You guy may also want topop over to Spa on teh Saturday night for the 6 hours endurance race. If your interested I can copy you a tulip style road book for the return journey to the Ring. I did a great one day two circuits a couple of years ago.
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too many people caught on camera making messes of their cars and so adding weight to those who argue that the ring is a bloody dangerous to be place to be and therefore should be closed
because as interfering do gooders thir opinions are naturally more valif than everyone elses
because as interfering do gooders thir opinions are naturally more valif than everyone elses
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2.2 911E - looking lovely
Mercedes E270cdi Elegance - 7 seats of fully optioned luxo-shed
BMW C1 - Why? Check this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn9fZEar ... re=related
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Right chaps, just 2 more hours at work then I'm off to Dover for my Nurburgring weekend.
I'll try to get as many pics as possible but as I've not got a passenger it may be a little tricky.
Wish me luck, lets hope the old girl doesn't break under the strain, and that my driving skills are as good as I think they are!
I'll try to get as many pics as possible but as I've not got a passenger it may be a little tricky.
Wish me luck, lets hope the old girl doesn't break under the strain, and that my driving skills are as good as I think they are!
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Made it successfully back from a very enjoyable weekend at the Nurburgring, I'm in one piece, car is in one piece everybody's happy!
What a place! It's hard to describe really, the track is sooo long and the mixture of cars, bikes and coaches (yes they really do run sightseeing coaches around the ring) is amazing. I never knew there were so many GT3's built, it seemed like every other car was a GT3.
I went with a group of mixed cars, mini cooper, impreza estate, elise, M3 and my 911. After doing a few passenger laps in the scooby i really can appreciate how those things win rally's they are just soooo sure footed.
My car went really well, it was easily the oldest car on the track but once I'd worked out a few of the corners I was happily holding on to some of the slower Elise and BMW's. The track itself is pretty unforgiving not a lot of margin for error, and very little run off in parts, i had one very unsettling "moment" on a damp track on Sunday morning, full on fish-failing action but managed to hold it in the right direction, more than can be said of the Ferrari 355 that i passed facing the wrong way on the same lap!
All in all it was great, although I think they should limit the track to only cars or only bikes on it at the same time, gets a bit hairy at times. I'd thoroughly recommend a trip to one and all, but its not a place to test the limits of the car, it simply isn't forgiving enough (track was closed on no fewer than 6 occasions over the weekend due to accidents some of which looked pretty horrendous)
Oh and I met Jeremy Clarkson, he was filming a review for Top Gear and was trying to get a diesel Jag around the ring in 10 minutes (which he didn't do using our crude timing) so watch the next series of Top Gear and maybe they'll be a bit of DDK advertising!
What a place! It's hard to describe really, the track is sooo long and the mixture of cars, bikes and coaches (yes they really do run sightseeing coaches around the ring) is amazing. I never knew there were so many GT3's built, it seemed like every other car was a GT3.
I went with a group of mixed cars, mini cooper, impreza estate, elise, M3 and my 911. After doing a few passenger laps in the scooby i really can appreciate how those things win rally's they are just soooo sure footed.
My car went really well, it was easily the oldest car on the track but once I'd worked out a few of the corners I was happily holding on to some of the slower Elise and BMW's. The track itself is pretty unforgiving not a lot of margin for error, and very little run off in parts, i had one very unsettling "moment" on a damp track on Sunday morning, full on fish-failing action but managed to hold it in the right direction, more than can be said of the Ferrari 355 that i passed facing the wrong way on the same lap!
All in all it was great, although I think they should limit the track to only cars or only bikes on it at the same time, gets a bit hairy at times. I'd thoroughly recommend a trip to one and all, but its not a place to test the limits of the car, it simply isn't forgiving enough (track was closed on no fewer than 6 occasions over the weekend due to accidents some of which looked pretty horrendous)
Oh and I met Jeremy Clarkson, he was filming a review for Top Gear and was trying to get a diesel Jag around the ring in 10 minutes (which he didn't do using our crude timing) so watch the next series of Top Gear and maybe they'll be a bit of DDK advertising!
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Glad you enjoyed it and returned home safely. Pictures are great. Is the Blue BMW, seriously sideways with the stickers on it, one of the "Ring Taxi's" ?
How did the real thing compare with the GPL simulation ?
I must go someday.
How did the real thing compare with the GPL simulation ?
I must go someday.
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the blue BMW wasn't a ring taxi it was just some guy that was show boating, he was drifting around that corner every time he went around!
The simulation is nothing compared to the real thing, the mixture of fear and adrenaline was well worth the visit
My personal favourite photo is this:
Essex wide boy in our hotel spinning his Evo (he ends up ramming a barrier about 4km's further along the track, breaks his front splitter, under tray and intercooler, ouch!)
The simulation is nothing compared to the real thing, the mixture of fear and adrenaline was well worth the visit
My personal favourite photo is this:
Essex wide boy in our hotel spinning his Evo (he ends up ramming a barrier about 4km's further along the track, breaks his front splitter, under tray and intercooler, ouch!)
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