The Most Dangerous Race Tracks EVER

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[@chiseledmedal2634]

Fun(or depressing) fact this year was the first Isle Of Man TT to be completely "deathless" since 1982

[@charamia9402]

That is ... I'm at a loss for words.

[@SRFriso94]

The current lap record is 16 minutes and a bit, of which there is a helmet cam. I'm not one to get spooked easily by videos, but that is absoluetely terrifying, seeing the trees, lampposts and curbs 15 cm high whizz by.

[@CobraAce04]

Genuinely don't understand how people tune in every year when a fact like that genuinely surprised me. I don't wanna watch an event knowing there's a near 0% chance I won't bear witness to a fatality today

[@scsutton1]

​@@CobraAce04Maybe motorsport isn't for you. There's always a chance of death at any event, from club level to the top of the sport.

[@markedone6667]

​@@CobraAce04 Well, as someone who does watch the TT, there are a couple of points to this. You most likely aren't going to see a fatal crash. You most likely aren't going to see any crash at all if you watch the livestream (I also think they use a time delay on live footage, so that they can cut away if a crash happens, not sure about that though). They don’t glorify the danger, as in they will never show replays of a crash. As it’s a race against time, the riders are also very spread out, so you usually only see the leaders, and these guys are very experienced and therefore less likely to crash. Sure, the event is incredibly dangerous, but I personally am ok with that, as long as I know, that no one there is forced to do it. It's just athletes doing extreme sports because it’s their passion. Not much different than Alex Honnold doing insane free solo stuff.

[@S85B50Engine]

The Isle of Man TT is so dangerous that the only times there were no fatalities were 1937, 1982 and 2024. That's how insanely dangerous that race gets.

[@mikespearwood3914]

I was literally feeling sick watching footage of it on here. Going flat out down the narrow main street of fully built-up towns without any realistic barriers/protection...just insane!

[@DJSockmonkeyMusic]

I've watched a few helmet cams from Isle of Man TT, and it made me feel sick. I can't even with bikes, I like a roll cage and some sheet metal between me and the bitumen.😂

[@mikespearwood3914]

@@DJSockmonkeyMusic Yeah. I was watching a helmet-cam video too. Just feel nervous and queasy watching a video of it!

[@S85B50Engine]

@@DJSockmonkeyMusic I know he did it on a car, but I don't think even Colin McRae would dare do it in a bike

[@AlanFormula12022]

​@@DJSockmonkeyMusicIOMTT even in 2024 are still very deadly event.

[@bluengold3443]

Must be fun being a fan back in the day knowing your driver didn't die after getting loose at a buck fifty during braking

[@CobraAce04]

I still can't understand how people still watch the IOMTT. Every single time it is run, you're almost sure you're going to experience a fatality today

[@NolanRempel]

@@CobraAce04 I've been saying for years it should be banned. It's similar fatality rates that we had back in the day and we consider racing back then borderline barbaric. If any other motorsport event today had those stats, I can almost guarantee it wouldn't be around. So I don't get why IOMTT should be any different. "Oh well the riders know the risks about what they're getting into!" Yeah so did the racers back in the 50's and 60's where fatalities were an occupational hazard, yet that doesn't make it ok

[@pamelakelly3441]

@@NolanRempel do you really think the Manx government would ban the sole reason most people know the island exists?

[@thatonenigeriansformula]

“Let’s go he survived”

[@bluengold3443]

@@thatonenigeriansformula "(insert french/italian driver) didn't got decapited at the nurburgring last week. King shit fr"

[@bsmotorsport1449]

Langhorne Speedway was actually the site of the first fatality in NASCAR history. During a race on September 14, 1952, Larry Mann flipped his green Hudson Hornet through a fence and out of the track. He suffered serious head injuries and a pulmonary hemorrhage, which he would succumb to hours later in a hospital in Philadelphia. The use of green paint on his car started the superstition among drivers to avoid using the color.

[@MaxLovesNascarOfficial]

Yeah, as a NASCAR fan I heard about this.

[@milogunther5024]

As well as 3 of the first 5 NASCAR fatalities

[@stk0308]

Superstition about green paint was around long before 1952 in the motorcycle racing world.

[@boomkittyFX]

maaaan i like green

[@sakshamsharma5429]

I thought superstititon of green cars in the US came from Gaston Chevrolet's accident at Beverly Hills in 1920 ?

[@alexherman77]

Honestly Pocono Raceway deserves an “honorable” mention. Basically Indianapolis-level danger at a track which until very recently was always a decade or more behind in safety advancements. Plus it’s so wide that it puts the cars closer together at faster speeds than Indy going into turns which are sharper or as sharp as those at the Brickyard.

