Nuerburgring - Page 2

vanman_75 · 18-07-2011, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Polyal

^^find an el cheapo Pug 205 Gti or something, that way it should be a little easier to sell. GL.

yer the favourite / easy to sell buz box will do me fine ....cant wait

wish i could take the blackbird over and open her wings

EDManual · 18-07-2011, 10:05 PM

I think I will go the new Renault Clio Sport Manual! 200hp in a little car should be fun!

will post pics in a couple of weeks!

vhcbm · 18-07-2011, 11:16 PM

Wow that looks great...But what is with the Commodore???

Of course I would hunt down a Fiesta to drive on the track

tranquilized · 19-07-2011, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by XRtowcar

And that was back in 2007!!

A mate and I hired a Mercedes Benz SLK from Sixt in August 2006, and did 4 laps each of the Nurburgring. Didn't get stung for anything extra - must have been lucky! We had to take a rest between each lap as well while we waited for the brakes to cool down. I've read you cant really get away with taking a hire car on there these days, too many people out spotting rentacars.

Damn that was a fun day, will definitely do it again sometime.

winovin · 19-07-2011, 11:57 AM

According to the Nuerburgring history, construction on the Ring started in 1925 and it was completed in 1927.

http://www.nuerburgring.de/en/ueberu...ng-legend.html

winovin · 19-07-2011, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by aussie muscle

I don't know why australia doesn't have something like that.

http://ringweekends.com/History-of-t...rand-prix.html

"Taken from Cyril Posthumus's lovely book 'The German Grand Prix' (1966)"

"Nürburg is unique, and the Germans are justly proud of it. It all began as a means of alleviating the crippling unemployment in the Coblenz-Cologne areas, credit for the idea going to Dr. Creutz, who was District Councillor of the rural Eifel district west of the Rhine. Several far-sighted civic dignitaries in the area, led by the Oberburgermeister of Cologne, one Konrad Adenauer - until recently, Chancellor of the West German Federal Republic - supported Creutz and made strong representations to the German Government to back the project financially. They argued that the unemployed had to be paid anyway, that a racing and test circuit would provide the German car industry with a permanent testing base which it greatly needed, and that it would open the poor but very attractive Eifel district to tourists.

To their credit, the Government agreed to assist the City of Cologne and other local corporations by contributing a sizeable proportion of the 15 million marks needed to put down some 18 miles of circuit through virgin country in the forested Eifel mountains, and on September 27, 1925, Dr. Fuchs, Supreme President of the Rhineland, laid the foundation stone of 'the first German mountain speed and essay track'. Within its tortuous boundaries stood one of the Rhineland's oldest castles, the ruined twelfth-century Schloss Nürburg, so they called the circuit the Nürburgring."

EDManual · 20-07-2011, 05:48 AM

All Booked IN!!!

thank you for your reservation.

We reserve a Renault Clio Sport Cup for you for the 2nd of August 2011 from 17:00 – 19:30 with 4-lap race pack for 299 EUR.

mytgxl · 20-07-2011, 12:20 PM

Top stuff! your hot lap must have been pretty good

as you were reminded of that by the hire car company!

I`m so jelious right now it isn`t funny!

I`m going to have to go play the playstation now good on ya!

Thanks for sharing your wonderful moment!

dingy · 20-07-2011, 10:48 PM

didnt realise there was an E in nurburg LOL...

I have been loads of times...

fasted lap is 8.42 but power was to much for a novice in my car...

something like a civic type r or a focus rs would be perfect to learn the track on

KuRT12 · 20-07-2011, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by dingy

didnt realise there was an E in nurburg LOL...

In the german spelling there is, and their website is nuerburgring.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuerburgring

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia

The title of this article contains the character ü. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Nuerburgring.

I got a letter in the mail today from the rental company and was shitting my pants, but it was just a copy of the invoice. lol

dingy · 20-07-2011, 11:12 PM

MMM

i am not convinced...

dingy · 20-07-2011, 11:14 PM

Yeah defo no E in it...

dingy · 20-07-2011, 11:23 PM

Not got good pics but here are a few thumbnails..

I am going again next year - flying to cologne and getting picked up in my car that is still in the uk...

KuRT12 · 21-07-2011, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by dingy

MMM

i am not convinced...

Man did you read anything i posted?

if you notice, the correct spelling is Nürburgring.

the ü converts to ue once anglicised.

As do most of the letters with umlauts on them (the two dots above)

If this doesnt convince you, their own website is

http://www.nuerburgring.de/en.html

To sum this up:

ü = ue

ü ≠ u