Frightened as hell on Nurburgring

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Today i did the international a license and I stumbled upon the track which I fear the most Nurburgring.... And I couldnt drive it on my own pace, I had to follow the pace car, the long bumpy streches gave me the creeps :nervous: It was quite stressing but I managed to get silver from a first time play! How were your first moments on Nurburgring?
 
First time at the ring, hmm let me think...........................................HEAVEN!!!!!! What a track, the first time i drove around i nearly wet myself laughing at how bad i was at it!. ok its a bit on the long side buts its so challenging and fun. If you manage to get around without so much as a slide, You wernt going fast enough!! :) :lol:
 
I thought that it was way too long to ever memorize. When I completed the first fully-memorized lap I was very proud of myself, and since then it has been like "one more lap..." and you know what happens when you have driven that one more lap! :D
 
I enjoyed my first drive around the ring, it was fun. While being one of the most rollercoast rides i had yay.
 
I was asking myself, "What is this place?!?" Then I called up my friend and he passed it for the first time so I thought "If he could why can't I?" On the very next try, I beat his time by 9 seconds.
 
I learned about it from TopGear and I found out it was in GT4 so I drove on it in arcade mode, and I got obsessed with it, racing for 9 minutes straight taking every car I could find. Then I did something really unexpected. I learned how to drive a 6 speed manual,....... Z06 corvette with the traction control off..Oh god, the scariest virtual experience in my life, second to none, except jumping off cliffs in Everquest2....Nah it was scarier than that.
 
The first time on the ring was during my license test so i got to know it somewhat. Then having the freedom to take my cars there was nothing short of awesome. At first it was very intimidating, not knowing what the ring would "allow" me to do. As time went on the ring knew i was for real and any car i bring now will be put to the biggest test on the greatest virtual track we can race. I still get excited everytime i bring a new car to that great track. :cheers:
 
My first time there was on a fully tuned Lotus Elise 111r.

My style at the time was letting off the gas -> slide -> accelerate. This worked on most tracks because most tracks had little-no elevation change, and little-no bumps.

As you can probably guess, that style didn't work too well with the bumps and elevation changes on the 'ring :)
 
i was like, oh dear god, cause i really suck here, so i took me like a billion trys. so i left it for 2 months but then I NEEDED to do it so then i got a bronze on it and never touched it. well then my memory got corupted then i remembered that i had to do it again i was like **** GOD ****ING ****#*@57#* %&@* %&@#*%&*#@&%*@#*%&*@#%&*@#*%&*@#* then i got to it and i was 0.09 seconds from a gold i got sooo piseed that i didn't get that gold omg... it still remains a silver until a failthful dark and cloudy day whan yoda goes mad. and does the dreadful Nurburgring. :dopey:
 
My first experience on the ring was a nail biter. It was that license test and I had no knowledge of the track so after about five minutes into the race I was so worried about running off the track. Fortunately, thanks to the pace car, I passed the test on my first try. Then there was Mission 34...
 
First time was at the ring was on the tests. I made it to the first turn before I flew off the track. (had no idea or insite on the track.)

The second time wasn't much better. Made it that time to the first turn past the first major straight. (oh did I hate that track at that point!!)

Each time I made it a little farther on the track. Untill I finally made it through that frikin track. God I hated that track . . .

Now its one of my select test tracks for new cars. I figure that it really has everything that you would want in a track. Gives you the best and worst of what you will find on other tracks.
 
i remembered reading about Nurburgring many years ago (10?15?) in old issues of Road & Track and looking at the small photos of wooded, forboding stretches of road on the pages... they mentioned something about a huge monster of a track with some ridiculous amount of turns of nearly every variety... madness... :drool:

fast-forward to preview articles about GT4 faithfully recreating Nurburgring 'just for me'... "that track? on my PS2?! madness! even if the PS2 can do it, there's no (expletive) way i can memorize all of those turns!!" :nervous:

white-knuckle, sweaty-palmed driving the full track for the first time behind the Skyline pace-car--bronze medal on second try... "nope--there is no (expletive) way i can memorize all these turns..." :yuck:

then solo for the first time around with the 190E--and running off course more times than i can count before netting silver on my first completion... "too many (expletive) turns!!" :ouch:

and Mission 34... NTSC... too many attempts, too many "aw--almost, guy!"... *cough*lawnjob*cough*... :dunce:

but like many who were at first intimidated by--and even started to hate--Nurburgring, i now find myself drawn to it whenever i want to devirginize a new car or just set a satisfyingly fast time on a mean course... Midfield and Complex String were my GT3 stand-bys--now i have this monster... whee! i really do enjoy this track now--it has everything... :dopey:
 
just wait untill u come across mission 34 - then you will hate it, lol


ohh i JUST finished doing the 24hr nurburgring race in the Woodsone Supra, boy was that fun, only took 5 days and i did 220laps of the darn place. I dreamnt about the track last night!
 
