In the build up to the 40th running of the Nürburgring 24 hour race the organisers have released a few facts about the race. You can read them all after the break, but it’s the first point that has the key numbers. There’ll be around 170 cars competing around the 25km track and driving all [...]
The provisional entry list for the 40th Nürburgring 24 hour race was released at the end of April. You can download a copy right now if you like (70kb PDF). We’ve scanned through the doc and picked out the Aussies and Kiwis entered in the race. As always these lists can be a bit fluid [...]
Dale from Bridge to Gantry was on scene yesterday to record some genuine behind the scenes footage of the Ron Howard movie Rush. Watch the clip after the break. Concentrating on the dramatic 1976 Formula One season, and the battle between Lauda and James Hunt for the world championship, Lauda’s crash will no doubt be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
We first brought you news about a new Nürburgring documentary called Lure of the Ring back in July 2010. That was followed by a teaser video last March. Since then there’s been a Facebook page created and a preview screening of the film was held in January. Now we bring you a draft TV commercial [...]
There have been some dramatic developments concerning the management of the Nürburgring in recent days that will literally give the Ring a new lease of life. This shapes as promising news for Save the Ring campaigners. The contract to manage the state-owned Nürburgring and its facilities has been cancelled. This ends the controversial reign of [...]
A recent report on German TV brings word that up to 140 jobs the Nürburgring leisure park will be cut, due to poor visitors numbers and ongoing financial losses. It’s a continuing tale of woe and, really, a time machine is probably the only way to undo this horrible mess. Merry Christmas everyone.
The Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Black Series is the latest high profile sports car to get the Sport Auto treatment. That means some serious track time at the Nürburgring where it posted a best time of 7 minutes 46 seconds. Interestingly, the Benz was bettered by Sport Auto in a new 991 Porsche 911 Carrera S [...]
Last month Nissan was at the Nürburgring finalising preparations for the launch of the 2012MY GT-R. Apparently this video was filmed at the same time and shows ‘Godzilla’ has reduced its Ring time to 7 minutes 21 seconds. Not quite down to Nissan’s 7:20 target time, but pretty handy nonetheless. Or is it? It’s been [...]
Ron Howard and his merry men have recently been spotted shooting scenes for the upcoming movie Rush. The latest motorsport story to hit the silver screen will focus on the epic Niki Lauda–James Hunt battle from the 1976 Formula One season. Pistonspy has a great selection of images of the old skool Grand Prix cars [...]
A quick scan of the Nürburgring website shows updated pricing for 2012 Touristenfahrten days where you can drive around the Nürburgring Nordschleife have been announced. There’s a slight increase compared to 2011 pricing for one, four and 25 lap tickets. The Jahreskarte (yearly ticket) remains the same as last year. Those paying attention will see [...]
