6 Tracks Formula 1 NEARLY Raced At
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- These F1 tracks were oh so close to joining the calendar. Why did they fail?
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Autopolis is a magical circuit with incredible corners, elevation changes and gorgeous scenery
Yes! I second this. I think the 2022 cars and beyond will be able to race there. And they should if they ever do a second Japanese Grand Prix.
One of my favourites on gran turismo, imagine f1!
@@Ellis56 This track is featured in Gran Turismo Sport and I do like the circuit after driving hundreds of laps in that game.
unfortunately like Aida circuit, the track location was on remote place
I first played it in NFS ProStreet and the track is amazing
I've raced on autopolis a lot in GT sport, it's actually a sick track. It doesn't look like much from the layout but the elevation changes in the corners (there's so many) make it a really unique and fun track, and there's so many turns that are simple on the face of it but you can take in so many ways. Really sucks that F1 never raced there.
Before watching this video, I thought it was a fictional circuit! Even though I always butchered the 3rd last sweeping corner, I do like this circuit.
I also Love Autopolis. The entire third sector is scary as hell imo.
I did a 1:57 with stick GR Supra
Stock
4:20 Oh so THAT'S what Autopolis was!
Mr. Masako, wanna know, what you were thinking about Autopolis?
Nice
@@amaizeing.dumbass5123 ua-cam.com/video/l6H4EBuQRHM/v-deo.html
Same!
Do the funny scream
Street Circiut in Moscow would have been insane to race around and was proposed in the early 70s, then it was became stuck in some party archives
Soviet union grand prix
Pretty strange
We ended up with hungaroring instead
Not that bad actually
autopolis's gotta be a 10/10 for me, I've driven it in gran turismo for countless laps, and it's a very technical track
Yup, this track is like Hungaroring where it has similar characteristics as Autopolis.
i agree, maybe not a 10/10 but a solid 9
I drove this multiple laps in NFS ProStreet & Shift 1, as well as trying out drift cars (mainly from D1GP) in the D1GP layout of Autopolis, which goes backwards over the last turn of the normal version of the track.
The reason it isn’t a 10 is as you said technical track and I struggle a bit more in technical tracks than any other tracks so 9.5/10
Vietnam could have been interesting, I was really looking forward to it, despite it being rubbish to drive on the f1 game
It was on the f1 game ?
@@DanielFenandes f1 2020
@@yellowflag9945 lol I never noticed it
@@DanielFenandes OH MY GOD that track gave me way too many headaches!that track is nothing but annoying corners that don't make sense or flow right
@@MiniMii550 why can Vietnam make a good track like they make good food ? It can't be that complicated
Fun fact, after a proposal to host F1 in Flushing Meadows, NY fell through, the site became famous for a very different sport, tennis
Not the perfect use of commas.
@@JamesRodriguez10783 Thank you for your input on the incorrect usage of punctuation on a non-professional discussion, aka, a UA-cam comment.
@@Jabid21 I’m not a Grammar Nazi. I’m just saying that it takes 3-4 reads to make sense. It’s a really good fun fact, got ruined by typos. Could have edited it.
I like riding the 7 train. Would have been cool if F1 came there
@@JamesRodriguez10783 "not a grammar nazi," funny way of showing it 🤔
A race around my childhood home of Copenhagen was being pursuit until it was deemed not green enough for the city Council. I would have loved seeing the F1 cars race across the old bridges by Christianshavn.
See the track here 😁 ua-cam.com/video/XY-9LdXB-0w/v-deo.html
yeah the track wouldve been sick.
as a swede, i am just so sad that i never got to see ronnie peterson race around anderstorp, and im equally as sad that he never won there, so i feel your pain of not having a home gp
Being a Senna fan, just mentioning ‘the 1993 European Grand Prix at Donnington” is enough to send me into a frenzy
Lmao yeah, I was just thinking that first lap would have never happened if autopolis stayed on the calendar
2:36 OMG. I didn't realize that the place I go to sing karaoke with my friends in Port Imperial was AT THE START/FINISH LINE OF THE TRACK LAYOUT. Literally, the Ferry Terminal between NJ and Manhattan is where that red arrow is.
BTW, for those not familiar, there's a significant uphill from 3-6 with a bridge between Turns 3 & 4, and from Turn 12 to Turn 15 is all downhill (and from 15 to 16 is still somewhat downhill).