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just wait untill u come across mission 34 - then you will hate it, lol


ohh i JUST finished doing the 24hr nurburgring race in the Woodsone Supra, boy was that fun, only took 5 days and i did 220laps of the darn place. I dreamnt about the track last night!
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and your saying i don't know about mission 34? and boy your wrong... that was SARCASM about the FIRST turn although i think it was the third that REALLY threw me off :lol: and i have done the 24hr race at nurb and i got 200pts w00t.
 
Having plenty of Grand Prix Legends experience, and enough video footage to almost remember it on top of my head, my first GT4 trip around the 'Ring wasn't that bad. Still a second and a half down on Mission 34, though.
 
I have to say, I really didn´t know much about THE track, when I bought my copy of GT4. (well I knew the Lauda accident happened at some old german track). But this forum really got me interested about it.
On purpose, I really didn´t want to touch the track, not even in arcade mode, just to keep the magic hidden..
But "follow the pace car"-test eventually came... EXPERIENCE! My eyes were nailed at the pace car´s rear lights, which I planned in the same second the start line was crossed. First try over, arms shaking, and silver it was!
I still have that old replay file. And it is still quite an experience to watch that, mainly because of those rookie actions; wrong lines, wrong what nots..
After many, many testing hours at the track, I tried the licence test again couple of months ago. Result: easy gold..
..but the magic still remains 👍 👍 👍
 
My first time on the ring was in a Motul/Pit Work Z (JGTC) in arcade mode and it was also my fist lap I did in the game when I got it. 12 minutes later and having totaled the car atleast 20 times, I finally finished the lap. LMAO. What a wake up call compared to GT3!! Sheesh.
 
The first thing I did when I got GT4 was race on the 'Ring. One of my happiest GT memories is when I saw it was in the Arcade mode already, I was expecting it to have to be unlocked. I picked an RUF BTR (since the Yellow Bird wasn't there yet) I can't remember now, but combined with my 'newbieness' at the time it must've taken me a good 10 minutes to complete my first lap. :lol:

The way the car kept bouncing around going through Kesselchen was awe-inspiring, until I smashed into the armco at Mutkurve that is.
 
My first-ever virtual lap of the Nürburgring was a 7'30" if I recall correctly... :p

...with the Porsche Carrera GT on Project Gotham Racing 2, that is. :lol: That was my first-ever lap in a PGR-series game, too...I wasn't the one who owned the game or X-BOX.

I knew about the course before I did that lap, though...I think my first exposure to the name was a rumor of a really long, crazy, German track in Grand Prix Legends...after that, I looked it up, found Nurburgring.de, read about the course, downloaded some clips off of the internet...I've been hooked ever since. :)

Driving the course in GT4 was definitely a wake-up call. It was the very first thing I did in the game -- an arcade-mode race with an E60 M5. I wasn't familiar with GT4's screwy physics, so I crashed. A lot. Having only raced PGR2's freakishly-huge Nürburgring didn't help either, even though I already knew that the real course was smaller. Anyway, by the time I got to the two Nürburgring license tests, I was able to just breeze through them.

The most magical virtual experience I've ever had on the Nürburgring was my first exposure to it on Enthusia...I did a time-attack lap with the E30 M3...all I can say is, E30 M3 + Nürburgring = Automotive Heaven :drool: 👍

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand my vote for the most magical 'Ring experience I've ever had would have to be when I actually drove on the real deal myself. :D In an automatic-equipped rental E60 525i wagon, of all things. :lol: I created a thread about it here.
 
first thing i did when i got gt4

arcade mode-single race-world courses-first track that popped up? of course!

browsed through the huge list of cars, then finally took a chrysler crossfire out to the track

i did pretty good at the start, but then...its a rolling start here...

i crashed, alot, but i was having a blast, i was amazed how much the course really looked like the real thing, i was too busy oogling the pretty things pd had put up on my screen to look at the road

fascinated by watching reflections of trees on my hood in the roof cam view, more crashes

all in all, i felt like a total newb, thought gt4 was crazy hard, and i loved it


now after getting quite good with the ds2, playing online via xlink and all those fun liscences and missions, i've got a DFP and am rediscovering what i've been missing in this game

ruf yellowbird on road tires at the ring

does it get any more intense?
 
