The Longest Straights in F1

A few years ago I wrote about the longest straights in F1, it’s a little outdated now, and to be honest quite badly written, so I thought I’d make an updated version.

One of the biggest problems with F1 straights is there are different numbers for the same straight pretty much everywhere so nothing can really be believed. This time I decided to use Google Earth and measure every straight through that, while not completely accurate it’s enough for a decent comparison and means everything is measured the same way.

Nice and simple table, every track in 2016 sorted by the length of their longest straight. Baku is the newest circuit for 2016 and has the joint longest straight. Quite a few circuits have small kinks on their straights, I calculated the length of those too.

Baku now possibly the longest straight in F1, as mentioned these all do have kinks in but they are all easily taken flat. However as they all technically have a corner in them they don’t really count as straights, but it’s nice to measure and compare them anyway! Some people may claim that Baku has a 2.2km long straight, these people are wrong. For the straight to be 2.2km it would have to stretch from turn 16 to turn 1, while the corners should all be flat it is not a straight, there are four corners there, ignoring one minor corner is fair enough, but four? No.

So that’s all the current circuit straight lengths, but what about some older tracks? Well I did those ones too.