No 56k: FinalGear Ringmeet 2010 - The report, the pictures, the movies, the drama!

Other people posted most of the pics, so i'll only post some selected ones:

The Lamborghini Espada we met at the way to the meet:
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The crowd that helped Adus Hybrid Diesel Merc up the hill:
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My driver, the fearless D-fence. I really enjoyed that lap.
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DanRoms smug smile... if only we knew why he let us past back then... :)
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Thomas driving:
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On our way home, me and ice needed to kill some time, so we observed some carbage, some interesting vehicles and made a "group pic":
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Do it. For having so many Brits on this forum you should be really ashamed for not having a single one turn up. :p

Well since my last post I've been "not working" very hard and gawping at this http://www.nurburgring.org.uk/ and trying to work out how much I'll need to tuck away money wise for the trip. 1000 miles worth of fuel (150 litres to be safe), ferry crossing, I already have a tent (need a sleeping bag) plus some money for laps, food and er....."sparkling water" so no more than ?400, or less if I can get someone to ride along and go halves on the fuel and ferry costs.

Seems perfectly achievable with this much notice! See you all there in 2011.
 
I just looked again, as far as I can tell everyone's labeled correctly in all pics.
D-Fence took the pic I was talking about down, so everything is correct now.
 
Seems perfectly achievable with this much notice! See you all there in 2011.

I reckon that if I'm forced into a gap year (thursday's results) I will hopefully get a job and definitely be there in 2011 (especially if you reckon it'd only be ?400ish). Whether my parents would let me take the Kangoo, I hope so, but we never know. :lol: It is the Kangoo N?rburgring Edition... (we have a sticker on the back, but its never even been to Germany).
 
Finally, after 3 years trying and failing to attend, i did it! As D-Fail and co all posted basically everything, I'm just left to say one thing: I had a great time, although I arrived not until 10:30am on saturday and left in early at 9:30 am on sunday due to the damn rain. After I saw all those enormous cameras, I couldn't care to use my 6 year old digicam for a single picture. Next time I'll try to arrive friday and hope for some better weather on sunday! My ringlap was nice, although i only found one picture so far, showing the back of my car..! Thanks to DanRoM for the lap as passenger and in return for guiding me on my lap! Thanks to nicjasno for the fun on the challange, for the slovenian water (which i still have ;)) and ofc big thanks to everybody who organized the whole meet or parts of it!

Thank you people, for a brilliant weekend!
 
Added a frigging high res pic of Kip's Saab to the first post - check out the air flickering from heat behind him!

D-Fence took the pic I was talking about down, so everything is correct now.

Yeah, I did. I noticed my failing immediately ;)
 
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Now, some of my pics.
The cheesecake Suedschleife brought for us
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Some of the classics from saturday evening
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Sooo.... corners.... :tease:
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The friday BBQ
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And finally, the saturday cruise
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DanRom
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thomas
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The Interceptor
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Eye-Q
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Kip`
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Just for the record: right now, this thread is worth a hefty 80.6 megabytes of your Internets. :lol:
 
I just uploaded the pics I made which aren't redundant since all the others uploaded their pics already...

On the way to the ring there were quite a few interesting cars: an Audi F103
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An old, sweet looking Ford Mustang
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A mysterious Roadster, don't know what make or model :?
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Saturday morning on the way to the 'ring (30 km) we had an old GT40 right in front of us for 25 km :drool:
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And the cars from the 'ring entrance that weren't shown already: Alfa 8C Spider
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Audi RS2 Avant
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BMW 2002 tii
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Ford Escort RS Cosworth
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Mercedes W111 Cabrio
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And an old Opel GT
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Wow, great write up and pictures. Also D-Fence, as much as I don't want to be the first one to say this, but, you sound like Dr. Strangelove :p

[video=youtube;GiwKb-x7wXQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiwKb-x7wXQ&feature=related[/video]

If all goes accordingly, I'll be in Germany next summer, so hopefully I can be the first 'Merikan at the FG ring meet, although I will be car-less.
 
Here comes my story.

As the 7 was not completed in time, I had to fly to the meet. And to make it less painful being there without the car again, I reserved Lotus Elise rental for a few laps. Sadly, it rained on Sunday, so I couldn't do it :( I'm not too disappointed though, as it would be a lot of money after all, and the weekend was great anyway.

