You know, this makes me think about the circuits we have in LFS right now... compared to most real life ones. All of our circuits are not as flat or smooth as some of the fast/popular circuits, plus there is a lot more room around the track than ours... ours all feel very 'enclosed' (eg trees, hills, walls, on all sides). I know it could be for a sense of speed, but looking at some of the most well known circuits around, most have lots of space with grass and sand... not just enclosed by objects. Hard to explain, but if you look at a few photos of these tracks (I've searched around just to see what some of these are like), they all look very classic and fun to drive, even for their simplicity. Some are small, but have some interesting corners WITH hardly any elevation changes. Those kinds of courses I like too, and to me... it seems most UK tracks don't use many hills... including some others in Europe... like Assen.