Monza is definetly one of the hardest circuits to set a good time. You absolutly have to murder every of the 11? corners. Yes, it is a rather easy layout, but hitting the Lesmo's, Ascari, the exit of Parabolica and turn 1 just perfect is a menacing task. IMO Monza is the grown up version of the Red Bull Ring. Longer, faster, and much more unforgiving in regards of laptime.

Seeing this after the Qatar gp was interesting to say the least

honestly sectors 1 and 2 of suzuka are so hard to nail and be truly fast at that I do think it should be at the bottom of the top tier

I know this was four months ago, but Melbourne is a tricky track to rank. Yes, it’s easy but the width of the road is narrow making it hard to overtake; yet the track has four DRS zones creating more opportunities to do so. I mean we just saw it Yesterday, it was absolute Mayham. You can’t say it’s an easy track when there were eight DNFs.

for me spa and suzuka are the best tracks ever. I hope that someday I will be able to afford to fly to Japan and ride this track in reality.

Excited to see this channel blow up in the future. Deserves to be up there with Tommo Aldas etcw

Qatar definitely hasn’t aged well although tbf at the time I probably would have agreed. Given the heat and tyre situation though I would almost certainly chuck it into the top tier.

I'm definitely with you regarding the ranking of the Red Bull Ring but I would've loved it to hear more about it than "it's hard to get pole there" like the elevation changes within a lap (and doing that over 70 times throughout the race) or simply the 90° corners in the first sector which are always a crucial point in lap 1 or when there are battles. Nonetheless great video and greetings from Austria. 😊

Marina bay is just a different level, the speed at which the corners come towards you is unreal fr. Just started watching your videos, love them and I hope this blows up soon!!

Does anybody else think that Spa looks like an UZI?

I was so happy when I saw you'd uploaded again! Love your content, this was a great and interesting video

Got this in my recommended now. I can proudly say you’ve earned a new sub! Loved the video! Good quality!!

Vegas is going to be a Mario Kart circuit in terms of the actual driving. In terms of mechanical reliability (especially at the end of the season when teams are trying to nurse older PUs and gearboxes without taking a penalty) it could be brutal, and the actual surface quality is a huge question mark (expecting it to be worst than Miami but we'll have to see). I think the provisional ranking is spot on, only comment is that you have the start/finish line in the wrong spot (should be the tiny straight just before the hairpin in the upper right - which is where they are building the permanent paddock area).

FIA: 12 Meters Width of the track Monaco: 7 to 10 meters, take it or leave it

Awesome Video from Mr V. Again! Keep it up ! Can’t wait for this channel to blow up!

Your content is excellent, and I love your sense of humour. Keep it up!

This year Qatar was the hardest with track modifications that were not approved and harsh weather conditions that tested the resolve of thr players.

Something to watch for in Vegas, in my experience the roads there get a layer of oil built up on them and if a couple raindrops come they become like an ice rink. So it could go from simple to near impossible with only a slight weather change

Yeah i have been waiting! Love the content

This ranking makes me think that you have a maximum of 20 hours in sim racing.

SPA is by far my favorite ever. Baku Gp often fun

Great content mate!

hey mr. v, love the content, been watching you for a while now! you mentioned rear-limited and front-limited turns, chicanes and hairpins. i was wondering if you could make a video explaining turns and how you might best drive them?

Great Job Again V, Love the recent content!

Dude, I just watched this video super entertained!! You're such a great comunicator and the video is really really good. You definitely deserve waaaay more recognition! Congrats on the video :)

Awesome vid mate, suprised you don't have more views. Keep it up!

