Welcome to 1996. A water-cooled Porsche 911 was still two years away. The Red Hot Chilli Peppers were cutting edge. It was impossible to ride a GSX-R or without your……
Author: Dale Lomas
COVID-19 kills off the last Nürburgring event of 2020
Already bumped from August to December, the final round of the 2020 World Rallycross Championship is now officially cancelled. The news from the Nürburgring broke today, while simultaneously reports emerged……
ONBOARD: Pushing a SUB-8 BTG back in 1993!
For many fans around the world, the King of the Ring isn’t a car driver, an F1 racer or yet another YouTuber. It’s German Superbike legend and TT racer Helmut……
Mercedes-AMG claim new Nürburgring lap record, world goes “Eh?!”
I woke up this morning to much confusion on the internet. No surprise there. The world has been struggling to make sense of the Nürburgring lap record system ever since……
UPDATED: 2021 *predicted* Nürburgring TF calendar
In order to satisfy the thousands of people who ask “Where are the 2021 Nürburgring opening times” on every form of social media, every single day of winter, I have……
ONBOARD: AMG GT63S shatters the big-boy Nürburgring lap record…
…and the Affalterbach crew did it on a cold, slimy Autumn evening! When Porsche’s Panamera S only managed to slice 0.3s off the Nürburgring laptime set by Demian Schaffert, it……
Nürburgring Nordschleife escapes the lockdown again
The Nürburgring’s “contactless touristenfahrten” concept has once again defied the odds, and will allow the Nordschleife to remain drivable through Germany’s second COVID-19 lockdown of 2020. Share this:Click to share…
COVID-19 finishes off both RCN and VLN season
Ongoing COVID-19 restrictions continue to disrupt the Nürburgring’s racing calendar, but show no signs of restricting its “contactless touristenfahrten” model. This weekend we are being gifted yet another extra day……
A new BTG project… with a difference.
In the 13 years since starting bridgetogantry.com, I’ve built (or at least held the tools for people who were building) several ringtools on my blog. Without exceptions, they’ve always been……
What BTGers and F1 drivers have in common.
One of the best thing to happen to the Nürburgring community this year was the re-introduction of the Eifel GP. A massive cash and PR injection that moved the ‘Ring……