Falken Tyres brings us this fascinating footage filmed inside their Porsche 911 GT3 R during the 2011 Nürburgring 24 hour race. Strap yourself in for 9 minutes 55 seconds of the most daunting motorsport footage you’re ever likely to see. It’s enough to try and master the ‘Green Hell’ on a clear sunny day; in [...]
Here’s a full onboard lap of the Nürburgring Nordschleife, filmed during N24 race conditions, from inside the second placed #1 BMW M3 GT. Turn your sound up to 11 and enjoy!
Noted YouTuber mattzel89 has been a busy lad today and here’s a selection of video highlights posted to date. The first clip above is a nasty incident involving a BMW Z4 GT3 and Seat Leon. Thankfully, both drivers were okay. There’s five more clips for you below, including the race start showing the entire first [...]
Renault weren’t the only ones to be claiming bragging rights after the recent industry pool booking at the Ring. This time it’s Chevrolet who are laying claim to holding the fastest production car lap record on the Nordschleife. The time? 7 minutes 19 seconds; bloody fast! Only, Porsche reckon they’ve done a 7:18 in the [...]
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 [...]
Today we bring you a rather depressing video which highlights how quickly unexpected dangers can present themselves on the Ring. Here, an otherwise competent driver is tracking his Lotus Exige. He does the right thing by moving aside to allow quicker cars go past. Then, on the descent to Adenau bridge, the driver comes across [...]
Last weekend the Volkswagen Golf24 took part in a VLN round to continue its development ahead of this year’s Nürburgring 24 hour race. Here’s some video of the car in action where the driver takes the high-line around the Karussell. That in itself is not so amazing, that the driver was doing so to overtake [...]
Our daily twitter rounds landed us this cracking link to a YouTube video of the entire 1973 German Grand Prix. That’s right, all two hours and seven minutes of footage. So far we’ve only watched the first half hour or so and it’s an astonishing piece of film that is worth checking out. The race [...]
Here’s nice amateur video captured during a recent TF day at the Ring. Featured are not one, but three examples of the limited run BMW M3 GTS. They look great together in their bright orange paint. [via BimmerFile]
Last year the German television program die story broadcast a 45-minute documentary about the ongoing issues facing Nürburgring GmbH and the possible ramifications for the local businesses in Nürburg and surrounds. The key people featured in the story are Uschi Schmitz, hotelier and long-time Nürburg resident—yes, she’s Sabine’s mum, too—and Kai Richter (pictured above left), [...]