I had a flight to D?sseldorf, where D-Fence was picking me up, provided that his Seat's seat was fixed. Flight was in 2 parts, with a changeover in Riga. The second part was in a very old MD-87 without any livery, with spanish speaking crew and the least-giving-a-fuck steward I've encountered. And their (non-free) coffee was crap. And the paint was coming off the ceiling panels.

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Narrowly avoiding the first meet-breakdown, we landed, and D-fence had his car fixed!

I didn't take my camera out of the bag on Friday, so the next one is from a Saturday morning. 9 am. A german camper wakes up, starts up his petrol-powered lawnmower and starts mowing the grass in front of his "house", producing an incredible amount of noise and smoke. Completely normal.

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Meet-up point at the grass parking at the ring. Damn, we grow in numbers from year to year!

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We barely walked out of the grass parking, as this thing appeared, causing an other sort of ring-accident.

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Haven't seen those outside museums so far.

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With that kind of dedication, DanRoM is seriously underequipped camera-wise ;)

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Damn you by-passer, ruining my photo.

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Oh no! Dust on wheels!

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It runs on water!

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Seriously?

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We had a brief discussion, where opinions were stated, that Z8 is pointless and not very pretty with it's outdated futuristic looks, but I still like it. So I took 2 photos.

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Rrrring, ding ding ding ding...

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That's rather cool :)

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Oh. My. God. Another accident.

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I love everything about it, including the silly rear-view mirror.

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And the stains on the hood glass from the trumpets.

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It seems his head is a bit above the roof level :)

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I didn't see how they managed to close it, as they drove off with the doors open. Naturally, without opening side windows, the cabin might get a little bit hot, I imagine :)

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Ginetta.

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I like the spare wheel :)

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Everyone has a picture of it, so do I :p

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Another mandatory picture. I think the kids were asleep :)

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We've seen quite a few of those trucks doing a lap. At least 4 withing couple of hours, iirc.

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Nobody is driving the TVR!

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Choppers were flying back and forth all the time.

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Choo-choo!

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Oooooh... I need to pack more pants next time, really.

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I told you I saw a Vel Satis near the ring, thomas!

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Look, a tv celebrity.

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The Russian Lambo that overtook Kip. You can tell you're at the ring, when you're shooting a Lambo, and a Ferrari and a Porsche ruins your shot.

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Some bikers and.. a cyclist.

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That thing was freaking menacing.

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Eye-Q doing some final laps before The Challenge.

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Someone had a whoopsie.

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Back already?

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Start of The Challenge, envelopes are handed out.

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Kip foolishly chose me as a navigator. We took some even more scenic routes than planned, but managed to arrive eventually. On the picture we're at the fuel station, this is when D-Fence called to announce that people got bored waiting for us and started leaving :(

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At the pizza place. For my starved mind that seemed very funny at the moment :)

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After everyone else retreaded, we went to Br?nnchen to see cars fail at this weather.

Sued displaying his first breakdown, something fell off the Polo.

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The ring was eventually opened, and people started doing laps. I was expecting to see a lot of action, but everyone was taking it very carefully.

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SERIOUSLY?

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Still waiting for someone to kick the rear out...

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:eek:

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Balls. Of. Steel :)

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Ah, a little bit of action.

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Almost a traffic!

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He tried some power oversteer on the exit.

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A battle of the vagons.

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Nugget?

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Espada.

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A little more tail action.

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Well, it was a bit boring, so shortly we retreated.

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Aw, look how happy they are.

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After having lunch and sorting out the hotel for DaBoom, we went our ways. D-Fence was bringing me back to D?sseldorf where I had a hotel booked to wait for my plane on Monday. With plenty of time to kill, we went to look at some massive mining sites on our way. The rain and fog made it hard to see, and even harder to film, so following pictures were photoshop-raped to give at least some idea of the scale.

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And this concludes my report. The meet was great fun, all the credits to the planning team! And thanks to D-Fence for making it a lot easier for me to attent. I had my doubts on whether it's worth spending money on planes and attending carless once again.. But it just is. No regrets :)

See you next year!
 
That was a lot of pics!!!
Looks like it was a lot of fun!

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Glad to see at least two corvettes!!:thumbup:
Would love to take my Z06 over there.
 
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Wow, so that really were an Isdera Erator and Spyder we saw. :shock2: The chances of that must be seriously tiny...

Actually, that is Oldtimer GP for ya.

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pulled these from our lap with Eye-Q (not exactly BTG)
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And from my drive home:
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