The best track in the world

[YZF]

I though I'd share this image

 

[SagarisGTB]

Quite good. Really like that they are all to scale.

Missing a few high profile good ones though, such as Zolder, Pau, Ledenon, Sugo, Okayama, Aragon, Montjuic, Hidden Valley, among others, but I suppose you can't have em all.

 

[YZF]

Quite good. Really like that they are all to scale.

Missing a few high profile good ones though, such as Zolder, Pau, Ledenon, Sugo, Okayama, Aragon, Montjuic, Hidden Valley, among others, but I suppose you can't have em all.

Can you notice the big picture?

 

[SagarisGTB]

Yeah, I know they can't all fit into the isle of mann tt course.

 

[Brutaka]

Let's add the Targa Florio track to that and see what happenes......

 

[GTPorsche]

Let's add the Targa Florio track to that and see what happenes......

We can fit all of those and a ton more tracks into the big picture.

 

[Bopop4]

"Castrol Raceway"



That doesn't belong on the list, they could have at least replaced it with Shannonville.

 

[Ganon83]

If you look carefully, you can see the tracks are all located geographically right- notice how all of the ovals are only in the south west of the image, and how all of the Aussie tracks are in the south east

 

[Christian_C]

If that's to scale then I cannot comprehend Avus, I knew it was just two long straights but that looks utterly insane.

 

[Turbo_snail]

Wow my local track made it on (symmons plains) made it on and it only has 1 main race a year (v8 supercars)

 

[Earth]

Cant agree with some of the tracks being on there.

Also the scale isnt quite right for some tracks

 

[Hun200kmh]

Let's add the Targa Florio track to that and see what happenes......

We can fit all of those and a ton more tracks into the big picture.

All of them would be dwarved by the greatest race ever. A 1500 kms circuit !

Car numbering
Unlike modern day rallying where cars are released at one minute intervals with the larger professional class cars going before the slower cars, in the Mille Miglia the smaller displacement slower cars started first. This made organisation simpler as marshalls did not have to be on duty for as long a period and it minimised the period that roads had to be closed. Since 1949 cars were assigned numbers according to their start time. For example, the 1955 Moss/Jenkinson car, #722, left Brescia at 7:22 a.m. (see below), while the first cars had started at 9 p.m. the previous day. In the early days of the race even winners needed 16 hours or more, so most competitors had to start before midnight and arrived after dusk - if at all.

Pre World War II

The race was established by the young count Aymo Maggi and Franco Mazzotti, apparently in response after the Italian Grand Prix had been moved from their home town of Brescia to Monza. Together with a group of wealthy associates, they chose a race from Brescia to Rome and back, a figure-eight shaped course of roughly 1500 km — or a thousand Roman miles. Later races followed twelve other routes with varying total lengths.

The first race started on 26 March 1927 with seventy-seven starters[2] — all Italian — of which fifty-one had reached the finishing post at Brescia by the end of the race.[2] The first Mille Miglia covered 1,618 km, corresponding to just over 1,005 modern miles.[2] Entry was strictly restricted to unmodified production cars, and the entrance fee was set at the nominal level of 1 lira.[2] The winner, Giuseppe Morandi,[2] completed the course in just under 21 hours 5 minutes, averaging nearly 78 km/h (48 mph) in his 2-litre OM;[2]Brescia based OM swept the top three places.

Tazio Nuvolari won the 1930 Mille Miglia in an Alfa Romeo 6C. Having started after his team-mate and rival Achille Varzi, Nuvolari was leading the race but was still behind Varzi (holder of provisional second position) on the road. In the dim half-light of early dawn Nuvolari tailed Varzi with his headlights off, thereby not being visible in the latter's rear-view mirrors. He then overtook Varzi on the straight roads approaching the finish at Brescia, by pulling alongside and flicking his headlights on.

The event was usually dominated by local Italian drivers and marques, but three races were won by foreign cars. The first one was in 1931, when German driver Rudolf Caracciola (famous in Grand Prix racing) and riding mechanic Wilhelm Sebastian won with their big supercharged Mercedes-Benz SSKL, averaging for the first time more than 100 km/h (63 mph)[2] in a Mille Miglia. Caracciola had received very little support from the factory due to the economic crisis at that time. He did not have enough mechanics to man all necessary service points. After performing a pit stop, they had to hurry across Italy, cutting the triangle-shaped course short in order to arrive in time before the race car.

