That Turn That Scares You The Most (Nurburgring)

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You all know what i'm talking about...that one turn (or More) that can make or break your lap time...you know your car can probably go though it flat out with out letting off the gas, braking or changing down a gear but If you do you may spin round because you took it to hard or a your back wheel may clip the grass and spin you round or you may just mess it up completely.

Mine is the last straight of the ring (dottinger Hohe) with that fast left hander underneath the Bilstein sign Right at the end after a long trip round the ring, the amount of time my back wheel has clipped the grass on the other side of that turn :grumpy: or i have run out of grip on my tires and took it too fast :grumpy: and I know when you mess that up you are done........TIME TO DO ANOTHER LAP :nervous:
 
All of them. :crazy:

Seriously, probably the one towards the begining, after the bump in the road, where you usually get air. Flying = Turn too late = BOOM. Brakes are for n00bs...
 
I agree with SuperVeloce Flugplatz is my bane
I think Flugplatz translated to English means airfield, Air then the field very fitting lol.
 
That flat, fast left after the straight near the beginning. Sorry for the vagueness, I don't know what the formal name for it is.
 
None really scare me, but the one that annoys me the most is Bergwerk? Can never get the proper line through there. :ouch:
 
You'll never get enough air at Flugplatz to not be able to turn in for Schwedenkreuz. But you must be on the right line before you get air. If you are going in the wrong direction in a fast car you often won't have enough time to get back on the right line to be able to turn in. The entry point for that corner is extremely precise. So... if you are headed to the left side of the track when you catch air, slow down more so you can take the corner.

If you mean Quiddelbacher-Höhe(the jump slightly earlier before the right turn), that one is a bit closer to the corner and so in some fast cars I find you do need to actually start to decelerate before you hit the crest. Braking in mid-air doesn't really help matters. :)

Not that I don't crash in both places plenty. I'm not sure if there are any corners left on the Nordschleife I haven't crashed at. But I have seen a lot of people try to force the issue at Schwedenkreuz when there is no possible way they can take it, even though they could easily get through if they would just back off.


EDIT: For me I'd say my bane is probably the chicane at the very end. There's plenty of corners I mess up, but that's the one I'm most likely to just plain kill myself at. For a long time I basically considered it a "controlled crash" so I focused on just surviving it, to hell with the time. But eventually I learned to take it correctly so now I still crash there because I'm always trying to go too fast.
 
Schwartz38
That flat, fast left after the straight near the beginning. Sorry for the vagueness, I don't know what the formal name for it is.
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Yea that one for me to. I either brake hard so I don't clip the grass or risk it and usually spin.

Schwedenkreuz
 
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Schwedenkreuz is pretty scary at high speeds, to me, as well as the corners after the long straight.

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^Use this for reference of the corner names.
 
R1600Turbo
None really scare me, but the one that annoys me the most is Bergwerk? Can never get the proper line through there. :ouch:
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For me I look at the white line on the right just before the sign there's a bump you can only just notice for my braking point.
Head towards the extra concrete on the edge of the track on the left turn in late,
Even then i still mess it up alot but I do gain some speed on others in front when i get it right.
 
Schwedenkreuz, the exit of the Fox Hole (Fuchsrohre) and Antoniusbuche/Tiergarten.

All of those turns I mentioned tend to get cars (the way I tune them) light in the rear end and cause oversteer. I'll take it though... I've got great Nurburgring setups for my cars. I'll take it easy through only three of the many, many turns on the course.
 
^^This. Bergwerk is my bane. If I ever hit it correctly its just plain dumb luck.
 
Schwedenkreuz...definitely. The last two corners after the straightaway are a bit more do-able, but Schwedenkreuz is impossible for me. If I brake, I get the feeling I braked too much and feel slow troughout it. If I go flat out, I'll most likely touch the grass at 250+ Km/H which will always end in death. A middle point usually means some 230 Km/H on racing cars (With racing hard tyres), but I still feel slow.

Ohhh, and don't even ever try overtaking someone there...
 
The circled part of the following map is the part of the track that absolutely scares me and makes me clench my DS3 controller in a frantic move to keep my car under control while plowing through the turn at rediculous speeds:
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I don't seem to struggle on a lot of them, but Eschbach always seems to mess me up.
 
Into the 2nd sector, it flicks left uphill and into the chicane...

That is a real 🤬 to get right.
 
Aremberg. My mom's best friend died in a crash there and sometimes I get chills when I get there.
 
The last left hand corner before the straight. Not certain on its real name but I always call it the mini carousel. The amount of times I was on to beat 3:20 in my X2011 and messed that corner up is unbelievable. Oh well, finally got a 3:16.868 last week. Needless to say I was pretty damn happy.
 
Yeah, the thing that really sucks is she witnessed the crash as it happened, and every time she hear's the screech of tires or an impact, she gets a flash back. My mom and 3 of her brothers had a lot of track time on the Ring. We immigrated from Germany in '92 and have been back a few times
 
The two turns before the second carousel are as scary when you do not have tire wear on as when you are on worn tires it will get fustrating
 
After countless laps on the Nordschleife, there isn't much that 100% positively frightens me, unless I'm driving in a extreme powerhouse like LMPs. But they are a couple that just snips my neck when I try to take it quickly. Adenauer-Forst, and the portion before Dottinger Hohe & after the Carrousel are primers. Nordschleifen-Zufahrt surprises me sometimes as well, since I usually coast through Dottinger Hohe.
 
Here's a video of a lap around the Green Hell with a voice guide, which helped me while I was trying to figure out the best way around the Ring. It might help some of you as well...

 
R1600Turbo
None really scare me, but the one that annoys me the most is Bergwerk? Can never get the proper line through there. :ouch:
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Bergwerk is often tricky for me too. As you're supposed to go really wide on the entry and then suddenly duck inside, it's really hard to judge the braking point and you can easily lose the rear there (and as it's immediately before the straight, even a small mistake here will become exponential once you reach the end of the straight and approach the carousel).

But the other side of the coin is the fact that this corner is a prime place for a classic braking duel overtake. If I'm close to someone at the preceeding kink I'll try to somehow launch myself alongside and after that it's easy to just brake, duck inside early and keep it there for an almost sure overtake. I'm sure some mega fast drivers can challenge you from the outside there, but in 8 cases out of 10 you get the place or atleast get alongside. The only bad thing about this is the fact that you'll end up on the outside line for the straight (as it turns left for the first part and also the first proper corner is a left hander) but atleast you're properly within striking distance now and really putting pressure.

Also the minicarousel is tough. I almost always brake a bit too early for it and people end up hitting me from behind but it's nothing serious.
 
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