idk why and this isn't a diss, but Emree always sounds like she just remembered the funniest joke at work but cant laugh cause she's presenting the meeting
Fun fact: the tow trucks that are allowed to go into Nordschleife during tourist days (to rescue broken down or crashed cars) will then leave the cars at Sudschleife - they have a repair shop there! Don't ask how I know...
Ah no crashing haha. Engine death, a few corners before mini-carousel. Amusingly, the car behind also died at the exact same time - we helped each other push our cars to safety behind the barrier. 2x combo towtruck to sudschleife!! 😅
Thanks for turning me on to Potrero de los Funes! I checked out some other vids, one from the GT1 championship and that track is insane! I must play it.
I should note, there's another sim that supports an officially liscensed version of Rockingham speedway UK anr that's live for speed which has a laser scanned version of the track. With the implementation of official mod support it's cool to race modern cars like GT3's around there. Very underrated sim imo.
Should note that Live For Speed (a very good simulator from the 2000’s) also has a very good representation of Rockingham (like, stupidly good). I adore Live For Speed, it’s still a live game, the devs still work on it, the multiplayer servers are live and active, the physics are GREAT, and the variety of cars (after paying for the full S3 licence) is amazing (including the community made mods, which are made with a tool provided by the devs)
If I know right, the Surfers Paradise track actually was originally from TOCA Race Driver 3, and it may holds the record for the track with the most number of conversions for different games.
It takes so many hours setting up these games, the PC, the Wheels and pedals... Emree you are my heroine for your effort. It makes kicking your butt in GT7 feel wrong, but I need the game credits. Anyways, thanks for all of your effort. You are the best.
I had my first real life race in Pukekohe. Think I finished 5th. Pre chicane days. In my 2nd race I crashed and it hurts in real life 😂. Blasting down the back straight at nearly 300kmph and braking for the hairpin was some buzz. As was turn 1 which was quite often dusty from the horses crossing the track to the horses track on the infield.
Sudshleife in AMS2, & all the FatAlfie mods in AC are amazing! Slightly different idea, but there’s a Mariokart track in RF2 which is crazy fun in older cars (I was trying the McLaren M23 there, bonkers!)
The Südschleife part looked like AMS2. The whole Nürburgring DLC is fantastic. There's the Betonschleife, basically a lap around the pit building. And I noticed that it's possible to drive the Steilstrecke in the Historic Nordschleife. You get your laptime deleted thoug :-D
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Standard girlfriend - angry shouting: "Are you playing with that stupid cars again?" This girl as girlfriend - excited: "Hey I just found great new mode for Assetto!"
Riverside and Rouen-Les-Essarts are two of my favourite tracks and i would love to add Bridgehampton to the list as well. Imo these historic tracks (and cars) are of huge importance i sims. There is just no ther way to jump into a time capsule and experience these places.
some other notables on iRacing: - Concord Speedway (my home track :'( - now a Copart junkyard) - Irwindale (closing down & being turned into warehouses after next month) - Phoenix's infield road course (removed in renovations) - USA International Speedway (now a PepsiCo warehouse) - Wild West Motorsports Park of course they have Pukehoke, Rockingham UK (granted it's just closed so never say never!) and the old oval at Mosport scanned as well
@inky.64 the Joliet complex is still active & NASCAR has made no notable changes to the property (apart from where catchfencing was removed for SuperMotocross last year), the Route 66 portion of the facility is currently on the NHRA schedule.
@@JSRacing61 Okay turns out I got it confused with Kentucky whoops lol Speaking of Kentucky, not sure how true this is since I heard it on Twitter, but someone said the track might be getting demolished soon
Classic tracks presented with enthusiasm. This is great. Thanks! Nurburgring Sudschleife and Potrero de los Funes Circuit look good. I didn't realise Oran Park had closed. I love tracks with bridges like that. Thomson Road is by Fat Alfie and he has done a lot of fantastic classic tracks that don't exist anymore.
I knew the name Amaroo Park by name but am too young to remember the racing there. Recently gave it a shot in some of Assetto Mods 90s ATCC cars and had a blast, great little circuit. Shame it's now houses.
The main reason tracks are closing these days is NIMBYs. They don’t care that the track was there before them, they just want the noise to stop completely. It’s also why it’s next-to-impossible to build new race tracks, forcing sanctioning bodies to settle for street circuits that are often too narrow for good racing.