The race was briefly stopped by Italian leader Benito Mussolini after an accident in 1938 killed a number of spectators. When it resumed in 1940 during war time, it was dubbed the Grand Prix of Brescia, and held on a 100 km (62 mi) short course in the plains of Northern Italy that was lapped nine times.

This event saw the debut of the first Enzo Ferrari owned marque AAC (Auto Avio Costruzioni) (with the Tipo 815). Despite being populated (due to the circumstances even more than usual) mainly by Italian makers, it was the aerodynamically improved BMW 328driven by Germans Huschke von Hanstein/Walter Bäumer that won the high-speed race at an all-time high average of 166 km/h (103 mph).

 

[AlvaroF]

Mille Miglia! 💡

 

[Wardez]

The OP's image was created by SirDunny on reddit for /r/motorcycles so obviously is biased towards great moto circuits (let alone the fact that it's all inside the Isle of Man). And the OP's version is outdated, here's the newest one, it has every single MotoGP circuit on the calendar:

He's selling prints and posters of it here:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/sir...d-labelled?ref=work_carousel_work_portfolio_1

@Furinkazen he also added these:
Cadwell, Knockhill, Snetterton and the Goodwood hillclimb.

 

[SVT Cobra GT]

That's an awesome image!

Could you imagining creating one long mega circuit with all of those tracks combined?

Online racing on it would be chaos but fun! A 2 hour endurance race that has a total of 2 laps if that!

 

[YZF]

The OP's image was created by SirDunny on reddit for /r/motorcycles so obviously is biased towards great moto circuits (let alone the fact that it's all inside the Isle of Man). It has every single MotoGP circuit on the calendar

I don't think this map is biased towards moto circuits.. It has every single Formula1 track on the calendar too, as well as a bunch of Ovals.

 

[Doodle]

Las Vegas is on there but not Bristol. wat


Oh hey Summit Point is up there!

 

[Carmain2K]

Goodwood compared to Pikes Peak...

Its so small. And Avus cant be that long, surely.

 

[Tired Tyres]

12.16 miles originally mate. 👍

 

[Grand Prix]

Considering the Avus straights were about 6 miles long each, and the Hunadaires at Sarthe is about 4, that looks pretty accurate to me. 👍

 

[Bo]

Oulton Park made it!

 

[joetruckv8]

I though I'd share this image View attachment 136088

Too bad this isn't GT6's Track List or I would be in a serious towards GT6 mood!!!

 

[AlvaroF]

I find really odd how Catalunya and Estoril are rather similar... Did one copy the other?

 

[ITCC_Andrew]

Sorry for reviving dead thread, but:

Finland - in its entirety - is a great racing venue... Rally Finland anyone?

Hastings County, Ontario is my personal favourite... Hosting numerous rallies every year, and basically being an icy version of Rally Finland....



But, I guess as far as tracks/circuits go, this list is acceptable... Shannonville, Cayuga and a few other tracks which are not very well known will be missed, but...


Edit: no Pau, and no Porto. no love for my favourite street courses.

 

[Clark]

Rally Finland isn't a track. It's an event. The route changes slightly almost every year.

 

[ITCC_Andrew]

Rally Finland isn't a track. It's an event. The route changes slightly almost every year.

Nürburgring, Spa, Monza and such have all also changed. They're all motorsports events which take place in venues... Whether that venue is 30 kilometres or 9,990,976 km^2, it's fine by me.

 

[ShiftingGears]

If that's to scale then I cannot comprehend Avus, I knew it was just two long straights but that looks utterly insane.

To compensate for the two hairpins I guess. The Nordkurve looked terrifying.

And a closer shot showing the Wall of Death.

 

[Clark]

Nürburgring, Spa, Monza and such have all also changed. They're all motorsports events which take place in venues... Whether that venue is 30 kilometres or 9,990,976 km^2, it's fine by me.

Yes but those are all tracks, not an event, regardless of what layout. I'd have accepted had you said something like Ouninpohja (the most famous stage of Rally Finlands history FYI), but saying 'Rally Finland' doesn't class as track or anything, it's like saying your favourite track is 'The Belgian Grand Prix'

If it did count I could say Rally France, even though until about 10 years ago it was held on a completely different island separate from mainland France (The Tour du Corse on Corsica)

 

[ITCC_Andrew]

Then rename the thread?

I feel there's a valid discussion to be had about these opinions.

 

[JMoney]

Eldora, but no Bristol?

Nurburgring is the greatest racetrack in the world. Or perhaps Daytona.