Top 10 Weirdest Race Circuits
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There are many weird race circuits in the world. Here is my top 10 of the most peculiar circuits I visited. Circuits with a strange layout or on a strange location. You see them all in this video!
Motodrom Gelsenkirchen 0:18
Grenzlandring 2:18
Old Mettet 4:18
Old Monza 6:14
Old Hockenheim 8:14
Pescara 10:14
Norisring 12:14
Roskilde Ring 14:16
Sitges-Terramar 16:16
AVUS 18:22
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I loved the old hockenheim track. Much better than what we have now.
Old Hockenheim was a real man's track. Today's Hockenheim is a track for children!
I don't mind the new layout. It's easier to marshal and the straights on the old layout felt so narrow.
The new track is not bad, but i wish they would have fought to keep the old layout as well and use both for races like they do with the Nürburgring GP/Nordschleife.
This is one of the tracks ruined by Hermann Tilke.
@@sebonator3000 But it wasn't his idea to demolish the older layout
Personally, I think if you were expand the list to 11 (and lets face it, cool things go to 11), I would add Darlington Raceway in South Carolina, USA. Because a landowner did not wish to disturb his minnow pond, what was originally envisioned as a symmetrical oval was altered into something resembling an egg or a cam lobe with one end tighter and more steeply banked than the other. The 1.366 mile (2.2 km) oval has been a challenge for stock car racers ever since and has a reputation as difficult to drive, particularly as the fastest way around is by the outside wall instead of inside by the apron. It's a strange old track and it always puts on a great show. Plus its nickname is "The Lady In Black", given by the late Dale Earnhardt, and that's just freaking cool by me.
Funny that it was one of the few tracks Kyle Petty had some success at, but still would rather it stayed a fishing pond.
If you watch video from the first race, the cars are scattered all over the turns. The intention was that the flat part to be the track, and the banking a "safety run off" area. Until someone figured out you could absolutely fly around the track up there. That's why it was only one lane wide.
First race was a "tortoise and hare" race. All the guys with their big powerful cars were eating up tires left and right. They were taking them off street cars. All except Johnny Mantz, driving a smaller, lighter, 6cyl. Plymouth. Almost the slowest car on the track, but he was the winner. The one thing I forgot to add to the description of his car? Truck tires. Big old 6-ply truck tires.
He never pitted . . . 🐢🏁🐇👏
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In the new video you see new footage, maps, a voiceover by Simon Smith, with lots of information and hillarious jokes!
Great video! I love unusual tracks.
Just think how many legendary car and driver raced on these roads. And its it's sound fascinating to daily drive on a public road that was originally a racetrack. Yes Hockenheim as like other abandoned raceway are sad looking.
The 'Mottet' circuit in Belgium looked fun to drive (esp speeded up, as you did).
Yeah Mettet was a cool circuit, with it's artificial banked corners and long straights with elevations.
Motodrom Gelsenkirchen in Germany reminds me of the abandoned 2 km Catalina Park Raceway in Katoomba, Australia.
There are similarities, indeed. Have you alsready seen my drone flight over MG: ruclips.net/video/6F-1FZ6beRw/видео.html and my vlog? ruclips.net/video/dMfIkal0SOQ/видео.html
Palanga is a strange one, and Miseluk. Motorway junctions that host racing to this day. And the 2005-6 Bilbao street circuit with its back to back 135º left handers and its square pitlane.
Thank you for the information. Maybe one day I will visit some of these circuits.
An honorable mention would have to be North Wilkesboro Speedway. They had a small amount of money to spend on construction. The finishing result was a unlevel track. The front straight went up hill and the back straight went down hill. It closed down do to corruption in 1996. The land owners still take care of it though.
The North Wilkesboro Speedway is on my to-do-list when I visit the East of the USA. I hope to do that within a few years.
I like old Monza
C'est triste de voir certains circuits qui ont marqué l'histoire du sport automobile etre laissé à l'abandon comme l'ancien hockenheim sinon bonne vidéo continue comme ça
Merci :)
Monza is still active, but now it's just the 3-point-something mile road course
Corbin Selanne 5793 m.
Yeah, Monza is a fantastic circuit. At least in my opinion. My favourite corner would have to be Variante Ascari, because it is a very technical corner.
5:54 Alpine GTA !!!
Yeah that was a funny moment with the tracktor and the Alpine :)
Renault wasn’t shy with the fuel on acceleration.
Part 2? Please?
There will be a new version of this video soon or later. I will remake all popular top 10 videos, and provide them with a voiceover by Simon.
Circuits of the past awesome!
Ya forgot Trenton Speedway
I'm sorry, never heard about it.
Circuits of the past It's in the New Jersey (USA) state capital. The track had an odd set up and had five turns. It's since been bulldozed over but There's lots of footage of it on you tube.