Frightened as hell? Recklessnative, welcome to GTPlanet first of all.

I'm actually surprised that I've seen people share some of my same concerns. You know me. I think the track is quite interesting, but I actually loathe racing this track because for one, it is extremely long and extremely challenging. It's worse than Complex String (GT3). I normally say that people who'll race all of the Nordschleife for all day basically have no life. I dislike very long tracks for one short reason. The reason is because longer tracks mean that if you screw up in one area, it affects all of your race. The reason why I like Le Mans is for the history and all the legendary status. Plus, I'm more experienced with Le Mans than Nürburging Nordschleife. I personally hate racing the Nordschliefe because it's too long, too tough to memorize, and just an overall excursion. This is why when people want extremely long courses, I usually shrug and be like "what has this world come to?" I'm more accustomed to your basic circuits of maybe just under 2 miles to about as long as Le Mans.

But my advice about being frightened about this race track? Actually, try not to. Believe me. Nürburgring Nordschleife can be thought of as several circuits attached together to make one 12-mile (actually 13 or 15 miles with the actual course) course. If you can think of it as several smaller courses and race it as such, you can drive it better and understand it better. But no doubt. This track is a gut check from start to finish.
 
^ I think of it more as a stage than a track :D. The track has a pretty consistand rythm most of the time with a few changes in camber and hills to shake things up.

It was one of the 1st tracks i hopped on. i think maybe even before i drove on tsukuba. Because of the physics the nurburgring doesnt really seem so epic... i think with more realistic physics and graphics the track will be a much better experience. Still, its still the best version of the nurburgring i've ever driven on in any racing game. its just driving on the limits should be scarier. i should have sweaty hands at the end of 1 lap.
 
I didn't like the licence tests that invovled the ring as I couldn't get the hang of them. Racing on it was a disaster the first few times - I didn't crash overmuch but as I was having to read the road my progress was slow and blind entries were impossible.

As I'd learned the IOM TT course earlier this year I thought this shouldn't be that hard - the TT track is 37 miles, so this should be a walk in the park. Oh no - it took the 1000 Miles! series race (25 laps) before I was confident at the ring.

Now it's great, and the licence tests are being revisited. Gold shall be mine! :)
 
Well, after getting GT4, the first track I tried was the Ring, with a Golf R32. I remember that I thought it was too narrow and maybe I was still on the pits! but as the race started I realized that it was narrow like that. Surprisingly the Golf could keep up with the rest of the AI contenders, until I crashed at the second curve... After that experience, I became obsessed with that track. Every car I bought, took it to the Ring for a test, being the M3 GTR Race Car the favourite to try to memorize it.

On the other hand, and the reason I'm replying to this thread is that something really weird happened to me: I decided to earn some credits letting Bob-Spec to race for me, so I took the Plymouth Superbird and started a 1000 miles race: 25 laps at the Ring. I left Bob at the wheel and forgot about it.

A couple of hours later, I returned to see how it was going... I was shocked! :sick:
It looked like Bob was :nervous: frightened as hell because of Nurburgring :nervous: (???), and for some misterious reason he was not racing at full speed, but really slow, and in the main straight he kept on breaking not even reaching 60 mph! I don't know what happened. The Superbird was the most powerful car on the grid and still it was being lapped by slower 70's skylines...! I was so angry that I quit the race and never tryed it again. :grumpy:

Is something like this has happened to any of you?
 
First time was with a C12. I took the first 3 corners, spinning out of the track and hated it for 2 weeks. Then 2 weeks later it got my second run with a Nissan Penzoill Nismo:tup::drool:

Then a BMW and I just "read" the track, I didn't know what was coming at all but you just have to really concentrate on what might be behind that small slope ahead of you;)
 
I was floored the first time I raced it. Now here's something fun. Do it in a '67 Mercury Cougar with no driving assists. That is pure terror.
 

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