My obsession with the Nordschleife.

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super_gt
Attention,if you do not like to watch severe crashes skip this video!

Fortunately the driver is unharmed 👍

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That was a bad one. It's going to cost a pretty penny to sort this one out, though...
It's incredible that the driver is unharmed.
 
At first, I hated this track for being "unnecessary long", like Mario Kart 64s Rainbow Road.

Though it grew on me with GT5. My most memorable moments usually involved the track like racing a GT300 at the 4 Hours of Nurburgring. Grinding for Level 40 using that 1 Million credit seasonal and even participating in my first GTP League, primary featuring the Nordschleife which actually got me to sign up for this site.
 
FlipJ
That was a bad one. It's going to cost a pretty penny to sort this one out, though...
It's incredible that the driver is unharmed.
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Aside from the cost of the car, it probably wouldn't be too bad. He only hit a small part of the guardrail, so there is not much of that to replace (at something like €1000/metre). The expensive ones would be where the car drags itself along the wall for ages, ripping it apart.

Oh, and @super_gt, you might want to put that video in a spoiler with a language warning so that you don't get slapped over the head by the mods.
 
I use nurburgring to mostly to test race cars because laptimes for production cars are too fast i did a 6:53 with Mclaren F1 while in real life it did only 7:11 laptime.
But laptimes for racecars are accurate.
Mostly i use spa,tsukuba,moteji,le mans tracks
 
I love the nordschleife, my dad gave me a Playseat pretty early on. No idea how many laps or mileage but I'm sure it's a lot :P

Now that I have something cool to drive I'm thinking about going but seeing those videos it looks pretty dangerous. Many car drivers go very close to the bikes when overtaking. So you have to go hella fast to stay ahead or really slow so you can keep to the right..

What are the opinions here?
 
I dont know what you are driving, but unless it is an M3 or better, driven at 9/10ths, then you are no faster than an average lapper.
It wasnt particularly busy when I drove it, but as long as you don't have a boy racer mentality and are happy to wait on slower cars and stay right to faster cars, you should be fine.
My top tip - look at the website and go on a day that the track is open all day. Most days it is only open 17:30-19:30 and is packed with people who would otherwise be scattered over the whole day.
 
Barra333
I dont know what you are driving, but unless it is an M3 or better, driven at 9/10ths, then you are no faster than an average lapper.
It wasnt particularly busy when I drove it, but as long as you don't have a boy racer mentality and are happy to wait on slower cars and stay right to faster cars, you should be fine.
My top tip - look at the website and go on a day that the track is open all day. Most days it is only open 17:30-19:30 and is packed with people who would otherwise be scattered over the whole day.
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A motorcycle, and I'm a little afraid of reckless drivers seeing the videos on YouTube... Some people seem to go too close to motorcycles when overtaking. A bike needs more room than a car so I was wondering if it was smart to go on track.
 
Carlos
Now that I have something cool to drive I'm thinking about going but seeing those videos it looks pretty dangerous. Many car drivers go very close to the bikes when overtaking. So you have to go hella fast to stay ahead or really slow so you can keep to the right..

What are the opinions here?
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Barra333
My top tip - look at the website and go on a day that the track is open all day. Most days it is only open 17:30-19:30 and is packed with people who would otherwise be scattered over the whole day.
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Full day's aren't better than evening sessions. If you want to do some calm laps your best guess is to go very early or very late the day. Or if you don't mind driving in the wet, you should go lapping when the weather is bad. On cold rainy day's the attitude on track is waaaay better too. DO NOT go when it's "carfreitag" or "green hell driving day's".
Last year they did a few (2 or 3) "motocycles only" evening sessions. But it seems they aren't doing these anymore (it wasn't really a great succes due to bad weather)

I did my last laps for this year last weekend. Saturday was wet + an oil spill on nearly the whole track. Sunday was pretty crowded with a few long closures :(

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I love the ring on games, never been in real life. It's my rhythm track where I can really get to know a car and get into it. My one fast claim is that I once had the 16th fastest time on Forza 2 (I think, possibly 3) in a Aston Lola LMP1 car. A nice dude I raced online who was part of a team (possibly TRL or similar) gifted me the car and set up because I was keeping up with him in a stock set up car and he wanted to help me try and get a big leaderboard time, that was my second lap in the Lola :D
But yeah, the place is just amazing and like nothing else.
 
Manuelos
Full day's aren't better than evening sessions. If you want to do some calm laps your best guess is to go very early or very late the day. Or if you don't mind driving in the wet, you should go lapping when the weather is bad. On cold rainy day's the attitude on track is waaaay better too. DO NOT go when it's "carfreitag" or "green hell driving day's".
Last year they did a few (2 or 3) "motocycles only" evening sessions. But it seems they aren't doing these anymore (it wasn't really a great succes due to bad weather)

I did my last laps for this year last weekend. Saturday was wet + an oil spill on nearly the whole track. Sunday was pretty crowded with a few long closures :(

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Love the car matey. I used to have a black Rev3 GTS on white enkei rp01's in 16" with BC coilovers and a buddyclub exhaust. Bride seat and omp 300mm wheel. Was so damn fun. I miss it so much! haha.
 
Manuelos
Full day's aren't better than evening sessions. If you want to do some calm laps your best guess is to go very early or very late the day. Or if you don't mind driving in the wet, you should go lapping when the weather is bad. On cold rainy day's the attitude on track is waaaay better too. DO NOT go when it's "carfreitag" or "green hell driving day's".
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I won't argue with you, since you go frequently and I have been once (spectator on Saturday evening session, drove Sunday morning) so I based my opinion on that, which for all I know was an out of the ordinary weekend.
On the Saturday evening, there was a constant stream of cars going on circuit as quick as the marshall could get them through. On the Sunday morning, there was 10 or more seconds between cars.
At the end of the day, if all you want is a pretty cruisy lap without trying to go too fast and hit apexes, then it doesn't matter too much - stay right and mind your own business.
 
Heard from a collegue that last weekend it was only open for a few laps. (and closed earlier?)
Shame I didn't find time to go in Sept/Nov, it will be a long wait until March/April.
This year I went the whole weekend at carfreitag, didn't expect it to be that crazy, but some great time for pictures. (didn't see the orange Koenigsegg though ... :-( )
 
iRacing released their version and it's supposedly fantastic, the best ever.
Here's video of their co-founder talking about it with a cool comparison between older video games and what we can have now.


Anyone has iRacing? Have to say that the hands never leaving the wheel in the old Lotus kinda annoys me, though.
 
I love the Nurb! It's a challenging track, and it feels so rewarding when each sector shows an increasing gap between you and the best lap. It also punishes pretty hard if you screw up, and I always wind up losing over 3 seconds over a smaller error. It's the ultimate mix of cornering ability, top speed, and momentum.

Johnnypenso
I think the Nurb is the worst track in the game to race at. Unless you're in a club or league or with friends you know and trust that is. The quality of racing with pubbers is atrocious, they just blast into every corner crashing and smashing their way through the first couple of corners. Add to that they are usually on several tire grades more than the car came on and don't really "know" the track but all think they are Ayrton Senna because of the racing tires. The key to victory here is starting in front with a car that launches well, get through the first corner clean and usually you're free and clear. I know the track like the back of my hand but it doesn't help me when someone rams me off the track under hard braking.
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I know the original post was made in 2014, but I wanted to add my 2c to it.
Basically, not always. I've had plenty of races where I sit towards the middle or the back of the crowd and win the race anyways. The key to the Ring is to be patient and thinking three or four turns ahead, especially with bad drivers ahead of you.
 

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