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2011 Ticket Prices & Ring Cards
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- Parent Category: Nürburgring Guides by BTG
- Created on Friday, 25 February 2011 20:57
- Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:04
- Published on Friday, 25 February 2011 20:57
- Written by Dale
You can drive the Nürburgring Nordschleife during a touristenfahrten session simply by arriving in a road-legal and road-worthy vehicle with your driving license and buying a ticket...
The ringºcard - your new and only-slightly-confusing ticket to the Nürburgring
Gone are the days of Rainer stamping your cardboard ticket next to some road cones! Times change and techologies advance. These days the 'Ring uses RFID electronic tickets that can carry both laps and 'cash' like miniature credit cards. The only way to buy and use your laps (as well as coffee and sandwiches from the Devil's Diner) is to use this special card. Here's how they work...
- To 'open' a ringcard requires a deposit of at least 10 euro cash.
- When you're done spending, you hand the card back and get whatever cash is left.
- Each card carries an account for cash and an account for lap tickets. Laps and cash are not interchangeable. Placing 24 euros on a card does NOT buy you a lap.
- Buy your laps from the small office by the Nordschleife entry gates
- Place cash on the card using the 'green shirts' who are based around most restaurants and spending location.
- Cash stored on the card can currently only be spent in Nürburgring business but more & more independent businesses are gaining access to the system.
- Cash lasts 2 years but lap tickets expire at the end of the current year, December 31st
And for 2011 ticket prices to the Nürburgring Nordschleife Touristenfahrten sessions have increased again...
PRICES 2011:
1 lap: € 24,00
4 laps: € 89,00, incl. € 10,00 food/drinks voucher for the Eifeldorf Grüne Hölle*, 1 ring°werk ticket
15 laps: € 310,00, incl. € 20,00 food/drinks voucher for the Eifeldorf Grüne Hölle*, 1 ring°werk ticket
25 laps: € 470,00, incl. € 30,00 food/drinks voucher for the Eifeldorf Grüne Hölle*, 1 ring°werk ticket
Season ticket: € 1.350,00, incl. € 100,00 food/drinks voucher for the Eifeldorf Grüne Hölle*, 2 ring°werk ticket
*No cash refunds.prices as shown on www.nuerburgring.de
You'll notice that the more expensive tickets come with 'free' money to be spent in the trackside bar. This 'cash' is not like the normal cash that you can simply get back again - it can only be spent in the Grüne Hölle bar and restaurant in the Nordschleife car park.
The Jahreskarte or season ticket.
The name Jahreskarte (or JKs to the regulars) comes from the old plastic ID card that replaced your paper ticket. Nowadays you get your own portrait-bearing ringºcard (with 100 euros credit) and a plastic 'wristwatch' that contains the RFID chip matched to your card. To enter the circuit you place the face of the 'watch' to the area you'd normally hold your card.
- JKs can only be used by the person who bought them.
- They cannot be shared between drivers
- The JK holder cannot use his pass from the passenger seat.
- ID checks are regular! I am usually checked around 5-10 times in a season.
- If you're discovered mis-using your JK you will LOSE it. Do not lend it to other drivers!
Break-even point is the number of laps you'd have to complete to make the JK more economical than buying regular tickets.
69 is your magic number for 2011"
The break-even point for your 2011 jahreskarte
That's based on the fact that buying two 25 lap tickets, one 15 lap ticket and a 4 lap ticket will cost you €1339 and 'give' you €90 credit and 69 laps - but €1350 will give you €100 credit and unlimited laps.
Like a regular ticket your JK will expire on the 31st December.
