Nürburgring Tourist Laps: The Future
Don't worry, tourist laps are here to stay, and with added bells and whistles
And though prices have risen this year - an all-year ticket by as much as 26 per cent - new features will be introduced.
One of these includes officially sanctioned video cameras, available to rent from the track. As most seasoned visitors know, tempting as it may be, filming your nine minutes of glory (or seven seconds of infamy) is officially outlawed in public driving, with offenders receiving bans on the spot.
"We know people want to have a movie of driving on the Nordschleife," says a spokesperson for Nürburgring Automotive, "but the problem was we wouldn't be able to see what was on the camera and we didn't want to have any images of accidents on the track." To that end a limited number of cameras will be available to rent from the spring. Once the footage has been scrutinised for any unwelcome recordings it will be released to the driver in a format to be confirmed.
Our source at the Nürburgring was also able to comment on a rumour that growing pressure from the government threatening the compulsory use of transponders in tourist driving to monitor noise and pollution levels have been overstated, for now at least.
And what about improvements to the - at times - chronically unsuitable car park and entrance to the Nordschleife? "We know the problem, we're working on solutions for this," is all they'll say for now; anyone caught up in the regular post-closure gridlock at public days knows this can't come soon enough.
Crashes are going to happen, and people are going to video them, and anyone that honestly thinks that's an issue is an idiot. SO let me get this right, it's a "racetrack" where there has never been a single crash or injury/fatality......... Big Brother must be busy these days ;-)
( Camera's are a fact of life now, everything has one on, before that, what a lot of people didn't realise was that human beings had two (yes 2!!) optical rangefinding and situation immaging devices mounted in their skulls, but unfortunately these have ceased to work since the Y2k bug hit most 1st world countries, so now we have to process info with a digital encoder, hence no one actually see's anything live these days, but just through a viewfinder or 3" square lcd...............)
The driver's attention seemed to wander at 2:11, at the crest approaching Schwedenkreuz. That came very close to becoming a very ugly scene.
The point i made was to address your over dramatic post about moral obligations to the third party and the Police getting upset with you, that simply isnt the case as you are covered to the requirement of the law for third party losses, the Police or the injured third party couldn't care less that you personally may have a financial issue post the claim, they are getting what they require from your insurer.
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