Thank you Ben, very cool

[u/caschrock]

[u/Logan_Yes]

This race is so fucking chaotic

[u/-Akos- → u/Logan_Yes]

Yeah, good. Would have been a snoozefest otherwise. Maybe a tip for next year here: throw something breakable on the track to give it some oomph. Yesterday’s sprint was boooooooring.

[u/CHobbes_ → u/-Akos-]

Even with this chaos, this race basically sucks

[u/GigaCringeMods → u/CHobbes_]

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.

[u/EmveePhotography → u/GigaCringeMods]

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

[u/LovieBeard → u/EmveePhotography]

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

[u/EmveePhotography → u/LovieBeard]

The main problem I have with Tilke circuits, and the main reason why I think it's 'boring', is that all of his designs are intrinsically the same. They have the same kind of corners, follow the same patterns and offer the same (lack of) challenges. Tilke basically has one standard circuit which he ports to various locations.

Don't get me wrong. I'm convinced that the man is a very capable circuit builder, otherwise he wouldn't be involved in so many of them, and he's really good at building tracks which follow modern safety standards. It's just that I'd like to see a tiny little bit of variation and creativity every now and then. You know, something like a new Eau Rouge (at Spa), cambered corners (like Zandvoort), possibilities of alternative racelines (like Max at Sao Paulo), a new Suzuka. Heck, even something with a new high speed challenge (like Monza), or something with significant height differences like a few circuits have (including the aforementioned Spa and Sao Paulo, or Spielberg). Or just something completely crazy and new which we've never seen before, but is completely possible with 2024 insights and technology.

Even refurbished circuits like Hockenheim lost quite a bit of their spark after he was done, in my opinion. I'm pretty sure there were more and different possibilities there.

[u/CaptainPonahawai → u/EmveePhotography]

Hockenheim was absolutely destroyed.