r/formuladank • u/caschrock Alonso deserved to be Champion in every season he has competed • 25d ago

🌈 ben Sulayem 🌈 Thank you Ben, very cool

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u/GigaCringeMods BWOAHHHHHHH 25d ago

The track is simply bad for F1. Who would've guessed that a track that was not made for F1 would end up being underwhelming for the purpose it was not build for?

You can tell the track is shit even by just playing the F1 games. It's just same corners, over and over again, which are either flat or nearly flat. You will literally forget what part of the track you're on because it all looks the same. Seriously, without racing line assist on you will straight up not remember if the next corner is a flat one or a slight lift one, they are so similar.

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u/EmveePhotography Rawcheek 🤭🧴 25d ago

I actually have that with every track designed by TIlke, to be honest. They're all boring.

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u/LovieBeard BWOAHHHHHHH 25d ago

They're hit and miss. Malaysia, Bahrain, Turkey, and COTA are all fun tracks

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u/HandsumNap BWOAHHHHHHH 25d ago

Tilke has produced many bangers. I don't think he's a bad designer at all, and I think the problem is with F1, not him. Do you think it would be possible for anybody to design a good track at Sochi? or Yas Marina? The bad idea was putting tracks there to begin with, and I don't think any amount of great design could have made them much less shit than they are.

I've also met him a few times, and he's a really nice guy. Willing to talk to random fans for an unreasonably long time about F1.

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u/EmveePhotography Rawcheek 🤭🧴 25d ago

No one said anything bad about the man himself. :) Good to see that he's shown to be a very amiable and engaged person to you! :)

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u/LovieBeard BWOAHHHHHHH 25d ago

Yas Marina is actually pretty good nowadays after the 2021 changes

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u/HandsumNap BWOAHHHHHHH 25d ago

It's an improvement, but I don't think Yas Marina produces especially exciting races for any reason other than being the last race of the year. My point is I think Tilke's track record is actually pretty good, and the stinkers he's put out weren't exactly locations that were begging for an exciting race track to be built on top of them.

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u/sherlock2223 Left at the Petrol Pump 25d ago

Still mid af

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u/Last-Performance-435 Question. 24d ago

Sochi is legitimately a fuckin banger to drive in the games though imo. Mostly because the simulation of it ignores all of the aspects that make it bad irl.

France was also a fun track in the games.

The worst tracks in the F1 games imo are all of the 'classic' tracks which all feel really strange and 'yumpy' in places.

It's a weird contrast that I like playing all the tracks I hate watching and vice versa.