Your best circuits for F1

[Schummy]

Imagine you are Bernie =:-o and you can nominate tracks to make a F1 season. In order to be more concrete, supose we have to choose 10 circuits. Don't worry about that "silly" political thing about one GP per country. Don't worry about current level of safety measures. Think just in terms of layout, and, obviously, think about tracks that actually exist today.

My 10 circuits would be (in no particular order):

Spa
Suzuka
Interlagos (the old long track, I think it still exists)
Le Mans(!)
...Nurburgring... (the old, long one, I have to include it)
Mugello
Silverstone (the classic layout, I think the tarmac is yet there)
Paul Ricard (the original, not the silly short version)
Elkhart Lake (love!)
Monza (the classic no chicane version)

I admit the old Nurburgring is too unrealistic (very long to be safe). I love Le Mans (24h version) but perhaps I'd prefer to leave it just for the big event...

I think the old Zeltweg tarmac is gone forever, if it existed, I'd choose it. More or less the same with Clermont-Ferrand.

Brands Hatch, Hockenheim (without chicanes!), Pau, Montjuich, Sepang, Macau... are nice to me too.

[bcobbus]

Meanwhile back in reality...

[Rob29]

Reality-circuits that will look good on TV and attract spectators;
Monaco
Albert Park
Adelade
Surfers Paradise
Macau
Long Beach
Montreal
Toronto
Vancouver
Norisring

[Adam43]

There are some great ones there. So without repeating any of those (although I'll have to give a quick mention to Spa - SPA).

I'd like to add Rouen to that list.

[ferrari_mark]

I don't really know much about circuits, but I've been to Albert Park and it was pretty good...the hot dogs were horrible though - take your own food

[ASCII Man]

Hmmmm.... that's a tough one.

1. Spa
2. Spa
3. Spa
4. Spa
5. Spa
6. Spa
7. Spa
8. Spa
9. Spa
10. Spa

[DNQ]

Sadly none of the tracks on the calendar would make my top five. Interlagos, Suzuka, Monza and Monaco are pretty nice but don't excite me in the way that a place like Spa does. I'll post a list later on of my favourite circuits

[Schummy]

Originally posted by Rob29
Reality-circuits that will look good on TV and attract spectators;
Monaco
Albert Park
Adelade
Surfers Paradise
Macau
Long Beach
Montreal
Toronto
Vancouver
Norisring

Three in Australia and three in Canada! When I said "don't worry about just one GP per country" I didn't mean *this*

[steve nielsen]

don't forget Zandvoort!!

[Bleu]

I would also add Brno. It should replace Hungaroring as Eastern Europe GP.

[racer69]

The real Brno or the current Brno?

[Highlander]

Spa
Bathurst
The Ring
Indy (the real one)
M25
The Cat and Fiddle

oh and Spa

[Dani Filth]

the current BRNo is a real Brno .. the old Massarik ... was good .. .... but the present one .. is way better then Hungaroring ..
so ... let's see
Spa
Monza
LeMans(not the buggati one)
Suzuka
Assen(don't know if the F1 cars ever went there)
Mugello
Enna Pergusa
Paul Ricard

i'll add others as i remember some great tracks

[Dani Filth]

forgot .. Mosport

[Asp]

In no particular order, but I don't want more than 1 GP per country, regardless of how good the track is
Spa
Oulton Park (best circuit in the UK. Totally unsafe, so would need some work, but still a great drivers track)
Albert Park
Brno (I want the Eastern European connection)
Road America
Toronto Road Course
Macau
Sears Point (Sonoma)(OK, so much for 1 GP per country - but the States is a big country)
Monaco - tradition
Monza - but could we possible change the first chicane back to as was?

[Dani Filth]

off course we can .. .... were only thinking

[Dani Filth]

forgot ... Hockenheim ... the old one ..

[Smokey 6 litre]

Snetterton,
Mondello park,
Croft,
Castle Coombe,
Silverstone,
Knockhill,
lydden hill,
thruxton,
Donington park,
Anglesey,

yep, all practical i think!!

[Bononi]

Originally posted by Schummy
Interlagos (the old long track, I think it still exists)

I'm sorry but it doesn't exist anymore...

[steve nielsen]

Originally posted by Dani Filth
Assen(don't know if the F1 cars ever went there)

No F1 car ever drove there, the fastes cars ever to drive there was a Italian F3000 race.

and another sugestion: Laguna Seca

[speedbump]

Love the old Hockenheim and Spa

Oh Well

[BootsOntheSide]

Monaco
Spa
Suzuka
Bathurst
Laguna Seca
Silverstone
Monza (no chicanes)
old Hockenheim or old Nurburgring
Montreal
Interlagos

[Bleu]

I meant current Brno. When I am planning these kind of schedules, I always use only those tracks that still exist.

So old Nürburgring would be good, or maybe we could use combined circuit.

Old Hockenheim doesn't exist anymore, as old tracks was replaced by forest.

[steve nielsen]

Autralian GP- Bathurst

French GP1 - Paul Ricard
French GP2- Le Mans(the whole thing)

German GP- Oshersleben

Dutch GP- Zandvoort

Belgian GP- Spa

Spanish GP- Jerez

Czec GP- Brno

American GP 1- Laguna Seca
American GP 2- Mid Ohio

British GP 1- Donnington park
Brittish GP2- Brands Hatch
Brazillian GP- Rio

Japanese GP- Suzuka

Italian GP- Mugello

Canadian GP- Montreal

[Asp]

Originally posted by steve nielsen
and another sugestion: Laguna Seca

I considered that, but went against it - too short to give them a run for their money - even though I'd love to see F1 cars in the Corkscrew!