These Are The Worst F1 Tracks (according To Fans)

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The 2025 Formula 1 World Championship is 1 of nan astir eager successful nan sport's 75-year history, pinch 24 expansive prix crossed 5 continents. Over nan people of nan season, 22 countries big F1's walking show, which originates successful March and stretches to December. Starting connected nan streets of Melbourne astatine Albert Park, nan show has stopped astatine legendary venues for illustration Suzuka, Silverstone, Spa-Francorchamps, and, of course, nan crown jewel of Monaco. 

Other circuits for illustration Mexico City and Circuit of nan Americas, while newer to nan F1 Calendar, person quickly go beloved to those watching trackside aliases astir nan world. Of course, not each 24 tin beryllium winners, and there's a fistful of tracks connected nan almanac that astir fans wouldn't miss should they vanish successful upcoming years, whether it's trackside amenities making title weekends miserable aliases mediocre layouts turning Sundays into snooze fests. Straight from nan fans, present are 4 of nan worst Formula 1 tracks connected nan existent calendar. 

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First introduced successful 2009, Yas Marina was portion of a awesome building scheme to move Yas Island, which is conscionable eastbound of Abu Dhabi, into a apical tourer destination. The 3.28-mile circuit features a Ferrari taxable park, yacht-filled marinas, and a colossal edifice overlooking nan track's penultimate corners. While successful mentation this makes nan way a cleanable spot for nan glitz and glamour of Formula One, what Yas Marina has successful shape is mislaid successful function. For a way that hosts nan play finale, nan racing has struggled successful Abu Dhabi, but why?

"It's a way built astir a instrumentality acquisition and not vice versa, that's virtually it," explains Reddit personification u/ExtraKrispyColonel. "The first turns are excellent. However, turns 5 and 6 destruct an overtaking opportunity astatine move 7. Turn 8 isn't a bad overtaking opportunity, but it is [easy] to overshoot and person a bad statement into move 9. Same pinch nan 11-13 complex".

Changes were made up of nan 2021 version of nan Grand Prix to thief promote racing, pinch nan chicane of turns 5 and 6 being removed, and turns 11 to 13 transforming into a long, sweeping left. These tweaks, however, were acold from nan headlines starring up to nan title that year, arsenic Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton came into nan last information of nan twelvemonth dormant moreover connected points. What followed was astir mind-melting finishes to a Formula One season, pinch Verstappen passing Hamilton on nan last thigh to unafraid his first championship.

Sadly, that iconic thigh remains nan item of Yas Marina's tenure, arsenic nan updated layout has still struggled to nutrient memorable races. With a statement keeping it arsenic nan last information done 2030, we tin only dream that finales present yet different thrilling title fight. 

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No circuit has felt shoe-horned into Formula One's walking circus rather for illustration Lusail. After opening its doors successful 2004, nan circuit successful Qatar started life chiefly hosting motorcycle racing earlier becoming an emergency summation to nan 2021 almanac to big nan inaugural version of nan Qatar Grand Prix. A mates of years later, it would go a full-time summation to nan schedule successful 2023 nether a 10-year contract.

The move hasn't been met pinch overmuch fanfare, pinch 1 Redditor calling it an "absolutely soulless way successful nan mediate of obscurity wherever each area looks nan same," connected the r/formula1 subreddit. Others agreed. "Zero overtaking opportunities, nary absorbing corners, nary atmosphere, nothing. It's truthful bland I often hide it exists," said different user. Some of nan problems travel from teething issues successful nan race's maiden years. 2021 and 2023 saw a fistful of tyre problems, pinch nan track's precocious kerbs digging into nan Pirelli rubber. Combine that pinch nan precocious lateral loads connected nan tires, and punctures were a awesome problem successful nan early races.

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No rumor has been arsenic glaring, however, as nan godforsaken power that's near drivers and fans suffering. Despite nan title being held astatine night, Qatar's utmost power and humidity has had cockpits reaching temperatures good supra 120 degrees Fahrenheit. In nan 2023 version of nan race, drivers were withdrawing owed to power exhaustion, with those still successful nan title vomiting successful their helmets and needing assistance retired of their cars successful parc fermé.

Add successful Qatar's concerning quality authorities and history of sportswashing, and it's not astonishing to spot why truthful galore want this Grand Prix gone.

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During nan COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, Formula One tried to drawback immoderate of nan league's apical drivers, arsenic good arsenic ample societal media names, and put connected full, grand-prix-length races successful nan "F1 2019" crippled for nan fans combating compartment fever. When nan enigma almanac revealed that its adjacent extremity would astatine Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, it was met pinch nan collective groans of Charles Leclerc and Alex Albon.

That was nan guidance of 2 drivers realizing they were going to person to spell backmost to a way — albeit virtually — wherever nan convention had already put successful a mixed 7,700 laps successful nan existent world that past February. Sure, nan layout mightiness person been absorbing astatine nan start, but aft years of hosting F1's preseason testing, drivers went connected to find nan track's format stale. Such repetition could besides beryllium nan consequence of poor, parade-like racing, since each squad returns to nan 2.89-mile circuit for nan Spanish Grand Prix pinch virtually hundreds of laps worthy of data.

All this is owed to nan track's expertise to trial each aspects of nan car, but fans are convinced that it only hurts nan racing arsenic well. "Turns 1,2, and nan first half of 3 are fine, but aft that it's a dull bid of medium-speed constant-radius corners," said Reddit u/Disastrous-Beat-9830. "The full point feels for illustration it was designed to fresh into a parcel of onshore pinch nary existent information beyond getting arsenic overmuch circuit into nan onshore arsenic possible."

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A fewer years ago, we asked what you thought were nan worst title tracks successful history. One notable consequence wasn't just a Formula One circuit — it's what is wide considered to beryllium nan series' biggest title of nan year. 

Since 1929, cars person been ripping done nan streets of Monte Carlo each May, and aesthetically location isn't thing for illustration it. The fastest racers connected nan satellite ripping by casinos, yachts, and swimming pools genuinely is simply a segment dissimilar immoderate other. Unfortunately, arsenic nan cars person gotten bigger and faster, nan way has remained unchanged to accommodate modern Formula One. 

"It's a title wherever racing does not happen," said Quora personification Indiana Jon. "It's short, it's narrow, and location is nary abstraction for... well, for anything." How overmuch does it wounded nan racing? In different article looking astatine frustrating title tracks, Jalopnik scholar Toobs-n-Stuff wrote, "When Ricciardo won pinch a car who's KERS had wholly grounded simply because moreover pinch 160 much hp it is intolerable to pass, Monaco went connected the 'it's not a race, it's a made-for-Instagram event' list."

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That doesn't mean Monaco is ever a boring track. When Formula E visited this twelvemonth for its E-prix connected nan aforesaid circuit, nan on-track merchandise made by nan slower, smaller cars was thing short of phenomenal. Formula 1 tried to amended nan racing successful 2025 by mandating two pit stops during nan Monaco Grand Prix, but pinch modern regulations leaving cars larger and heavier than ever, it was to nary avail, pinch conscionable a azygous overtake occurring during nan 78-lap race.

Hopefully, caller regulations will make overtaking astatine slightest a tad much imaginable connected this still iconic circuit. With its unsocial situation and long-lasting legacy, Monaco isn't going anywhere.