Im not with you with a couple of these😅, monza lay-out seems easy but thats the tricky part, the hard breaking zones make it not so easy. Plus spa seems a lot easier. Nice vid👍

Hi there. I used to drive in interlagos few times (track days events), and I can tell you Interlagos is very tricky. Here goes some examples: 1) Turn "Laranjinha" (little orange): in this case "orange" means something like "hard for an inexpert). This curve is tricky because you are going up hill and you can't see where curve will be exactly when approaching. Some drivers build a reference in their minds. 2) Turn "Pico de Pato" (Duck Beak) + "Megulho" (Dive) + Turn "Junção" (Junction): if you are defending your position you must do this sequence at your best, otherwise your opponent will get close to you at the Junction (just before the long up hill towards the finish line). A perfect curve at Junction will give you engine power to go up the hill with maximum power (remember Galsy in 2019 against Hamilton in the last lap - perfect preparation for the long hill) 3) A fast lap in interlagos depends on doing well the Senna's S curve. A F1 drive is coming at +300 and must break, start the turn very open and try to make the middle of the curve almost like a straight, then turn to the right in the right angle to complete the "curva do sol" (Sun Curve) gaining speed for the long straight (called opposite Straight) down to the lake. 😂 tricky, isn't? And there's more! 😊

You said a lot of times “on the simulator”… yeah, basically if monza is mario kart level, my grandma is a bike 😂😂

my new favorite f1 channel fr. dont stop uploading

Great video and channel!!!!

Spa is the greatest race on the calendar. Its the only race I set an alarm clock to watch at 3 am live. They should rename it to Murphy's Spa, if it can go wrong: it probably did while it was raining.

Damn, that getting hit by Lance Stroll while talking about the Australian track really aged well..

i got here thank to the algorithm and i'm glad i did! I've been watching F1 for the last 20 years of my life and it's amazing to see so many talented and funny youtubers make great content

China is a pretty tough track, a couple of corners and you are 0.8 seg behind everyone else. Interlagos is also very tough: many off-camber, blind corners. S2 and S3 you have 1 corner exit leading to the next corner entry. Elevation changes, variable angle corners, bumpy tarmac too. It is a pretty tough track to get right.

5:19 good video overall. my issue with some sections of this video is that it felt rushed at times. in some of the shorter segments especially- a lot of words are said, but not a lot of new info was conveyed that isnt already common knowledge. Lets dissect this line for example 5:20- "Its got walls, its got bumps, its got this bullshit". some of the other difficult tracks you listed have walls and bumps too, but what is "this bullshit"? what are the names/numbers of the turns on the track? what does it look like from the cockpit's view in that specific "bullshit" sections? in the 12:22 Singapore section you say its, "hot! humid. bumpy. long. walls!". However then completely fail to illustrate to us what any of those bumps and walls are supposed to look like with modern cockpit footage. what are the temps that some of these tropical circuits experience, 50 centigrade?

Nice video! Hope you provide us with more of these the coming months to keep the F1 content flowing. ... Yes, I'm already dreading the long winter without race weekends. Don't judge me...

Interesting to see what you think are difficult. I’ve always found Singapore to be easy and Melbourne to be hard. Goes to show that some people have different preferences.

Love this NakeyJakey setup even more with F1 being the subject. Good work dude. New sub here 🫡

The only ones I majorly disagree on are Monza and Spa actually. I think it really depends on what perspective you judge them from. Making no mistakes is truly much easier at Monza due to fewer corners than in Spa where there are some corners that are somewhat less forgiveable than in Monza. However if you judge it from a pure 'percect lap' perspective I find Monza a much much harder circuit. For me personally fewer corners have always made the track harder. I am a rather late braker which makes low speed corners very hard for me to get the trick off. You actually explained that really well with the RB-Ring which is a track that I also find difficult to get right. The fewer corners you have the more perfect you have to be at the few you have to get a good hot lap in. For some reason Monza has always been a nemesis of mine because I hate two chicanes and I still do not get a grip on the two Lezmos for some reason. Austria it's quite the same. The upper hair-pin which is turn 3 I believe is still very tricky for me. On the other side Silverstone and Spa have always been tracks where I have excelled and driven very well on. In terms of making no mistakes over a long distance they are certainly more difficult than Monza and Austria but in terms of getting a great lap in are much easier for me. The only corners I still struggle with a little bit are Copse, La Source and the last chicane in Spa. So if it was a personal matter I would switch those for up but in general this is a rather representative tier list I would say.

This feels like Ordinary Things talking about F1 haha I love it! Can't wait for you to blow up :)

Awesome video.

Thank you for this video. I only played some of those tracks in simcade games (GT and Forza) but I didn't suffer much on Spa so I would've put it in Crikey. Monaco is spot on, I always hated this track since my SNES day. Everytime I saw it in F1 Exhaust Heat or F1 Pole Position I knew I was fudged.

