Spectator tips for Nurburgring 24hrs (Wanted, not offered!)
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Large panel van,old sofa from the local free sheat,big bbq & as much bear as you can take!
People start ariving the previous Sunday to set up camp for the best spots so you have to get in there early,we saw people there with generators & washing machines with running hot water for showers?!
People start ariving the previous Sunday to set up camp for the best spots so you have to get in there early,we saw people there with generators & washing machines with running hot water for showers?!
In addition to the above, get a mountain bike. You have a long time, so it's worth going all round the circuit to various vantage points and soaking up the increadible atmosphere.
Take a large Union Flag with you and wave it vigourously at the cars that you know have a British driver (look in the programme for details), as it really makes a difference psychologically, and you'll get some lights flashing back at you.
Of course, the very best place to watch it is from behind the steering wheel.
Take a large Union Flag with you and wave it vigourously at the cars that you know have a British driver (look in the programme for details), as it really makes a difference psychologically, and you'll get some lights flashing back at you.
Of course, the very best place to watch it is from behind the steering wheel.
One of the main things that is different from the N24 and Le Mans is that your ticket allows you to sit in any Grandstand, so you can move about, we watched the start and finish from the grandstands and then went to other parts of the track during the race. The corner around the Mercedes grandstand is not bad or towards the end of the start finish straight.
We stayed at http://www.hotel-an-der-nordschleife.de/hotel/inde... so we could watch Breidscheid Bridge from our balcony and sit back drinking beer, but it was not too crowded if you were to turn up, the car park by the fast food joint was packed with bikes though.
Sunday morning we walked through the fields further along from Breidscheid Bridge and there are small little viewing huts on stilts for watching the cars as they progress in the forrest to Ex-muhle and Berwerk which is quite cool.
On the opposite side of the hotel at Breidscheid Bridge is a huge camping area where they partied hard all night but were really friendly and happy to share beers.
If you can, a lot of people watch at Adenauer-Forst and Brunnchen as that is where people make mistakes but the Germans will be setting up camp days before the event with full on scaffolding structures to give the best view, gets very busy / crowded.
Last year the start of the race was fantastic as the GT40 went head to head with the Manthey RSR and they were swapping 1st and 2nd for quite a few laps before the GT40 made a mistake and the Porsches started to pull away.
Saturday lunchtime / early afternoon is usually the classic race, the sound of the M1's is simply incredible, last year they had three on track and some of the older 911's are massively over fueled so you see huge exhaust flames as they lift and brake for corners.
It would be handy if one of you speaks a little German as there is not the concessions for English like there is at Le Mans where you can get away with no French.
If you get the chance go see Jorg at the Comfy Corner in Breidscheid and ask for the Eifel firewater, great stuff, one of our group fell into the road after a few of them on the walk back to the hotel.
Pizza in Pinocchio's in Breidscheid is also a very good.
We stayed at http://www.hotel-an-der-nordschleife.de/hotel/inde... so we could watch Breidscheid Bridge from our balcony and sit back drinking beer, but it was not too crowded if you were to turn up, the car park by the fast food joint was packed with bikes though.
Sunday morning we walked through the fields further along from Breidscheid Bridge and there are small little viewing huts on stilts for watching the cars as they progress in the forrest to Ex-muhle and Berwerk which is quite cool.
On the opposite side of the hotel at Breidscheid Bridge is a huge camping area where they partied hard all night but were really friendly and happy to share beers.
If you can, a lot of people watch at Adenauer-Forst and Brunnchen as that is where people make mistakes but the Germans will be setting up camp days before the event with full on scaffolding structures to give the best view, gets very busy / crowded.
Last year the start of the race was fantastic as the GT40 went head to head with the Manthey RSR and they were swapping 1st and 2nd for quite a few laps before the GT40 made a mistake and the Porsches started to pull away.
Saturday lunchtime / early afternoon is usually the classic race, the sound of the M1's is simply incredible, last year they had three on track and some of the older 911's are massively over fueled so you see huge exhaust flames as they lift and brake for corners.
It would be handy if one of you speaks a little German as there is not the concessions for English like there is at Le Mans where you can get away with no French.
If you get the chance go see Jorg at the Comfy Corner in Breidscheid and ask for the Eifel firewater, great stuff, one of our group fell into the road after a few of them on the walk back to the hotel.
Pizza in Pinocchio's in Breidscheid is also a very good.
Forgot to add that this year a certain Mr W. Rohrl will be racing in an RSR along with Chris Harris from Evo magazine which should be quite a mix and has potential to do very well against Manthey Racing.
Audi are starting to take the N24 as seriously as Le Mans and will no doubt be fielding a number of R8's to try and take the crown.
Audi are starting to take the N24 as seriously as Le Mans and will no doubt be fielding a number of R8's to try and take the crown.
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