Exploring F1’s Ultimate Abandoned Race Track
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- čas přidán 28. 02. 2019
- We head to Reims and find some surprising discoveries including a hidden dungeon! Where should we go next for our F1 abandoned track series?
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Ignoring the obviously bent fence next to the locked gate where definitely no one trespasses into the old grandstands....
I can tell you that I got over fine and explored the grandstands
how to tell that a youtuber doesn't do abandoned videos:
*they don't climb over fences into restricted ares*
I’ve walked up the stairs and they were fine
A bit of a woos.
I mean what did the knob think was going to happen, the whole thing was going to collapse the very second he went in there?
@@1greenMitsi I guess he just didn't wanna trespass on camera
Next up,
Valencia street circuit
LvdHil agree
Yeah! That would be awesome, I wanna see that!
Nah, just forget it
Yeah! I'm from Valencia
Yes
You can tell Matt loves his job
What makes you think that? 😉
He’s also really darn good at it.
And Rory does not always love Matt’s job.
But he's not paid enough
What's not to love?
Aston Martion license plate KVI8? K-vi-eight? Kyviat?
Hmmm.. tin foil hat mode enganged!
no barriers was hurt when doing this
@Hallison Michel Depends, are they American?
"tin foil hat mode enganged". Sounds like a Gang of Tin Roof Sundae Thieves robbery attempt was foiled, but, they are throwing a Birthday Party, anyway. With Hat-shaped Cake, a la mode.
KVI8 BOH
BOH
BWOH
BWOAH
KVYAT AND KIMI
@Hallison Michel I know his name is actually spelled Kvyat in the roman way. But it's funny how the english commentators added an extra "i" in the name and changed the letters around.
This is killer, you guys are seriously upping the quality of content here. i'd subscribe a second time if I could, much love from across the pond.
Bruce wayne
Could you visit Keimola before its gone.
Its a track located just outside Helsinki Finland that was closed due to noise complaints... and now there's a motorway next to it.
Edit: the observation tower is going to stay and some parts of the track are turned into normal roads.
Edit 2: it wasn't used in F1 races but some famous F1 drivers did race there.
For example Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Jack Brabham, Keke Rosberg, Mika Häkkinen and Mika Salo.
_logically_
@@insertname8889 the best thing about it is that the motorway goes to another major city Tampere. SMH
Ois mielenkiintoista kyl joo
Eipä taida keimolassa olla radasta jäljellä yhtään mitään sen verran taloja täynnä näyttää olevan
Come on let's like this so they can see
This is a really good series, a lot of historical interest, I'd love to see more.
I would like to submit suggestions for some (probably unlikely) locations for the future -
Aintree, British Grand Prix
Zandvoort, Dutch Grand Prix
Valencia Street Circuit, Spain
(really unlikely) Buddh International, Delhi, India.
not all of them are abandoned, I saw racing at Zandvoort in the summer
@@maxengland8331 Yes thats true. They still race at Zandvoort but on the 'new' layout. You can visit en recognize the old layout especially the Bos Uit corner. I've walked there.
Ok. I know Zandvoort isn't abandoned. But I was thinking more for the Historical interest than it being abandoned... and technically neither is the Buddh International, Even though there hasn't been an international event since 2014, there has been "small local racing series" and public track days
@@patrickspence9440 Zandvoort has a lot of history. It is a great circuit for F1 also for the future
Part of Aintree isn’t abandoned either. It’s often used for club race meetings. Also, the last corner no longer exists, sadly.
Even though I know lots of the history of aintree anyway, it’d still be cool to see an episode on it. 🙂
Actually I’m very happy for an old abandoned building that I doesn’t have horrible tags everywhere. Good job whoever decided to preserve this marvelous place !
I’m from Reims, and the guys taking care of it are painting a building every week so it is always beautiful
@@edlepilote3415 ils font ça bénévolement ou sont payés ? En tous cas, ces bâtiments font partie du patrimoine.
"horrible tags". Say "Tag", with love and Paint a Bedazzled Dong and/or Vagina, today!
Valencia, Imola, Zolder, Magny-Cours, Aintree would all be good tracks to visit! Love this series though waited ages for this
A few for more episodes:
Brands Hatch, Great Britain
Estoril, Portugal
Watkins Glen, United States
Valencia Street Circuit, Spain
Imola, San Marino, Italy
Korean International Circuit, South Korea
Istanbul Park, Turkey
Buddh International Circuit, India.
