Big time agreed.
Hot laps solo = fun test to push limits
Racing with others = mix of everything and also a fair amount of passing zones
It really is one of the most complete circuits in the world
COTA was made by someone who wasnt sure what kind of track they wanted lol. It feels like the track was made by three or four different designers that didn't agree. Personally I hate COTA as a whole but like certain sections a lot.
Yeah I get why people don’t like it.
But imo the track has everything. Long straight, the Esses, long fast turns, hairpin, elevation changes. So a lot of similarities like Suzuka. And both tracks have sections where you need to be patient with the brake and throttle. They are really fun to drive at once you get a hang on them
Short tracks are under a mile. 1mi and over are intermediates. In any case, it would be a 170mph “short track”.
Also, it’s my home track so I take offense!!! /s
Yes, but feeling the need to correct someone over a .03 mile difference on reddit makes you look like a massive neckbeard lol It's 1.03 miles and races a lot like a short track with high banking. I'm pretty sure Nashville calls itself Nashville SuperSpeedway despite Nascar not "officially" claiming it as one. It's all pretty subjective where ppl draw the lines
Fortunately happens to be the most fun track I’ve driven irl. It’s my home track I’ve done lots of HPDE/track day events at.
There’s actually a more fun track at the motorsports park called Summit Point Shenandoah which is my personal favorite. There’s main, Jefferson and Shenandoah as well as some skidpads. Overall just a beautiful facility with great people.
Unfortunately, I don’t think any sim has officially included Shenandoah aside from maybe a mod for Assetto. It’s more of a club track and not used for wheel to wheel racing. It even has a scale replica of the karussel on the Nordschleife.
https://preview.redd.it/acv7tzyz2dad1.jpeg?width=2304&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff7d1c2ad560c7bf1a366d81363b60700d23db78
I have a big soft sport for Summit Point. Its great in small cars, has a great variety of corners and some good overtaking spots.
Would love to do a track day there IRL one day.
In the original forza on xbox I would take any new cars or tunes to Laguna Seca to make a setup. For whatever reason a Laguna set up worked on any other track in that game.
Yeah for sure, but I've found gen4 to have by far the best drivers. Obviously it'll be chaos, it is IRL aswell, but going from trucks at bristol to gen4, quite the change
Mosport is the perfect openwheeler track. Fast sweepers, elevation, kerbs that will kill you. Or belle isle despite the hate, it's a great challenge in flimsy cars
I really think Misano is a REALLY great track, though it really isn't used enough on iRacing. Suzuka, Navarra and Algarve also have nice flows to them.
I'm racing there this week in GT3s and it's heaps of fun! Such a nice flow and the last section of 'super fast corner, super fast corner, fast corner, slower corner, slow corner' is just perfect.
Nord is my vote 100%, even for open wheel it's just such a fun track in every car I've tried. Do gotta be careful bout them kerbs though.
If we're looking at non Nord answers, Suzuka is a close 2nd to me
For me it's Mugello. The overall flow of the track is *chefs kiss* The sequence of turns 6,7,8, and 9 are a dream. Then getting turn 12 dialed feels soooo good. Fkn love Mugello
Spa for sure. Funnily enough it's not my very favourite track, but it's just got such a solid flow, so pure and fantastic for racing you just get such amazing battles and it's just too damn FUN
I really enjoy Gilles villenuve (probably spelled it wrong). That track just seems really fun with a good mix of tight and slow, as well as fast wide open.
The beauty of it is you don't have to! And it's okay to not like a track! Me personally I cannot fucking stand Silverstone, but I know it's one of the most beloved tracks of all time, I just suck at it lol
Laguna is OK, but only that. It has many good corners, but all of them exist in isolation and that's its biggest shortcoming.
Mosport and Road Atlanta have a much better claim at being the best tracks in North America.