Glad you covered Riverside. I grew up in 70s and 80s and Riverside was one of my favorite tracks. I can spend hours on it in my PC racing games. If you want to see it on film ( outside of old race videos) watch the 1978 Chuck Norris movie "Good Guys Wear Black" he drives a 911 around it in some scenes.
I actually do miss the OG Hockinhim. I first experienced it through a GT racing game back in the early 2000s. I can't remember the game's name for the life of me, but it was one of the last sims where I've seen the Porsche 911 GT1 actually featured in that I can recall right off hand.
Sendai Highland was besides one of the most technical tracks in Japan, also featured in Jackie Chan's car movie, Thunderbolt. I was devastated once I learned they gave up on it and I won't ever be able to drive on it. At least we have Autopolis, which is much bigger scale, but still as technical. I'm sure these two totally inspired the layouts of the Gran Turismo tracks. By the way, I have driven Autoclub Speedway in 2012 with my AE86, as well as a friend's 2012 911 GT3 3.8 at 160mph into the first corner, on the Roval layout. By the way, this video could be done into a series, with so many lost tracks to time... I can think of these few right off the top of my head: Brooklands, Terramar, Reims, Montjuic, Clermont Ferrand (although similar to the Old Spa, part of the layout is still used in the current Charade circuit), Caesar's Palace (Las Vegas F1 Grand Prix)... And so many more!
Emree i loved how you conduct the video! And you accent is awesome too. Well, to list needs a put my hometown track Curitiba/Brazil who unfortunately don't exist anymore :( (we lost at in real estate speculation, like many other tracks around world not listed too...) . Only on old Race and Race 07 and Automobilista 1 and 2 games are possible to drive again "officially".
Didn’t know Oran Park was out of business… sad… Here in Brazil there is a couple of tracks that are closed and only available at sim racing: - Curitiba, the track that featured in Race 07 and AMS 1 and 2; - Old Interlagos layout, AMS 1 and 2 and mods for most sims; - Brasilia from AMS 1 and 2 - we are told every year that it would be reopen after some work… but that day never comes…
Jacarepagua, Sudschleife, Auto Club and old Hockenheim are all in AMS2 as well. Along with other old tracks, eg historic Spa (technically ‘lost’). And some AMS2 mods have these tracks too (eg Rouen).
NASCAR fan here. Losing Auto Club was a real gut punch, and it came at an awful time. Fontana is a big business city with a ton of warehouses, so the land is really valuable. Auto Club was a pretty popular track and always had some great racing, but in the late 2010s there was a big push for more short tracks. California kept the track closed longer than most others during the pandemic so the track lay empty for a couple years. The conversion was announced during that time, and it got two seasons with the NextGen car before it closed and demolition started. Unfortnately, the NextGen car drives way worse on short tracks and NASCAR tore up a track it raced really well at to make it one. There's talk that they may just sell off all the land and take the bag.
Nearby Ontario Motor Speedway met a similar fate. The land it sat on was more valuable than what it was raking in. Riverside, meanwhile, was simply engulfed by the growth of the town of Moreno Valley. Ironically, the shopping mall that sits on the site is now closed.
You say that the asphalt at Hockenheim still exists but is overgrown by weeds, but this is incorrect. The asphalt was completely dug up shortly after the new shorter version of the track was unveiled.
11:03 In that vein Zandvoort’s old layout, which also had a longer loop, also has a mod for AC, but now on that old part of the track, is a golf-course/holiday park
The tragedy with Rockingham is that it was the UK's most advanced Motorsport venue and had the most potential to host far more than the mere regional championships that went. Lack of vision from management lead to it disappearing under its own lack of revenue. If it had simply carried the name 'Silverstone' it almost certainly would have been saved by government intervention
I would have added 80s/90s Fuji from Gran Turismo 4. It was my preferred layout, especially with prototypes, but with the years, the new layout grew on me. But I still like the simplicity and fast pace of the old layout.
I remember driving Rouen in F1 Legends. Portrero was a old school style of circuit in the sense that it had a long lap of over 4 miles and had a public roads feel about it. I remember watching the FIA GT1 World Championship races there on eurosport.
