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The easiest f1 track? (38 posts)

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Icthyes said 2 years, 6 months ago:

Indianapolis was incredibly difficult. How a driver could manage to get to the run up to the banking without dying of boredom is beyond me.

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SteveMovieVoice said 2 years, 6 months ago:

I always to well at Montreal in any game ive played. I’m sometimes a few seconds quicker than anyone else on hard difficulty. To me Montreal is easy, but I find Monza difficult all the time, the Lesmo’s, Ascari chicane and Parabolica I never get right.

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sato113 said 2 years, 6 months ago:

Monza is very simple.
Bahrain is nothing challenging at all.
Abu Dhabi- piece of p*ss

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Boost said 2 years, 6 months ago:

Easiest is very hard to define but if we simplify and take number of turns and gear changes per lap (source: forceindiaf1.com):

Turns per lap
Autodromo nazionale di Monza 11
Istanbul Park 14
Circuit Guilles Villeneuve 14
Hungaroring 14
Sakhir International Circuit 15
Sepang International Circuit 15
Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace 15

Gear changes per lap
Autodromo nazionale di Monza 22
Istanbul Park 38
Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace 38
Suzuka Circuit 40
Circuit de Catalunya 42
Hockenheimring 42
Silverstone 44
Circuit de Spa Francorchamps 44

Monza and Istanbul Park are both on top of the list so learning those tracks from scratch could be easier than learning the others but of course driving a Sunday-drive on an “easy” circuit and making a fast lap on one is a different matter.

Note: Valencia has most turns (25) AND gear changes (66) per lap in the entire calendar. Thinking about how many laps it took for me to get it right in F1 2010 I would never say it�s one of the easiest but definately the most fun street track of the calendar. After learning the circuit it is pretty easy to get it right but definately not as easy as the mentioned Monza and Istanbul circuits.

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thomasq said 2 years, 6 months ago:

It’s not about the track – it’s about the driver. All tracks are difficult to master. Even an oval – the simplest type of track you could imagine – is very hard to master, and doing just that lap after lap after lap is what separates the good drivers from the best.

So the question doesn’t really have an answer. Monza has fewer turns than Monaco, but all that means is that Monza rewards one way of driving while Monaco rewards another. It’s still every bit as hard to do a fast lap around Monza as it is around Monaco.

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nik said 2 years, 6 months ago:

you could use stats to work this out:

- take all the lap times from every driver for the past x seasons
- fuel-adjust each lap
- take the +/- consistency between each lap for a driver
- also compare between team mates
- the circuit with the highest average deviation between adjusted lap times would be the ‘toughest’ track

sounds like an interesting weekend project :)

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lucasowen85 said 2 years, 6 months ago:

Spain pretty much comes down to the car normally, right? If you qualify top ten you’re pretty much guaranteed points unless you have a problem or crash.

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Stephen Jones said 2 years, 6 months ago:

not to use a nascar reference.. but that shows, that the less corner’s there are, the less chance there is to make a difference, which means drivers have to be very good to make a performance advantage.. so even if a track has little corners.. a driver makes a big difference..
though in F1, and car difference’s are much bigger.

even still, i’d go Bahrain Normal layout (no twisty bit)

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