Nurburgring

[weeb]

Ive been reading up on the nurburgring and driving it loads on gt4 but just wanted to know if any of you guys have experienced it 1st hand?? Iam quite interested in going for a shot next year. I see quite a lot of car clubs do trips to the ring. Depending on costs etc would a scottish scoobs run not be quite good?? Just completed the 24hr endurance race on gt4!! the 4hr one is next!!

[imprezapete]

I fancy it myself, you can sail from Fife to mainland europe then through germany on the autoban and then on to Nurburg Ring.

But your not insured on the Ring, you need Track insurance as insurance company wont cover it.

I think there would a few here interested, some from english sidc have done it though.

[gordyN01]

i am planning on going this year as my gf lives in germany cant wait was in germany till yesterday autobahn is mad lots of crazy germans in bmw's would be good to meet up with people on here when im there its 14 euros a lap its like a toll road u just pay per lap each lap is 13 miles i think

[weeb]

lucky u! I wont manage it this year but certainly interested for next year. Track insurance, i bet that wont come cheap!!! I mite price it all up and see who would be interested. I was looking at the track website but havent had time to really check it out.

The Ring

I have a mag showing the skyline club on a road trip to SPA, that looks a good track too!!!

[gordyN01]

yeah that would be good too sounds good would like to do alot more track days track insurnace is outrageous priced it for knockhill if u want full cover was 300 quid for one day and 5 grand excess

[Gumball]

i was supposed to be doing it next month with my old man.

me in the scooby and him in his porsche.

hope to still do it. well reminded actually. thanks

[weeb]

magic!! hope you enjoy it!! hope you get some video footage n pics!!!

Can we ask how much you are paying for track insurance? is it more if its a outwith the uk???

[Grovit]

Weeb - I went on a euro tour with www.type-r-scotland.com a few months back. Did a bit of a jaunt through belgium, france, monaco, italy, Austria (via the Stelvio pass) into Germany for the famous ring and then on to Holland.

There were 5 cars - 2 x 350z's, 1 x DC5 Integra, 1 x Cupra R and 1 x CTR (me !! - I left the soob at home for that trip). We were at the ring for roughly half a day. The track was pretty busy, but the conditions were dry and sunny so that was good. You can find loads of stuff on various forums and in various car mags about the ring and to be honest most of it is true. It is pretty awesome and also vaguely intimidating. There are a lot of serious track machines out there - M3 CSL's, TVR's stupidly fast mercs and a fair few bikes, but also on the track there are often buses, camper vans, and regular saloon cars just tootling about !!

I cooked the brakes on my car quite quickly, so when I go again (probably in 2007 with any luck), I'll be taking spare pads and spare brake fluid, as they take an absolute punishing what with the relentless onslaught of high speed sections and sharp bends.

Another thing which I didn't expect was how exhausting it was - Knockhill is roughly a minute circuit - the Nurburgring is 10 if you're any good, have a quick car and know how the track works (takes an age to learn apparantly). Every driver who went round came in to the pits exhausted and soaked in sweat !

Still - I'd do it again in an instant, and I'd recommend it to anyone. It's roughly 15 euros per lap, but you can by bulk tickets. You're not aloud to film your excursion as technically the ring is a public toll road and so they don't like camcorders etc - you get thrown out if they catch you filming. In this regard I don't know how track insurance would work on the ring - you'd probably need to do a bit of investigating on that front.

Hope this helps - and best of luck if / when you go.

[graham_nairn]

Hi Weeb

I went to the ring in April. The weather was a bit crap. Track was shut for most of the day. Managed to get about 6 laps in though.

The place awesome everybody is totally geared up for it.

The place to stay is the Teir Garten Hotel.

We got the ferry from Rosyth. Once you get to the other side it only takes about 2 hours to get there.

A few mates have just come back from there again. Got the ring taxi form Siobian. The girl that took the Transit van round for Top Gear.

Planning to back again in November weather permitting.

[spooks]

Would love to visit the ring, scary first time track experiance though

Spooks

[weeb]

sounds brill. will serious think about it for next summer!!!

[SCOOBYD00]

Did it last year. Awsome. heading there next Summer in the Scooby.

[jamie_wood]

Me and Dad are going when he gets the car fixed.

Aint that right Wilky