Damn, didn't know that Potrero de los Funes was destroyed. Shame, used to love lapping it in rFactor. And calling Nivelles-Baulers an old-school F1 track sounds strange: it was deemed too modern, safe, and boring when it hosted the Belgian GP :D
A few shouts for Curitiba in the comments - I'd add another from Race 07, and that'd be the street circuit in Porto. Its original version held the F1 Portuguese Grand Prix twice, while it came back for touring cars in the 2000s on a shorter (but tricky) layout. Hasn't raced for about 10 years and unlikely to see any kind of comeback. Race 07 had some seriously difficult street tracks with this, Pau and Macau - I'd rarely get through a public lobby race unscathed...
Valencia triggered some nostalgia on me. Alonso delivered there one of the best performances I've ever seen in my 20 years watching F1. I think he even lapped his own teammate on pure pace that race. Also we've seen there one of the most historic events of F1: Maldonado crashing with Hamilton without Pastor being the one to blame haha
Old track layouts are plenty as well, you touched on Hockenheim and the Nürburgring but I'd add variants like 60s Monza with the banked corners, 30s-60s Spa and the old "Österreichring" with the Westschleife.
Didn't know Adria closed, it was a nice track, probably the debts were due to the new layout to receive WTCR in 2021. About Rockingham, the track was built in toxic lands like swamps and was actually sinking in some parts. The company that buy it wanted to demolished to build houses, like what happened with Oran park, but the land is too toxic. Potrero is a semi-permanent track and I think it's still there, it was used by TC2000 championship and the event was canceled due to the pandemic, as well the event at Santa Fé street circuit.
I got another problem, which is franchise/console-line specific race tracks... "Hakone Circuit" + variants (Forza Motorsport PC/Xbox) and "Blue Moon Bay Speedway" + variants (Gran Turismo PS4/5). It is almost funny, how Patreon-creators, don´t get flagged for kit-bashing still active licenced cars, from other titles (FH5 for example) into other games, but many don´t seem to touch the tracks.
Believe it or not, there was actually a dedicated circuit in Surfers Paradise before the street circuit even existed, but it was shut down in the late 80s and redeveloped into an estate. Too bad there isn't a scrap of the track left.
@OverTake_gg Jacarepagua was named after Nelson Piquet, which is weird as he was an active F1 driver at the time. Normally tracks are named after a retired or deceased driver. Interlagos (Carlos Pace Autodrome) & Montreal (Gilles Villeneuve Circuit) biggest examples
A track I wish was real but is only in sim is sakitto in project cars 2. very much a suzuka clone. but I like the layout sooo much more. feels even more flowy
There’s a laser scanned version of Rockingham in LFS :) it was their first (and so far only) real world track :) If iRacing asks nicely (and pays a ton of money probably) they could maybe get the data from the LFS devs…
NZ motorsport has been force fed massive L's in the 2020's so far (despite our recent massive international success). We have lost our pavement holy grail, Pukekohe (poo-keh-koh-heh), to horse racing for "future proofing" and developing then horse Abus-, racing facilities. And now the Auckland Council has voted to move speedway from our dirt holy grail, Western Springs Speedway (likely for a soccer stadium to feed the initial hype for the new AFC team).
A brief history of Race tracks in SoCal: Ontario Motor Speedway 1970-1980 (The Indy of the West…like seriously victory lane was paved with bricks from IMS): Bought out by a land developer in the 1980’s and torn down for a hotel and stores. Riverside International Raceway: 1957-1989. Destroyed in the 80’s to build a shopping Mall. Fontana/aka California Speedway/aka Auto Club Speedway : 1997-2023 Destroyed to build an Amazon Warehouse Moral of the story if you build a track in SoCal within 30 years it will be gone.
Is there a red line in this 21 pick? Or just random personal choices? As a track hunter since as a kid in the 70ies and going bonkers and berzerk when sim racing and track mods emerged some +25 years ago, Would be overwhelming if I had to make a personal list of deceased racing tracks. And especially if I was asked for a personal preference. Since when I go to the history books and jump in the sim seat, new favorites from the past very often get. "But name just one". No, then I will betray my other hundreds of favorites. Impossible.
Part of the rouen layout is now lost to nature - I visited it in 2019 but had to walk through vegetation and trees to be able to reach the old main straight!
