Nürburgring Nordschleife Ringers we who drives the "Ring" for real too

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Spent another weekend in driving heaven :)

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And riding along in the 75bhp strong Starlet :p

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Hey look like you had some great fun mate! should have been a blast, i envy you! :D
 
Manuelos
Spent another weekend in driving heaven :)

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And riding along in the 75bhp strong Starlet :p

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I love that MR2 man!! I'm jealous.. Want to drive there so bad..
 
Me three, Im jelly right now. Nice MR2 SW20 by the way. 👍
 
Just to tease you guys some more, here are some more pics and a video from inside the mighty Starlet :sly: :p
Oh, and it's 32$ for just one lap ... so you guys should count yourselfs lucky not speding an awfull amount of money every year ;)

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Cool vid Manuel, look like a lot of fun even in a starlet :D
 
6 & 7 october: Ring-time :)
It'll be the last laps for this year
 
Back from the ring. Only managed to do 7 laps in 2 days. Lots of rain on Saturday and a lot of closures on Sunday due to acidents and oil spilling on the track :grumpy: Oh well, better luck next year.

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What was your fastest lap Manuel?
 
Since I'm from Germany I have been driving there aswell, it's not too far away from where I live. And it's really an intensive ride! Not really comparable to a game. Surely GT5 did a nice job recreating the Ring. But trust me, it's a whole other experience doing it by yourself. The fear of crashing your car, the G-Forces working on your body, and the sense of speed is incredable way faster. When you go faster in GT5 it seems just to be on fast foward but in real life you start to jump up and down in your seat and your focus on the track gets way stronger. After my first round I was all sweaty and done like I was doing hard work out... Oh and I used a Honda Civic 2.0i-vtec Type R.
I guess Manuel can agree to my feelings.
 
mike_gt3
What was your fastest lap Manuel?
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Although I'm not worrying about lap times, according to my video's it was a 09.46 (BTG)
I've done faster laps in the past, but this time it wasn't really a good weekend to set fast lap times. Changeable weather on Saturday, and lots of traffic and yellow flags on Sunday. I was doing a nice lap on Saturday, but than I stopped at Adenauer Forst because a biker had crashed (he was ok, his bike wasn't)

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But trust me, it's a whole other experience doing it by yourself. The fear of crashing your car, the G-Forces working on your body, and the sense of speed is incredable way faster. When you go faster in GT5 it seems just to be on fast foward but in real life you start to jump up and down in your seat and your focus on the track gets way stronger. After my first round I was all sweaty and done like I was doing hard work out... Oh and I used a Honda Civic 2.0i-vtec Type R.
I guess Manuel can agree to my feelings.
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I agree 100%. There are lots of places where I know I could go flat out (Fuchsröhre, Kesselchen uphil section, the left hander before Hohe Acht, Sprunghugel,...) but I just don't have the confidence in myself and my car yet. Like you said, PD did a nice job of recreating the Ring, it just looks exactly the same as in real life, but the sensation is a whole lot different. The "jumps" at Flugplatz, Schwedenkreuz & Sprunghugel .... :bowdown:
Oh, it makes me want to go back again :p
 
Manuelos
Although I'm not worrying about lap times, according to my video's it was a 09.46 (BTG)
I've done faster laps in the past, but this time it wasn't really a good weekend to set fast lap times. Changeable weather on Saturday, and lots of traffic and yellow flags on Sunday. I was doing a nice lap on Saturday, but than I stopped at Adenauer Forst because a biker had crashed (he was ok, his bike wasn't)
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Yeah just being there is probably amazing! i was just curious since last time you said you would try, but i can see it not being an easy task with the traffic and weather, thx for sharing 👍
 
mike_gt3
Yeah just being there is probably amazing! i was just curious since last time you said you would try, but i can see it not being an easy task with the traffic and weather, thx for sharing 👍
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and in addition you got to have trust in yourself until you really can push your car. when I attempted there, I was like oh I will go on a blast! I was so excited, but as soon I was going over 160km/h 100mp/h on this bumpy ride I was scared like wow! Because the risk is so high to make a mistake. :nervous: when you usually just drive your car in straight roads with normal average speeds.
 
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Cool pics.

I am surprised they don't make helmets mandatory?
 
Just found this thread, inspired me :). I have 1,5 hours to get to the ring.
I´ll probably go there on sunday 14th. See IDS first and then go and try my first round in a Swift. :D
 
Bahundanda
Just found this thread, inspired me :). I have 1,5 hours to get to the ring.
I´ll probably go there on sunday 14th. See IDS first and then go and try my first round in a Swift. :D
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Doing the ring for the first time is like loosing your virginity , you have no real clue what your meant to be doing , but you don't want to get it wrong and after it's over you just want to tell your buddies who awesome it was!
 
Bahundanda
Just found this thread, inspired me :). I have 1,5 hours to get to the ring.
I´ll probably go there on sunday 14th. See IDS first and then go and try my first round in a Swift. :D
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I might go to the IDS aswell this sunday if the weather is okay :sly:
 
Maybe we could arrange somekind of GTP meeting on the Ring someday, and post our day on here for everybody overseas :)
 
Nice pics, Manuelos! Thanks for posting. 👍 I'm sooo... envious! :lol: Do you guys camp out when you go there?

@ esoxhntr: I thought the same about helmets. We even need them for road car quarter mile drags over here.

LMAO at Felix79's analogy. Spot on! :lol:
 
@Felix: Can`t wait to loose my virginity :sly:

@eddyac: I only go if its not pooring rain too.
 
Bahundanda
@Felix: Can`t wait to loose my virginity :sly:
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Good man! 👍

I've yet to do the ring in my Impreza P1 , but I did a couple of laps in my e30 Alpina a number of years ago and it was :crazy:
 
Nice pics Manuel. Shame about the bad weather and the traffic though. Glad you tackle the 'Ring once again! Me sooo envious!!! :p:lol:

And I like the analogy Felix, loved it. :lol:👍

And I do agree about the helmets, they should have people with some kind of safety gear just in case something happens out there on the 'Ring.

I can't wait to hit the real Nurburgring one day (I'm in the US) and lose my "virginity"! :sly:👍
 
Yesss!!! I lost it today :)
It is absolutely fantastic!
The only thing you can do after the first lap ever is :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
Im so glad I didn`t kill my car or even myself.
 
Thanks Manuelos 👍
I´ll definately do that.
 
Bahundanda
Yesss!!! I lost it today :)
It is absolutely fantastic!
The only thing you can do after the first lap ever is :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
Im so glad I didn`t kill my car or even myself.
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Even if you did... I think it would be worth it ;)
 
Thanks for the pics. Cool thread.
 
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