Also, for the musically- or historically-inclined, just to the southwest along the same road that runs from Turns 6-12 is Hamilton Park, where Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr had their famous duel.
I would like to see the NY race. Having the city as a background sounds looks dope.
Yes. & the track layout looks great
My home country and my home state
Rather that than Vegas and Miami
4:50 oh I know this track! I´ve driven it in NFS Prostreet! Quite a good track for the normal tuned racing cars, hard to tell how F1 cars would act out there...
Yea seems like a good track for gt cars too, having driven there in Gran Turismo Sport. Although dirty air is a massive issue there, even Super GT and LMP1 cars struggle there, let alone F1 cars..🤔
Only NFS pro street, the shift series and GT sport feature autopolis and it pisses me off. It's a great track that is underapreciated and overlooked, and it needs more representation
@peter pan i disagree. Any kind of circuit can be raceable with the right car and autopolis is no exception, otherwise i wouldnt be such a fan o f it
This track is known for :
- Drift King showdown against Aki Kimura (NFS ProStreet). Every time I watch D1GP at Autopolis, my mind always thinks of this & Noise Bomb race day at the track I mentioned earlier.
- Rival challenge against Kiyo Hironaga after finishing on the podium at all Japan Series events (NFS Shift).
- Race 3 of Works - League Championship for Mad Mike Whiddett's FC RX-7 (Shift 2 Unleashed).
@@effisjens1776 Well, as of now, GT7 also featured that track.
An F1 race at Road America would’ve been cool. 2 DRS zones (Main straight and after the Long right-hander) and lots of overtaking, I think it would be awesome especially in the new cars
Road America in Wisconsin would be an awesome track for F1 but they'll never race there :(
The U.S. has a lot of great circuits, sadly F1 won't lower their expectations enough to race at them.
There was also a Danish GP in the talks at one point, round the streets of Copenhagen. A track layout was made by Jan Magnussen and Hermann Tilke, but that was however as far as it got
Remember Stockholm Street Circuit? It was supposed to be on the 2005 F1 Calendar.
Buenos Aires had plans for a Street Circuit in 2007.
Indianapolis planned a Street Circuit in 1990.
Even Sepoong in 1998.
Also Yvelines near Paris in 2011.
San Diego almost hosted the California GP in 2006.
Even Cancun in 2006. Too.
The Enna-Pergusa Circuit was supposed to be on the 1990 Calendar.
San Diego gave up NFL and NBA, but not MLB
The Padres is the only ones left in San Diego
When I see "New York" and "Track" appers at same place I start remembering me keep crashing into the wheels and pressing the Back button on my controller for a thousand times
Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas is a good shout for "oof, that was a close one". It was just a run around a car park! Good thing we never went there, though. Right?
F1 did race there twice in the early 80’s
@@STREET24000 I dare say thatisthejoke.jpg
Definitely. I almost vomited looking at the circuit for the first time.
@@STREET24000 Pretty sure that is the joke 240000
r/Woooosh
I would love to see Road America made F1 level track so that we could have a race there.
Imagine the g-forces in the caroussel with F1 cars... °.°
@@hjjubnh there would be multiple good overtaking spots and some quick elevations.
@@juhokaartoaho Isn't the track a bit narrow for F1 cars at some points
There's no way it could ever host F1, as cool of a track as it is. Good luck getting 100,000+ people and a billion dollars of corporate advertisement into Elkhart Lake, WI.
That would be like trying to put the Olympics in Beloit
@@beauty.of.the.struggle nascar pulled over 100,000 people literally this year
Ontario was pretty advanced even by modern standards, and I'm fairly certain it's also the only venue to ever host Indy car, NASCAR, F1, IMSA and NHRA drag racing (They raced down pit road, which was about half a mile long.), as well as a couple of music festivals called California Jam I and II.
Have you not tried Autopolis in Gran Turismo Sport Matty??? That track deserves a higher rating than 5
3:19 now I want a Baku like street circuit that use the Colosseum as a high speed corner.
I'm thinking something more like Hanoi, but the T6-T9 section has a much larger radius, or maybe something like Pouhon from Spa.
