Name That Track (Pole to Paddock)

About Name That Track (Pole to Paddock)

Name That Track is one of the free games on Pole to Paddock, a Formula 1 site of stats, fantasy tools and games. Its daily puzzle is a single circuit, the same for everyone, and a new one appears every day at midnight.

The round starts with a tight crop of the track drawn as a purple line, often just a corner or a straight. You type a circuit name and pick it from the list. A wrong guess zooms the outline out, from the crop to the wider shape and then the full silhouette, and also tells you how far away the mystery circuit is and in which direction from the one you named. After two misses the fact clues open one at a time: the country, the year of its first Grand Prix and the lap record holder.

Unlike the driver-guessing F1 dailies, this one is about the circuits themselves, so it rewards knowing the shape of a hairpin or a chicane as much as the calendar. It suits Formula 1 fans who know the tracks, and a game takes a minute or two. It plays in the browser with no sign-up.

How to play Name That Track (Pole to Paddock)

1. Open Name That Track on Pole to Paddock and look at the cropped piece of today's track outline.
2. Type at least two letters of a circuit name and choose it from the list to make a guess.
3. After a wrong guess, read how far away and in which direction the mystery circuit lies from your pick, and study the wider outline.
4. From the third guess on, use the fact clues as they open: country, first Grand Prix year and lap record holder.
5. Name the circuit within six guesses, then come back after midnight for the next one.

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Tips

• Use the distance and direction after a miss to rule out whole regions of the calendar before the shape is clear.
• Look at how a corner is shaped in the first crop: tight hairpins, long sweepers and chicanes narrow the field quickly.
• Remember that the list covers circuits beyond the current calendar, so older Grand Prix venues can be the answer.

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