Mostly because they look good compared to new tracks. Nothing rose-tinting about that.

Turn eight at Turkey won't gain character because the tarmac runoff pretty much nullifies the challenge.

Britney on tour...

Turkey is a shame. It's the best layout of the new circuits. If it just had grass, gravel, and trees, instead of 5 miles of car parks at every corner. The worst part is the little kink on the back straight. Why is there 100 miles of run off there, when you could probably still take it flat out with a broken front wing?

They're willing to race at Singapore, and have that crazy final section at Valencia without any run off. So why does it have to be so ridiculous elsewhere? I don't care if people think I'm moaning over nothing, but all these new tracks ruin the enjoyment for me. What's a more exciting scenario - Vettel makes a mistake at Monza, and gets beached in the gravel. Or Vettel makes a mistake at Abu Dhabi, and loses 2 seconds, and carries on in the lead. Retirements do add to the racing imo. The cars are too reliable to ever break down, so the only way you'll get retirements is if somebody finds the gravel or a barrier. And that doesn't happen anymore.

Turkey is a shame. It's the best layout of the new circuits. If it just had grass, gravel, and trees, instead of 5 miles of car parks at every corner. The worst part is the little kink on the back straight. Why is there 100 miles of run off there, when you could probably still take it flat out with a broken front wing?

Trees make F1 circuits a lot of the time. Put old Hockenheim in the environment of Bahrain and it'd be shitty. Problem with modern tracks, as has been stated many times, is too much run-off, too much tarmac, shitty places like Abu Dhabi and tracks that are just 'meh' and lacking in defining corners that are challenging.

And they're not all automatically rubbish. Singapore is quite good, but so many are shit and unforgettable. Meh, I don't care, I just want Old Hockenheim & A1 Ring back. Hate me for that.

The thing about Hockenheim was that mostly the races weren't that good, few exceptions aside, but what it WAS, was that it was DIFFERENT. And to me that is the problem with all the new tracks, that they are essentially the same.

I actually quite like that. No hairpin into 1 mile straight into hairpin.

It's great! It looks like that after all the 2km-long straights to 'improve racing', designers just stopped giving a fuck and went for a twisty, demanding track.

Just noticed, the middle bit looks a bit like a man dancing.

I know it's old, but Shanghai looks like a woman doing the splits (with a small head though)