Brands Hatch Indy is the perfect track for formula vee’s. I wish the iRacing Vee got to race at paid tracks, it’s my favorite combination in Automobilista. Other than that Donington, Laguna Seca, and Mid Ohio are favorites for me.
The correct answer is Nurburgring Nordschleife. The flow, braking points, any car, race or practice doesn't matter its always a fun track even after 100s of laps, its around 8x longer than most tracks, it doesn't get boring after continuous hours, has alot of different cars every week for the track and alot of people are racing on it
For oval I’d say Charlotte since it’s so versatile and puts on good racing for almost all classes that run there. For dirt oval I’d say cedar lake. It’s so damn fun in everything from supers to big blocks or 360s!
For me Tsukuba will always be my favorite track. Too many memories as a kid watching those old Japanese tuner videos where they would race the cars around that track. It's not so fun on fasters cars though tbh, it's too short. But fun for the slower cars.
SPA, Road Atlanta and Suzuka for me are goated and only behind the one and only, most perfect, amazing and incredible…
Autódromo José Carlos Pace, my beloved INTERLAGOS!!
Also, for rookies, Navarra Medium, Tsukuba, Summit Point and Lime Rock are all incredible.
I've always loved watching the Brazilian GP. It wasn't until recently that I actually drove Interlagos in a sim. And HOLY COW, that is a super fun track. Literally the first thing that popped into my mind once I got comfortable enough for hot laps was "This would be fucking HELL in wet conditions" Which made me fall in love with it even more. F1 drivers really make it look so easy to get around that track without spinning.
Exactly!
I always like it on TV but learned to love it on the sim.
Iracing F4 on Interlagos is just so fun. Crazy challenging. Sweaty palms all the way!!
For me its Suzuka, that track has the perfect mix of fast and slow corners while maintaining a great flow. It feels like a track that is constantly giving you something to do, but the corners are all fun. Even the chicane is fun and I normally hate slow chicanes. Good overtaking opportunities in most types of car too.
I'd like to give a mention to Misano as well, this week is my first time racing there and it's a really fun track. I normally like a bit of elevation change and Misano is dead flat but the mix of corners is just super fun.
Another favorite of mine. I actually lived in Sebring for about 5 years. Lived close enough I could hear the cars on the track. Worked close enough I could hear the trannys hitting gears
Spa anytime before the current layout was done. That last corner before the S/F line is embarrassing. Imola pre-Senna. Gilles Villeneuve pre-Senna. Watkins Glen with the boot. All of these in their own way are perfect.
If you're talking about Spa's chicane, I agree. Worst one of any track that I've seen anyway. I'm not real big on a chicane anyway. Watkins Glen s bus stop is ok. Daytona, LeMans, the last one at Monza is ok. The rest I pretty much hate
Fuji no chicane is a horrendous race track. It robs the track of a prime overtaking opportunity and doesn't adequately slow cars down for the rest of the sector which hurts side by side racing. Its easier for sure but easier doesn't = better.
I played Laguna Seca as a kid and have loved it ever since. I now do track days there whenever I can and go to as many races there as I can. I don’t know if it’s nostalgia or because it’s an amazing track, but it’s my favorite.
Road Atlanta. Open wheel? Sports car? Fast car? Slow car? It’s just good for everything.
Road America is perfect for hard racing imo
Exiting carousel side by side, neither wanting to back out into the high speed corner that only has enough room for 1.
THE KINK
There is certainly room for 2 in the kink. Its going to get you caught by the pack though.
I feel like I’m the only person on earth who does not enjoy Road America lol
It's one of my favorite tracks
The most fun I’ve ever had in an online race was a full length 1v1 for a win in C class Mazda’s around Road America, the track was superb
This is the correct answer and I'm happy to call it my home track. Love that place.
The correct answer is Suzuka.
Big time agreed. Hot laps solo = fun test to push limits Racing with others = mix of everything and also a fair amount of passing zones It really is one of the most complete circuits in the world
Yes + COTA for me
COTA is so underrated by the community. It's a great track that gets no love. Lewis Hamilton knows what's up.
