📍 ‘Formula One’s 2026 calendar is beginning to resemble a particularly expensive game of musical chairs.’
Imola. Portimão. Istanbul Park. Sepang. Suddenly, the old circuits are back in the conversation.
Which tells you something rather important about Formula One.
For all the billionaire hospitality suites and Netflix polish, the sport still secretly craves proper circuits.
The difficult places. The dangerous places. The ones with atmosphere.
And then there is Switzerland’s lost Bremgarten circuit — a terrifying forest ribbon abandoned decades ago yet still spoken about with reverence.
Which perhaps explains everything.
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▪️The fascinating thing about Formula One’s current calendar dilemma is that it has exposed the sport’s identity crisis.
▪️Modern F1 wants efficiency, spectacle and commercial perfection.
▪️Yet the circuits fans still romanticise are the difficult old beasts that demanded bravery rather than branding consultants.
▪️That is why rumours around tracks like Imola, Portimão and Sepang have generated genuine excitement.
▪️Because these circuits possess something many modern venues quietly lack: character.
♔ And hovering over the discussion is Switzerland’s lost Bremgarten circuit.
Abandoned after the country banned circuit racing following the 1955 Le Mans disaster.
A terrifying woodland track dripping with speed, danger and mythology.
In truth, Formula One may never return there.
📍 ‘But the fact people still talk about it tells you everything about what the sport has lost… and what it still misses.’
