so i payed a visit to the nurburgring on my vacation to europe. when i went there, it happened to be a manufacturer testing day and a 2 hr 45 min (cut down to 1.5 hrs due to an accident) public session.

i rented a renault clio sport (impressed the f*ck out of me) to drive around the 'ring. it was 6 laps for 499 euro's with gas and lap tickets. one the first lap, i had the guy i rented the car from (rsr nurburg) drive me around cause i've never been on the 'ring before in my life, so i could get at least a little familiar with it. the guy damn good, he does lots of testing for oems, including the gtr, and did 7.5 min laps on a gixxer 1000. and HOLY SH*T the guy could drive!!! i was scared for my life about 73 and a half times!!!

i took a bunch of pics of the mfr testing. some of the cars include the gtr spec v (wasnt going that fast for some reaon), a gtr that belongs to porsche (they were really pushing it), and the lexus supercar. and a ferrari f430 scuderia, its sounds sooo bad *** in real life, so much better than in any vid i've seen!!! all the vids i've seen of it, it produced more of a scream, but in real life, it just roars, and its fawking loud too. a friend of mine took some vid on his cell phone (he has some really high end phone, so its actually a decent quality vid. he also made a vid of most of my first lap on the 'ring.

the 'ring is a hell of alot different in real life than on any game i played. the elevation changes are much steeper, the corners are tighter, it feels as if its compressed, things happen much faster

anyway, here are the vids and pics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qFMxqhQlDQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmmi4yDeOJQ

 

Dude, let me be the first to say that is f'ing AWESOME!!! Congrats!

 

That's bad azz...check that one off your bucket list!!!!

 

^ +1

 

 

damn, i envy you!!!! Cool pics and videos

 

not really, now that i've been there, i wanna go again more than i wanted to go in the first place

 

Cool, did you bring any spray paint with you? You have to sneak in at night to add a little grafitti??

Dave, this is the color I was telling you about today when we were getting Skillet truck.

 

Good Stuff!!

This is definitely on my "Things To Do" list before I die.

lol

 

NICE!!!! brings back great memories from last yr when I drove on the ring...made me want to move to Germany!

*way to get some video...I assume they never caught you w/ the camera??

 

i hear you on moving to germany. the autobahn is sweet to, cruising along at 110 to 120 is pretty sweet...

the camera was a phone actually, so they didn't know any better, but i did see a 135i out there with a camera. i didn't see anything out there about camera's being banned either...

 

I second that!!!

 

good times. glad you had fun. I miss Germany alot

 

I'm glad you had the chance to go to the RING. I been a couple of times in my BMW M Coupe, either on my way to or back from Le Mans (the biggest thing I miss from back home). Fantastic experience. Although costly if you, or someone beside you, gets it wrong. One of my mates wiped out on his bike and broke his back; he is fine now with total mobility.

Awesome stuff!

 

hey, where have you been? Still at school?

 

Been really busy. I finished my PhD last September and trying to establish myself over in the good old US of A.

 

looks like u havin a great time. I'm jealous!

 

ive been there it was bad ***. i lived in germany for about a year and a half and the autobahn is bad *** i got a ticket on it though that was kinda gay.

 

if you page down through this thread, it almost looks like a filmstrip in places