- Primary Subject: Lost race tracks in Automobilista 2, iRacing, Assetto Corsa, and Grand Prix Legends
- Key Update: Five demolished or redesigned race tracks, from Jacarepaguá to Riverside, can still be driven in sims through official content and community mods.
- Status: Evergreen
- Last Verified: November 12, 2026
- Quick Answer: Jacarepaguá and Hockenheim's forest layout live in Automobilista 2, Oran Park in iRacing, Riverside in Assetto Corsa mods, and Rouen in Grand Prix Legends.
Auto Club Speedway ran its last NASCAR Cup race on February 26, 2023. Demolition started that October, and the half-mile short track NASCAR promised for the leftover strip still hasn't happened.
On November 6, NASCAR's Steve O'Donnell said, "It will be a real challenge if we could ever put a racetrack there." Automobilista 2 still has it as Fontana Oval.
Somebody usually wants the land for houses or a shopping mall, and the circuit survives only in old footage. A few get a second life in sims, through studios that scanned or rebuilt them and modders who wouldn't let them disappear.
I picked five across four continents, from a Brazilian Grand Prix venue buried under an Olympic park to a Normandy road course kept alive by a game from 1998.
Jacarepaguá in Automobilista 2
Jacarepaguá opened in January 1978, weeks before that year's Brazilian Grand Prix, and hosted the race every season from 1981 to 1989. Alain Prost won five of the ten Formula 1 races held there.
After Nigel Mansell won in 1989, the Grand Prix went back to Interlagos for good.
The circuit held its last event in October 2012 and was demolished a month later to make way for Barra Olympic Park, the main venue of the 2016 Games. Nothing of the track survives.
Reiza, a Brazilian studio, put it in the Automobilista 2 base game with five layouts. The 1988 Historic version covers the Grand Prix years.
A 2005 road layout, the 2005 oval, and two 2012 Stock Car Brasil configurations fill in the rest, so you can follow the same patch of Rio across three decades.
Oran Park Raceway in iRacing
Oran Park Raceway in Sydney ran from February 1962 until January 25, 2010. It hosted the Australian Grand Prix twice, in 1974 and 1977, both times for Formula 5000 cars, and spent decades as a regular stop for Australian touring cars.
A loop and crossover bridge added in 1974 turned part of it into a rare figure-eight. The site is now Oran Park Town, a development iRacing says is planned for 8,000 homes.
iRacing got there in time. Its scanning team reached the circuit before the demolition crews did, or as iRacing put it, it was "one step ahead of the 'dozers."
It's the clearest case here of a track laser-scanned before it vanished, and it still runs on a live, maintained service. You get the 1.6-mile Grand Prix circuit, the South circuit, and the 0.4-mile North figure-eight.
Riverside International Raceway in Assetto Corsa
Riverside opened in Southern California in September 1957 and hosted everything from Can-Am to SCORE off-road racing. Stirling Moss won the 1960 United States Grand Prix there.
NASCAR came every year from 1958 to 1988, and Dan Gurney won five of the nine Motor Trend 500s held in the 1960s.
Rusty Wallace took the final Cup race on June 12, 1988, and demolition began that same year. The Moreno Valley Mall at TownGate and housing cover the site today.
I couldn't find any official version, and I believe Riverside lives entirely through modders.
LilSki built this version from scratch for Assetto Corsa in 2016, modeled on the track as it stood for that last Budweiser 400, with Long, Short, NASCAR, and Spike layouts.
A 2019 rFactor 2 conversion by toebee and digga followed with their permission. John Norton's NASCAR Racing 2003 Season versions also survive in the Dr. Noise Paints archive after his own site went offline.
The Assetto Corsa mod is still a free download on OverTake.
Hockenheim's Forest Layout in Automobilista 2
Hockenheim still hosts racing, though no longer on its old layout. Until 2001, the Grand Prix circuit left the stadium section on long straights through the forest, broken up by chicanes.
Hermann Tilke's 2002 redesign cut the loop off, and the deal behind it included ripping up the old forest asphalt and planting fresh trees.
Automobilista 2 carries four versions in its Premium Track Pack: Historic 1977, 1988, a 1988 short layout, and 2001. Reiza moved them there in an August 2025 DLC reshuffle, so older guides may name a pack that no longer exists.
Rouen-les-Essarts in Grand Prix Legends
Rouen-les-Essarts ran on public roads in Orival, south of Rouen, and hosted the French Grand Prix in 1952, 1957, 1962, 1964, and 1968. Its fast downhill sweepers led into the cobbled Nouveau Monde hairpin.
The circuit closed in 1994, and its pits and grandstands came down in 1999. The roads remain, but the cobbles have been paved over.
Grand Prix Legends has had it since its October 1998 release, as a stand-in for the Le Mans Bugatti circuit that hosted the 1967 French Grand Prix.
The GPL 1967 Track Pack v1.4, a community update from 2023, carries Rouen with fixes by Jim Pearson and textures by Denis Bertrand.
Project CARS 2 had an official version too, but that game was delisted in September 2022 when its licenses expired. The Grand Prix Legends version is the one still being maintained.
Pukekohe Is Still Waiting for Its Second Life
Pukekohe Park in New Zealand held its last motorsport event in April 2023, so the site could be redeveloped for horse racing.
In September 2022, iRacing announced it would scan the circuit and preserve it, after a fan petition gathered thousands of signatures. It still isn't in the game.
A track only survives in a sim once somebody finishes building it and keeps it available, and Pukekohe hasn't gotten past the first part.
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