From time attack events at Tsukuba, to the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca and the legendary Circuit De La Sarthe – we at Speedhunters have spent a lot of time standing trackside at racing circuits all across the world. We’ve shot at the big ones and the small ones, but it’s not until you see them all together, side by side and in scale, that you can truly appreciate their differences in size. This fascinating image from Matt Dunlop shows 95 of the world’s most well known racing circuits in relative size to each other. From the tiny little oval that is Martinsville Speedway to the massive outline of the Isle of Man TT course – it’s incredibly fascinating.
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Where does your favorite course fit on the list?
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I need this poster size on my wall.
BRP? Am I blind?
Top left is my home track (Calabogie). I want this as a pattern on a dress shirt (to keep me entertained in work meetings).
Nardo?
You forgot Knockhill in Scotland. Famous for BTCC and BDC. There's also Driftland in Scotland too.
The "Avus" is not an Racetrack now...ist an relict,not now drivible....
Awesome to see Mosport on here. It's my home track and, as a 17 year old, I never got to see the track when it was truly in its prime and in an international spotlight.
I just find it cool whenever I see it get recognized like this.
Maart3n Forget poster size, I need entire wall size
potrero de los funes awesome track watching the fia gt1 cars there amazing
@goon Maart3n forget wall sized, I need it full sized an made of asphalt.
I am missing the Motorland circuit in Aragon (Spain) ... and I do not see a circuit (which is already fictitious), the Tokyo R246 ... watch this video <iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/17325115" width="500" height="281" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
O.O I knew tsukuba was small but it took me forever to find the little speck on the image
Keep searching but can't see LeMans?
Honeydew Cottage l o l
Honeydew Cottage Le Mans is the race, not the track...
Circuit de la Sarthe.
Great to see my local track on there (Donington Park), took a bit to find it though. I was shocked by just how big the Isle of Man TT track is in comparison to others, must be terrifying to race that fully concentrated for 20 or so minutes a lap.
Tee hee...
Quite...
I'm a bit disappointed (or maybe blind haha) that there isn't Brno circuit... I'm from Czech Rep. and I though it's world-known racetrack...
Holy hell, I did not expect to see Edmonton on there. Awesome!
Lots of familiar shapes. Huge car-sim fan right here.
I saw this on Tumblr a few days ago, super neat map. I am amazed to see LVMS, but not Spring Mountain raceway, since Spring Mountain gets the Sema Redline time attack race, I think it is the Redline race during Sema, either way don't they make it out there for Sema every year? I would think it would be a bigger name for a Nevada track at least.
Baljit Singh Driftland being less than a year old and so far only being used for non competitive drift events (?) wouldn't make it on this. The most well known UK tracks are there. I mean the outer ring is a UK 'circuit'
No Portland International Raceway?
Jurke Neither is the Monza ring, but it still gets a post because of its awesome history.
No Mondello Park ? - Plenty room for a few more circuits inside Circuit De La Sarthe & the full Nürburgring track !
PowerTryp can you say Thank you Canadian Grand Prix!
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This map justifies my love for Watkins Glen Int'l compared to other so-called superior (western) American tracks...you can pretty much fit Sonoma INSIDE of it. Don't get me started on the area beauty.
Africa Represent! Good to see Kyalami there... Too bad the old one no longer exists.
These are racing circuits right? What the hell do they race on that Avus track?
Where are some of the tracks from New Zealand like pukekohe, Hampton downs, manfield, rupuna levels raceway teretonga etc
RacingPast This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs4OP7FP9nA
No Eastern Creek raceway / Sydney Motorsport Park for World Time Attach Challenge (WTAC)?
Currently the outright lap record for a bike is John McGuinness on a CBR 1000RR in 2013, ran a 17:11.572 and here's one to make your head hurt, average speed of 131mph or 211kph! The unofficial car lap record is just under 20min and 'only' 113mph average speed a couple of years ago in a Impreza. Subaru did a doco on it.
MatthewDear Just because it's less than a year old doesn't mean it shouldn't make the list. FYI Driftland is not only a drift circuit it is also used for karting and time attack /track days too.
Also, that photo is still missing Knockhill.
RacingPast
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_German_Grand_Prix, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Touring_Car_Championship, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_3, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Tourenwagen_Meisterschaft,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Rennsport_Meisterschaft, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interserie, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_C
Chris 'Haffy' Hafner My idea of hell. Average speed of 131mph is just insane for a track that length and with so many corners, crests and blind spots, but I suppose I'm not a world champion motorcyclist.
@hyde RacingPast Thanks for that info! I guess there was no complaints about the lack of overtaking opportunity...
It was just a track that stood out from the rest.
Which SpeedHunter has been to most of these tracks? If not all of them.
Speedhunters does it again: you have just saved me hours of work drawing these out, thank you.
Dijon-prenois for sure !
just a minor nit-pick...wish the bugatti circuit part of the la sarthe and the old (non-chicane layout) was there
You can get the full size map here (3550 x 2500):
http://www.carthrottle.com/see-all-the-worlds-best-circuits-to-scale-in-one-incredible-map/
Much easier to read labels
All the Norwegian tracks are missing....
check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Circle_Raceway
It scares me. Seeing the tracks I have been to compared in size to the other tracks...
Honeydew Cottage It's Circuit de Le Sartre. It's right on the left of the Nordschleife.
Awesome to see what I can basically call my home track; Anderstorp! It's just 5 km away from where I grew up, can't believe it's an old F1 race track...
Kirk_B PowerTryp Yes I can. Although I think the artist might be Canadian because of Castrol Raceway which just opened last year and has no international pedigree. Now if he had put a tiny oval on there with Castrols name by it that would make sense due to the World of Outlaws race that runs there every year.
Good question...
Sadly now defunct
Keep up at the back...
Can you guys make this into a massive wall poster!!!
Anyone who can, should definitely do a few laps of the mountain course, It's just a shame its public
No national speed limit though ;D
Good find Mike!
top gear race track
Im quite surprised that Bathurst/Mount Panorama isn't on here. Its one of the classic big tracks with Nordschleife and La Sarthre
@flushpoke It's in there in the lower right corner, and according to this it is actually pretty small compared to Nordschleife and La Sarthre.
RodChong
grandstands are still there fully intact, nestled inbetween the lanes of the autobahn. Bus I was in once broke down exactly there
DuffQuick Even the Top Gear track is like twice as long
RodChong Maybe a follow up should be done? It would be interesting to see where you should go next...
the most hardcore... GUIA!
James1010 Good spot thanks. I could have sworn that Bathhurst was much bigger than that, definitely feels and looks bigger than monza on Forza
although if I think about it, it's not longer than an 8 minute lap.
d_rav top gear track is in there, use your eyes fellas...
I listed it as my first fav
too many great places too choose from. I'd like to see coverage of the mountain course
illyathemoose x 11ty billion
i didn't see the Shanghai circuit....and a lot of tracks...
James1010 Maart3n That'll be a Eleventy million dollars thanks!! lol
EVOZZZZ Shanghai is on the right below Nordschleife and below Tsukuba and next to Fuji.
the Circuit de la Sarthe aka Le Mans Track is #1 favorite track, #2 belongs to Monza.
No Mondello?