There is only one track, that is "The Ring". It's Nürburgring Nordschleife. Also the 24h layout of the Nürburgring can be called "The Ring". Not Nürburgring or any other -ring (Autumn Ring, Cape Ring, ...).
I guess they're referring to tracks with oval layout of the course like High Speed Ring or Daytona speedway particularly geared toward oval racing for damn fast cars, such as Indy or Nascar.
In all times I've heard someone say "the 'Ring", and everytime I've mentioned it, it was referring to the Nürburgring Nordschleife. It's as far as I know, not Autumn- or Cape Ring. And neither any oval.
I guess they're referring to tracks with oval layout of the course like High Speed Ring or Daytona speedway particularly geared toward oval racing for damn fast cars, such as Indy or Nascar.
No, the answer has already been given. "The Ring" refers to the Nürburgring - generally Nordschleife but VLN and 24hr layouts that include the Nordschleife can be referred to as "The Ring" too. There's a museum on site called "Ring Werk" (or NüroDisney), Sabine Schmitz drives the Ring Taxi around it and people who go there a lot call themselves Ringers. "The Ring" is the Nürburgring...
"Ring" as a suffix just means "circuit". See Lausitzring, Hungaroring, A1 Ring (now called the Red Bull Ring, formerly the Österreichring [Austriaring]), Hockenheimring or, as pointed out, Autumn Ring, High Speed Ring and Cape Ring. But The Ring is, always has been and always will be, the Nürburgring.
I guess they're referring to tracks with oval layout of the course like High Speed Ring or Daytona speedway particularly geared toward oval racing for damn fast cars, such as Indy or Nascar.
"The Ring" is the Nürburgring, only a short form for it.
They use it because it's shorter & maybe because there is every year a festival held on the Nürburgring track, called the "Rock am Ring" festival (one of the biggest rock festivals in the world).
