I reckon the Caterhams are pretty ugly cars, but by hell I’d love to drive one around the Nordschleife. What they lack in looks they make up for in driving purity. They’re awesome cars! I hope you enjoy this lap I found on YouTube. Its an old clip, but is nice and clean and also [...]

Watching other people lap the Nürburgring Nordschleife is almost as much fun as lapping it yourself. Almost! If you’re making the trek to the Ring from Australia, or anywhere really, I highly recommend setting aside some time to just watch the cars go by. To do that you need to know how to access the [...]

Thinking of heading over to the Ring? This DIY Guide from Australian Motor magazine (first published in February 2006) is a handy introduction. It is pretty basic but does cover as much as you can expect given the format. Written from the perspective of flying from Australia to London and taking the road trip through [...]

General Motors have just released their footage of the Corvette ZR1 lapping the Nürburgring in 7:26.4—that’s fast! How fast? Well, top speed is 179mph (288km/h) under the bridge into Tiergarten. Perhaps more impressive is topping 170mph (273km/h) into Schwedenkreuz. The descent into Fuchsröhre reached 160mph (257km/h). The slowest speed on the lap was 41mph (66km/h) [...]

I hope you enjoy looking at this old Nürburgring map. The dark line is the Nordschleife (North Loop), note the Steilstrecke section (above the Karussel) which was used for steep gradient tests. The lighter circuit below is the 7.7 kilometre Südschleife (South Loop) which was lost when the Grand Prix track was redeveloped in the [...]

Well, this is the third clip I’ve posted showing the Nissan GT-R’s 7:29 Nürburgring Nordschleife lap, but it is definitely the best. This one, spotted on GTRblog.com, features audio that is much better and the small Nordschleife circuit layout out super imposed on the lower left of screen always makes such footage a favourite. There’s [...]

Strap yourself in for two superb clips from the 2005 Nürburgring 24 hour race. I can’t find a lot of detail on the car, other than it is known as the V8STAR Jaguar. If nothing else, it sounds and looks brutal! The driver is Dirk Adorf who has had quite a lot of VLN success [...]

It all looks so effortless. But to lap the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7 minutes 15.63 seconds it’s a safe bet that the result was anything but. This is the edo competition Porsche 911 GT2 RS—a 612bhp (456kW), 1284kg animal. edo competition is the brainchild of Edo Karabegovic who started out working on Ferraris. Now, though, [...]

Following my earlier review of Nürburgring Nordschleife: An Enthusiast’s Bend Guide the author sent me a review copy of his poster, based on the one originally used to promote the publication. I received the Large size (21.3” x 32” or approx 540 x 810mm for metric readers) and a new “photo glossy” paper option was [...]

The self produced and published Nürburgring Nordschleife: An Enthusiast’s Bend Guide contains over 60 pages of information about the ‘Green Hell’. The guide starts with a brief history of the track, which was an unexpected but very welcome introduction. The track guide itself features speeds, braking points and driving line based on a fictional lap [...]