Not putting Imola in the 1st tier is criminal. The track is hard to learn, extremely harder to master a pole time.

13:22 that aged well...

Great video! You also have my eternal gratitude for pronouncing Budapest correctly

I think Qatar might need to be bumped up a bit

Putting Qatar in Mario Kart aged like my parents’ marriage

Turned out that Qatar was one of the most difficult tracks after all. With that heat. Why the fuck do we race in the desert?

You should really divide this by quali vs. race. Monaco is the hardest qualifier, but because it's so hard to pass, there's really nothing to lose in the race. Look at Alonso last year; you could drive that damn slow and not lose a spot. Can't be that hard.

Australia one didn't age well for a lot of drivers

i personally find jedda to be harder than monaco. Here is WHY. in monaco you just need to aclimate to the right cornerspeed, even though the last sector is a bit more challenging, i think you can get used to it. As of Jedda you have many high speed corners wich you need to 1. find the apex 2. at the right speed. At some tracks if you dont manage, this specific corner is wasted, but you can still get the other ones right. however at this track if you mess up one corner, the next one is also messed up because you have left and right combinations. wich means if you go wide at one corner you will miss the other one as well. You need to be at the right line to have maximum grip otherwise you lose SO MUCH time during these corners especially in sector 1 because they are also very fast. wich by the way makes suzuka that hard aswell. during a race such a track can make you lose lot of time if you acumulate all these mistakes in monaco its hard to overtake even if you lose some time here and there its not as fatal

Spa francorchamps is my fav circuit and in irl and in f1 games

amazing video

I think Baku should be at the top as should Jeddah. It must be absolutely butt clenching to go so close to the walls at such high speeds

You are highly mistaken if you consider Monza one of the easiest tracks. It holds some of the toughest braking zones of the calendar and taking those chicanes, the Ascari and the Parabolica with such low amounts of downforce is no joke. Definetely not the easiest track of the calendar

I dont think Spa is hard at all, I think the hardest track to drive for me is China

I was surprised with Spa. I've always found it relaxing, at least in the sim, no matter what car I'm driving on it.

Hey Mr V! Back with the great content, I love it! Great video as always. Love your humor and presentation, great effort once again with this quality video. Keep up the good work! In terms of the list; There's one change I would make and that is to change Mexico from C3 to Crikey in my humble opinion :) I do agree with what you say that the layout itself isn't that interesting, but Mexico is, among drivers, infamous for how incredibly difficult it is to perfect a qualifying lap around this track and to optimize every lap. And seeing how you mentioned that at the start of the video, that would be a reason for me to move it to crikey level. Looking forward to the next video! Greetings from the Netherlands ❤

If Laguna Sega was on this list, I bet it would be the toughest track there. The Corkscrew is self-explanatory.

No walls in Melbourne? Please tell that to 2009's turn 5. Also turn 2 which could be a second wall of champions if it was a few metres closer in. And I'd argue that Imola and Silverstone are Ce tyres at most - turns 9, 10 and 1 at the A1 ring being a serious challenge to get right, especially given the inability to make up lost time on a qualifying lap. Personally I'd also say Hungary is more challenging than Spa, hence why the races there are always some of the most interesting.

I'd personally bump up Jeddah, just because it's scary as sh*t for the drivers. I'm surprised that the average speed around this track is only 250km/h. Honestly, there's just something I find kind of creepy about this track. It's basically pitch black around, you're going at insane speeds the whole time, the walls are pinching you in every corner, the risk of having a monumental crash with someone or by yourself is much higher, and so on.

“You can hit the walls in Melbourne, but that almost never happens” … this aged badly

Singapore has the highest retirement to race ratio. Guaranteed safety car

11 months later after the Qatar grand prix i see this video and damm its in the wrong spot

Me watching this as a Belgian : 😐

Catalunya and Silverstone are going into C3 Tires at the most dare I say Eve Mario Kart. Once you get into a rhythm you’ll be flying around the place. The only hard part is the nonesense chicane in Catalunya.