[@Tony-es9jx]

To add on to this. The track is so dangerous that Indycar has refused to race there anymore after multiple bad accidents in the last decade. The Tricky Triangle deserves some (dis)credit

[@K9RacingAndStuff]

​@@Tony-es9jxit even has a reputation of being dangerous among NASCAR fans, between having the single hardest recorded impact in NASCAR back in 2010, and has been attributed to the downfall of two NASCAR champions in the last decade.

[@f1champ551]

Oh and I also think there was a fatality on there too... Rest in Peace Justin Wilson....

[@mrterp04]

Agreed-just ask Elliott Sadler.

[@extragoogleaccount6061]

@@mrterp04 Ah, the (in)famous unseen hit. What was the g-load of that accident rumored to be?

[@BrandonA1]

The Isle of Man TT is by far the scariest circuit in the world. 60 KM of chaos, 0 safety, and it's not a threat but almost a guarantee that someone will die every year on that track. It's unbelievable that the track is still run by bikes every year, but one of the world's greatest spectacles.

[@mikearisbrocken8507]

I cannot believe it is still running. I once wrote an article about it, and knowing, KNOWING someone dies EVERY YEAR is disturbing.

[@michaelkeha]

Given that riders still flock to it I'd venture that they wouldn't have it any other way

[@Yukino-014]

The most terrifying part for me is the sheer speed of the bikes. Full-on superbikes averaging 215 km/h if the rider is gunning for a fast lap time (around 17 minutes), and pretty much exceeding 300 km/h at several parts. Peter Hickman broke the outright record last year with a lap time of 16:36.1, averaging 219.4 km/h. It's utter insanity.

[@michaelkeha]

@@mikearisbrocken8507 I can hell if you asked most real racing drivers(not the increasingly common salesman in a jumpsuit) if you gave them the fastest car ever to be made but they would die at the end of the race they would tell you they would just out run death

[@craigwilde2162]

You'd almost think the Isle of Man has a thing for dangerous racing. There was the Peel Grand Prix which was a road track for super karts which was ran in the 90s and possibly into the 2000s.

[@sdx3918]

Whoever made Langhorne Speedway took the saying: "racecar drivers only drive around in circles" to a whole new level.

[@davemcelderry7086]

Saw racing on the circle and the ovals crazy fast for it's time

[@T0ac47]

Daytona, Talladega, and Pocono at least deserves a honorable or in this case a dishonorable mention.

[@f1champ551]

Agree, especially with Daytona... Go ask the Earnhardt Family why....

[@wingracer1614]

@@f1champ551 And Neil Bonnet, Joe Young and many, many others

[@blueredlover1060]

​@@f1champ551Hell, go ask Ryan Newman who barely survived a flip at Daytona just 4 years ago. The most dangerous part of Daytona and Talladega isn't necessarily the tracks themselves it's the noise to tail racing at 200+ MPH.

[@f1champ551]

@@blueredlover1060 I still at one point think of that race to the point that I was on ESPN hoping that the ticker didn't go red for that wreck for the breaking news... I even watched the 2001 Daytona 500, and knew Dale Sr. Would not be here on this earth... Just the simple, taking down the drivers net, would make me at peace... It really didn't happen like that with that race.

[@blueredlover1060]

@@f1champ551 Dale Sr wasn't wearing a HANS device, otherwise he might have survived. Newman, with all the safety upgrades since then, still got a concussion and underlined how dangerous the track is.

[@Pulse0n]

Got curious, so here are the five deadliest race tracks of all time. 5. Daytona International Speedway - 28 fatalities 4. Spa-Francorchamps - 48 fatalities 3. Indianapolis Motor Speedway - 48 fatalities 2. Nürburgring - 68 fatalities 1. Isle of Man - 242 fatalities

[@Kamik62]

Notice almost every track here got 8s except isle of man

[@paulvanzyl2385]

Found a different article which includes staff and spectators as well as all series that have taken part at the event and here is the top 8 (2 tracks excluded to follow the rule of the video of needing to start and finish at the same point. If I did include them though, Dakar would would've been 5th with 79 fatalities total): 8: Daytona International Speedway - 41 Fatalities (40 drivers/riders including 1 powerboat racer and 3 go-kart drivers, 1 track worker) 7: Spa-Francorchamps - 53 Fatalities (49 drivers, 4 marshals) 6: Mille Miglia - 56 Fatalities (24 drivers/codrivers, 32 spectators) 5: Indianapolis Motor Speedway - 74 Fatalities (43 drivers including 1 motorcyclist, 13 riding mechanics, 18 others including pit crew and spectators) 4: Autodromo Nazionale Monza - 88 Fatalities (52 drivers, 35 spectators and 1 marshal) 3: Circuit de la Sarthe (Le Mans) - 105 (22 driver, 83 spectators. All 83 spectators and 1 driver, Pierre Levegh, was killed in the the deadliest crash in motorsport history) 2: Nürburgring - 180 Fatalities (estimated) (76 racers, 3 race officials, 1 spectator, 100 estimated motorists during touriststenfahrten sessions) 1: Isle of Mann TT - 286 Fatalities (this includes 16 non-competitors)

[@PipoZizo]

Imagine being so dangerous that the FIM decided back in the 70s that you are too dangerous to be part of the Grand Prix racing scene for a class that is far more dangerous than auto racing.

