How Much To Hire The Nurburgring?

How Much To Hire The Nurburgring?

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WEHGuy

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1,347 posts

173 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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Hi Folks,

Does anyone know how much it costs to hire for a day? I can't find anything concrete online. We would be looking at March/April time.

Thanks in advance

generationx

6,736 posts

105 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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TallPaul

1,517 posts

258 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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When you find out can you report back with prices and availabilty? Its a question I've often wondered myself- not that I'm ever going to hire it, just idle curiosity!
When I crashed there on a tourist day a few years ago, I was arguing about how much damage I'd actually caused, the guys in the office suggested closing the track for us to make a proper inspection. I think they said I'd be charged a few thousand Euros per hour. I cant remember the actual amount as I was in shock at their costs and just paid the 450Euros for 1 section of barrier!

V8LM

5,174 posts

209 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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According to the web a Track Day costs around €2000 per car and is limited to 120 cars.

anonymous-user

54 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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V8LM said:
According to the web a Track Day costs around €2000 per car and is limited to 120 cars.
2000 euros to hire the circuit for exclusive use?

TallPaul

1,517 posts

258 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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pablo said:
V8LM said:
According to the web a Track Day costs around €2000 per car and is limited to 120 cars.
2000 euros to hire the circuit for exclusive use?
I think thats €2000 X 120 cars = €240,000

matpilch

246 posts

140 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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TallPaul said:
When you find out can you report back with prices and availabilty? Its a question I've often wondered myself- not that I'm ever going to hire it, just idle curiosity!
When I crashed there on a tourist day a few years ago, I was arguing about how much damage I'd actually caused, the guys in the office suggested closing the track for us to make a proper inspection. I think they said I'd be charged a few thousand Euros per hour. I cant remember the actual amount as I was in shock at their costs and just paid the 450Euros for 1 section of barrier!
it's 1350 Eur per hour, if it's closed due to an accident, but I don't think it has any relation to hiring price

FN2TypeR

7,091 posts

93 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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pablo said:
V8LM said:
According to the web a Track Day costs around €2000 per car and is limited to 120 cars.
2000 euros to hire the circuit for exclusive use?
Per car, and there will be a minimum set fee of course.

dlockhart

434 posts

172 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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So 2000 *120 is 240,000 euro but break event point mush be around 80% mark

So if you are thinking or becoming a track day operator you should hire staff (40?) and pay the circuit for about 200 euro.

This maths assumed linear pricing.

mmm-five

11,239 posts

284 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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The last time we enquired (about 4 years ago), it was around £35,000 for the day, and we were planning on splitting that cost between 50 friends/colleagues so that the only knobbers we had on track were ones we knew and could handle.

It never got further than that, as every time we asked for a date we were told we'd have to wait until all the big boys* had taken their pick. I think we were ultimately offered late cancellation about 3 days before the date, which was a bit useless.

  • the big boys are the industry pool, the race organisers, the owners and the big track day companies.

Far Cough

2,227 posts

168 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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It gets complicated because all the marshal's are self employed so you have to factor that in ontop of the straight forward circuit hire. If you speak the language its probably a hell of a lot easier.

Its different to the UK circuits where you get everything thrown in for the price.

thegreenhell

15,327 posts

219 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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TallPaul said:
pablo said:
V8LM said:
According to the web a Track Day costs around €2000 per car and is limited to 120 cars.
2000 euros to hire the circuit for exclusive use?
I think thats €2000 X 120 cars = €240,000
That's a very expensive trackday, and that's what the organiser is charging the punter, not what the circuit is charging. There are others out there charging a third of that amount per car per day.

Looking at one of those more affordable TDOs, their revenue from the day is less than £100k, so taking into account other organising costs and profit margin, you're probably looking at somewhere in the £50-60k ballpark for a day of exclusive track hire.

However, as someone already mentioned, actually getting a day is easier said than done. The circuit is in high demand, and private punters are pretty far down the food chain when it comes to allocations.

wc98

10,391 posts

140 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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matpilch said:
TallPaul said:
When you find out can you report back with prices and availabilty? Its a question I've often wondered myself- not that I'm ever going to hire it, just idle curiosity!
When I crashed there on a tourist day a few years ago, I was arguing about how much damage I'd actually caused, the guys in the office suggested closing the track for us to make a proper inspection. I think they said I'd be charged a few thousand Euros per hour. I cant remember the actual amount as I was in shock at their costs and just paid the 450Euros for 1 section of barrier!
it's 1350 Eur per hour, if it's closed due to an accident, but I don't think it has any relation to hiring price
after watching the bike and rider in front of me hit the barrier at wipperman while i drifted across the oil he had just crashed on ,unable to turn in unless i wanted to join him .then running down the narrow band of grass on the outside of the left hander at over 100 mph .the only satisfaction i got was knowing the utter financial arse raping the clown that decided to try and limp home with a rod through the block of a tigra was about to receive .

a brief conversation with dale lomas a couple of years later suggested while the cost would be reasonable,the chances of hiring the track for a bike trackday by non german organisers was slim to none.

WEHGuy

Original Poster:

1,347 posts

173 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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generationx said:
I did but, only got this response

Thanks for your email. I assume you are looking at coming over in 2017? Unfortunately, track opening times only start getting released towards the end of January, so there is not much we can book now. In the meantime though, take a look here for more information on VIP packages and Road Tours etc - http://www.rsrnurburg.com/product/vip-luxury-getaw... and http://www.rsrnurburg.com/page/road-tour-overview

I have made a note to contact you as soon as dates start coming through but let me know if you have any questions in the meantime.

Warmest Regards,

E36GUY

5,906 posts

218 months

Friday 30th September 2016
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It's about 60,000€ per day for exclusive hire. Not sure what costs on top there might be - ambulance on standby, marshalling etc maybe?