Today we bring you one of the more bizarre promo videos we’ve come across. Race driver Margot Laffite (yes, she is the daughter of Jacques) was given the keys to a Renault Twingo RS Red Bull RB7 edition and sent out on the Nordschleife with a cute blonde and a goldfish. It’s all part of [...]
We’ve already reported on the dramatic finish to yesterday’s Nürburgring 24 hour race which saw the #11 Manthey Porsche crashed into by the #169 Renault Clio. The incident happened with just seconds remaining on the 24 hour countdown. However, as the winning car was still some 30 seconds away the race was not officially over. [...]
Renault Sport F1 brings us this great little video showing half a dozen Formula One drivers fooling around on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Red Bull, Lotus and Renault all use the RS27 engine and Renault Sport figured it was a good enough excuse to get Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber, Heikki Kovalainen, Jarno Trulli, Nick Heidfeld and [...]
Three years ago Renault set a new front-wheel drive lap record at the Ring using a stripped out track-ready Megane R26.R. Well now they’ve gone and broken it using a far more civilised Megane Renaultsport 265 Trophy. The new mark is 8:07.97—bloody fast, and it betters the BMW 1 Series M Coupé among others. Renault [...]
There was a six-hour VLN race at the Ring over the weekend, eventually won by the Farnbacher Ferrari. Here’s some footage showing the exit to Pflantzgarten I. All looks good, the lead cars are carrying some great speed through the turn. Off-camera a Porsche and Renault collide and we see the aftermath, luckily avoided by [...]
Mark Webber has driven a magnificent race to claim his first ever Grand Prix victory. It was the first win by an Australian driver since Alan Jones won the 1981 US Grand Prix. Webber started aggressively from pole position at the Nürburgring track, but couldn’t hold off a fast charging Rubens Barichello who led into [...]
The Renaultsport Mégane R26.R shouts Nürburgring with its factory fitted decals, but is it actually any good around the Green Hell? This earlier video from Renault says it is, with a lap time of 8:16.9 to its credit. That’s pretty bloody good, it has to be said. The fastest front wheel drive lap by a [...]
Last month pictures of the new Renault Mégane III were revealed. Now, the Coupé model has been spotted in testing on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Styling cues such as bigger front air dams and centre exhaust point to this being a Renaultsport model in development, which is due to be shown at next year’s Geneva Motor [...]
I hope you enjoy this video of the new Renault Megane R26.R—claimed, by Renault, to be the fastest front wheel drive production car around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Its time of 8 minutes 16.9 seconds is certainly very tidy when compared to others. For example, a BMW M5 E60 at the hands of Horst von Saurma [...]
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 [...]