[@MihaelMiskic]

Then replace the track with less, but still people-claming Grobnik circuit, also near the city where I live, Rijeka.

[@StarkRaven59]

I mean, that happened multiple times to various race tracks in both F1 and motorcycle Grand Prix. It was part of the increasing safety standards of the era.

[@jamesprumos7775]

2:02 - what made Fuji so dangerous was that unlike basically every other racetrack in the world, you go down into the banking as opposed to going up it when entering the turn. This made keeping control going into the turn much more difficult than your average banking.

[@mait1995]

Honoreable mention Pirita-Kose-Kloostrimetsa🇪🇪, Estonia. 1933-2006 The track (with no barriers) was surrounded by deep forest and... cementery. Among other casualties, the track claimed life of TT legend Joey Dunlop in 2000.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

And yet Joey's death there was considered to be shocking because compared to the TT and the N Ireland races, it was supposed to be "safe". (Obviously "safe" is a relative term in motorcycle racing. I've seen far too many deaths on modern/modernised tracks over the years.)

[@360ed]

Kind of surprised that Daytona, Talladega, and Pocono aren't even a dishonorable mention. All have unfortunately taken several lives and are still injuring drivers every so often.

[@DeclanArambasicRacing]

Fun fact. When Opatjia stopped street racing the Croatians opened autodromo Grobnik, and it was the known as the grippiest race track on earth and has only been resurfaced once in 2011

[@TheBigPossum610]

Pocono Raceway in PA definitely deserved a dishonorable mention. So dangerous was this track that despite being one of the most unique in the world, Indycar refuses to race on it. Nascar hems and haws every year whether they should race on it and its even claimed the lives of drivers paying for a few laps around. The Tricky Triangle is iconic but deadly

[@TheeGlocktopus]

It's not anymore. They walled the inside all the way around, put safer barriers inside and out, even on the straights, and got rid of the grassy knoll on the backstraight. It's super clinical now.

[@MrBdog1021]

Pocono easily for me is one of the most dangerous modern ovals in racing. 200+ mph into turn 1, so god forbid your brakes go out into the first corner. Almost killed and paralyzed Robert Wickens back in 2015, was partially responsible for the decline in Jimmie Johnson’s career after his brakes went out into turn 1 in 2017, and ended Kurt Busch’s career after a qualifying wreck in 2022. Also, Elliot Sadler in 2010 had on of the hardest ever impacts in NASCAR history at this place. Definitely still a dangerous track.

[@arthuralford]

Not to mention ending Bobby Allison's career when he slammed into a stopped car

[@harveyknguyen]

the wickens crash was in 2018, you're thinking of Justin Wilson, who was killed in his crash in 2015

[@Dat-Mudkip]

To be fair, Kurt Busch's injury was not the fault of the track, but rather the terrible design of the 'NextGen' car.

[@Amused_brain]

Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt both had horrific crashes there as well. Jeff Gordon was fortunate to not be hurt in '06 when he lost his brakes.

[@TheeGlocktopus]

It's not anymore. They walled the inside all the way around, put safer barriers inside and out, even on the straights, and got rid of the grassy knoll on the backstraight and smoothed out all of the track truck access points so theres no more weird bulges and wack angles. It's super clinical now.

[@karelpgbr]

19:05 I recall watching a documentary about the Isle of Man TT, and they showed this crash, and then abruptly cut to Conor Cummins in the hospital, almost completely caged up. They asked him if he felt scared, if he feared the idea of ever going fast again, he responded with a laugh, before stating that “When I get better, I’ll be back on that bike as soon as the doctors let me.” Another encounter of mine was with a sidecar racer who raced the TT three times, once they crashed, the second they broke engine, the third they finished. He mentioned how at some point the track gets so bumpy your vision cannot adjust fast enough, making everything a vague shade of colour, accompanied by blurs. My father, absolutely astonished, asked him how he knew where to brake and steer. The man grinned, answering: “Oh mate, I just aim for the grey bit.” Those men and women, those road racers, they just aren’t human.

[@Relentless32]

From a guy living in Northern Ireland, big thanks for highlighting our road racing scene to the world. The UlsterGP will always be one of the greatest things I've seen in person, and each rider is a true hero 👍👍

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

the whole video i was just waiting for Josh to talk about the Isle of Man TT. and having it at NUMBER ONE is well deserving

[@NexuJin]

Kinda knew Isle of Man would be nr 1 and Nordschleife being 2nd.