10:04 Its an unstatement to say Auto Club was very fast. It is (was) in fact the fastest ever in history, Gil de Ferran ran a lap with a AVERAGE speed over 241 mph.
This is the unfortunate reality of a lot of racetracks in the united states. Real world racing is a dying here quickly. There has been a spike of interest in F1 which is promising but I fear we are doomed in the long run. Even the most popular types of racing here (nascar for example) have had basically empty stands for some time outside of a few big ovals. Some tracks have been repurposed for "event" locations with some low level racing mixed in but the majority of them have been flattened and turned into housing communities. Same story with drag strips. Luckily I believe sim racing is still on an upward trend here.
This just isn't true, rising waters raise all ships. F1 getting more popular only helps other motorsports. Nascar is consistently selling out races again, imsa had record attendees at i believe all of their races
there was this malaysian race track, used to host lots of races but now it become a real estate place and housing, forgot the name but i don't think theres a mod for it, theres also a racetrack from my country indonesia, called ancol street circuit very famous in the 70s but no mods yet, if someone knows let me know
Great video with great insight for each track, even though the video was in a quick hit style format. Only thing I disagree with, Baltimore was awful, glad it's gone, lol. Two favorites I'd add to this list... Westwood Motorsport Park (BC, Canada... used to host Formula Atlantic and Trans-Am among others) and Circuit du Mas du Clos (France... a small club circuit, but upon further reading this one has actually some what recently reopened in 2022, after was closed in 2010)
I'd like to make a suggestion for the next time you pronounce Pukekohe... it is pronounced Pook-eh-koh-hih, for Pook simply think Book with a P. Instead of how it was pronounced like Puke-eh-koh-hih. Coming from Australia, I felt obligated to defend my sister country and their great racing asset! :P Otherwise, I love the vid!
idk why and this isn't a diss, but Emree always sounds like she just remembered the funniest joke at work but cant laugh cause she's presenting the meeting
@@yurilopes420 hopefully she got the laugh out after reading your comment lol
"I'm sure pastor Maldonado crashed here" is a good probability for every track he's raced on.
I remember watching that race live on TV.
Maldonado I swear entered a GP with a notebook *Says I haven’t crashed at THIS track yet, time to cause one 😏* 🇻🇪
Fun fact: the tow trucks that are allowed to go into Nordschleife during tourist days (to rescue broken down or crashed cars) will then leave the cars at Sudschleife - they have a repair shop there! Don't ask how I know...
Hahahaha 😂
Which corner was THE one? :D
Ah no crashing haha. Engine death, a few corners before mini-carousel. Amusingly, the car behind also died at the exact same time - we helped each other push our cars to safety behind the barrier. 2x combo towtruck to sudschleife!! 😅
Thanks for turning me on to Potrero de los Funes! I checked out some other vids, one from the GT1 championship and that track is insane! I must play it.
I should note, there's another sim that supports an officially liscensed version of Rockingham speedway UK anr that's live for speed which has a laser scanned version of the track. With the implementation of official mod support it's cool to race modern cars like GT3's around there. Very underrated sim imo.
Should note that Live For Speed (a very good simulator from the 2000’s) also has a very good representation of Rockingham (like, stupidly good).
I adore Live For Speed, it’s still a live game, the devs still work on it, the multiplayer servers are live and active, the physics are GREAT, and the variety of cars (after paying for the full S3 licence) is amazing (including the community made mods, which are made with a tool provided by the devs)
LFS deserves a lot more recognition than it gets.
If I know right, the Surfers Paradise track actually was originally from TOCA Race Driver 3, and it may holds the record for the track with the most number of conversions for different games.
It takes so many hours setting up these games, the PC, the Wheels and pedals... Emree you are my heroine for your effort. It makes kicking your butt in GT7 feel wrong, but I need the game credits. Anyways, thanks for all of your effort. You are the best.
Another lost track is Curitiba, in Brazil. It hosted WTCC and was part of Race 07. Was knocked down for housing.
I had my first real life race in Pukekohe. Think I finished 5th. Pre chicane days. In my 2nd race I crashed and it hurts in real life 😂. Blasting down the back straight at nearly 300kmph and braking for the hairpin was some buzz. As was turn 1 which was quite often dusty from the horses crossing the track to the horses track on the infield.
When entering Berlin on the highway there is still the Mercedes Building and the old grandstand.
