The 'Ring

[Phix]

Ok, I'm trying to educate my brother on the Nurburgring. He's just as much as a .... "petrolhead" as you brits call it.... as me but his attitude towards things that I like but he's never heard of is "Oh, it must be shit." and he's really underestimating the hardest track in the world. So are there any pictures/resources that I can maybe show him before I end up killing him and harvesting his organs for the black market?

 

[bone]

maybe tell him that they used to have F1 races there but stopped caus it was too dangerous...

 

[Ultra_Kool_Dude]

Why not show him last week's ep?

 

[idletask]

Show him this video:

http://www.lad.lv/~martini/porsche/Videos/Nurburgring-956.mov

And tell him that the Carrera GT was 51 seconds slower and piloted by a Ring addict.

 

[justin syder]

http://nurburgring.de/

http://www.nurburgring.org/

two very good sites, one has pics of every single turn and a map of the whole track.

 

[Wutputt]

I'll upload a few of my pics:

Just past Hocheichen:

Just before Schwedenkreuz:

Karussell:

just before Hohe Acht:

Pflanzgarten I:

 

[Phix]

Scariest pictures ever. Oh my God. Up and down up and down... and it's WET!

I MUST DRIVE THERE ONE DAY! :shock:

 

[SiR_dude]

^ Let me know when you're going and we'll both do

 

[Jostyrostelli]

Sir Dudette, you think you can do it in under 25minutes?

 

[SiR_dude]

:lol: In what? You mean my car? No idea. Probably not :lol:

 

[Jostyrostelli]

What else?
In your Gazelle Goldline Medeo Airglider 2004

 

[Phix]

^ Let me know when you're going and we'll both do

Heh, I'd love to see a Civic SiR tackle the Ring. I gotta buy my car first and only if you're paying.

 

[SiR_dude]

^ Let me know when you're going and we'll both do

Heh, I'd love to see a Civic SiR tackle the Ring. I gotta buy my car first and only if you're paying.

I'll pay the flight if you buy all my drinks :lol:

I think you'd be getting the short end of the stick there :lol:

j/k

 

[Jostyrostelli]

Are you that broke? Jeremy said it was 14euros a lap...

 

[Phix]

14 euros = 21.9466 CAD.... for a lap. That's horrible! :shock:

 

[zenon]

14 euros = 21.9466 CAD.... for a lap. That's horrible! :shock:

That's actually really good. Have you been to any tracks in Canada before?

It costs $20 CAD just to do a few runs at the drag strip near where I live. $20 CAD to race the Nurburg ring is more than worth it in my opinion.

 

[SiR_dude]

^ I think you meant to say really good :lol: And I agree, the price isn't that far off. THink of how much you pay to go go-karting, it's like $5 for 1 lap on a track that's normally 0.5km!!

 

[zenon]

^ I think you meant to say really good :lol:

Fixed.

 

[Jostyrostelli]

Yeah not sure if the 14euros was for one lap or a couple of laps. Think it was one lap, but that's worth the money twice!

 

[Overheat]

Presumably it's 3 laps, an outlap, a fast lap and an in lap!? :?

If so 14 Euros (about a tenner) is a very good price indeed, imo