I started playing F1 23 recently, and while going through the hair pins at Jeddah, I misread Aramco for Ocon, now I just call them Ocon Corners

“Bahrain has a lot of runoff, so it’s very forgiving if you make a mistake.” Romain Grosjean: ………

This is a very "armchair race driver" video. Suzuka for example definitely belongs in the hardest category. The S section is actually the easiest part of the track, T7 is easy to overshoot and will instantly destroy a lap time or an entire race, T8 is an extremely fast corner that requires pinpoint accuracy, T9 is very slow after the very fast turn and is easy to overshoot into the gravel, T11 hairpin is not especially hard but not at all easy to get a good exit, T13 and T14 are arguably some of the hardest corners to nail in all of F1 and T16 just eats up the breaks and so we see issues there in late stages of races.

Spa is the only one of these tracks that I've driven in real life, definitely deserves it's spot in this ranking but it's a lot of fun

Explaining Monza in literally 3 seconds = clown

Now make tierlist like this for every season and rank all the calendars based on how hard the tracks in the calnedar are

Las Vegas ended up being one of, if not the best race of the year. Not sure if it was the track or the colder temperatures messing things up, but it delivered, contrary to all expectations...

Suzuka should be on top without doubt and For Singapore with new layout I’m not sure it should be on top but the rest you nailed it, great video🙌

When it comes to Suzuka, I think that it's the circuit that's most affected by wheel vs. Controller, Especially with the Ss at the start of the lap. That complex is a nightmare of controller due to the lack of precision but is almost trivial on a wheel.

Monaco was already an aberration the very first time it was used as a race track. It need a fifth category all for itself, the Monaco line above «They race me so hard». 70 laps is not so bad when you remember that it originally had the same distance as the other races and need over 100 laps to complete.

"more likely to get hit by lance stroll than a wall" did him dirty

Underrated creator

Thing about Vegas is, they're going to be running it at night. LATE at night. In SEPTEMBER. And it gets COLD out there at night. Imagine the heat and humidity of Singapore, and flip it to the opposite extreme (very cold, very dry). That's what's on tap in Sin City.

Albert Park as Mario Kart... yeah, real expert here as I see... 🤦‍♂

I can’t handle the Red Bull ring, that race drives me nuts all the time

"No H&M in the ENTIRE country" There's not that much country to begin with

Looking back at this after the 2023 season is complete is really interesting.

Monaco,Singapore and Baku City the hardest circuits on the sim for me hands down

im here after Qatar and i really wonder what this guy thinks after seeing that grand prix.

Red bull ring is absolutely a mario kart track 😂

4:59 400 mile long straight. Made me laugh a bit :D

Qatar 2023 was easily the most difficult race this year

Personally I think that Australia and Zandvoort are the hardest tracks for me to master. For Australia, keeping the rear wheels tucked in and keeping away from Kerbs that will send you flying. For Zandvoort it's chaining corners and keeping momentum without shredding your front wheels! Great video, thanks!

Bros content is better than currently wtf1 massive congrats

Spa is the ultimate track... Absolute number 1.. But, I do think it needs some run off redesign and such, too many have been killed there.

I would put silverstone at the bottom of the hardest category, i have done thousands more laps there in the sim than any other track and i regularly visit as it is my closest open race circuit, rockingham is closer but also closed

I think a category between Crikey and Race me so hard would have been good, I'd have demoted spa into that, and put Imola, Baku, Suzuka and Jeddah in there

I dont know how you can call Montreal, Melbourne 2 when it’s existed since the 70’s

The easier it looks (monza f.e.) the more precise you need to be

6:13 whole circuit is a literal (not that i wouldnt like it) but we have seen on the weekend from April 29th 1994 to May 1st(my birthday) in 1994, that this track really was dsngerous and that its good that the layout was changed

I think zaandvort should have gone in they race me so hard because it’s it ridiculously hard to keep tire temps under control around it

Would love to see this list with every FIA Grade A track!

Ok, I basically agree, but some tracks are misplaced imho Underrated (should be higher): Melbourne, Interlagos, Suzuka. Overrated (should be lower): Yas Marina, Baku, Miami, Singapore. They're making Singapore track easier now, so it goes down obviously. And Last Vegas might be put in a personal category "just shit", because it's so damn awful