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- alexpkas
This is not supposed to be some uber-huge write up and I'm pretty sure I'm not that good at it anyway, I just thought I'd share this pretty neat experience with those, who have enough interest to read all of this or at least check out some of the pics and vids I'm going to post over the next few days. I also managed to capture Kaz's car on tape a few times. Excuse the stupid-ish commentary during the vids.
At about 9:30am at the Saturday last week we (my best pal Andreas and me), started our journey to the 24h of Nürburgring. Starting from our home town Hannover, roughly 400km away from the Nurb, which is a lot, we needed like 3.5 hours and only because Andreas put the pedal to the metal in his sexy new BMW, teh pics:
Our gear:
Teh car: (My pals car)
Washing the killed flies off his baby:
(It's Andreas, not me)
On our way we stopped at a restaurant, which made me chuckle a little because of it's name, so I edited the pic I took:
Le original:
Le little edit:
I know I'm silly but I couldn't resist.
We arrived at around 13pm, built our little camp with one tent (yes one lol). After that we headed to one of the grandstands to watch the start of the race but the place was stupid so we got back to where our tent was (Hatzenbach) and sat down there on the grass, right at the first corner of the Nordschleife, that was awesome! Pic:
Two hours later I walked about 7 kilometers down the track and took some video footage of it. At about 8pm I was back and we went back to the first corner. Andreas left me there alone at about 9:30pm, I simply wanted to see the cars race into the night and at night actually. Around me the flavour of all the grilled meat and beer (oh my pal's full name is actually Andreas Beer lol), anyway, more and more artificial lights turned on and the headlights of the cars became really bright and beautiful. The whole scenery around me had some certain feel of peace to it, hard to describe. One night-ish shot:
Also some of the cars were so much louder than I had anticipated, like the Astons, Mercedeses, BMWs and the Audis. Sometimes the earth underneath you would start to vibrate, when those cars started accelerating. The LFA and P4/5 also sounded great.
By 11pm my legs started to really hurt and it was getting really cold (and I was hungry lol), so I decided it was enough for this day and went back to the tent, where Andreas was excitingly waiting for me.
Jk Jk guys.
Anyway, we chatted on his I-phone with some ladies and at about 12pm we decided to get outside next to one of the many fires and drink some vodka he brought with him, and this is where all the fun started. (Irony) We drank until about 1.30am, also a little with the thought of being warmed by it and feel really tired, so we could sleep better, because it was really cold and loud outside. Here a pic of the fire:
Right after I layed down and started to fall asleep, this "feeling" came up and I knew this night was going to be horrible. And I was right. I puked about 4 times during the night and slept horribly. The next morning...was even more horrible, I had to puke several times again over the period of several hours, so my body wasn't even thinking of stopping feeling like ****! At about 10am I decided to leave, I felt MISERABLE, Andreas was bored by the race (he isn't much of a car guy actually) and the intense heat of the sun and the smell of gasoline everywhere didn't help me to recover at all.
I absolutely do NOT regret going there, but next time it would need to be more people, (also people, who are actually also interested in the race as I am) and...less vodka. By the way, I actually hate alcohol in general, I rarely drink, but as I stated above I hoped for a deep sleep, oh well. Again, all in all I'm very happy I made the trip but people listen to me, get others with you, who are also car nuts and get some proper gear like a grill and meat, and for your own sake don't drink too much, the gasoline smell with the suns heat will kill you, with that considered it'll be much more fun than in my case!
If you wonder why I posted so little pics: I'm making a video with the pics I shot undertoned with some fancy GT music or so, so wait for this, could take a while to upload, my connection here is horrendous. I have 5 videos in total, so just wait for them to pop up.
I hope you enjoyed my little write up at least a little and got some insight.
Cheers 👍
First out of the 5 videos: Pictures of the trip:
Second one, from 6:22 racing action starts:
Third:
Fourth:
Fifth and last:
At about 9:30am at the Saturday last week we (my best pal Andreas and me), started our journey to the 24h of Nürburgring. Starting from our home town Hannover, roughly 400km away from the Nurb, which is a lot, we needed like 3.5 hours and only because Andreas put the pedal to the metal in his sexy new BMW, teh pics:
Our gear:
Teh car: (My pals car)
Washing the killed flies off his baby:
(It's Andreas, not me)
On our way we stopped at a restaurant, which made me chuckle a little because of it's name, so I edited the pic I took:
Le original:
Le little edit:
I know I'm silly but I couldn't resist.
We arrived at around 13pm, built our little camp with one tent (yes one lol). After that we headed to one of the grandstands to watch the start of the race but the place was stupid so we got back to where our tent was (Hatzenbach) and sat down there on the grass, right at the first corner of the Nordschleife, that was awesome! Pic:
Two hours later I walked about 7 kilometers down the track and took some video footage of it. At about 8pm I was back and we went back to the first corner. Andreas left me there alone at about 9:30pm, I simply wanted to see the cars race into the night and at night actually. Around me the flavour of all the grilled meat and beer (oh my pal's full name is actually Andreas Beer lol), anyway, more and more artificial lights turned on and the headlights of the cars became really bright and beautiful. The whole scenery around me had some certain feel of peace to it, hard to describe. One night-ish shot:
Also some of the cars were so much louder than I had anticipated, like the Astons, Mercedeses, BMWs and the Audis. Sometimes the earth underneath you would start to vibrate, when those cars started accelerating. The LFA and P4/5 also sounded great.
By 11pm my legs started to really hurt and it was getting really cold (and I was hungry lol), so I decided it was enough for this day and went back to the tent, where Andreas was excitingly waiting for me.
Jk Jk guys.Anyway, we chatted on his I-phone with some ladies and at about 12pm we decided to get outside next to one of the many fires and drink some vodka he brought with him, and this is where all the fun started. (Irony) We drank until about 1.30am, also a little with the thought of being warmed by it and feel really tired, so we could sleep better, because it was really cold and loud outside. Here a pic of the fire:
Right after I layed down and started to fall asleep, this "feeling" came up and I knew this night was going to be horrible. And I was right. I puked about 4 times during the night and slept horribly. The next morning...was even more horrible, I had to puke several times again over the period of several hours, so my body wasn't even thinking of stopping feeling like ****! At about 10am I decided to leave, I felt MISERABLE, Andreas was bored by the race (he isn't much of a car guy actually) and the intense heat of the sun and the smell of gasoline everywhere didn't help me to recover at all.
I absolutely do NOT regret going there, but next time it would need to be more people, (also people, who are actually also interested in the race as I am) and...less vodka. By the way, I actually hate alcohol in general, I rarely drink, but as I stated above I hoped for a deep sleep, oh well. Again, all in all I'm very happy I made the trip but people listen to me, get others with you, who are also car nuts and get some proper gear like a grill and meat, and for your own sake don't drink too much, the gasoline smell with the suns heat will kill you, with that considered it'll be much more fun than in my case!
If you wonder why I posted so little pics: I'm making a video with the pics I shot undertoned with some fancy GT music or so, so wait for this, could take a while to upload, my connection here is horrendous. I have 5 videos in total, so just wait for them to pop up.
I hope you enjoyed my little write up at least a little and got some insight.
Cheers 👍
First out of the 5 videos: Pictures of the trip:
Second one, from 6:22 racing action starts:
Third:
Fourth:
Fifth and last:
Last edited:
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, but watched it on Sport1/Dsf)
👍
Thx for the nice words also.
We parked it some 1-2km away outside the track, there are many special parking lots (for the 24h Nurb visitors), you only pay 5 euros once, for the whole week even. 👍