That Rome track at 3:53 gets an immediate 10/10 from me, just for the track shape ;)
That layout was not the actual one proposed. It was quite a lot different from that although still not great. The image here is just a joke someone must have made up, it would quite literally be impossible to have that layout in that area of Rome
Knowing that Ontario Motor Speedway was 30 minutes away from my home town is hella cool and I wish it were still around but I got Auto Club Speedway
Autopolis is such a fun and beautiful circuit to drive on
As much as I think a NYC street circuit would be cool, I know that it would be a nightmare for anyone living within a 3 mile radius of the track.
While not on the list (and probably never will be), I for one would love to see how F1 cars handled the Laguna Seca corkscrew...
There’s a vid on here where Patricio Oward takes Mika’s f1 car and someone else drives HAM’s 08 car around it too! Handles it well
3:02
GT2 players: *sweating*
Zhuhai consists of basically only hairpins, so I guess not a great track for the drivers but definitely lots of overtaking opportunities
I live in Fuengirola (Spain) and I was so interested when my famally talked about how they saw the cars being tested in the streets and all, It would of been cool to see it as a circuit for a while
Mi padre me contó lo mismo y también me conto que al parecer al alcalde de ese momento le parecio una idea mejor invertir el dinero en la feria en vez de hacerlo en la carrera
Guys, trust me, if well designed, a Grand Prix in Rome would be the best thing ever
It looks like a mounted machine gun😂😂😂
The only thing I knew about the Ontario racetrack was that the California Jam Music Festival was hosted there in the early 1970s
Absolutely devastated that NJ GP never happened bc I'm close to there and it would have been fantastic calendar event. Since it still exists I hope it's there soon
I would have loved to see a NYC race taking the FDR drive and maybe even one of the bridges. But I know that’s not gonna happen.
Being from Spain, i didn't expect Fuengirola to appear AT ALL 🤣🤣
Ahhhhh, the Manhattan circuit, that would have been beautiful
I believe the NYC Track was going to be held at Liberty State Park in NJ. Such a shame that it didn't pan out. Would have been spectacular!
Im from Fuengirola and my father, who actually likes F1 a lot, had already told that to me. My father told me that when he was a teenager it was going to be an F1 race here and he even remembers watching the drivers training. But sadly, it looks like the mayor decided that it was a much better idea to invest the money in the "feria". (a place in the city where you can party and listen to flamenco one week per year in a traditional Andalusian way, basically) This is something that EVERY city, town and village has once a year in the south of Spain, so we could go to the nearest town (10min by car) to the feria but noooo, the mayor thought that having a F1 street circuit in the town sucks compared to having feria
Definitely the Port Imperial circuit. As a NJ resident at the time was excited to finally have a major car race in our state. It would have definitely brought more awareness to a state that has a couple of short tracks and a club circuit. Most of the Jerseys local drivers go to Pennsylvania and New York for their traxk.
ik im replying to this a year later but i agree and now with the atlantic city F1 circuit being proposed i’m really hoping that can be a second chance for Port Imperial. everyone either goes out of state or to New Egypt motor speedway for races
Yea, I remember making preliminary plans to attend the race.
As Canadian, I was ready to shout that Ontario is in Canada...Damn you Matt denying me a outrageous comment
Autopolis looks like it could’ve been a pretty decent circuit, however after racing the Hanoi track in F1 2020 I’m kind of glad that they didn’t go there. It’s not a memorable track for the right reasons.
i would have loved to see hanoi, loved to drive there on f1 2020
Finally a fellow fan of hanoi
Port Imperial would have been so cool to have an F1 race basically in my backyard
As someone who lives near the proposed Port Imperial street course, it's a 10/10 for me. I think about that ALL THE TIME
Port Imperial would’ve been amazing, still disappointed it never happened. Would’ve been minutes away from where I lived too 😭
A friend of mine and I were already planning on getting tickets for the weekend. And I'm on the HBLR line, so I could have legit just taken the light rail from a few blocks away to INSIDE the track, which would have been absolutely sick.
I think Donington was actually a replacement for the Pacific GP which was supposed to take place at Aida. This why there were lots of Japanese logos like SEGA at Donington
My grandfather used to tell me about the Wellington street race that was held as part of the world touring cars and aussie touring cars in the 80’s and 90’s. I sometimes wonder what f1 cars would have been like racing here . Would of been like a less flashy but faster monaco
Rome and New York looks tuff...I believe the New York layout is the same that GT3 had.