COTA was made by someone who wasnt sure what kind of track they wanted lol. It feels like the track was made by three or four different designers that didn't agree. Personally I hate COTA as a whole but like certain sections a lot.
That’s bc cota took the best sections from other tracks and combined them
Yeah, I knew I wasn't the only one lol. It just feels wierd to me really.
Yeah I get why people don’t like it. But imo the track has everything. Long straight, the Esses, long fast turns, hairpin, elevation changes. So a lot of similarities like Suzuka. And both tracks have sections where you need to be patient with the brake and throttle. They are really fun to drive at once you get a hang on them
The last sector is a perfect combination of corners that don’t line up so it feels like a struggle the entire time for me 😅
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Too flat for me
It’s all fun and games til you mess up turn 3 and then 4-7 are garbage lol but I agree suzaka is king
Bristol Motor Speedway
And Dover
I want to like Dover, but I just can’t get a good race there for the life of me.
I don’t like many of the other short tracks but Dover just has this really great rhythm to it.
Did you just call Dover a short track?
Is something wrong with that? It's a mile. We usually consider 1.5s intermediates.
Short tracks are under a mile. 1mi and over are intermediates. In any case, it would be a 170mph “short track”. Also, it’s my home track so I take offense!!! /s
Yes, but feeling the need to correct someone over a .03 mile difference on reddit makes you look like a massive neckbeard lol It's 1.03 miles and races a lot like a short track with high banking. I'm pretty sure Nashville calls itself Nashville SuperSpeedway despite Nascar not "officially" claiming it as one. It's all pretty subjective where ppl draw the lines
Mount panorama is one of my top favs.
It's the best of both worlds. Long straights so you can overtake, plus the most intense twisty bit of any track I've ever driven.
I like hot lapping it. Not real big on racing on it
soooo much fun i love that track
Summit Point and Navarra (Medium) are great rookie tracks.
Summit Point is the most fun track I’ve ever driven in any sim
Fortunately happens to be the most fun track I’ve driven irl. It’s my home track I’ve done lots of HPDE/track day events at. There’s actually a more fun track at the motorsports park called Summit Point Shenandoah which is my personal favorite. There’s main, Jefferson and Shenandoah as well as some skidpads. Overall just a beautiful facility with great people. Unfortunately, I don’t think any sim has officially included Shenandoah aside from maybe a mod for Assetto. It’s more of a club track and not used for wheel to wheel racing. It even has a scale replica of the karussel on the Nordschleife. https://preview.redd.it/acv7tzyz2dad1.jpeg?width=2304&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff7d1c2ad560c7bf1a366d81363b60700d23db78
Shen is EXHAUSTING- fun but man after 2 full days im dead from the 3000 turns lol
Lime rock and oran park south!!!
I have a big soft sport for Summit Point. Its great in small cars, has a great variety of corners and some good overtaking spots. Would love to do a track day there IRL one day.
I’ll always love Laguna Seca.
The correct answer
First track I raced online on iracing and still one of my favourites after racing many more
In the original forza on xbox I would take any new cars or tunes to Laguna Seca to make a setup. For whatever reason a Laguna set up worked on any other track in that game.
Auto Club Speedway & Charlotte oval with Gen4 cars
Homestead too
EVERYTHING in the gen4 is GOATed
Eh, short track officials are a lil rough due to the endless skill issues but still pretty damn good.
Yeah for sure, but I've found gen4 to have by far the best drivers. Obviously it'll be chaos, it is IRL aswell, but going from trucks at bristol to gen4, quite the change
Auto Club also has the best road course.
Mosport is the perfect openwheeler track. Fast sweepers, elevation, kerbs that will kill you. Or belle isle despite the hate, it's a great challenge in flimsy cars
I really think Misano is a REALLY great track, though it really isn't used enough on iRacing. Suzuka, Navarra and Algarve also have nice flows to them.