I know at some of this tracks are still using with MotoGP and stuff but these would be cool places
Waited far too long for this. Please make the next one a lot sooner. The potential to be the best series on CZcams. 👍👍👍👍
Awesome video! Very professional made without loosing its WTF1 „from fans for fans“ - touch. It’s the right balance between professional and loose so it feels very natural and not „forced“. It was very great to watch and really interesting, well done! :)
Thank you so much!
totally agree!! great video with nice production, good music and camera work. getting a bit of Top Gear vibes with the roadtrip part of the video Awesome guys!!
Chris5291 losing*
@@bandithimself6841 exactly
The cave is where Verstappen was supposed to be locked in when he takes somebody out of the track.
Latvian Brasher I'm just imagining him going down there just to find Max hiding 😂😂😂
The Aston Martin Vantage has got WTF1 Orange trim!
It's too bad this series hasn't continued, I find this stuff fascinating.
Covid I suppose
Matt when will F1 CZcamsr Championship return?
And Rage Kitchen?
it kinda returned but without him
Neve😂
It won't
When they stop fitting dries on
Whoever did those graphics did a fantastic job 👌
yeah. Spent years trying to do stuff like that. Maybe I'm just bad.
Next time the old monza track! Pleeasse 🙏🏻
Rory managed to get some really nice shots, very creative and soothing angles, great work mate.
you should go to imola and pay respects to senna and roland ratsburger
Imola is stronger than ever
I don't quite think it's respectful to misspell "Ratzenberger" that badly
my mistake. edited
Aldored do it then
Joshua Garratt How? He can't spell his name.. lol
Visit the Südschleife at the Nürburgring if there are still remnants of it!
I remember some youtuber going there. I forget the channel
I remember now, they are called GNARPM
This is the first of your videos that i have watched.....it was funny and fascinating at the same time. ''Am i gonna get shot?'' ....since you weren't in Texas....I think you were pretty safe.
Great work!
This is the best entertainment I had today. That's why I subscribed. Thanks mate
I had the chance to visit it last summer and it was a great experience. It is "possible" to get up those sketchy stairs and seat on the grandstands but you have to climb the wall on the right at 6:33 to get there, but for me it was worth the little risk as the view from up there is amazing.
You should go to Brooklands and check out the tunnel under the banking there. It's the world's first motor racing circuit.
Good one!
YES PLEASE!!!
Isn't the banking the only remains of the track?
It's the world's first PURPOSE-BUILT auto racing circuit, Knoxville Raceway started hosting auto races in 1901, and the Milwaukee Mile has been hosting racing since 1903, those are the 2 oldest racing circuits still in existence since Brooklands wasn't built until 1907, but they were originally built as horse racing tracks in the 1800s and then converted so weren't purpose-built
@@notaname8140 so it is the world's first motor racing circuit as I said. The other 2 can be considered as the worlds oldest horse racing tracks that cars have also raced on. Not really the same thing.
I've been there once at the main straight and it's just a normal road. The pitboxes, stands and some other stuff are still there but I didn't know this much was still left....
Wow this is so emotional and no it’s not the music. Just seeing the old grand stand and pit area and buildings and such. You can just imagine the classic cars and drivers driving passed. It’s incredible to see it looks like the 1960’s bar the new tarmac. Amazing to see.
Rouen-Les-Essarts
.Another French track.
But sadly nothing much to see anymore :(
Magny-Cours? Why not
This was great, Love Reims, I'd love to see you visit AVUS or Pescara next, both are gloriously absurd!
I love this series, I’d enjoy seeing Matt drive round the old Spa track!
These videos, these places, not just old F1 tracks but most abandoned locations around the world, they fill me with a kind of emotion I can’t grasp. Especially with the music you added upon arriving at the track, it conveys it well.
It’s probably the affiliation with how these places were once so full of life, so commonly used and relied on and now they’re just neglected and lost to time until another curious, or passionate person comes across once in a while to explore them.
I've been waiting for this!
I love these videos so much. A track i'd love to see on here is Watkins Glen International Raceway.