A 1.5 mile oval with a 180mph right turn in the back stretch
Thanks for the information. But this selection is only from circuits I visited by myself. I don't take material from others, because of the copyrights.
There is something truly fascinating (as well as rather sad) about these old (some not so old) lost circuits....
Andrew Hounsome yeah, really fascinating, but i can't explain properly, racing was another sport at the time
Absolutely true.
I feel the same way. On one side these circuit ruins are very cool places to explore. On the other side, it's sad to see some motorsport history rust away.
The fact that the home straight on the Norisring is where Adolf Hitler used to give his speeches seems amusing, I guess that's also where the marshall with the flags also were.
That would be funny, but now that's not were the marshall is. It's just a place were spectators watch the races now.
There was a camera there when I saw the DTM a few weeks ago. Very strange seeing the track in normal use.
A lot of talk about races at that place...
I'm curious, where do you find all of the information on these circuits?
Psyclone The Seahawk
At a guess (what I did at least)
Wikipedia can be a good start & other motorsport sites, word of mouth etc & other great sites like this. Also urbex sites.
Through the years I watched so much motorsport documentaries and read many books. So i have a huge knowledge. And if I don't know something I Google it.
Hogezy In the 90s there was a BBC series called The power and the glory. You can also find it here on RUclips.
I was at the Motodrom Gelsenkirchen myself and it's a beautiful lost place
Did you also saw my complete track walk at Motodrom Gelsenkirchen? ruclips.net/video/v-1qm1A7Lak/видео.html
Is sad to think that what used to be a circuit in Denmark is nothing left now, just grass, trees and a lake, but just a very few remains of an old circuit
Yeah it's a pity nothing has been left of the Roskilde Ring. Even Kevin Magnussen, born in Roskilde, didn't know about it. A Dutch reporter told him, after he learned it from me :D
Well, they put the lake where the pits were, and that hill around it still has that same banking. It's quite steep (doesn't come across well in pictures), and gives a good sense of the elevation the track had.
It's just a shame to see the Old Hockeineim like this
They never should rebuilt the unique track. Now it's an average F1 track. Here more from old Hockenheim today ruclips.net/video/I10FR7LGdjQ/видео.html
Have you eher heard of the "Solitude" in Leonberg, Germany. It is now a public road. Nur sometimes there are racing revivals.
Yeas I heard about it. And I visited 2 years ago. See ruclips.net/video/FtzM_WoiNyo/видео.html
The oroginal 10 Km (4500 m the Anello ad alta velocità and 5500 m the Pista stradale) circuit in Monza, or better Vedano al Lambro since the actual entrance is there, was built in 1922, not in 1955.
Andrea Moroni I know the history of Monza. But the circuit shown in the video (current banking) was built in 1955. The original 10 km circuit was demolished in 1938.
Circuits of the past But as a track it is still active since 1922.
As i said, I know that. But it was about a particular version of the track.
hoky SHIT 66 DEGREES
Yeah that was a very speep one. After te pictures I drove on the banking. I had to go at least 120 Km/h (75 Mph) to stay on top.
jeez man that's insane i'd love to take my racer around there one day XD
Here you can read my blog about my visit to the Sitges-Terramar banking www.circuitsofthepast.com/sitges-terramar-track-visit/
Please dont be mad at me, but these videos are plain boring! I could watch this duricng a meditation of course, or even on a toilet while having some bowel troubles (and no, not because of your quality, that is high, but because of the content). more facts, more audible voices instead of loud osundtracks and most importantly show us the layout on a map to see how it looked before. Or what we could do to the track today, if it remains abandoned.
Don't worry, I don't get mad at you. I want to thank you for your constructive criticism. At the moment I'm thinking about how to improve my videos to make the next step in growing my channel. I have a very cool reportage in mind that will fulfill your wishes.
About the maps: I got many questions for maps in my videos. So I implanted maps. On my new onboard and track walk videos I have one all the time with indicator. In this video I have a map at the begin of every new circuit, together with the facts. What would you like to see different regarding the maps?
@@Circuitsofthepast I say some of the videos are just too long. I'd like it if those few walking videos were sped up to driving speed, or maybe even racing speed. Also, maybe a few notes, pauses, or voiceovers to describe things, eg: "Here is where the current Hockenheim makes a turn. The original ring continues onward through this path"
@@skyscall Thanks. Around Christmas I publish a new video of this kind, with some elelents you just said. I look forward to your comments on that video.
What's the song at min 2:20 on the Grenzlandring part or where did you find it?
The name of the song is Cruiser. You can download it from the RUclips audio library.
@@Circuitsofthepast thanks!
Frilling !
The improved version is even more frilling ;) ruclips.net/video/f5qGb6tqR5w/видео.html