£500+ to go to the Nurburgring

[Frimley111R]

Is this what it typically costs? A few of us had planned to go over but I calcualted:

£120 on the tunnel
£160 for two nights accomodation
£100 for 5 laps (for example)

That makes, in round numbers is £400 as long as I only do 5 laps. With food and fuel and a few more laps at £22 each I could easily add £100 onto that. Given that my estimations are usually conservative I can see me pushing past the £500 barrier easily. That seems a lot for a track day and just a couple of days?

[Soovy]

Frimley111R said:

Is this what it typically costs? A few of us had planned to go over but I calcualted:

£120 on the tunnel
£160 for two nights accomodation
£100 for 5 laps (for example)

That makes, in round numbers is £400 as long as I only do 5 laps. With food and fuel and a few more laps at £22 each I could easily add £100 onto that. Given that my estimations are usually conservative I can see me pushing past the £500 barrier easily. That seems a lot for a track day and just a couple of days?

Are you after a sub or something>??!

You forgot fuel £150
Tyres £200
Insurance £500

[E55 Max]

That is what I would expect to shed on a single track day.
Don't forget Tyres and brakes.
£500 for a weekend away including 10 laps of the Nurburgring would seem like a bargain to me!

[E36GUY]

Yup. It is not a cheap weekend.

Although I have never done that amount in Tyres at the ring in 5 laps! Clearly not trying hard enough.

[jleroux]

Have you considered taking up darts?

[Stephanie Plum]

Ross don't be such a tightarse

You're a long time dead after all.

[Frimley111R]

Stephanie Plum said:

Ross don't be such a tightarse

You're a long time dead after all.

Yes but I plan to be a long time alive too! You're loaded, chuck some £££ my way!

[Munter]

You can 1/2 your tunnel costs by going on Norfolk Line. And that cuts some miles off as well.

Then stop staying in an expensive hotel and camp some place. Can't be more than £10 a night each can it?

So that's £40 each for ferries and accommodation. All that's left is fuel, laps, euro breakdown and food.

MTFU

[stumpy67]

I would say £500 was dirt cheap and be shocked if you could do 10 laps at The Ring with 2nights accommodation as well for that.

I would budget £800ish if I were you.

I'm looking at the moment and with the fuel/food/beer money etc it will easily be £700-800...

[matts4]

The last 3 times i've been in the past 2 years have left my shy of around £850 per trip. Thats for 3 nights, beer and food.
The first time I went 5 years ago was something nearer £450 - £500, but thats down to the rise of the Euro.

Sure, you can do it cheaper, camping and not too much socialising etc, but why miss out on the fun?!

[Great Pretender]

Plastic is your friend.

Go, have a ball and worry about it later.

I never bothered to check how much our last trip cost, but I do know that it was possibly the best holiday I've ever had.

[TEKNOPUG]

If it's your first time and there are a group of you, it may be better/work out cheaper to go as part of an organised tour/package.

http://www.nurburgringuk.com/reviews.php is the only one I have personal experience of. There may well be others offering similar services.

[mmm-five]

We did one a few months back and the total was closer to £1000.

• £60 return on the ferry (Dover-Dunkerque-Dover)
• £60 for accommodation (£30/night per person)
• £200 for 10 laps
• £250 for insurance (optional)
• £400 for petrol (8 x 50L fills of 98RON+)

If you take the travel/accommodation/extra fuel cost out of it you'd end up with about £600:

• £150 petrol (travel to & from track plus 150 miles of track time)
• £250 insurance (optional)
• £200 trackday (£100-£300 depending where & when you go)

That extra £400 is spent on the extra petrol to get there (plus the driving around the area when the 'Ring is shut), plus accommodation, plus ferry/train, plus food & drink.

That's why we always make a long weekend of it, rather than rushing down on Sunday morning and back Sunday evening.

[thegreenhell]

It usually works out around £400 plus lap ticket costs for me for a long weekend, and that's doing it on the cheap with an overnight Norfolkline crossing and camping when I get there. My biggest expense is petrol at around £250, depending on how many laps I do. Laps are cheaper the more you buy, so best to decide early on and stick to it; £120 for 8 or £210 for 15. And don't worry to much if you have one or two laps left on the card at the end of the weekend.

[Guillotine]

It'll cost atleat £500 to do a day at Cadwell...or Oulton...or BHI...

...get my point? It's a legend of a place and as much fun off as on track. Go...then you've been and you'll understand why we all think its still a bargain. Even when my first laps were 7dm!

(Am I THAT old???)


Personally, I always do Spa too. Brings it up to £1200 or so but what a week!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[VTECMatt]

It helps I live 12 miles from the tunnel but my costs that are realistic:

Petrol - £90 (There & Back(S1 Elise)
Hotel - £90 (Single Occupancy)
Tunnel - £52 (over two days) Free using £10.50 of Club Card Deal Vouchers
Laps - 450 Euros for a Trackday more track time, less traffic, 18 - 22 laps
Lunch £20
Dinner & Wine £60 (I like my food )
Petrol on Track £90

Total £802

Another day would add £200.

[chrisr29]

Frimley111R said:

Is this what it typically costs? A few of us had planned to go over but I calcualted:

£120 on the tunnel
£160 for two nights accomodation
£100 for 5 laps (for example)

That makes, in round numbers is £400 as long as I only do 5 laps. With food and fuel and a few more laps at £22 each I could easily add £100 onto that. Given that my estimations are usually conservative I can see me pushing past the £500 barrier easily. That seems a lot for a track day and just a couple of days?

If you view it as just a track day then you're missing the point. Besides, a track day in the Uk aint far off 500 notes when you take fuel, traveling costs, food etc etc into the occasion.

Maybe take up a cheaper hobby.

[GC8]

I wonder why a lap costs so much now? When I first went it cost DM12 (barely a fiver) for a lap and it wasnt that long ago...

[GC8]

jleroux said:

Have you considered taking up darts?

Darts isnt sport!

[Dr Jekyll]

GC8 said:

jleroux said:

Have you considered taking up darts?

Darts isnt sport!

But driving along a toll road with derestricted sections is?