Brazilian here... Jacarepagua pronunciation was perfect!
Sudshleife in AMS2, & all the FatAlfie mods in AC are amazing!
Slightly different idea, but there’s a Mariokart track in RF2 which is crazy fun in older cars (I was trying the McLaren M23 there, bonkers!)
The Südschleife part looked like AMS2. The whole Nürburgring DLC is fantastic. There's the Betonschleife, basically a lap around the pit building. And I noticed that it's possible to drive the Steilstrecke in the Historic Nordschleife. You get your laptime deleted thoug :-D
Standard girlfriend - angry shouting: "Are you playing with that stupid cars again?"
This girl as girlfriend - excited: "Hey I just found great new mode for Assetto!"
Longford for AC is one of the best. And all the other lost road tracks from the same author as Thomson Rd.
Riverside and Rouen-Les-Essarts are two of my favourite tracks and i would love to add Bridgehampton to the list as well. Imo these historic tracks (and cars) are of huge importance i sims. There is just no ther way to jump into a time capsule and experience these places.
some other notables on iRacing:
- Concord Speedway (my home track :'( - now a Copart junkyard)
- Irwindale (closing down & being turned into warehouses after next month)
- Phoenix's infield road course (removed in renovations)
- USA International Speedway (now a PepsiCo warehouse)
- Wild West Motorsports Park
of course they have Pukehoke, Rockingham UK (granted it's just closed so never say never!) and the old oval at Mosport scanned as well
I think Chicagoland got turned into a junkyard too
@inky.64 the Joliet complex is still active & NASCAR has made no notable changes to the property (apart from where catchfencing was removed for SuperMotocross last year), the Route 66 portion of the facility is currently on the NHRA schedule.
@@JSRacing61 Okay turns out I got it confused with Kentucky whoops lol
Speaking of Kentucky, not sure how true this is since I heard it on Twitter, but someone said the track might be getting demolished soon
Classic tracks presented with enthusiasm. This is great. Thanks!
Nurburgring Sudschleife and Potrero de los Funes Circuit look good. I didn't realise Oran Park had closed. I love tracks with bridges like that.
Thomson Road is by Fat Alfie and he has done a lot of fantastic classic tracks that don't exist anymore.
Amaroo Park Raceway, Longford, Wellington... *sigh* So many race circuits now long gone.
I knew the name Amaroo Park by name but am too young to remember the racing there. Recently gave it a shot in some of Assetto Mods 90s ATCC cars and had a blast, great little circuit. Shame it's now houses.
Pukekohe, Riverside and Jacarapagua are all INCREDIBLE!
Sendai Hi-Land was also fondly remembered as the climatic set piece for the 1995 Jackie Chan film Thunderbolt
The main reason tracks are closing these days is NIMBYs. They don’t care that the track was there before them, they just want the noise to stop completely. It’s also why it’s next-to-impossible to build new race tracks, forcing sanctioning bodies to settle for street circuits that are often too narrow for good racing.
reminds me of that laguna seca saga
@@nihildwo4874 that was an absolute joke
I love your pronounciation of Rouen-les-Essart :)
@4:30 Jacarepagua is best.. all turns are perfect circles..
Great video!! 💯
This video is such a good idea! Thank you
Glad you covered Riverside. I grew up in 70s and 80s and Riverside was one of my favorite tracks. I can spend hours on it in my PC racing games.
If you want to see it on film ( outside of old race videos) watch the 1978 Chuck Norris movie "Good Guys Wear Black" he drives a 911 around it in some scenes.
Another one I love from AMS2 is the old Adelaide layout. Its awesome
I actually do miss the OG Hockinhim. I first experienced it through a GT racing game back in the early 2000s. I can't remember the game's name for the life of me, but it was one of the last sims where I've seen the Porsche 911 GT1 actually featured in that I can recall right off hand.
Riverside is also where Ken Miles had his fatal accident
Sendai Highland was besides one of the most technical tracks in Japan, also featured in Jackie Chan's car movie, Thunderbolt.
I was devastated once I learned they gave up on it and I won't ever be able to drive on it. At least we have Autopolis, which is much bigger scale, but still as technical. I'm sure these two totally inspired the layouts of the Gran Turismo tracks.