I really wish F1 would race at Autopolis.
My father was heading the development team that was working on making the port imperial track. I can’t even describe how disappointed he is that it never pulled through, a solid 11/10 on the disappointment scale
I have only known Autopolis recently from GranTurismo lol. Haven’t driven it in a while. I’ll update you on how the track feels in my opinion
I looked at auto polis on Google maps and it looked amazing amazing corners go evaluation changes and I think 3 drs zones would suit it
Autopolis has been in a few video games I've played, really enjoyed driving round it. In nothing close to an F1 car though so not sure how it would be with modern machinery, but up to about GT3 cars it's a confirmed banger for me.
Would really like a bloody South African grand Prix around Kyalami though. Stefano's mentioned he wants F1 back in Africa, it'll be better than yet another dodgy middle Eastern night race.
As a wise Sim Dane once said, "to make a real world championship, we need the continent"
I would love to maybe one day see a race in the Scottish Highlands! Imagine mountains and sea as a backdrop. Would be incredible
You should do a video on the weirdest placed F1 has raced. In the 60s there was a race in Longford Tasmania which is a tiny town in the middle of no where. The track included diving under a rail bridge archway and massive long straights
RB Norway were drafting up a street circuit in the middle of Oslo that actually seemed like it was gonna be a really good track
I remember back in 2004 about plans to host a Grand Prix in a circuit located in Cancun, Mexico, right next to the beach. Nothing ever came close to happening, I don't even think the circuit was built, but for a few weeks it was all over the news and the press.
Knowing Autopolis from NFS ProStreet, that would’ve made a great F1 race.
I would think of Aki Kimura when I arrive there in person, it was where the one-on-one showdown against him is held for the Drift King crown + pink slip to his FD.
@@KevinAbillGaming for him being the Drift King… he wasn’t ever that good lol.
@@cruzlopez4449 Partly because of handbrake abuse to get more drift points, whereas Aki, he just did natural drifting without any handbrake abuse.
A street circuit around the centre of London would be awesome.
It will be looks like a race in cars 3 film
If they have a race in New York I would lose my crap. It’s only a three hour drive there and I love F1. Now I can’t get sleep without saying to myself that they will have a race there.
As a Vietnamese background person. The fact F1 got so close to racing at Vietnam make me sad
The port imperial street circuit for me is a solid 10. I am really having a hard time getting to sleep now
Man a New York street circuit wouldve been an absolutely crazy race
Something I would like to happen in the F1 calendar is to change race tracks almost each year, like you can't host a race in the same race track for three years in a row, to have much more variety in races each year
The Hanoi street circuit never manifesting is more down to the controversy that came up later.
I remember when Zhuhai appeared on the 1999 calendar but never hosted the grand prix. Funny even the replacement Argentina GP was also cancelled.
I also had forgotten about Hanoi before watching this video.
Madras Motor Race Track (MMRT) was being pushed to hold the first Indian Grand Prix but to making it a FIA Grade 1 circuit was tough and the track itself was quite narrow so they ended up building the Buddh International Circuit
Have you seen the Madras track? No way they could've ever used anything there for F1, they'd have had to built the whole thing new anyway
learning that there could've been a race in new jersey ripped my heart out the things id do for a race in my state
Autopolis has to be on a F1 calendar
Driver would love it
I saw Ontario in the headings and not gonna lie had me excited for another Canadian GP :"(
As someone who likes F1, Super GT, and D1 Grand Prix, I would be SO glad if this track ever hosted an F1 race. For D1GP, this track gives me Noise Bomb (a racing organization in NFS ProStreet that specializes drift races) vibe.
The Ontario circuit is now buried under a shopping mall and there are quite a few who miss that track.. myself included even though it was gone by the time I was born
Actually, the Toyota Arena next door to the mall sits on the old location of the speedway.
That New Jersey track was so close it even got created as a Formula D (the board game) expansion pack.
Even though F1 never went to Zhuhai Descartes Editeur did release it together with Sepang for Formula Dé in 2000 (circuits 31 & 32). Shanghai was also released in 2004 together with Bahrain. The last of their expansions.