[@mikespearwood3914]

It was pretty obvious, no? What other circuit has almost a guarantee of fatalities in the races on it?!!!

[@NexuJin]

@@mikespearwood3914 Nascar.

[@mindless_shark820]

Isle of Man has taken 269 riders… but somehow no one died in the TT in 2024 (may change when the Manx GP is later this years at the same corse)

[@DuvJones]

WHAT? Oh God.

[@mindless_shark820]

@@DuvJones yeep its that bad

[@FCPortoAutomobilismo]

269 riders in over a century and every year there are so many riders for a reason. Calling it “it’s that bad” imo is very disrespectful, you talk as if the riders don’t have a choice (well back in championship status many riders did not want to do it but had to do it cos of points), there is a reason it still exists because the riders love it and I love it because it is peak skill. Valentino Rossi said he would not want to take part in it but he respects the riders because what they have is so special.

[@DuvJones]

​@@mindless_shark820 I think you might have misunderstood me here for a minute, I get the danger. What baffles me here is that it's a Grand Prix race. One of the things that keeps the chaos of the TT to an absolute minimum, is the fact it's a time trial. Granted that does mean that the insane speeds you are seeing on the mountain course are extremely high, but given this reputation of being the world's most dangerous race... this is not a place that I would pit rider against rider in. To be honest, the Manx Grand Prix has been closed several times over the years, I honestly did not think it was going to happen again. but here we are.

[@hannesgroesslinger]

5:34 Larry Vanthoor's race winning move. Crashing so hard that he turned back time to when he was still in the lead...

[@EliInTheUniverse]

16:08 Just to add to Targa Florio's insanity, practice sessions were done on UNCLOSED PUBLIC ROADS, I'm not kidding.

[@firelynx1108]

Pocono Raceway should be on here imo. Huge, bad crashes in IndyCar almost every year they ran at it, and one of NASCAR's toughest challenges as well that has claimed even the very best in the sport, such as Johnson and Gordon

[@Jacob-sy9et]

10:52 what europeans think nascar tracks are like

[@SmallBlogV8]

TBH I picture Daytona because of the arcade game.

[@south_carolina_man]

I imagine so. Especially considering it was a NASCAR track on the schedule twice until the 50s.

[@gothicusmaximus5697]

btw the Isle of man is not in the UK and you might insult the Manx by saying that. They are an independant crown dependany with its own government.

[@nikbear]

And it's own,....errrr.....tax 'arrangements' 😮😂

[@Grort]

@@nikbear Tbf, they have been semi-separate since before the English Civil War, hence why when the Restoration happened they had to do some shenanigans to try and prevent reprisals, since it was ambiguous if they were covered by the peace deal in England. The Crown Dependencies exist in an especially weird space because unlike Overseas Territories, they are really old crown possessions (with the Channel Islands technically being older possessions than England, and the Isle of Man having moved between Ireland, Scotland, and England while never really being fully incorporated into any of them), which makes them difficult to discuss. Crown Dependencies are weird, because they predate the concept of the nation state, and are linked to the UK through the institution of the monarchy, but not Parliament (and so the British state). It's weird. When it comes to the TT, the important thing to note is that the UK government has no input on the TT or if it is held, that's entirely up to the Manx, who essentially operate as their own country (the UK gov represents them abroad, but that also has restrictions).

[@benketteridge9150]

@@nikbear the tax system on the island is perfectly well regulated, documented and in compliance with international standards and regulations. The fact that the rates are different to where you live does not make it wrong, illegal, or even immoral. It's just different.

[@elcactusdelamuerte506]

Yep completely independent, just ignore its head of state, its military, who represents it on international platforms, its currency and the group that has the power to overrule any of its governments governmental decisions. It’s independent in name only. 😂

[@gothicusmaximus5697]

@@elcactusdelamuerte506 I was going to put it in quotes but i wasnt sure how independant is was. Regardless, its not a part of the UK and its incorrect to say that it is.

[@blackbears34]

Rainbow road clears

[@ThePapaja1996]

what version

[@LeCommieBoi]

Wii version duh. Still gives me nightmares

[@Blockhead-lc6fr]

Any version other than the original n64 one

[@omar53333]

The F-Zero X version of it

[@senor-achopijo3841]

@@LeCommieBoi How can we expect modern-day cars to be launched through space? Also, the facilities are ass. You know how much it costs to go to space just to see some Italian plumbers race? So not worth it.

[@justwobert9850]

motorsports is incredibly bad at learning lessons, and even worse at pre-empting danger. it's a miracle it's as safe as it is

[@MarshallDog]

Another problem with Langhorne- the "walls" were just short guardrails, not even as high or resilient as the guardrails on a highway. Also because the track was essentially a circle the fastest way around was to not lift off the throttle, and with such sh*tty brakes they had in those days, any minor wreck would see car after car pile in.

