What do you do to learn Nuerburgring?

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I like to do about 10 laps in the Ford Model T. It's slow enough that you will have every turn down in know time.
 
Drive it loads on arcade mode, on a slow-medium car with Driving Aids on so you are only concentrating on the track
 
I did it with the 1963 Daihatsu Milk Truck at least once.
 
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I did it with the 1963 Daihatsu Milk Truck at least once.
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:lol: bet that milk had curdled by the time you rounded a lap! j/k
 
I have to try the milk float at the Ring!

Anyway, a good way to learn it is to either drive like you have a death wish, or drive slow so you can learn the lines.
 
Driving like you have a deathwish is not gonna work.

Driving fast yes, but keeping control of your vehicle and a general racing line are of far mor importance.
Also driving a slow car to learn the racingline ??? why ?
Fast cars have way different racinglines on the ring.
For example when driving say a Lotus motorsport Elise at section
Bergwerk, Kesselchem, Klostertal (the long curved section right before karussell) you actually take this as a series of corners.
When driving a Group C car like the Toyota 88C-V this section is just 3 very long very fast corners which you move through at speeds up to 340 KM/H.

My advice take your time with the car of your liking.
lots of good articles are available on the web
like this one http://www.bremo.nl/pdf/nordschleife.pdf
(Thank you Scaff for hooking me up with this)
the lap is done with a BMW M3 so braking, acceleration and gears are useless
(Unless your actually driving one :P)
but read the text and find out more about the racingline.

Also settings are a very important part of conquering the ring.
Suspension is always a personal thing but i suggest softer springs, dampers, stabilisers and lowered camber F 1.0 R 0.4 .

also ASM really messes up your steering ie control over the car.....put it out
most real life cars don,t have ASM ....well atleast old and racingcars don,t
 
I use no driving aids, and I find either driving really fast, or driving really slow works quite well.

Different Strokes, I'm insane, so I try to drive on the absolute limit if I'm time trialing. If I'm in an endurance race, (which in the Rings case, could equate to three laps. :lol:) I drive a lot more consistantly.

It's hard as hell to explain your driving style to someone, maybe I'll post an ARMAX replay and you guys can analyze it.
 
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