My 2nd trip to the Nurburgring, in pictures and video

[shiyan]

So last week I went with 2 friends I met off the internet to the Nurburgring, and thought I was gonna die many times on my 2 laps around, as I didn't know all the track's turns through the 20.8 kms.

This week, I did around 30~40 laps on the ring on the PC, as well as watch quite a lot of onboard videos to get familiar with the track.

On my 2nd lap today (my 4th ever lap), there was almost no traffic, and I supposedly took 8:30 from Antoniusbrucke to the overpass at the end of the lap, according to my friend's stopwatch (I didn't know he was timing me)

The fastest published lap I've seen for the Z4 3.0 is 8:32, but that probably includes the bit of Dotinger Hohe between the overpass and Antoniusbrucke, which adds around 25s to the laptime.

I'm very pleased as that means I'm only about 25s off pace.

Some info on the car - it has the standards suspension (does not have the sport package), and was on the run flat tyres. I drove with DSC in DTC mode

I did 4 more laps after that but traffic got bad, and my tyres seemed to lose some of their performance too. Even so most laps were around 9:10 despite traffic and yellow flags

On one lap I almost crashed though - took Brunnchen too fast and ended up wide, drifting through the graveltrap at the exit - happened too fast for me to even think "oh shit! "

I don't recall many cars passing me today - A Porsche 997 GT3, a stripped out E36 M3, but not that many other cars :eek5:

Bikes suck though - oftentimes they pass you on the straight and then block the road through the turns

Oh yeah some pictures

captured by webcam:



the eekmobile:



me about to pass somebody



map of the Ring



an example of the roads taken to go to the Ring:











view from the top of the Nurburg castle

[ianbiz]

Very cool. Once again, nice pics. Those back roads look really fun to drive on.

[shiyan]

Video!

unfortunately a lot of traffic and yellow flags on this lap, but I think the driving was ok

was only overtaken by a 997 GT3 and one very very fast biker

youtube:

full file: http://josiemaran-world.com/shiyan/Z...p-20071014.avi

[shiyan]

A few more cool shots:

[ianbiz]

Sweet video.

and look at that.... ANOTHER new 997.

[shiyan]

videos of 2 other laps:

- overtook a GT3 RS, almost lose it over a curb, overtook a 130i, almost lose it over a crest

- big fuckup into Adenau Forst... go offroading... later on overtake a bus.

[RussRamz]

Originally Posted by shiyan

videos of 2 other laps:

- overtook a GT3 RS, almost lose it over a curb, overtook a 130i, almost lose it over a crest

- big fuckup into Adenau Forst... go offroading... later on overtake a bus.

Scary. You're making some rookie mistakes that could be solved by a day of professional training. PM me and I can hook you up with a couple of guys who are English speakers and helped me immensely!

[shiyan]

Originally Posted by RussRamz

Scary. You're making some rookie mistakes that could be solved by a day of professional training. PM me and I can hook you up with a couple of guys who are English speakers and helped me immensely!

I'm definitely interested in being safer

[shiyan]

found these photos

ordered them in higher res without watermark