Circuits
Every track, corner by corner.
Long-form guides to the circuits we race: layout, signature corners with apex type and elevation, the landmarks you brake to, and the line through each one. One canonical source per circuit.
Every guide is built on an open, ever-growing motorsport data set. Browse the data on GitHub →
United States
Coronado Street Course
NASCAR's newest street circuit: 3.4 miles of base roads and taxiways at Naval Air Station North Island, threading between aircraft carrier berths and the Halsey Field runways on an active Navy installation.
5.472 km · 16 turns
United States
Daytona
The World Center of Racing: a 3.56-mile road course that threads a tight infield through Daytona's 31-degree superspeedway banking, home of the Rolex 24, America's round-the-clock endurance classic.
5.729 km · 12 turns
Japan
Fuji Speedway
At the foot of Mt. Fuji: 4.563 km of Hermann Tilke's 2005 redesign, where one of motorsport's longest main straights, nearly 1.475 km, fires the cars into the Turn 1 braking zone before a tight, technical final sector closes the lap.
4.563 km · 16 turns
Brazil
Interlagos
São Paulo's anticlockwise classic: 4.309 km dropping through the downhill Senna S to the lake and climbing back up Junção to the line, an undulating, atmospheric circuit that has decided championships and given Brazil its home of Formula 1 since 1973.
4.309 km · 15 turns
United States
Laguna Seca
A 3.6-kilometer circuit carved into the Monterey hills, defined by the blind plunge of the Corkscrew.
3.602 km · 11 turns
France
Le Mans
Thirteen and a half kilometres of racetrack and closed-off public road through the Sarthe countryside: home of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, defined by the 6 km Mulsanne Straight and the flat-out commitment of the Porsche Curves.
13.626 km · 38 turns
United States
Long Beach
The crown jewel of American street racing: a 1.968-mile waterfront sprint through downtown Long Beach, down Shoreline Drive and around the dolphin fountain to the famous first-gear hairpin.
3.167 km · 11 turns
Italy
Monza
The Temple of Speed: Monza's 5.793 km of flat-out straights and three chicanes through the royal park near Milan, F1's fastest lap and home of the Parabolica.
5.793 km · 11 turns
Canada
Mosport
Fast, blind and committing: the historic Bowmanville road course where Stirling Moss's hairpin and a lap full of elevation reward bravery over braking.
3.957 km · 10 turns
Japan
Motegi
Honda's stop-and-go test in the Tochigi hills: 4.8 km of heavy braking zones, tight hairpins and a tunnel under the oval, where Victory Corner has the last word in MotoGP, Super GT and Super Formula.
4.801 km · 14 turns
Italy
Mugello
A 5.2-kilometer ribbon through the Tuscan hills, owned by Ferrari and defined by the blind, flat-out commitment of the Arrabbiata sweepers.
5.245 km · 15 turns
Germany
Nürburgring
A 25-kilometre, 170-turn fusion of the modern Grand Prix circuit and the Nordschleife, the configuration that hosts the 24 Hours of Nürburgring and remains the longest permanent road course in the world used in international competition.
25.378 km · 170 turns
Portugal
Portimão
Portugal's rollercoaster: Ricardo Pina's 2008 Algarve circuit near Portimão, 4.653 km of blind crests, steep gradients and a downhill plunge into Turn 1 that hosted the F1 Portuguese Grand Prix in 2020 and 2021.
4.653 km · 15 turns
United States
Portland International Raceway
Built on the drowned streets of Vanport: a pancake-flat 1.967 mile sprint through Portland's West Delta Park, where the Festival Curves funnel the field into the lap's one heavy braking zone.
3.166 km · 12 turns
United States
Road America
America's National Park of Speed: a 4-mile parkland circuit through the Wisconsin kettle moraine, unchanged since 1955 and defined by the flat-out plunge of The Kink.
6.515 km · 14 turns
United States
Road Atlanta
A 2.54-mile rollercoaster through the Georgia pines: fast downhill esses, a mile-long back straight, and the blind, plunging dive of Turn 12 onto the front straight.
4.088 km · 12 turns
United States
Sebring
A WWII bomber base turned 17-turn endurance proving ground: Sebring's abrasive, seam-ridden runway concrete has tortured sports cars in the 12 Hours since 1950, all the way to the signature bumps of Turn 17.
6.019 km · 17 turns
United States
Sonoma Raceway
Wine-country road racing over the Sonoma hills: 2.52 miles, 12 turns and 160 feet of rise and fall, from the blind crest at Turn 3a through the Carousel's long left-hand plunge to the hairpin at Turn 11.
4.056 km · 12 turns
Belgium
Spa-Francorchamps
Seven kilometres of Ardennes forest road, defined by the blind, flat-out commitment of Eau Rouge and Raidillon, the most famous corner sequence in motorsport.
7.004 km · 19 turns
Japan
Suzuka
Formula 1's only figure-8: 5.807 km of John Hugenholtz's 1962 masterpiece near Suzuka, where the back straight crosses over the front and the uphill Esses, the Spoon and the flat-out 130R define a driver's circuit like no other.
5.807 km · 18 turns
United States
VIR
A 3.27-mile rollercoaster through the Virginia hills: the Climbing Esses, the ghost of the Oak Tree and a lap of blind crests that has earned VIR a place among America's great road courses.
5.262 km · 17 turns
United States
Watkins Glen
Watkins Glen's endurance "Boot": a 3.45-mile plunge through the fast, blind Esses, the banked Outer Loop, and the wooded four-turn Boot extension that hosts IMSA's 6 Hours of the Glen.
5.552 km · 11 turns
United States
Willow Springs
The Fastest Road in the West: nine sweeping turns in the Mojave high desert at America's oldest permanent road course, unchanged since opening day in 1953.
4.023 km · 9 turns