[miki_com_au]

http://www.bmwtransact.com/microsite/Nurburgring/M3_race.swf

 

[Bfam4t6]

Wow! I would love to do something like that.....

 

[teutone.]

You may want to have a look at 'Keith's Nuerburgring Nordschleife'. That's on the old 23 km (ca. 14 ml.) track, the King of all the race tracks. It's in English. BTW, this weekend is the F-1 GP on the new Nuerburgring and as a lifelong certified F-1 nut, I am staying up for qualifying at 5 am. Cheerio, Teutone (aka Horst K)

 

[nomad.]

That's good, the M3 GTR is an awesome racecar but, I agree with Teutone, the old Nurburgring Nordschliefe is truly the worlds greatest circuit, it's like night and day compared to the newer, softer Nurburgring just over the fence
One of my main goals in life is to experience it first hand

Check this out, not at all spectacular, but you can occasionally catch some interesting cars getting ready for a run
Every minute it takes a live still image of the public pit area of the old Nurburgring about halfway along the very long straight
You need to click your refresh button or press Alt F5 to refresh it
http://www.nuerburgring.de/fileadmin/webcam/webcam.jpg

Oddly, in this snapshot the main straight is filled with trucks

 

[jhodg5ck]

Another great site for a few good vids is here:
http://www.mercedesshop.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=152284

the hill climbs are Great! as is Hans Stuck in the M3 GTR

Have fun

Jonathan

 

[teutone.]

When I was a kid, my favorite spots were the edge of of the Karussell, where you could see the cars come up from Kesselchen and then left through the steep bank of the Karussell, or from Bruennchen to the other steep concrete oval of the Schwalbenschanz. I had forgotten that a comlete lap through Nordschleife (Schleife=loop), Suedschleife and Start and Finish straight, equated 28.265 km = apx. 17.66 miles, with over 170 curves. What a racetrack. Mario Andretti once remarked at the Ring: 'if everything feels under control, you are not driving fast enough'. Cheerio, Teutone (aka Horst K)