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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 01:16    Post subject: Least favourite track Reply with quote

I've seen 'Best driver', and 'Favourite track' on every forum I've visited and also 'Worst driver' which i have to admit I'm slightly uncomfortable with.
So let's have people's views on tracks either as a real spectator, a TV spectator, as a challenge to a driver, as a virtual driver (GP Legends etc), etc.
Rather than just say 'Somewhere Park' please say why you dislike it?
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GillesVilleneuve27
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 09:07    Post subject: Reply with quote

Unpopular choice here but I am going to say Monaco, I hate the place and if it wasn't for its glamourous location it should have been canned years ago, overtaking and passing is virtually non existent and its nothing more than a race of attrition
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McLareanNUMBA1
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 10:03    Post subject: Reply with quote

Monaco for me is thebest track i've been to see the race 4 times now it's my favouite. I don't like Barcelona i think that it's dull and you rarely get a good race thease days.
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White Lightning
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 14:56    Post subject: Reply with quote

Since 1998 of all the tracks I've seen F1 racing on, Magny-Cours is my least favourite.

There's one overtaking spot, two on a good day if you include Lycee, it's boring, flat, no challenge and never produces a good race.

I could say the same about Imola, but that's mainly the car's fault and it has so much history, so Magny it is.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 15:18    Post subject: Reply with quote

Monaco - only on the circuit due to history and almost never has amy real racing. 1992 was fun, but on any other track Niogel would have been long gone.

Barcelona - dull, lifeless, monotonous circuit with few overtaking opportunities.

Magny Cours - much like Barcelona with less overtaking opportunities and several other reasons that I'd better not mention on here.
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nojvnof1
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 09:49    Post subject: Reply with quote

they're all pretty boring except for Spa and Suzuka and Silverstone, the rest aren't that special.
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MarkD
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 13:21    Post subject: Reply with quote

Monaco. Proof that F1 revolves around money not racing. Crying or Very sad

Not only is it impossible to overtake when racing, but even following the safety car can be a challenge Laughing
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Carol
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 13:46    Post subject: Reply with quote

From a (real) spectator's point of view, Monaco. You pay a ridiculous amount (two and a half times what it costs at Silverstone Shocked ) for a grandstand seat (and the grandstands aren't at all 'grand') and see very little. Of the dozen circuits I've been to, it's the only one I wouldn't bother going to again.
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chrisledger
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 14:05    Post subject: Reply with quote

If Monaco was the only slow track, I would not have a problem with it - as an item of curiosity. In-car camera footage is breathtaking as having the scenery so close gives an impression of speed that is missing from tracks without such landmarks.

However the race is usually dull, it is hardly the best street cicruit in the world. I've no idea what it is like as a spectator but the expense and claustrophobia and "okay yah" types does not make we want to go there. They don't want us regular people there really.

There is an American saying; a "pick 'em", which comes from gambling, it means there is so little to choose between your choices, you just have to take your pick. Since so many of the tracks are sterile as hell now, it really is a "pick 'em".
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jgodfr
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 16:27    Post subject: Reply with quote

That must be Spain for me. Very boring and too well known to the teams and drivers.
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White Lightning
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 17:15    Post subject: Reply with quote

Speaking of street circuits... could Macau ever hold a GP race?
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Brutus
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 18:32    Post subject: Reply with quote

SPA. Yes SPA. Since they modified Eau Rouge is just another mikey mouse circuit.
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juan_pablo_allen
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 20:55    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am tempted to say Monaco, but after seeing a video of Ayrton Senna doing a qualifying lap round there I beleive it's the biggest challenge a driver faces in F1 these days, although it's the most boring race ever to watch.

In my opinion the most boring track has to be the new Hockenheim. If it had been a new track and not a renovation it wouldn't be on the GP calender as my dog could have done a better job redesigning it. It has lost all the history and tradition of the old circuit and I also don't see why Germany should have two GP's.
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ElfBerserker
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 15:54    Post subject: Reply with quote

Magny-course
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:48    Post subject: Reply with quote

Probably any of the new fangled Hermann Tilke efforts: Sepang is dull. I'll give Bahrain and China time, but they didn't stick out. And new Hockenheim isn't a patch on the old one.
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