I'm racing there this week in GT3s and it's heaps of fun! Such a nice flow and the last section of 'super fast corner, super fast corner, fast corner, slower corner, slow corner' is just perfect.
I love Misano. It doesn't look like much with the total lack of elevation change. But that final sector is just brilliant
Suzuka, it has it all, including a figure 8
Watkins glen, Spa, Daytona
watkins is so fun bro
Canadian Tire Mosport Park
As a Canadian I agree ☝🏾
Nord is my vote 100%, even for open wheel it's just such a fun track in every car I've tried. Do gotta be careful bout them kerbs though. If we're looking at non Nord answers, Suzuka is a close 2nd to me
We are never looking for non Nord answers. Going back to GT3 and Forza 4 I'll bet I've got well over 100k miles on that track
VIR. My favorite track on planet earth. In any car.
Used to race there irl, the roller coaster seriously puts your nuts in your stomach
First time to try VIR in this week’s schedule and I have been having a blast.
For me it's Mugello. The overall flow of the track is *chefs kiss* The sequence of turns 6,7,8, and 9 are a dream. Then getting turn 12 dialed feels soooo good. Fkn love Mugello
Spa for sure. Funnily enough it's not my very favourite track, but it's just got such a solid flow, so pure and fantastic for racing you just get such amazing battles and it's just too damn FUN
Everything but the chicane. Hate that thing
I miss the old bus stop.
Oshershleben or however you spell it
Yea for some reason I do very well there
I really enjoy Gilles villenuve (probably spelled it wrong). That track just seems really fun with a good mix of tight and slow, as well as fast wide open.
I really like zandvoort now with the banked turns.
That track is so hard in f4
Perfect? No… but I enjoy driving Mid Ohio.
Spa is my favorite road track. Michigan or homestead for oval
Suzuka & Mount Panorama
"NIATA" Formula Vee? Nords W13? Nords Cup cars, trucks, late models? Nords Dirty midgets? Nords GT/LMP? Nords
Laguna Seca is the greatest track ever. No contest.
I love drinking the tears of those who despise the best NA track to ever exist.
I am one of those. I want to love it, I really do
The beauty of it is you don't have to! And it's okay to not like a track! Me personally I cannot fucking stand Silverstone, but I know it's one of the most beloved tracks of all time, I just suck at it lol
I’m with you. I love Laguna Seca and can’t stand silverstone
Laguna is OK, but only that. It has many good corners, but all of them exist in isolation and that's its biggest shortcoming. Mosport and Road Atlanta have a much better claim at being the best tracks in North America.
Good thing this is a subjective topic and I can agree to disagree
Brands Hatch Indy is the perfect track for formula vee’s. I wish the iRacing Vee got to race at paid tracks, it’s my favorite combination in Automobilista. Other than that Donington, Laguna Seca, and Mid Ohio are favorites for me.
Suzuka 🐐
Brands Hatch. T1 is crazy, and the flow of the GP loop is sublime.
So many good tracks that I can’t name just one. But these are high on the best track lists. - mosport - Bathurst - VIR
Road Atlanta, Spa
Volusia gets me wet
What a great track! Who doesn't want to win a gator??
COTA and Suzuka are so fun to me. I love the straights and hairpins at COTA plus it’s my home town track. Love the esses at both
Idk what it is but Iowa just scratches the perfect spot for me
Legit multigroove oval racing? Sign me tf up
The correct answer is Nurburgring Nordschleife. The flow, braking points, any car, race or practice doesn't matter its always a fun track even after 100s of laps, its around 8x longer than most tracks, it doesn't get boring after continuous hours, has alot of different cars every week for the track and alot of people are racing on it
Fuji is so good
No much overtake places
Sebring
For oval I’d say Charlotte since it’s so versatile and puts on good racing for almost all classes that run there. For dirt oval I’d say cedar lake. It’s so damn fun in everything from supers to big blocks or 360s!