By the way, I have driven Autoclub Speedway in 2012 with my AE86, as well as a friend's 2012 911 GT3 3.8 at 160mph into the first corner, on the Roval layout.
By the way, this video could be done into a series, with so many lost tracks to time... I can think of these few right off the top of my head: Brooklands, Terramar, Reims, Montjuic, Clermont Ferrand (although similar to the Old Spa, part of the layout is still used in the current Charade circuit), Caesar's Palace (Las Vegas F1 Grand Prix)... And so many more!
Emree i loved how you conduct the video! And you accent is awesome too. Well, to list needs a put my hometown track Curitiba/Brazil who unfortunately don't exist anymore :( (we lost at in real estate speculation, like many other tracks around world not listed too...) . Only on old Race and Race 07 and Automobilista 1 and 2 games are possible to drive again "officially".
Didn’t know Oran Park was out of business… sad…
Here in Brazil there is a couple of tracks that are closed and only available at sim racing:
- Curitiba, the track that featured in Race 07 and AMS 1 and 2;
- Old Interlagos layout, AMS 1 and 2 and mods for most sims;
- Brasilia from AMS 1 and 2 - we are told every year that it would be reopen after some work… but that day never comes…
Yeah, exactly, both great. Also, she didn't pronounce Jacarepagua correctly I am afraid, but the omission of the old Interlagos was a bigger sin
Jacarepagua, Sudschleife, Auto Club and old Hockenheim are all in AMS2 as well. Along with other old tracks, eg historic Spa (technically ‘lost’). And some AMS2 mods have these tracks too (eg Rouen).
i can confirm AVUS is still part of the highway. I drove there when I went to Berlin last there and you can still pass by a grandstand.
NASCAR fan here. Losing Auto Club was a real gut punch, and it came at an awful time. Fontana is a big business city with a ton of warehouses, so the land is really valuable. Auto Club was a pretty popular track and always had some great racing, but in the late 2010s there was a big push for more short tracks. California kept the track closed longer than most others during the pandemic so the track lay empty for a couple years. The conversion was announced during that time, and it got two seasons with the NextGen car before it closed and demolition started. Unfortnately, the NextGen car drives way worse on short tracks and NASCAR tore up a track it raced really well at to make it one. There's talk that they may just sell off all the land and take the bag.
Nearby Ontario Motor Speedway met a similar fate. The land it sat on was more valuable than what it was raking in.
Riverside, meanwhile, was simply engulfed by the growth of the town of Moreno Valley. Ironically, the shopping mall that sits on the site is now closed.
I also love the old Kyalami layout in South Africa and drive it often in AMS2. Still prefer it to the new
Curitiba in Brazil
Rouen Les-Essarts is a great track. Drove it in Grand Prix 2 and GTR2 :D
You say that the asphalt at Hockenheim still exists but is overgrown by weeds, but this is incorrect. The asphalt was completely dug up shortly after the new shorter version of the track was unveiled.
The pavement of the return leg after the Ostkurve still exists, but it’s hardly race-ready.
That's what chain saws are for
also with oran park, a lot of tha roads that were the track are named after supercars legends
Came here to pay respects to the tracks that were lost in media and time.
11:03 In that vein Zandvoort’s old layout, which also had a longer loop, also has a mod for AC, but now on that old part of the track, is a golf-course/holiday park
The tragedy with Rockingham is that it was the UK's most advanced Motorsport venue and had the most potential to host far more than the mere regional championships that went. Lack of vision from management lead to it disappearing under its own lack of revenue. If it had simply carried the name 'Silverstone' it almost certainly would have been saved by government intervention
I would have added 80s/90s Fuji from Gran Turismo 4. It was my preferred layout, especially with prototypes, but with the years, the new layout grew on me. But I still like the simplicity and fast pace of the old layout.
Shoutout to Meadowdale international raceway. Super fun to drive
I remember driving Rouen in F1 Legends. Portrero was a old school style of circuit in the sense that it had a long lap of over 4 miles and had a public roads feel about it. I remember watching the FIA GT1 World Championship races there on eurosport.
Holy shit Rockingham and Riverside ! Id love to see some NASCAR content
Damn, didn't know that Potrero de los Funes was destroyed. Shame, used to love lapping it in rFactor.
