Archive for December, 2010

Sabine Schmitz joins Save The Ring campaign

Sabine Schmitz might be all smiles and happy Christmas wishes in the above picture, but she has just published a new video message to help promote the Save The Ring campaign. In her message Sabine says, “I have to tell you something on behalf of the Nordschleife. We have really big problems here and to [...]

Save our Nordschleife!

From some 16,000km away we tend to become a little bit detached from everyday happenings at the Nürburgring. Sadly, recent developments have brought with them a real fear that the world’s favourite motoring playground could be under threat. Daily management of the track and its expensive and floundering theme park was handed over to a [...]

New BMW 1M Coupé laps Nordschleife in 8:12

Following the release of pics and info on BMW’s new 1 Series M Coupé comes an unverified report that the baby M has lapped the Nürburgring in 8 minutes 12 seconds. That puts the 1M within 7 seconds of its big brother, the V8 powered E92 M3. It also makes it 10 seconds faster than [...]