OK, I going to say it - For F1 especially street circuits suck. They suck more than a very sucky thing indeed.
The last thing F1 needs is yet another street circuit. It's almost as if the phrases "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear" and "you can polish a turd, but at the end of the day it's still a turd" were coined for street circuits.
Now I'd be the first to say that some purpose built circuits are terrible, but that's more often than not down to the designer. With street circuits you can only work with whats already there, and whats already there is a network designed to get people from A to B efficiently, and not designed for 800HP 200 MPH monsters to race around. They're too narrow for effective racing and the track limits exist only to define when a car is whole or in pieces.
I can accept Monaco as it's steeped in tradition and has been part of F1 since before F1 was actually defined in 1946 (prior to that it was the European Grand Prix), but that's the only one I'll accept.
There I've said it, and I'm fully prepared to get roasted for it

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