And calling Nivelles-Baulers an old-school F1 track sounds strange: it was deemed too modern, safe, and boring when it hosted the Belgian GP :D
A few shouts for Curitiba in the comments - I'd add another from Race 07, and that'd be the street circuit in Porto. Its original version held the F1 Portuguese Grand Prix twice, while it came back for touring cars in the 2000s on a shorter (but tricky) layout. Hasn't raced for about 10 years and unlikely to see any kind of comeback.
Race 07 had some seriously difficult street tracks with this, Pau and Macau - I'd rarely get through a public lobby race unscathed...
Curitiba also deserves a mention, hosted wtcc and had 2 layouts, a road course and an almost oval, stock car brazi races there generaly were great
Yes, Race 07 classic one!
Valencia triggered some nostalgia on me. Alonso delivered there one of the best performances I've ever seen in my 20 years watching F1. I think he even lapped his own teammate on pure pace that race. Also we've seen there one of the most historic events of F1: Maldonado crashing with Hamilton without Pastor being the one to blame haha
Old track layouts are plenty as well, you touched on Hockenheim and the Nürburgring but I'd add variants like 60s Monza with the banked corners, 30s-60s Spa and the old "Österreichring" with the Westschleife.
Bridgehampton Raceway in New York was closed back in 1999 and it is still living in Assetto Corsa, Overtake does have the mod for it.
Didn't know Adria closed, it was a nice track, probably the debts were due to the new layout to receive WTCR in 2021. About Rockingham, the track was built in toxic lands like swamps and was actually sinking in some parts. The company that buy it wanted to demolished to build houses, like what happened with Oran park, but the land is too toxic. Potrero is a semi-permanent track and I think it's still there, it was used by TC2000 championship and the event was canceled due to the pandemic, as well the event at Santa Fé street circuit.
I remember Rockingham from Total Immersion Racing. An oval in 🇬🇧!? Also the game that introduced me to the Noble
Old Hockenheim ❤❤❤
Bridgehampton! so much fun!
I got another problem, which is franchise/console-line specific race tracks...
"Hakone Circuit" + variants (Forza Motorsport PC/Xbox) and "Blue Moon Bay Speedway" + variants (Gran Turismo PS4/5).
It is almost funny, how Patreon-creators, don´t get flagged for kit-bashing still active licenced cars, from other titles (FH5 for example) into other games, but many don´t seem to touch the tracks.
There is (or was) another great track here in Brazil: CURITIBA. Nice and fast layout.
04:33 Brazilian here. You pronounce "Jacarepaguá" correctly
Well done 😉
Hey, my favourite is Potrero de los Funes 😅
You forgot Longford in tassie rendered in RF2
Believe it or not, there was actually a dedicated circuit in Surfers Paradise before the street circuit even existed, but it was shut down in the late 80s and redeveloped into an estate. Too bad there isn't a scrap of the track left.
@OverTake_gg Jacarepagua was named after Nelson Piquet, which is weird as he was an active F1 driver at the time. Normally tracks are named after a retired or deceased driver. Interlagos (Carlos Pace Autodrome) & Montreal (Gilles Villeneuve Circuit) biggest examples
Youve gotta try Brideghampton!!
The Rock is definitely on iracing, right now its running fixed indycar on the oval
Ruen les essarts has a version on nfs shift 2 as well. Would reccomend a visit in a GT40. Also in said game.
A track I wish was real but is only in sim is sakitto in project cars 2. very much a suzuka clone. but I like the layout sooo much more. feels even more flowy
There’s a laser scanned version of Rockingham in LFS :) it was their first (and so far only) real world track :) If iRacing asks nicely (and pays a ton of money probably) they could maybe get the data from the LFS devs…
about jacarepagua sadly dont have a bunch of stadiums because when olympics finished they has been destructed
NZ motorsport has been force fed massive L's in the 2020's so far (despite our recent massive international success). We have lost our pavement holy grail, Pukekohe (poo-keh-koh-heh), to horse racing for "future proofing" and developing then horse Abus-, racing facilities. And now the Auckland Council has voted to move speedway from our dirt holy grail, Western Springs Speedway (likely for a soccer stadium to feed the initial hype for the new AFC team).
Rooan-les-Essarrs
A brief history of Race tracks in SoCal:
Ontario Motor Speedway 1970-1980 (The Indy of the West…like seriously victory lane was paved with bricks from IMS): Bought out by a land developer in the 1980’s and torn down for a hotel and stores.