[@intotheracingline]

You could 100% do a part 2 of this with Daytona, Talladega, Pocono, and a bunch of other tracks

[@durrell246]

I'm surprised Charade didn't make the list. It's basically the Nordschleife going round the outside of a volcano. It's fast and twisty, and a lot of it is downhill so if you crashed hard enough, you might be rolling down a hill as well.

[@FlashoftheBlades]

Or Rouen les-Essarts. Also, Charade only had one driver/rider fatality in its original version…Ivor Bueb.

[@manueltjuhh3807]

Its sad how talladega isnt included in this

[@davi__wavi__MTB]

It’s crazy that they would build a track like Jeddah these days. It’s fast and there is no runoff area for most of the track. 2021 there may have been the best f1 race of that year or even the decade

[@wingracer1614]

For another dishonorable mention, Pocono. Dangerous for Nascar, absolutely stupid for Indy..

[@Noneyo-Bidness]

"Let's send a flightless airplane flatout at a concrete wall, three times per lap..."

[@Ethan_Nascarfan]

This was a great vid but there should’ve been more NASCAR stuff on here because a lot of tracks like Pocono and even Daytona and Talladega are deadly race tracks I would love a part 2 of this video

[@alecerdmann8505]

Another thing about the Indianapolis, and the Indy 500 specifically, is that even at today's speeds it takes about 3.5 hours to complete the race, so they are averaging 225-230 mph (362-370 kph) for over twice as long as modern F1 Grands Prix.

[@DuvJones]

Their are also a few things to note about the event. Basically, the engines.... during the 500, they get a massive horsepower bump, about about 100 more to toy with, for this race only. Same engines but much more power to rip the oval with and much like Le Mans, they can't touch that limit until the "Month of May". It's why the race has SO MANY practice seasons over the month, to... acclimatize themselves to it, and the margin for error isn't great.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

@@DuvJones the engines are de-tuned to 550hp for the race though.

[@johnbremner5339]

​@DuvJones the bump in power that you are talking about is for single car qualifying and one practice session

[@busch77]

Surprised Daytona didn't make dishonourable mention at least. 41 on track deaths since opening including one of the greatest Stock Car drivers ever.

[@o2benaz]

In the 70’s drivers had a 1 in 12 chance of dying in a race. I was at the USGP at Watkins Glen ‘73, ‘74, ‘75. Cevert died in practice in ‘73, and Helmuth Konegg died a year later, both because the guard rails weren’t tightened properly. I finally got to see a race without a fatality the third try.

[@ZPaul_]

Pocono, Daytona and Talladega: Are we a joke to you??

[@superalex120]

19:44 my Mario kart senses are tingling

[@namenamename390]

Two pedantic corrections: 6:36 Monza is not and has never been a figure of 8 circuit. Yes, the combination circuit crossed over itself, but that doesn't make it a figure of 8. On a figure of 8, you turn the same amount right as you turn left, so you turn a net 0° over a lap. On the Monza combination circuit, you basically only turn right, so over a lap, you turn 720°, two full rotations. 18:31 the Isle of Man is not part of the United Kingdom. It is a crown dependency, but it isn't a formal part of the UK.

[@TheNewSchmoo]

I hope you wrote that using Clarkson's adenoids voice

[@NexuJin]

@@TheNewSchmoo No, James's voice would be better.

[@ElChasco_official]

The OG proposal was an eight

[@JTeam45]

I don't think the spectacle has faded because "the tracks are safer" I think the spectacle has dwindled because new tracks that are getting pushed have sucky layouts.

[@sIightIybored]

I'll use the bit after turn one in Monaco to give a counter example. As is it's an iconic 4 corners left/right between barriers. There is no way to build that as a safe modern track, they're so wide however you do it is just a straight.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

That's what happens when you get one man to design them, they all end up the same and stale after a year.

[@zemethius]

Nobody wants to see yet another Tilke-drome.

[@Blacksheep-uy3qv]

Folks can complain about the Indy being an oval but it delivers a good race year in and year out.

[@charlieboyd4431]

It’s stupid that people complain because it’s an oval. That just means it’s less room for error or you be flying into the wall.

[@Matt-yw8tj]

I have family members who raced several years in the Isle of Man TT, sidecars in particular. I was probably too young to realise it then, but they really put everything on the line every time they went there.

[@Jasp3r25]

17:33 schicael mumacher😂

[@BWB_Cubing]

michael schumacher on wish

[@casey.litton]

Talledega superspeedway definitely should've atleast got an honorable mention

[@AS19Motorsport]

AVUS has to be on here

[@AS19Motorsport]

Ffs, only an honourable mention. Come on Josh 😅

[@marmugames9713]

I would also suggest the Brno Grand Prix road circuit, it was originally a 30 km long normal road course in the 1930-50! It was shortened later until it become a classified circuit now. Claimed some deaths too and there are still corners named after famous drivers. Definitely would recommend looking at it!

