster.....and F1 should return to the F1 Calender.

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Kyalami South Africa

The old Monza racetrack actually is used ones time per year during the Monza Rally Show, where rally cars must to complete 1 lap must go in the modern both old racetracks (in this one are placed some gincanes and 2 nhairpin bends). Ps: Monza is placed in Lombardia, central-norther region, not near to Genoa (Liguria!). We haven't the sea! lol ;)

WE NEED THE INDIAN GP BACK, IT WAS SO DOPE

I miss the old Hockenheimring and Istanbul, also kinda miss Indianapolis

I wish i had all of your trophys lol Love your background.

There is no racing circuit anywhere like the Nurburgring Nordsliefe

red bull ring - österreichring?!

Bring Back Adelaide! It still gets used for V8 supercars. I think you'll find that the track on the old Hockenhiem was ripped up in parts, which sucks because they could have used it for historic events.

its nice to hear a young man like yourself be interest in the history of racing

I'm from indy, so Indianapolis for sure.

Portugal Estoril track 👍👍

Shame they ripped up the pavement at Hokenheim to prevent it being used once they shortened the track. I'd love to see Jerez back on the calendar. Have it swing back and forth between there and Barcelona (and remove that lame chicane right before the start/finish straight at Barça) And Paul Ricard/Mangy Cours alternating for the French Grand Prix. Oh and Estoril! Great little track in Portugal

Man if I lived in Valencia I'd get myself a Gokart and have Hella fun there

I miss Indian GP