The Old 'Ring

[houdini57]

Just found this and thought that 'Ring lovers would like to see how much the track has changed since the 60's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsz84DZsyCg&feature=channel

Enjoy




My apologies if this has already been posted.

 

[ParkourVeyron]

Fixed. To do this you need to take the Hsz84DZsyCg
And put in in Youtube tags.

 

[Catlin]

Awesome track to race on rfactor

 

[Ellis]

Actually rather fascinating

 

[Slash]

It doesn't look like a racetrack at all. It looks like an old back road for people to drive on.

 

[MOTORTRENDmitch]

Wow much has changed on with the 'Ring

 

[Spagetti69]

Nikki Lauda's crash went someway into changing it.

 

[grashopper]

Wow, thanks for the video. It's kinda funny seeing hedges instead of guardrails.
It had to have taken a lot of guts to fly around that track the way it was... especially with the cars and gear they had.

 

[Ryk]

Graham Hill - Top BRM pilot.

Would be great if PD made a "Retro" nurburgring - with all the lumps and bumps the acid rain removed trees, the bridges, the hedges - limited to Comfort Crossply tyres and all that driver aid stuff hard coded off. That 1967 chicane at the end of the lap can go too.

I am an Artist, the Track is my Canvas and the Car is my Brush

 

[Organ-Donor]

That reminds me of a small version of the Tank car.

 

[JaySin85]

It's surprising how little they had for safety back then. Would have been nice if it was a single cockpit type view through the whole lap. Hard to spot the differences other then the hedges. They also skip a lot of the track.

Thanks for posting this. Very interesting to see, even with the confusion.

 

[analog]

Graham Hill - Top BRM pilot.

Graham Hill only does the commentary in that vid, the driver is legendary Mercedes ace Hermann Lang and Mercedes team boss Alfred Neubauer also makes an appearance at the end, great clip.

That reminds me of a small version of the Tank car.

Really? That's like saying a modern F1 car looks like a smaller version of a Top Fuel Dragster (both having exposed wheels, a narrow nose and a big wing)....

 

[Ryk]

Graham Hill only does the commentary in that vid, the driver is legendary Mercedes ace Hermann Lang and Mercedes team boss Alfred Neubauer also makes an appearance at the end, great clip.

Yeah the intro did say that. Quite good the way Hermann and Alfred are hamming (Bad heavy acting) for the film camera.

Actually when you watch the vide... the over the shoulder in car shots... they must have had some hero sat on top of the car holding a big heavy film camera as that big Merc was driving along the early part of the lap...
Amazingly brave.


film makers have it so easy now, cameramen on roller blades with a hoop of micro cameras, so they can track a running actor, at close range, with multiple angles.