Finding the MOST AVERAGE TRACK in F1

We are always told that Barcelona-Catalunya is great track for representing the F1 season as a whole. If your car is quick here, it's quick everywhere. But is it actually the most standard F1 track? Are there other tracks that give a better prediction for Formula 1 season?

00:00 Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya
02:16 Mr V's Garage Store
03:14 Choosing the Categories
04:08 Length
04:30 Average Speed
04:51 Number of Corners
05:21 Windiness
05:45 Elevation Change
06:36 Elevation
07:41 Pit Lane Time Loss
08:16 Longest Straight
09:49 Top Speed
10:10 Full Throttle Percentage
10:40 Distance to Turn 1
11:13 Attendance
11:55 Ticket Price
12:29 Average Winning Grid Position
14:09 Most Average Track is...

[insertgenericusernamehere]

You should merge all the average tracks together and make the most mid circuit of all time.

[dt]

I love how your videos fill this odd void in me for statistic related f1 videos with little to no bearing on reality

[sebastiandierks]

Glad you introduced variance (or standard deviation) in the end. Saw that problem coming from quite early on, and then you mentioned Monza being mid after six categories.

[tobydek]

17:16 man actually predicted everywthing

[henryhallam]

I love how bro just apears out of nowhere out of the blue 💀

[frog]

When I’m in a never running out of ideas competition and my opponent is Mr V

[PBG]

I love watching these videos, and I don’t know why. Have never watched F1, have never been into racing, yet these videos are just so entertaining.

[tomgriffingames]

I find it funny how this video comes up again on my recommended page as Qualifying for the Spanish Gp has just finished

[ilikeslicedtoast]

Based on the information presented in the number of cornsers section, how about a video searching for the "Least Corneriest Corner" or the "Curviest Straight"

That feels like the perfect pointless topic I'd love to watch a man explain his Excel sheet about for 30 minutes :)

[nadavbentovim]

As a former data analyst I would suggest to take the distance from 12# as the metric and not the actual placement from 1# to 24#.

That way you don't count tracks which are extreme in both diterctions as avarage.

For example, if a track ranks #2 in shortest and #22 in most turns per km, I wouldn't call it an average track, and the new metric would give a distance of 10 and 10, a opposed to a track who gets #13 and #8 for example, would get a distance score of 1 and 4, which more accurately represents what I think you meant as "averageness".

[TheReilNeil]

Losing Catalunya for another stupid street circuit is not a plus. I don't care how mid Catalunya is.

[ShadowWolfe]

"Medium Speed Corners" is this channel's iteration of SouthPawRacer's "2nd gear hairpin" 😅 Props to leaning into the "straight" joke as well!

[Starfire_Storm]

One of the most interesting ones in Saudi Arabia, being the Windiest track, but also having the 2nd highest average speed. Goes to show just how fast the corners are at that track.

[trashgaming]

Imagine just doing all those work just to end up in Spain without the s

[unbreukable]

14:45 made me really happy because this was my initial thought when you said you would use the average to determine 'averageness'. Another banger of a video!

[mrschlaffe]

genuinely the best f1 youtuber out there.
17 minutes felt like 5 its so engaging.

i think this type of content is just much more fun than hearing the same news from a million different sources

[sindrome]

I was preparing for the Excel madness where you would compare all the results of all the years of an f1 track against the final championship standings and see which ones the cars finish in the same order that they will finish in the championship.

[Kod_xi]

If you were to ever expand this idea here are some other categories:
Wetness - % of wet sessions at the track
Safety - Average number of safety cars/ virtual safety cars/ red flags that occur at the track each season
Temperature - Average temperature of the track ( not the track surface)
Consistency - how many times the track layout has changed (e.g a corner gets added/ removed between seasons) this should not include things like adding a new gravel trap or redesigning a barrier
History - how long the track has been on the f1 calendar ( no. Of seasons)
Difficulty - average no of drivers that dnf at the track each season, this should include dnfs due to mechanical failures as it shows the track is tough on the cars components ( this is quite similar to safty so you could just pick one or the other, or you could try find a way to combine them)
Pitlane - how long the pit lane is in meters
Run - distance between the start/ finish line and the first corner
Competitiveness - how many overtakes occured the at the last race held there ( on include on track overtakes)
Chonkyness - how wide the track is at its widest point ( or if it's easier how wide it is at the start/finish line
Banking - the tracks steepest banked corner
Cheekyness - no of track limit violations that occured at the tracks last held race

[sebastiandierks]

For some reason, I feel like the only one who likes Barcelona as a track. That is from a driving point of view. I think sectors 1 and 2 are so fun to drive. And since they got rid of the chicane, sector 3 is also ok. Racing wasn't great of course though, I agree. But this and last year were good races with a lot of overtakes. To me the bad races of the past were more due to the cars, not due to the track.

[heretustay]

Maybe its just video game nostalgia speaking, but I've always loved Cataluña precisely for its average-ness. It's a quintessential, downforce reliant racetrack, that in-game, is easy to understand and fun to drive. I don't mind that the racing isn't flashy, because I have an appreciation for the smoothness it takes to go fast, and for how impressive it is to pull those kinds of g's consistently, lap-in and lap-out.