Someone have attempted to drive a F1 car in Rome street circuit (FE track) and he failed to pass the turn 19 due to low maniability in this track
I’ve thrown a 2018 F1 around Autopolis for awhile and I have to say, I would love to see the real thing. I’ve done the circuit with F2s and F3s as well to the same pleased result. The central hairpin is absolutely crucial to any attempt and messing that up will put you on the back foot for at least 3 more turns.
Ok I didn't see the machine gun for Rome initially, but I did see a spilled bottle of wine.
I suppose that means I have the problem..... LOL
I know Autopolis from Need for Speed Pro Street. I liked that track there. :)
Yes I think you missed one. There was a proposed street circuit at Beirut, Lebanon in 2003. I don't know how much of the process of adding on the calendar it was into, but it definitely fell through and it never materialized.
There is also Lebanon too, Beirut street circuit in the early 2000's but for some reasons it didn't happen.
I despised sector 3 on Vietnam, absolutely hated it. Although Autopolis or Zhuhai would have been fun.
I despise the whole circuit...
Sector 3 felt like a broken suspension just waiting to happen on every lap.
But Sector 2 was like Baku with harder breaking.
Nah the circuit had everything the last sector was meant to be reminiscent to the S's at cota but it had bit less flow bit like suzuka but I really loved it
Autopolis is a great track and it's in Gran Turismo Sport on PS4/5.
Bulgaria was about to build and host a track but bankruptcy hit too hard on the economy and now its abandoned
If the NY track was like the one from GT4, I think it could've been great
2:14 ‘Unfortunatly’
Right okay then
Matt, I actually like Hanoi track after I did the full 55 laps, it has an avus-like back straight, COTA-like esses, and a good overtaking spot at the hairpin, one problem tho, no elevation changes.
I want to see Formula 1 race at Laguna Seca so badly. Seeing modern era F1 cars dropping down through The Corkscrew would be so epic.
Everybody loves that place, but it'd probably be too small for F1
Not sure if many people know this, but Autopolis is an absolute GEM! People who drive it say it's one of the best tracks on earth, on-par with Suzuka and Spa. Check out an onboard, it's really something🙂
Argentina was close to host a gp last decade either in termas de rio hondo or a street circuit in mar del plata
At least we had rally dakar for a while and also motogp
Grobnik Automotodrom near Rijeka, Croatia also almost hosted an F1 race. Note that Slavica Ecclestone is from Rijeka and the legend says that she was on bad terms with organizers and because of that the GP went to Hungaroring instead.
The mermering of going to Cairo every so often, probably the only sandy country i would want to go to.
The New York... er, New Jersey, whatever you want to call it... GP would also be top for me. I was sooooo looking forward to that one. It might just be the fact that right as I was old enough to start attending races, Indy was taken off the calendar (which was only a few hours drive from me) and Austin wasn't even a proposal yet, so some of the anticipation of waiting for this layout to be ready might be left over in my brain. Either way, with high speed stretches into hard braking zones & green nature coming right up to the track with very little runoff area, it reminded me of Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve but with lots of elevation change, or even a faster Monaco. How awesome would that have been?? Of course now it would only be 2 hours from me, so yeah... I definitely still think about it from time to time lol
Oh, new circuits, they come with so much mone... *erm* personality and racing opportunities
laguna seca had a test at it in 2012. is be so cool to see f1 cars go 2 wide down the corkscrew.
F1 should have gone to the rome circuit layout from gran turismo 2 and 3, change my mind
Port Imperial Street Circuit that ran through Weehawken and West New York, New Jersey. Would have been good if it happened as I only live about 20 miles south of there. The race was to be called the "Grand Prix of America". Proposed race would have been held in 2013. The 1983 race in New York (Brooklyn) would have used the circuit that Formula E uses for it's races in New York.
3:24 - Vallelunga Circuit: *exists just outside Rome*
Everyone else: "Let's make a new street circuit in Rome! We don't have one!"
Ontario and Zuhai look like they would be Hella racey.
Rome in my opinion... Its a good looking street circuit. The thing is that its filled of walls. And in FORMULA E, The Pit Lane is on the opposite side of the grid. but its soo good looking
Surprised Hanoi wasn't considered this season after the Russian Grand Prix was removed from the schedule. Bernie Ecclestone wanted a race in New York.