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Haha nice. I don't recall ending up on my roof as much back then.
I think you'll find it's more than that, if you go to the local police station they have a list on the wall of the fatalities, they only record the ones were death is pronounced at the track, if you die in transport to the hospital or in hospital later it doesn't get recorded, worse weekend I had there were 5 deaths as a result of accidents. Having said that it really is an awesome place and just about the most fun you can have on wheels, if you're going, do some research, and make sure you know exactly what the risks are.
This an interesting video. I hadn't realized it, but apparently they will just let anybody race on the Nordschleife in their own personal car. First of all, I can't imagine why somebody would, unless they have lots of money and lots of cars, but a lot of these look like daily drivers. Secondly, I'm pretty sure any insurance company would tell you to get lost if you tried to file a claim for damage that happened while racing. Thirdly, the guy at 1:30: Oh my god, I really wish we were able to do that in the game.
Not to my knowledge. That would make the local news real quick here... And close the track down for some time to investigate. So since I moved here in 2014 I haven’t heard of a death.
Yup, it‘s called tourist day. They have a morning and an afternoon session as they have to respect the noon break. People live so close by and he track is elevated, so you hear the sound pretty far.
It‘s only 30 minutes from my home, but I would never drive with my own road car there... This is the most difficult race track in the world, and a normal road car is simply not made for it. To counter the shortcomings of such a car you have to be really good on the wheel. Hence the about 5 to 10 wrecks per Tourist day. Witnessed a nice Porsche Panamera crashing only 50 yards away from me at the Flugplatz just a few weeks ago.
What I did do was driving a few laps on a portion of the GP track in a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Instructor first for 2 laps, then me on the wheel for 10 laps, then two no holds barred laps of the instructor (he wrecked the underbody on the curb of the Dunlop in the process, LOL...)
So yeah, you can have some fun there. Don’t forget to bring some dough though
Got my time down to 32.0 (32 thousands away from getting into 32's) and have a couple of wins last night.
Oh please PD! A track with nearly 100 years of racing history! You could‘ve chosen a brand with a historic connection to this track! Porsche! BMW! Audi! Mercedes! Ferrari! Instead you again chose a Japanese thing with next to none registrations in Germany!
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That was maybe the case twenty years ago. They used to have racing instructions there too with Zakspeed owned open wheelers that were not safe, so it was said bak then ... It surprised me back then, but I guess too, with road cars, due to the "Tuff", most cars are within 10 years old, and twenty year newer cars are a lot safer. My wife's cousin is a Guru at Siemens trains, and three years ago he paid many thousands of Euro to have his 20 year old Renault's catalytic converters replaced to meet current TUFF requirements. I said he could have bought a new Polo instead. His replay was that he is a "Train Guy". His car is 20 years older than anything else in the car park at Siemens in Erlangen.
