Nurburgring Lap Times
One of the best ways to experience the Nurburgring Nordschleife is in a private event or trackday. It's also one of the safest ways to time your laps. Without the pressure of a real race meeting, but with fewer dangerous traffic 'moments' than in touristenfahrt.
BTG Laptimes by BTG Users | Fastest laps by production vehicles
The making of the Camaro ZL1 laptime
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- Parent Category: Nurburgring
- Created on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 08:27
- Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:04
- Published on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 08:27
- Written by Dale
Fans of big, fat, American muscle cars rejoice! As part of a promotional 'push' on the supercharged Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, GM have released this little video celebrating the time the car spent here at the Nürburgring Nordschleife last year...
>>Read more, see the full video and photos after the jump>>
Jeep SRT8 Video and Laptime
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- Parent Category: Nurburgring
- Created on Wednesday, 08 February 2012 09:07
- Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:04
- Published on Wednesday, 08 February 2012 09:07
- Written by Dale
Those of you with excellent memories may remember that there was a strange hanger-on to last year's Viper ACR record attempt. While the Vipers were busy setting record-breaking laps, a big black Jeep Cherokee would occasionaly blast past. We heard at the time that it was for a possible SUV record attempt. That is now confirmed, and there's an excellent little feature playing on the Speed channel in the USA.
>>See the Jeep SRT8 on the Speed channel feature after the jump >>
BOGOF Destination Nürburgring and Rent4Ring!
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- Parent Category: Nurburgring
- Created on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 07:41
- Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:04
- Published on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:41
- Written by Dale
That's right. Buy One Get One Free. It's a corny line for selling a trackday, but it's interesting right? Buy a day, get a day free? It's Destination Nürburgring on March 20th and 21st for £649 per car. Yes, £649 might sound like a lot of money for that trackday place. BUT... consider these points:
- This is for the über-rare Nürburgring Nordschleife and Nürburgring sprint-track combined. The 'VLN' course.
- The exact same configuration will cost around €100 more for only ONE day of driving on March 23rd (see our list of 2012 Nürburgring trackday dates here)
- There is NO CHARGE for extra drivers (up to 4 drivers per entry and 4 passengers too*)
- It's for TWO days on the 'Ring
- AND Rent4Ring can offer you a package deal for a Swift for both days from just €1169 including two days of car rental and entry on both days. So you can fly in, drive the VLN course, eat steak on the stone, bullshit about cars, drive it AGAIN the second day, then fly home.
Still not convinced? Watch this... or this... or maybe this?
*Not all 4 drivers and all 4 passengers at once though. Don't be silly!
Quick BMW E36 M3: 7m34s BTG
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- Parent Category: Nurburgring
- Created on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 10:16
- Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 April 2013 20:15
- Published on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 10:16
- Written by Dale
It's no secret that some of the quickest cars you can buy are actually over 10 years old. Technology marches ever onwards and cars like Nissan's GTR use it to extract more power and traction. But it seems like a lot of new cars just offer better emissions or an onboard MP3 system.
Regulations in the VLN series try and persuade teams to select new more 'relevant' models, but the E36 M3 is one car that's difficult to remove from the grid. Here's why...
The truth behind the GTR's new fastest laptime
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- Parent Category: Nurburgring
- Created on Sunday, 20 November 2011 20:00
- Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:04
- Published on Sunday, 20 November 2011 20:00
- Written by Dale
The 2012 Nissan GTR is now faster than ever around the Nürburgring Nordschleife at 7m21s. But Nissan have been keeping very quiet about it. Here's why...
Can the 2012 Nissan GTR do 7m16s around the 'Ring?
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- Created on Friday, 28 October 2011 23:06
- Last Updated on Thursday, 21 June 2012 09:49
- Published on Friday, 28 October 2011 23:06
- Written by Dale
Just a quick snippet to start you off this Saturday morning. An article came to my attention at the ever-more-interesting Pistonheads website.
Chris Rosamond was lucky enough to attend a recent GTR event at Silverstone. Here he not only met the infamous/notorious Kazutoshi Mizuno* but also interviewed him and got some juicy tidbits... read more here!