[@bernardoberner4]

8:51 mate you just forgot to mention quite an important fact about "The Triangle", its where, arguably, the 3rd most important motorcycle road race takes place, the precursor to the TT, the Northwest 200

[@Jame5man]

Langhorne was so dangerous due to the fact that it was a dirt circle. If you watch dirt racing you would notice they are hard on the gas through the corners. They brake on entry but because there was no entry they didn’t brake so it was full throttle at all times meaning any crash was full speed into the outside wall

[@mrterp04]

Glad to see Langhorne on the list. FUN FACT: Langhorne Pennsylvania is also home to Reedman Toll AutoWorld, the world’s largest car dealership in terms of showroom size

[@ApexCris]

Pocono has to be up there. Not sure how many fatalities have been there, but when it goes wrong, it's always gonna be a big one

[@haxingorPOL]

12 tracks counted as the most dangerous. Argentinian trakcs: Am I a joke to you?

[@caiuscosades6423]

Wasn't there an accident where a driver was impaled and the co driver was beheaded by a Guardrail in the same crash in Argentina?

[@SaXXXon]

@@caiuscosades6423 🤨😦

[@Yukino-014]

(Apologies in advance for the 200-word essay I have a fascination for obscure motorsport history lmao) I'm not too knowledgeable in the racing venues in Argentina, but I can safely say the country has a handful of often-overlooked motorsport tragedies that took place there. And by far the worst of them all was the 1953 Argentine Grand Prix. The Argentine president at the time (Juan Perón) thought it would be a good idea to allow free, unrestricted access to the circuit to ANYONE for the race. The venue was overcrowded, with fans literally pottering on the tarmac, then moving away from the drivers' paths at the last moment. On lap 31, Nino Farina swerved to avoid one of those people, lost control of his car, and smashed into the crowd. In the ensuing chaos, a terrified young boy ran in the middle of the track, and was fatally struck by Alan Brown's car. In total, 14 people were lost, and dozens more were injured.

[@nachoalvarez7171]

Good point, the most recent death by a track marshal was like no more than 5 years ago

[@nachoalvarez7171]

​@@caiuscosades6423yes, in the late 90's in Rafaela, i imagine it's really gruesome

[@calumbishop7082]

Sometimes a tracks 'danger' is due to cars running on it that arguably shouldn't be run on it. A modern tragic example of this is the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a fine albeit narrow NASCAR track that for monetary reasons was made to host an IndyCar race in 2011, even though most drivers had very mixed to negative feelings about the track and with hindsight it should of been clear that IndyCar should not of been racing on that track. We know what happened next, 12 laps in, a multi-car pile up that led to the death of driver Dan Wheldon, one of the darkest days in Indycar's history. IndyCar has never returned. An instance where money was put over safety and racing on a track which was not fit for the cars.

[@MinusMOD98]

After this accident, the next generation of IndyCar chassis was designated in Dan Wheldon's honor. The chassis that the current generatin of IndyCar is built on, is known as the Dallara DW12 i.e. Dan Wheldon 2012.

[@johnbremner5339]

Las Vegas held many IRL and Cart/Champcar races without issue, the feilds were about 20 cars. That race, there were 33.

[@MinusMOD98]

@@johnbremner5339 Same thing in European open wheel racing. F1 is capped at 26 entries, whereas F3 has starting grids as large as IndyCar. This has been criticized on safety grounds.

[@RallyPino]

Honorable mention: Circuit Zandvoort Is still very Dangerous to this day even with the changes there have not been many fatal accidents during the years thankfully but the crashes are nasty.

[@inha1ed]

Bro brought up Rainbow Road when Moonview Highway and Grumble Volcano are right there

[@caseyf14483]

Neo Bowser City was NOT made for 200cc 🙅‍♂️🙅‍♂️❌❌

[@FH4Player6397]

@@caseyf14483 *Koopa City

[@Bs_Void]

0:03 holy shid its my home country's track. Indonesia mentioned rahhhh🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@zeenakal1382]

yay someone indo

[@kucinghilman983]

MANDALIKA MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥🔥🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@kucinghilman983]

di 3:05 juga ada mobil gt3 nya Sean

[@Bs_Void]

​@@kucinghilman983Bukan, itu mobilnya Vale Rossi dkk

[@kucinghilman983]

​@@Bs_Voidkirain, soalnya itu Bmw sponsornya fastron

[@ceebee2]

I regularly visit the shopping complex that was built over Langhorne Speedway. The memorial plaque is now smack dab in the middle of a Fred Beans sales lot. I had no idea about the track’s existence before now. It’s sad to see history steamrolled by development, but now I’m going to wonder how many ghosts I’m disturbing while walking the aisles of Sam’s Club.

