Istanbul

Istanbul Park is the rare modern circuit drivers actually argue in favour of, and the argument is almost always Turn 8, a long, downhill, quadruple-apex left they count among the greatest corners on earth, where the car is never quite settled and the lap is won or lost. It is the only Grand Prix run at a city that sits on two continents, the Bosphorus dividing Europe from Asia a short drive from the grid. On one side of that water is the old city of mosques and markets; on the other, the paddock and the noise. Few race weekends come with a place this serious attached.

We fly here because Istanbul is a circuit worth the trip with a city worth a week behind it, the race on one side of the water, the mosques and markets of the old city on the other. A corner like Turn 8 deserves an audience that didn't spend the morning in traffic to reach it. Cross the Bosphorus while you're here; few Grands Prix leave you somewhere this worth staying.