Nurburgring Oldtimer GP 2016
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Nurburgring Oldtimer GP 2016
It was the Oldtimer GP at the 'ring last weekend, and a few of us drove down for a few days of Eifel mountain road blatts, classic racing, Weissbier and Sauerkraut.
Rich and Stephen - in the Sepia Reaper - and Pete and Ian - in their Orange Peril - left from the UK on Thursday morning:
And I drove the green rep from my folks' place on the West coast of in Brittany, 650 miles across the fat belly of France, thru Belgium and into Germany..:
...Stopping off at various motorsport landmarks on the way:
Our little convoy finally met up on Thursday afternoon, at a wet and rainy Spa...:
...Before pressing on for the final 80 miles to our lakeside campsite in the beautiful Eifel mountains:
Although a few of us had been to the 'ring before, this was our first Oldtimer GP, and we decided the best way to celebrate arriving was to get stuck in to some Weissbier:
Rich and Stephen - in the Sepia Reaper - and Pete and Ian - in their Orange Peril - left from the UK on Thursday morning:
And I drove the green rep from my folks' place on the West coast of in Brittany, 650 miles across the fat belly of France, thru Belgium and into Germany..:
...Stopping off at various motorsport landmarks on the way:
Our little convoy finally met up on Thursday afternoon, at a wet and rainy Spa...:
...Before pressing on for the final 80 miles to our lakeside campsite in the beautiful Eifel mountains:
Although a few of us had been to the 'ring before, this was our first Oldtimer GP, and we decided the best way to celebrate arriving was to get stuck in to some Weissbier:
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Re: Nurburgring Oldtimer GP 2016
Although we had arrived in drizzly weather, Friday dawned bright and sunny.
Which was just perfect for Stephen to test drive my car over the 20 miles of fantastic sweeping, undulating roads that separated the campsite from the Nurburgring GP circuit:
Which was just perfect for Stephen to test drive my car over the 20 miles of fantastic sweeping, undulating roads that separated the campsite from the Nurburgring GP circuit:
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yep, a great time indeed. The roads are fantastic and the cars were magic!
Some photos from me.
Big bum!
cool beer whist watching the RSR's and 935's
Love this little car
A little stop on the way home:
and then we had a drag race!
Some photos from me.
Big bum!
cool beer whist watching the RSR's and 935's
Love this little car
A little stop on the way home:
and then we had a drag race!
Rich
Sepia 72 2.5T/E (gone)
2004 996 Turbo
Sepia 72 2.5T/E (gone)
2004 996 Turbo
Re: Nurburgring Oldtimer GP 2016
cant leave it at that Rich .. who won ?
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RS of course, mines just a little T!hot66 wrote:cant leave it at that Rich .. who won ?
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Nurburgring Oldtimer GP 2016
The obviously awesome location aside, the event itself is brilliant.
Think somewhere half way between Le Man Classic: pretty big (but not as crowded as LMC), lots of variety of marques represented, a bit corporate, modern spectator comforts.
And Spa 6 Hours: very close racing (with no big gaps between races like at LMC), more relaxed atmosphere than LMC, more open access to the cars and drivers in the paddocks, brilliant track for spectating.
Oh and if you like 911s, this is clearly the place to be. We all agreed that we had never seen so many 911s in one place before....
There were short hoods:
If we had a euro for every car we saw with this guy's autograph on it...
Think somewhere half way between Le Man Classic: pretty big (but not as crowded as LMC), lots of variety of marques represented, a bit corporate, modern spectator comforts.
And Spa 6 Hours: very close racing (with no big gaps between races like at LMC), more relaxed atmosphere than LMC, more open access to the cars and drivers in the paddocks, brilliant track for spectating.
Oh and if you like 911s, this is clearly the place to be. We all agreed that we had never seen so many 911s in one place before....
There were short hoods:
If we had a euro for every car we saw with this guy's autograph on it...
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There were long hoods:
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There were hot rods with interesting touches:
And cars that were not sure which camp they fitted into:
And cars that were not sure which camp they fitted into:
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And cars in a colour that confused us... Rich correctly pointed out that this "RS" was not Sepia brown, but in fact Togo.
A few live text exchanges with Mike 210bhp led us to believe that this was either a togo brown 2.4S that is dressed up as an RS.
Or is one of the 'special order' colour RS for which nobody is quite sure which colour was actually ordered!
A few live text exchanges with Mike 210bhp led us to believe that this was either a togo brown 2.4S that is dressed up as an RS.
Or is one of the 'special order' colour RS for which nobody is quite sure which colour was actually ordered!
James
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There were race 911s too:
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Of course it wasn't just 911s. There were older Porsches:
Even this car had Rohrl's autograph on it!
Very nice colour:
Even this car had Rohrl's autograph on it!
Very nice colour:
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There were 914s too, but not as many as Stephen and I had hoped for:
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This GT was pretty tasty. Sadly not racing this weekend though:
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This GT rep was immaculate. Result of a 7 year restoration.
Interesting, flat undertray custom fabricated:
3 litre on Webers:
Interesting, flat undertray custom fabricated:
3 litre on Webers:
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We spotted 2 904s at the event.
This one was not racing, and we saw it out driving home on the public road on Saturday :
The banded rims it was wearing didn't look too neat / safe to our eyes!
This one was not racing, and we saw it out driving home on the public road on Saturday :
The banded rims it was wearing didn't look too neat / safe to our eyes!
James
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