[@TheDeadman14]

Honorable mentions: Daytona, Talladega, Pocono.

[@Werewulf150]

The Shicael Mumacher comment got me, I gotta use that as a name in a racing game now 😂

[@steef9591]

Before world war 2 there was a grand prix in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (modern day Serbia). It was a street circuit around the Kalemegdan park/fort. It was very hilly and cars would jump at some sections alsmost 10 meters in the air. If I remember correctly I head a car got stuck in a tree during that race. Luckily no one passed away but that circuit never hosted a grand prix again.

[@Yukino-014]

That would be the 1939 Belgrade Grand Prix. Besides the massive 10m jump and this race being Tazio Nuvolari's last major victory, it's got quite a bunch of interesting and fun history, despite having been run exactly once. The Grand Prix race was held on September 3, two days after war broke out. Manfred von Brauchitsch was on his way to leave Belgrade, in patriotic support of Germany, but was eventually called back to racing by a furious Alfred Neubauer, who drove his guts out from the city to the airport. As for the unfortunate bloke who found himself stuck in a tree, I believe that'd be Walter Bäumer, who was subbing in for Hermann Lang.

[@AraBalaji]

Loved the dig about laguna saca residents lol!!!

[@danielshim7550]

Sichael Mumacher. I love it. 🤣🤣🤣

[@godunclenick]

Shicheal Mumacher, but yes

[@danielshim7550]

@@godunclenick thank you for being pedantic.

[@godunclenick]

@@danielshim7550 yea ik

[@vycanismelodis]

watkins glen was always a very dangerous track with over a dozen deaths there, including one just this year

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

Cevert as well having that brutal accident causing Sir Jackie to quit.

[@PoggiesItsPtica]

Ayyy, Croatia on the list... not sure whether to be excited or bummed And that pronounciation of Opatija is a solid 9/10. Well done, sir

[@MihaelMiskic]

Dobro je lik to rekao😂😂. Mogao je staviti i Grobnik, nije kao Opatija, ali je opasna majke mi.

[@CJMU86]

For a channel primarily based on Formula One content, I never imagined I’d see and hear Josh talk about two racetracks from my home country of Northern Ireland. Until you mentioned it, I didn’t even know that they held car racing in Dundrod. And the same week your video pops up, Matt Bishop on his X page mentions a non championship F1 race from 1950 at the track, won by Peter Whitehead in a privateer Ferrari 125, taking the F1 Ulster Trophy, 74 years ago this week.

[@lee_temp3499]

This was the best video I’ve watched in this channel to date so well researched and amazingly narrated, being from Northern Ireland I can say that you have it spot on the riders who compete in these events are insanely respected and it’s almost normal to us that riders take part in these events every year! Hopefully you’ll head over to this part of the world some day and see the speed in all its glory man! Cheers!

[@sirhenners204]

the most insane thing about the Targa Florio is that for a period, the practice sessions were run when the roads were OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. they had to contend with TRAFFIC

[@Icaru512]

Talladega pre 1988 would most definitely be top 5

[@south_carolina_man]

I'm proud of the comments including Daytona, Pocono, and Talladega on this list.

[@ondraspendlik9759]

One insane thing about Targa Florio was that practice before the event was held on open roads, in traffic. That's just crazy.

[@Alan_M00ch]

Talladega and Daytona not being on here is bonkers to me. High banked super speedways with 3 and 4 wide (sometimes 5 wide) racing, all it takes is one wrong move and you're going to have a nasty crash that is horrifying. I've seen some other fellow NASCAR fans mention Pocono. Which was decades behind in safety and has had some wild crashes that are just horrific to watch (and that also includes the pit lane. IYKYK). And yes, IndyCar stopped racing at Pocono after the career ending wreck of Robert Wickens. But they really should've stopped racing there after '15. Again, iykyk.

[@motelghost477]

The Macau circuit is truly special and I wish it was in AMS2, my favourite sim.

[@ryantime4236]

If the Milwaukee Mile started hosting auto racing events in 1903, 4 years before Brooklands, why is it not considered the world’s oldest purpose-built track?

[@stk0308]

Because ENGLAND! lol

[@Thee_Snow_Wolf]

The Milwaukee Mile was originally a horse racing track built in 1876, while Brooklands was the first circuit that was purpose built for motorsport. Milwaukee was only paved in 1954 and as far I can work out when it stopped being a duel purpose venue.

[@ryantime4236]

@@Thee_Snow_Wolf ahh okay thanks!

[@digitized_fyre]

Normally when NI is mentioned on 'top' videos its fun seeing them, never mind being on multiple times. But this is definitly one we aren't very proud to be on

[@johnbremner5339]

here's one not listed, Paramount Ranch, opened in 1956, closed in 1957. Seven race weekends and two fatalities, many injuries. Was used in the movies many times after it was closed, including The Love Bug.

