What makes Nurb hard?

[Dark Elite]

I'm liking the sound of this man more and more... Doing that on the Mille Miglia of all things takes some courage.

It seems he was a bit of a wet-weather man, being known as the Regenmeister, so I'd be quite confident that that first use of the Karussel banking was indeed done in the wet.

DE

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Wow that's so awesome. I love learning new stuff like that. NASCAR nowadays is arguably one of the most boring motorsports on the planet, yet did you know years ago it started as bootleggers got in habit of souping up their cars so they could out-run the law? And then the next natural step was (of course) racing these souped-up jalopies around an oval (usually a dirt oval that bogged down with mud if it rained). Drivers back then would try all sorts of tricks right up to more modern times--throwing debris out their windows so a caution would be thrown, rigging up their bumper so that if another driver tapped them, it would fall off, possibly disabling the car behind it and making the faster car that much lighter!. Call it cheating, but that to me sounds much more insteresting than the boring genericars racing around yet another oval NASCAR has become today.

 

[Dark Elite]

Who votes for a Historic NASCAR Revivial Series?

*raises his hand*
Thanks for that... I'll look at NASCAR a little differently now

DE

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Who votes for a Historic NASCAR Revivial Series?

*raises his hand*
Thanks for that... I'll look at NASCAR a little differently now

DE

yeah, occasionally ESPN Speed will show a clip from an old NASCAR or Winston cup series. The unofficial term for these races was "stock car racing". And when you look at the cars, you can actually tell which one is a Plymouth. Which one is a Chevrolet, not like today, where they are as far from stock as you can possibly get and have nothing to do with the real-life versions. Bla bla bla.

anyone else have some tidbits about the Ring's history? There's apparently a whole part of the track down past the pitstop area that isn't in GT4, anyone know why?

 

[Greycap]

The old section was called the Südschleife, the Southern Loop, and was something around six kilometers in length. As the Nordschleife was updated in 1971 the Südschleife was not and was eventually forgotten, having since been destroyed and the new GP-Strecke having been built to where it used to be. It was used for motorcycle races and some slower car races while the Nordschleife was the GP arena.

One truly awesome thing for GT5 would be the entire old Nürburgring but that's very unlikely to happen thanks to the impossibility of modelling the Südschleife.

 

[Brock5000]

There's a short cut that bypasses the Karussell, I don't know if it is still accessible in real life but you can see the entry & exit roads for it in GT4, blocked off of course. A shame, as it goes over a reasonably steep hill and looks like it would be great fun to hit at warp speed

 

[13thmonkey]

http://www.heiser.net/media/2002.09.nurburgring/nurburgring_map_color.jpg Full pic of Nurb en corner names

http://www.formula2.net/Nurburgring2.jpg Old Nurb plus Sudschleife

http://membres.lycos.fr/jujuzerooo/powaaa/Nurburgring.jpg and another weird Nurb version

http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgu...s?q=nurburgring+map&gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=nl&sa=G

http://www.nurburgring.org.uk/sudschleife.html nice piece on the Sudschleife

 

[Rykon Zero]

sorry about this, but in the first page, someone said that he could swear that the grass sucked him off the course, that is true. when one side of the drive wheels go on dirt,the friction is lost causing the side on dirt is going slower than the side on the tarmac, creating a rotating forse towards the grass, causing the car to go on dirt. the oposite occurs when you brake. that is why if you brake halfway on dirt, you go on a spinning death ride on the tarmac. it took me 3 months to figure this out. until then, i didnt post times better that 15 min.

 

[Skid Mark 33]

I'm very good at driving around the Nurb. I have gone of the track a few times but who has'nt. I find it is very greulling mentally as you have to concentrate so hard!

 

[Stevisiov]

Well if we can't see the sudschleife, then hopefully we could at least see this

The GP track could also be used as itself.