F1 Track Tier List

Psymonkee · 29 Nov 2023 at 22:40

In my intense boredom and refreshing Youtube eternally I came across a video tier ranking all the F1 tracks from beginning to present day and thought it might be fun to see what the folks here think too! Original video:

Tier Maker Link:

Create a Every F1 Track Ever Tier List

Finally, you can decide which F1 tracks are the best (and worst) of all time!

tiermaker.com

Lets see what you've got

(I'm working on mine now!)

GravyMonster · 30 Nov 2023 at 19:42

Mercedes put out a similar video for the 2023 rtacks with George ranking them:

Emlyn_Dewar · 1 Dec 2023 at 04:51

We've got some absolutely amazing tracks on the calendar, but they're ruined by the giant buses the drivers have to drive.
If we could maybe make cars that didn't need roads as wide as an airport runway, then we'd see the best from them.

reef · 1 Dec 2023 at 12:33

Emlyn_Dewar said:
We've got some absolutely amazing tracks on the calendar, but they're ruined by the giant buses the drivers have to drive.
If we could maybe make cars that didn't need roads as wide as an airport runway, then we'd see the best from them.

Its really noticeable if you watch old races from 1998-2008 how light and nimble the old cars were compared to now. I've seen a couple of side-by-side images and they're fat, heavy pigs now. Even on race fuel the older cars looked quite quick. The current ones are >900kg at race start.

The 2026 rules should have gone back to these smaller cars and just used a v6 turbo with KERS like 2009, but with slightly more capacity. I bet they could have got them in under 650kg even with the batteries. Imagine those cars with that sort of power, ground effect aero, active suspension and the lighter weight. They'd be amazing.

Psymonkee · 1 Dec 2023 at 17:15

I'm still working on my tier list because I don't know half of the tracks :cry:

I do wish the cars were smaller, lighter and had far less aero altogether though.

SoliD · 2 Dec 2023 at 21:08

reef said:
Its really noticeable if you watch old races from 1998-2008 how light and nimble the old cars were compared to now. I've seen a couple of side-by-side images and they're fat, heavy pigs now. Even on race fuel the older cars looked quite quick. The current ones are >900kg at race start.

The 2026 rules should have gone back to these smaller cars and just used a v6 turbo with KERS like 2009, but with slightly more capacity. I bet they could have got them in under 650kg even with the batteries. Imagine those cars with that sort of power, ground effect aero, active suspension and the lighter weight. They'd be amazing.

Even watching the brawn doc and how much smaller that was.

JRS · 5 Dec 2023 at 11:58

From Autosport - what if a 2023 car was the same size as one from 20 years earlier:

Sidepods that 'fill out' the floor more, and IMO a huge improvement in all respects.

***edit***

And hey. Go back another ten years to 1993 - Monaco that year saw 29 on-track overtakes for position. And the cars then were broadly the same overall width (tyre sidewall to sidewall) as the current crop. They were simply lighter and shorter.

Getting the length out of the cars has got to be a priority of any new ruleset for the constructors. And yeah, if it means the drivers have to sit up a bit to get their legs further back and the bodywork has to get fattened to cram all the oily bits in then great. Git 'er done. Got to be safer than burying a driver laid out flat in a huge wheeled missile that they can't see out of properly.

GravyMonster · 6 Dec 2023 at 11:47

The more they can do to restrict the size of the wings and floors the better. I feel the 2026 regs aren't nearly enough to make any real difference.

UTmaniac · 6 Dec 2023 at 15:10

When we went to Beaulieu motor museum a few years ago, I was shocked at how compact Lewis' 2008 winning McLaren F1 car was.