Episode six of the current series of Fifth Gear featured the highly anticipated Nissan GT-R and Audi RS6 (see youtube clips below). In fact, Fifth Gear claimed theirs was the world’s first TV clip to review the GT-R. Jonny and Tom had a camp-off, erm, pun intended, with a pair of Volkswagen vans. The second […]
The AUSringers site turned one month old on 24 February and I thought it might be worth posting up a quick refresher of what has happened during that time. My ‘proper’ job is also quite busy right now and that means I may not be able to post any new articles for the next week […]
The self produced and published Nürburgring Nordschleife: An Enthusiast’s Bend Guide contains over 60 pages of information about the ‘Green Hell’. The guide starts with a brief history of the track, which was an unexpected but very welcome introduction. The track guide itself features speeds, braking points and driving line based on a fictional lap […]
Walter Röhrl entertains a few lucky passengers around a wet Nürburgring Nordschleife. The car? A Porsche 997 GT3 of course. This was part of a promotional event for Bilstein last July. I imagine the rides with Röhrl were highly sought after. Some of the drifts on corner exits look sublime. Again, this is a clip […]
This is a great clip of Sabine Schmitz doing a complete lap of the Nürburgring Nordschleife in a racing Porsche 997 ‘Cup’ car at a 2005 VLN event. The clip is brought to us by renntv and if you visit their site you can download a higher resolution 70mb zipped file. I recommend you do!
This is the Radical SR8. It has 363bhp and weighs just 650kg. It produces more downforce than the combined weight of car and driver. Then there’s the small matter of its Nordschleife lap time… 6 minutes 55 seconds. That time was set on 28 September 2005, and still, no production car has beaten it. This […]
A new first for AUSringers, a trip report from an Aussie living overseas. This kind of interaction is one of the reasons I wanted to start the site and it is something I’m keen to see more of. This article grew out of discussions on the Your Story page and, well, here is the story […]
