Archive for March, 2012

Nürburgring industry pool comes alive

With concerns over the future of the Industry Pool at the Nürburgring settled last year, it’s great to see an assortment of exotic machinery circulating in the name of ongoing development. Thanks to Bridge to Gantry you can enjoy a selection of six cylinder engines as well as an appearance from a V8, a V10 […]

2012 Nürburgring Touristenfahrten calendar

If you’re planning on making the trip to the Nürburgring this year and would like to drive yourself around the wonderful 20.832km of tarmac you could do a lot worse than check out this handy calendaer put together by nurburgring.co.uk. For Touristenfahrten (public open day) drivers the good news is that the days in green […]

BMW M5 Ring-Taxi close to return

The short reign of the BMW M3 as the company’s Ring-Taxi of choice is officially over. Currently in between seasons, when the Ring-Taxi returns the new F10 M5 will take over, as shown above out testing in traditional Ring-Taxi livery. For now no dates or prices have been announced, but if you feed your email […]

Get ready to rumble

Bridge to Gantry reports with this short video that Touristenfahrten activities have resumed at the Nürburgring following winter maintenance work. Almost makes you want to get to your nearest airport and make the 16,000km flight to Germany!

Coming to America: The Nüburgring?

Word comes through this morning that Bruton Smith, CEO of Speedway Motorsports in the United States, is having discussions to build an exact duplicate of the “Newboogring”. In a radio interview Smith said, “we’re being asked by Germans and what not to build, or duplicate if you would, the Nürburgring.” The location would most likely […]

New Porsche Boxster S laps Ring in under 8 mins

Official word from Porsche says the new Boxster S can lap the Nürburgring in 7 minutes 58 seconds. The news came via Chris Harris who is currently tweeting from a Porsche press conference. According to unofficial records that makes the new Boxster 12 seconds faster than the old model and six seconds quicker than the […]

Graham Hill narrates lap around Nürburgring

It’s been a while since we’ve shown a classic clip from the Nürburgring. This one has been worth the wait. The promo clip for Shell was produced in 1962 and the current F1 world champion Graham Hill was on hand to provide commentary. The car being used was the iconic Mercedes-Benz W125, some 25-years-old at […]