Top 10 | Worst Corners in Sim Racing

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When you race online, you know there are certain corners of particular tracks where there’s without doubt going to be instances.

Whilst some of the corners I have chosen aren’t typically known as challenging corners, these are far too often the location of incidents in sim racing. Perhaps this is down to a lack of awareness/view of a driver’s surroundings, or that a corner is wide enough to try and make a move stick.

In sim racing, it's not uncommon for sim racers to think they have the skill to pull off a move like Verstappen did to Hamilton during the last race of 2021 - or replicating Hakkinen's move on Schumacher at Spa in 2000.

What you do think to our top 10 list? Navigate through our 10 via the buttons below. Have we missed out on a corner that you particularly dread? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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MrBraindown
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Mosport is one of the greatest tracks in the world and we are blessed with Johnr777's superb version for AC, but my goodness I really don't like Clayton Corner.

If you get it wrong, you get it massively wrong.... (and when I say 'you', I most definitely mean 'I')

It's like it has an agenda against you, it has mood swings where it will randomly lash out at you for no reason at all, except spite. It knows its just a corner, it knows its not going to be able to have a fine steak or taste beer, or go on holiday or feel the touch of a beautiful woman - and it takes it all out on YOU.

For me this corner always results in stifled swearing, squealing tyres, unsafe rejoins, the inevitable sound of metal against metal and plenty of time to mull over your feelings of regret when you're suddenly back in the pits. My thoughts normally start with "But I took that corner in exactly the same way as the last lap and I gained 3 seconds, this time I gained 3rd degree burns in the resulting inferno and bits of wall shoved half way up my backside"

There is a reason why there's a black, charred stain on that wall. Its malevolent - and it wants you to know it.
 
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azaralamouri
With your logic, turn 1 (end of the straight divebomb) will be in the teens.

My logic? Zolder, all the track but especially all the chicanes. F*ing not comfortable to drive in, through and out of them. Have always been miles slower than the others.
 
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MrBraindown said:
Mosport is one of the greatest tracks in the world and we are blessed with Johnr777's superb version for AC, but my goodness I really don't like Clayton Corner.
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You've never driven Clayton Corner until you have TRIED to navigate it back in the day with GPL. The unweighted car cresting the hill between T1 & 2 absolutely means you have to be aligned perfectly.
Same goes for the last turn at Road Atlanta, if you are not pointed correctly heading into the corner, you rarely can smoothly recover to finish the lap cleanly.
 
J
Any turn 1 after a grid start is scary, which is why I was fine with GT Sport using single file rolling starts most of the time in Sport Mode. But out of all turn 1's, Monza is the king of corners that deserve the John Cleland treatment. "The guy who deserved that first corner should be taken into a dark room and beat about the head!"
 
David Jessat
I agree with tight corners, where awareness is a factor. Personally I would put the first 3 - 5 turns of any track at the start of the race. Nürburgring is a good example, the carnage coming out of the Mercedes-Arena often is worse than the Haken. I find that being able to keep it clean in lap 1 often gives you multiple places without effort no matter the track - and yes, Monza is the worst!

Hardest to drive without traffic: Variante Alta
 
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MrBraindown
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davehenrie said:
You've never driven Clayton Corner until you have TRIED to navigate it back in the day with GPL. The unweighted car cresting the hill between T1 & 2 absolutely means you have to be aligned perfectly.
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I think I better give that a miss then, it’s hard enough with modern cars! ;):) Awesome track though.
 
LeSunTzu
Monza T1 is worse than the other 9 together. It's the place where wreckers, dive-bombers, delusional late brakers and apex-sitting defenders do their evil deeds again and again and again.

By the way, it would be great if someone would mod a track with all those evil corners together :devilish:
 
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Peppelino
davehenrie said:
... at Road Atlanta, if you are not pointed correctly heading into the corner, you rarely can smoothly recover to finish the lap cleanly.
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Last downhill, on last Lap, worn out tires, just seconds before the Champagne ... hm Yes.. but after Start we have T1, then up on the crest, seeing the competion disapear right and downhill...
Are you not quick off the brakes,
and takeing care of the sideforce...
It's Race Over.
*Donington last corner,
still gets my vote.
 
RasmusP
HF2000 said:
Ascari at Monza. I know most of you don't have a problem with it but I do!
And the last turn for the long flat out part of Feldbergring, the one with the straw bales.
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I absolutely hate these "negative" kerbs! Every time I'm approaching Ascari, I get nervous..
There's a fine line between getting caught by these kerbs or going too far across them and either slide off or get thrown off by the sausage kerbs.
 
BillGuy
I'm going to set the 800 lb. gorillas of propensity for incidents and effect on competition aside.

I'm fine with slow corners. Especially when they're on their own at the end of significant straights like the Hockenheim and Laguna Seca hairpins mentioned in the list. What I personally just can't stand driving are "sequences" or "complexes" of tight turn after tight turn after tight turn. The prime example of that for me is T2-T3-T4 at Nurburgring GP. I despise that sequence of corners so much that I almost never drive this track. To a lesser extent, I'll say the same for the final sequence of corners at Velo Citta in AMS 2. Awful experience to simply drive through and ruins an otherwise fine track.
 
Peppelino
BillyBobSenna said:
The new Assen TT track on RaceRoom is outstanding however the highlighted corner can never be taken slow enough!
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... agree ! Every Lap, ever so slowly..
and still, you find out that you were a bit to fast,... every lap ...
Old memories I have, from Superbike2001 days.
In a low seated Formula car, it's even more difficult. :)
 
R
Worst in sim racing

Corkscrew at Laguna and the preceding kink.

In ACC Misano exit of first complex onto back straight.

GT Sport the chicane of death if you know, you know.

ACC Eau Rouge in most cars flat is very tricky
 

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