Still a very active track, i wouldn't exactly call it forgotten
Not forgotten in the slightest, still very very active
LarsonFan42 the original Grand Prix Track has many parts that are outside of the actual circuit used today
@WTF1 I live in Upstate NY about 30 minutes from Watkins Glen International. If you ever come to visit (which I hope you do) please tell me. I am a huge fan and would love to meet you!!
As an archaeologist loving this series.
Cannot wait to see more. Speaking of forgotten circuits few know about my home city held some f2 and f3 street races think in the 70's
Wow i never expected a video on the circuit of my home town but here it is and it made me remember many memories about old car meetings here on the circuit. I remember that 90/2000 F1 cars was here sometimes and a lot of old race cars.
Some years later ,finding the old Williams's factory
The only one they now seem to use...
ROFL
6:37 my little brother when I lock my bedroom's door
“For our own safety”
Very nice job Matt, as always! As a good Belgian, I would suggest to go explore the old Spa, there's quite some interesting pieces of track and memorabilia left out there in the Ardennes 😉
3:35 No, Matt! Don't sleep in the car when there's an F1 Themed hotel bed right next to you!
"There's a moth coming towards me and it might be a ghost" Ahaha!!
Next Track Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit is South Africa
Went to Reims a week ago whilst traveling from Porto to Holland. Many thanks for informing me of what is still there to see was a great start to my morning and broke up the journey
I love the video of exploring the old track. I would love to see you explore Valencia. I know it's not a classic track but it was one of my favourites from recent times and I found it sad when they didn't go back to racing around that amazing track.
Maybe you could visit some modern tracks that no longer exist like Valencia circuit (most likely) korea circuit, india circuit
Korea is still there I think
Just because they are not in F1 anymore doesn't mean it's not used. But we'll both now only host amateurs race
Explore more of abandoned F1 venues! I love this!
Great episode really enjoyed it. One of my bucket list places to visit one day. Should do next episode on Pau F1 circuit
This video is in-saaane! BBC would have NEVER gone down that path, best coverage!
Anyone getting an old school top gear vibe or is it just me?
I was just thinking that!
Must be the Aston Martin doing it.. 🤣 Clarkson would never go down a shaft like that.. xD
@@Locormus2 No, but James May would probably
@@erisdiscordia1649 Nah.. Track's too fast for him.. xD
I'd love to see the Casablanca circuit in Morocco. Great series, by the way.
9:11 Matty coming out with the banger tunes
Really great video! Kept me interested the whole way through. Try and visit Brooklands for the next one
It looks like it has fared better since its closing than North Wilksboro.
North Wilksboro is under restoration.
Circuit de Montjuic (Barcelona)!!
Driven it in a couple of sims and that seemed like a great circuit. Great surroundings, like Monaco, but a much better track for racing.
@@jasonuk8333 And really dangerous also. I have been there several times and yeah, amazing layout. At the end they deleted it from the calendar because it wasn't safe at all
This series is simply awesome! I love to learn about those old tracks.
I've already been to Reims but didn't manage to visit the track. Guess I'll have to do that one day :)
For one of the next videos, I would like to see a more recent track: Valencia (European Grand Prix). I heard that its state is rather awful and would love to see what's exactly behind that.
I don't really like to be born in France but there is one thing I can be glad of, it's the fact that I'm born in the city of this abandoned race track and I would love that this track open for 1 race, it could be amazing
Next? Well it has to be Monza, get the Aston up on the banking. Also history is awesome.
This was filmed like 6 years ago wasn’t it? 😂😂 remembered seeing the insta posts 😂
Clearly not. That Aston Martin is near enough to be a new car.
Yeah I remember the Instagram posts
DanTheRacer22 I mean, considering the channel hasn’t been around that long, I think it’s obvious exaggeration of the truth, but hey 😂
@@iansamuel5366 Haha, well given that I've just gone to watch the first Forgotten Tracks feature at Hockenheim and they already had footage of the Reims pit buildings it would suggest that they filmed them at around the same time. Maybe 6 months was an accurate time gap!
We wanted to put a lot of time and effort into this edit :)
I live in Reims, all septembers we have a celebration day with lots of cars, it's fantastic !
I can't wait for these to return
As Jimmy "Plz no punterino" Broadbent would put it... Zolder
There was a testing day 2 days ago.
Zolder is still really active, its just not used as a F1-circuit
Nivelles-Baulers former track now its home to trees and a business park
Wow! I am so jealous! Need to add that to my bucket list!