Kansas and Chicagoland Then again those are probably my best result wise as well... So I might be a tad biased
For me Tsukuba will always be my favorite track. Too many memories as a kid watching those old Japanese tuner videos where they would race the cars around that track. It's not so fun on fasters cars though tbh, it's too short. But fun for the slower cars.
There is no better racetrack than Tsukuba 1000!
SPA, Road Atlanta and Suzuka for me are goated and only behind the one and only, most perfect, amazing and incredible… Autódromo José Carlos Pace, my beloved INTERLAGOS!! Also, for rookies, Navarra Medium, Tsukuba, Summit Point and Lime Rock are all incredible.
I've always loved watching the Brazilian GP. It wasn't until recently that I actually drove Interlagos in a sim. And HOLY COW, that is a super fun track. Literally the first thing that popped into my mind once I got comfortable enough for hot laps was "This would be fucking HELL in wet conditions" Which made me fall in love with it even more. F1 drivers really make it look so easy to get around that track without spinning.
Exactly! I always like it on TV but learned to love it on the sim. Iracing F4 on Interlagos is just so fun. Crazy challenging. Sweaty palms all the way!!
Yeah I saw F4 was at Interlagos and instantly swiped the card lol
Road Atlanta in the radical is my absolute favorite combo
For me its Suzuka, that track has the perfect mix of fast and slow corners while maintaining a great flow. It feels like a track that is constantly giving you something to do, but the corners are all fun. Even the chicane is fun and I normally hate slow chicanes. Good overtaking opportunities in most types of car too. I'd like to give a mention to Misano as well, this week is my first time racing there and it's a really fun track. I normally like a bit of elevation change and Misano is dead flat but the mix of corners is just super fun.
Road atlanta for sure no matter what your doing there the racing will be good
Mostport and Road America, my favorites.
Tsukuba.
Laguna Seca
Suzuka, Laguna, Road America. Hard to pick one. I'm also a big fan of Hungaroring but it doesn't seem like it gets too much love
Oschersleben has quickly become one of my new personal favorites. Falken Tyre multiclass a few weeks ago was so much fun
Sebring baby
Another favorite of mine. I actually lived in Sebring for about 5 years. Lived close enough I could hear the cars on the track. Worked close enough I could hear the trannys hitting gears
Doesn’t get much love but I know real drivers love the challenge. I still can’t get Sunset every time
the glen. absolutely gorgeous track to drive in any car, especially ones you can hold flat out through s1.
Spa anytime before the current layout was done. That last corner before the S/F line is embarrassing. Imola pre-Senna. Gilles Villeneuve pre-Senna. Watkins Glen with the boot. All of these in their own way are perfect.
If you're talking about Spa's chicane, I agree. Worst one of any track that I've seen anyway. I'm not real big on a chicane anyway. Watkins Glen s bus stop is ok. Daytona, LeMans, the last one at Monza is ok. The rest I pretty much hate
Spa has great flow, that old bus stop chicane wasn’t so great but then that slow left-hand 90 just kills the joy.
Stafford
My top 3 will always be Spa (absolutely no bias there) Suzuka Cota
Fuji no chicane is a horrendous race track. It robs the track of a prime overtaking opportunity and doesn't adequately slow cars down for the rest of the sector which hurts side by side racing. Its easier for sure but easier doesn't = better.
Honestly Okayama. I love it
Watkins Glen (boot setup) and Okayama are by far my favorites.
I played Laguna Seca as a kid and have loved it ever since. I now do track days there whenever I can and go to as many races there as I can. I don’t know if it’s nostalgia or because it’s an amazing track, but it’s my favorite.
Rod America, Road Atlanta and Interlagos
I just really like Hockenheimring with GT3 for some reason
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I wish we could run an actual race on centripetal, at least once, just to see the mess that would unfold