Nurburg Ring - if you like your track days...

Brambles · 30 July 2007, 20:30

If you are a petrol head you simply must make the trip! I've Just returned from a 2 days thrashing around the track & have to admit I was blown away by the place.

The locals are absolutely nuts.. Just when I thought I had nailed a particularly tricky section on day one I was overtaken by a Fiat Multipla going into a fast bend & I could see the kids in the back eating their sandwiches! One guy in our group, in a very trick Subaru, was overtaken by a local builder in aTransit van

Here are a couple of images from the cockpit of my Honda S2000, referred to by one instructor as the body bag due to its very tail happy behaviour in the wet

And boy did it rain..

Cheers Ian (now diagnosed as suffering from Ringworm)

nick wood · 30 July 2007, 21:09

Iv been wanting to go to the Nurburg ring for years! I have just this weekend brought myself a BMW 3 Series coupe, I want to go up later this year for a spin. How much does each lap cost?

Nick

Richard B · 30 July 2007, 21:55

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Originally Posted by nick wood

I have just this weekend brought myself a BMW 3 Series coupe...

on Jersey with a 30mph limit? You must be like a monk in a brothel!

codprawn · 30 July 2007, 22:58

What was your best lap time???

Tim M · 30 July 2007, 23:15

Didn't that bird on Top Gear do it in a stripped down "racing" Transit in less than 8 minutes??

codprawn · 30 July 2007, 23:32

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Originally Posted by Tim M

Didn't that bird on Top Gear do it in a stripped down "racing" Transit in less than 8 minutes??

NO it was 10:08

Fastest ever motorbike lap was 7:49

A radical SR8 has done it in 6:55

Fastest ever

6:11 - stefan bellhof in a Porsche Le Mans car.

codprawn · 31 July 2007, 02:24

Oh and the fastest in a Honda S2000 was 8:39 - not bad!!!

Brambles · 31 July 2007, 07:02

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Originally Posted by nick wood

How much does each lap cost? Nick

Not sure Nick, our passes were included in the package but I think it's 11 Euros

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Originally Posted by codprawn

What was your best lap time???

We did 9 min 47 in the dry. That was following a friend, who races Caterhams, in his Z4 M. Not bad considering he has 100 hp more than me

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Originally Posted by Tim M

Didn't that bird on Top Gear do it in a stripped down "racing" Transit in less than 8 minutes??

She is a legend at the Ring & now has her own TV show. Her Ring Taxi (BMW M5) is booked up 3 months in advance. As you can imagine the instructors have many stories about her antics. Apparently she beat a very experienced racer recently in a standard Focus 170. He was in his race prepared Ferrari Stradale Challenge car. BTW I also heard that Jeremy Clarkson did not do a 10 minute lap in the diesel Jaguar that they showed on Top Gear. Tut tut BBC...

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Originally Posted by codprawn

A radical SR8 has done it in 6:55 .

Have a look here http://videos.streetfire.net/search/...332BB35AA8.htm

wavecrosschris · 31 July 2007, 12:56

did you get one of those little stickers for the back of your car in the shape of the Nurburg ring?? Makes people think twice about overtaking you

spence · 31 July 2007, 14:28

I did a five day 'stag' trip there last August whilst the Old Timer's Grand Prix was on, and it was a really memorable trip. And my car proudly wears its little Nordschleife badge too (for those in the know). Driving the ring is a must for any one interested in cars. Also late August is the season for Piffilinger mushrooms, which seem to accompany all the local sauces and are pretty good too! Looks like now there is a drift taxi as well as the M5 ring taxis:

www.nuerburgring.de/home/index.html?L=1

donutsina911 · 31 July 2007, 15:02

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Originally Posted by spence

And my car proudly wears its little Nordschleife badge too (for those in the know).

or those who buy them from ebay

Brambles · 31 July 2007, 19:26

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Originally Posted by wavecrosschris

did you get one of those little stickers for the back of your car in the shape of the Nurburg ring?? Makes people think twice about overtaking you

I certainly did & I hope that it works on Fiat Multiplas in the UK

Hightower · 31 July 2007, 22:14

Myself and 45 other people hold the lap record for the slowest lap of the Nurburg Ring

We went round in a Lucketts Coach and have a Video to prove it. The Hairiest moment came around the banked hairpin as there's only one line a coach can take, otherwise it topples to the bottom

We had such a laugh as we had motorcycles, Ferraris, M3's and 5's, Etc comming around corners at breakneck speeds only to be confronted by the back end of our Coach. The looks on the drivers faces where priceless as they swerved to avoid us and swearing loudly as we'd buggered up their lap

and cost them their 10euro entrance fee

One thing I thought was a little morbid where the spectators that picknicked around the curcuit on all the dangerous bends with camera's in hand waiting for accidents to happen.

Was a great day, finished off by visiting the Museum and seeing a little bit of the DTM that was going on in the new Circuit.

Richard B · 31 July 2007, 22:25

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Originally Posted by wavecrosschris

those little stickers for the back of your car in the shape of the Nurburg ring??

Variation on the theme....

Tim M · 31 July 2007, 22:40

lol; is there any sort of unofficial record for a lap of the M25?

codprawn · 31 July 2007, 23:12

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Originally Posted by Tim M

lol; is there any sort of unofficial record for a lap of the M25?

Rumour has it someone did it in under 24hrs.............

Richard B · 01 August 2007, 07:26

There's a claim of approx 45 mins... http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/t...&t=202995&i=20

"Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for Exhibit A."

Good Omens (Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman)

nick wood · 05 August 2007, 20:21

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Originally Posted by Richard B

on Jersey with a 30mph limit? You must be like a monk in a brothel!

Yes in a way

. its 40mph limit on some roads, hense wanting to take the car to a track to get the speed out of my system, after driving it round the island over the last week Im looking forward to a track.