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Win a trip to the Nürburgring Nordschleife

Top Gear Australia are offering up a trip for two to the Nürburgring Nordschleife. The prize includes airfares, accommodation and, the best part, driver tuition with Ron Simons from RSR Nurburg. You must be over 18 to enter, hold an Australian driving licence and be able to travel in the last week of August this [...]

Hotel An Der Nordschleife now offers car hire

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Hotel An Der Nordschleife has followed the lead of RSR Nürburg and now offers Renault Clios for use around the Nürburgring. Although, unlike the RSR option, I suspect these Clios will be left hand drive. As you can see from the image above, Hotel An Der Nordschleife is located just near the Breidscheid entrance, and [...]

Drifting with Dale

Hope you enjoy this footage of Dale Lomas of bridgetoganrty.com and RSR Nürburg fame taking one of RSR’s Alfa 75 rentals for a full lap of a very wet Nürburgring. I give my highest points for his efforts through Adenauer Forst and the right-hander at Pflantzgarten, but deduct a few for not attempting to drfit [...]

An Australian tourist’s trip report

Blaise Paris has just posted an excellent report of his Nürburgring experience in the Your Story section. I recommend you read it, as he has really managed to capture the thrill, excitement and trepidation of driving your first laps around the Nordschleife. Blaise took a 135i from Rent-RaceCar.de (3 series pictured above) and seemed to [...]

Right hand drive Ring rentals now available

Good news for Aussies heading over to the Nürburgring Nordschleife with RSR Nürburg now having right-hand drive rentals available. Great news if you have little experience in left-hand drive cars. As seen on the bridgetogantry.com website, RSR Nürburg has two Renaultsport Clio Cups ready for a good Ring thrashing. RSR describes the Clio accordingly, “2008 [...]

Rent-RaceCar speaks to AUSringers

Driving the Nürburgring is a dream for many motoring enthusiasts the world over. For those of us who don’t live on the right continent getting yourself to Germany is the easy part. Finding someone to let you thrash a car around the famous Green Hell is another thing altogether. Hiring a car from a traditional [...]