This series really needs to be continued!
Technicly in Brno we have old f1 track too, there was race in 1948, it wasnt f1 but the cars were basicly F1
its the Masaryk circuit
They raced there in the 1930s as well
Can you do AVUS circuit the fastest track Ever used by f1 at Germany
I'd like to see that one too.
Awesome beautiful! More pls
Nice to see some of F1's history covered. Good job. Future tracks it would be nice to see visited would be: Rouen-Les-Essarts, Charade (part of it is still a track, but most of the old F1 circuit reverted to public roads), Montjuic and Pedralbes (both in Barcelona so a 2 for 1 visit!), Nivelles-Baulers, Bremgarten, Ain-Diab, Adelaide. Some only abandoned by F1 circuits: Mosport, Mont-Tremblant, Buenos Aires, Dijon, Jarama, East London, Anderstorp, Aida.
Maybe zolder next time
The place were Villeneuve died😭
Thomas Maene that’s a good one, i raced there a few times and its a pretty dangerous but fun track
Come on Matty Matt, who's the girl on your phone's screen saver at 7:35?
His girlfriend 😂
Lol matt does not have a girlfriend
bowser1 he does follow his Instagram
No 👎
He has a girlfriend, he posted a pic of her in an Instagram Q n A.
I was a casual f1 tv audience, just trying to be a full-time fans in 2017, and dunno why, seeing this old pit straight makes me tearing up
As a racing fan and someone who dabbles in urbex, this is really awesome! Also you should go to the abandoned Caterham F1 facility, it is a very interesting place.
TBH you could have done 13 minutes of sexy Aston Martin shots and I don’t think anyone would have cared. Such a sexy car 😍😍
“Did they have pens back then?”
Bottom of screen: _Invented in 3000BC_
I mean...
Oh hello there!
This series is really good i'd like to see more. I'd like to see a episode with the Monza oval
If I were to have the opportunity to buy anything. I would buy abandon race tracks and turn them into grade 1 circuits
I have stayed in that hotel, or at least i'm pretty sure
Into the pits we must go. Ee eye ee eye ee eye oh
Amazing and informative series! Would one day like to visit these tracks myself, would be nice if Valencia give you access to the purpose built parts of the street circuit.
Jacarepaguá Circuit was demolished. A new circuit was builden in Rio de Janeiro.
Go to the dead meme of Raidillon
Zoo wee mama!
very interesting vlog content, gonna subs now.
As a French who lives not that far from Reims, it warms my heart to see this video. Even if I didn't come there yet but I've definitely planned to do it this year 🙂
Hope you will visit the old Spa-Francorchamps in a near future.
P.S : your Reims pronunciations cracks me up 😆
*REIMS-GUEX still cancelled soz*
Hey guys it's ruby tube back with another 3 am video art the spooky hour!!!!
Imagine if the Drivers who died in this circuit were huanting down there
When I went back in 2015 my mate climbed over the green fence and found a full archery range set up in there. Also, as it was a windy day, unfortunatley I watched one of the 'Calvaire' posts fall over (Poste No.2) would be nice to know if it was ever fixed and put back. Such an amazing place.
geez alot of work goes into theese vids. love it. id say a suggestion too. go to imola.
Brooklands
This.
Awsome have seen driven on some of it
I’ve done a few abandoned exploration videos myself. Get a proper big thrill from it. One was even in a farmhouse where two people were murdered… (they’re on my channel).
Anyway, as a big F1 fan I’d love to visit this place, and as much as you said don’t, I think I’d have to go through that tunnel!
Great video mate👌
I know it's not necesserily an F1 track, but a visit to the remaining parts of the Sudschliefe could be an awesome addition to this series!
I like this series, keep it up👍🏼
I would highly recommend you to get a drone for this series - i think you could get a lot of amazing shots with it. Also very interesting video, i really like your content, guys!
I'd say, make up a list with all forgotten tracks and make a poll out of it. That's easier than suggesting, plus that way you can make a list of the most popular and tick those off.
Great video. If you head to the states, do this @ north wilksboro speedway
Please do more of these
Nice Edit!
Made a Daytrip to Reims in 2013. I see, a lot has changed since then. When I was there, you still could sit on the grandstands and the where closed and didn't even have windows.
When is the next episode coming out? Love this series😊
That new Aston Vantage is really nice