Riverside International Raceway: 1957-1989. Destroyed in the 80’s to build a shopping Mall.
Fontana/aka California Speedway/aka Auto Club Speedway : 1997-2023 Destroyed to build an Amazon Warehouse
Moral of the story if you build a track in SoCal within 30 years it will be gone.
Is there a red line in this 21 pick? Or just random personal choices?
As a track hunter since as a kid in the 70ies and going bonkers and berzerk when sim racing and track mods emerged some +25 years ago,
Would be overwhelming if I had to make a personal list of deceased racing tracks. And especially if I was asked for a personal preference. Since when I go to the history books and jump in the sim seat, new favorites from the past very often get. "But name just one". No, then I will betray my other hundreds of favorites. Impossible.
We started with a Top 7 first and it turned out there were too many interesting ones and ofc there are WAY more 😁 -Michel
Rouen is kinda still there as regular roads but there is a new autoroute cutting off the northern part of the old track.
Part of the rouen layout is now lost to nature - I visited it in 2019 but had to walk through vegetation and trees to be able to reach the old main straight!
10:04
Its an unstatement to say Auto Club was very fast. It is (was) in fact the fastest ever in history, Gil de Ferran ran a lap with a AVERAGE speed over 241 mph.
Adria International Raceway still having races. 😂
There is still endurance racing at Nordschleife.
What is the Hockenheim mod used in this video? The link in the description seems to direct me to the 1960’s version
In the video it was Automobilista 2, not a mod. -Michel
Old Spa?
Both Motegi and Lausitzring oval are not raceable anymore. I missed those two on the list
This is the unfortunate reality of a lot of racetracks in the united states. Real world racing is a dying here quickly. There has been a spike of interest in F1 which is promising but I fear we are doomed in the long run. Even the most popular types of racing here (nascar for example) have had basically empty stands for some time outside of a few big ovals. Some tracks have been repurposed for "event" locations with some low level racing mixed in but the majority of them have been flattened and turned into housing communities. Same story with drag strips. Luckily I believe sim racing is still on an upward trend here.
This just isn't true, rising waters raise all ships. F1 getting more popular only helps other motorsports. Nascar is consistently selling out races again, imsa had record attendees at i believe all of their races
Rockingham actually will have NASCAR xfinity and trucks next season.
One you're missing is Texas World Speedway in Nr2003.
I'm dumb wrong rockingham
She missed a lot more than that
@@the_ultra_robot6884This series definitely needs a Part 2.
there was this malaysian race track, used to host lots of races but now it become a real estate place and housing, forgot the name but i don't think theres a mod for it, theres also a racetrack from my country indonesia, called ancol street circuit very famous in the 70s but no mods yet, if someone knows let me know
Rockingham was hurting my eyes then you are used to the Laserscannend Version in LfS.
Maybe Irenting can buy the scan for little money.
If I'm not wrong they scanned Rockingham (UK) around 2013-14, but just canned it for good for no know reason.
Pedralbes and Montjuïc, Barcelona city
Great video with great insight for each track, even though the video was in a quick hit style format. Only thing I disagree with, Baltimore was awful, glad it's gone, lol. Two favorites I'd add to this list... Westwood Motorsport Park (BC, Canada... used to host Formula Atlantic and Trans-Am among others) and Circuit du Mas du Clos (France... a small club circuit, but upon further reading this one has actually some what recently reopened in 2022, after was closed in 2010)
I'd like to make a suggestion for the next time you pronounce Pukekohe... it is pronounced Pook-eh-koh-hih, for Pook simply think Book with a P. Instead of how it was pronounced like Puke-eh-koh-hih.
Coming from Australia, I felt obligated to defend my sister country and their great racing asset! :P
Otherwise, I love the vid!
You are aware that Emily is also from Australia? 😄 -Michel
@@OverTake_gg No, I wasn't. That then, really bloody surprises me.
Rockingham is in Live for Speed
also, the rock is running nascar trucks in 2025
RIP Irwindale && Auto Club (Pls someone buy Willow Springs)
Another track that will disappear is Irwindale.
Pukekohe :c
7:54 *2020 :)
You forgot PUKEKOHE
4:02 ? :)
no portero noooooo