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Fuchsröhre to Ardenauer Forst - Nordshleife.
Absolutely balls to the wall speed. Steep drop through several slight flat-out kinks into a steeply cimbing and tightening left hander which spits you out into a couple of the slowest corners on the track. Jacky Stewart said the g's going up the hill into the left hander were so great you couldn't lift your foot off the throttle, which says it all really.
Masta Kink - Spa (old)
Not a kink as such, but a set of fast esses, left then right. Approached flat out in sixth, at over 190 mph in the wingless 3 litre period of the late 60s. Then a quick lift of the throttle and no more into a fast left-right combo with a steel barrier on the outside of the left, so stop you going into a house (though not quite extending far enough to cover the end of a stone barn, as Jackie Stewart found out in 1966) and a railway line on the outside of the right.
Jim Clark Curve - Brands Hatch
Not hugely fast, but minimal run off due to Foulston Centre in the way of expanding it.
Heavily undulating, on camber and off camber in the same corner. When it forms part of the Indy loop is far and away the most technically challenging corner on the track.
Massanet - Monaco
OK, it looks faster than it is, but there is really no room for error, a long, bumpy corner that demands blind faith on the entry.
Swimming Pool entry - Monaco
Blindingly quick left-right combo, awesome to watch on TV, and I'm sure even more awesome at the track.
The Esses / Dipper - Bathurst
What a crazy combination of corners. Heavy braking from high speed into two blind corners, the last of which plunges away heavily.
Six Frerès - Rouen-les-Essarts
The best corner for four wheel drifting there ever was. Fangio drifting through this fast right hander in 1957 is one of the enduring images of F1. Highly dangerous though, as Jo Schlesser proved in 1968 when his Honda's experimental air cooled engine cut out and Jo crashed ending up in the middle of the track burning fiercely.
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