[@Streetkid011YT]

I agree that the isle of man race is dangerous, but it is the biggest income source for the isle of man, because of tourists who go to see the race

[@c.l.8213]

I really wish the F1 games would include older layouts and tracks F1 doesn't actually run at, just for fun.

[@crouchb15]

Rfactor my friend

[@boomkittyFX]

if you wanna talk fictional, i'd put Race Around Hawaii on the list from Test Drive Unlimited 2, its a race around the Oahu map and it's got a bunch of fast straights and little reaction time to use the brakes and turn to corners, the race uses the fastest cars in the game meaning using a bugatti veyron is manditory in order to win it

[@xJMC]

you should do a video on the Dunlop family

[@DuvJones]

The little that I dug into the Dunlop family.... Oof. I am sure that will make a great video but that is also a massive tragedy, that family seems.... cursed. That will take some time to get into.

[@Thee_Snow_Wolf]

​@@DuvJones It was quite surreal meeting someone at my first NW200 who witnessed Robert Dunlop's fatal crash. Also the Dunlops among the older generation in Northern Ireland are very well known. One of my mother's Northern Irish friends has no interest in bike racing yet she knows about them.

[@lets-go-larson5]

Pocono Raceway deserves a mention too btw.

[@geoffkeeys6946]

Love these mini-docs. The amount of information provided in 20 minutes (they were really fast minutes) is awesome.

[@Hustler9g]

reminder that at the targa florio the practice was done on open roads with traffic. they only closed the roads for the race

[@boxonothing4087]

the original Clermont-Ferrand track, also known as Charade, is probably the most dangerous track to ever be raced on. Known as a twistier and faster "small Nurbürgring" with rocks falling on the track in some sections.

[@BehindFor17Hours]

Surprised Daytona wasn’t an honorable mention

[@Nikelaos_Khristianos]

Tbf, Josh, Le Mans is STILL really dangerous. There’s at least one horrific shunt every year, and the last death there was only just over a decade ago when an “gentleman” GT driver from Denmark crashed at the start of Mulsanne and lost his life. Le Sarthe still kills

[@tdyerwestfield]

In MotoGP, the Red Bull Ring is known as the "Red Flag Ring" due to how many dangerous crashes there have been, including near death events like rider-less bikes crossing the circuit and almost taking heads clean off the other side in Rossi and Vinales, prior to the new chicane between turn 1 and 3. Simoncelli's death in 2011 at Sepang was a result of him not doing his helmet up and it coming loose in a slow accident before another rider run over his neck.

[@Wildcat12]

The Opatija circuit's hairpin looks exactly like Monaco's to me, just backwards. Hell, the whole course is reminiscent of Monaco

[@justyeetthechicane656]

Mülsen, a German karting circuit is also unnecessarily dangerous, so much space to move those walls further away, but for some reason they placed them very close to the circuit, big crashes at German championships

[@justinroser6833]

Saw Bathurst come up.. was ready to defend it being safe... took a second to rethink that.

[@borbune2168]

There are actually still 3 GP’s outside of F1: Macau, New Zealand and Pau

[@vili988]

The track of Saudi Arabia, the first year, was pretty dangerous for modern era F1. Even after the modifications applied, it's challenging.

[@DarthEvilicus]

You think Pocono is nuts now, it didn’t have a catch fence on the back until about a decade ago

[@lenser.competition]

So an isle of man racer here. It's used 4 weeks à year (right now, it's Manx GP times). And there is another way to look at it. If you look at the accidents, vs kilometres travelled, it's not so bad. There are a lot of rider doing à lot of kms. And unless you've done it, it's impossible to explain what the allure is.

[@minonkh]

Wegbergring (Grenzlandring) was pretty dangerous, it's mostly forgotten nowadays but it was an oval on public roads

[@RicoOCHO85]

I froze in my chair last year when i saw that tire fly off toward the crowd at the Indianapolis 500..Thank God it missed them..

[@juanatethejetdryer7580]

Basically every track larger than Bristol in the current NASCAR Gen 7 is dangerous. The cars go very fast and the underbodies of the cars are literally flat, so it is so easy to flip at those, hell, within a single week there were 4 flips at Michigan and Daytona, where there were 2 CARS that got airborne in a single race at Daytona. This happened just last week by the way.

[@zachramey]

When it came to the Unser one, I thought about Langhorn but didn't think he'd raced there

[@Kerogas_]

Fun fact: Sachsenring track lived through FIVE layout changes since 1996

[@philipkalin1928]

Everytime i see the isle i get goosbumps. You can‘t understand this event unsless you go there. I love racing from the bottom of my heart. The Isle of Man just allways stands above everything els.

[@jeremyandrew5610]

rallycross has one of the toughest tracks, from Hell in Norway to Estering in Germany