Any top tips for Nurburgring virgin!
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Spend some time on Ben Lovejoy's site www.nurburgring.org it is a vertitable fountain of useful info.
Take it very steady on your first few laps and then again for another few after your first off road excursion at Adenauer Forst.
If someone quick comes up behind you in a mini clubman, indicate right pull over and let them through.
Then try and keep up for a bit.
Then give up and start to cry.
Never overtake on the right. EVER.
Remember, a blind bend always conceals a coachload of tourists doing 40kph.
Get an E111 filled in and stamped at the post office just in case that coach really is there and you are driving a bit too quickly to stop.
Check your vehicle recovery service covers getting the car back home (AA 5 star excludes the ring).
Satisfy yourself you are comfortable with the insurance (or not) situation.
Keep an eye open in your mirrors for crazed bikers (like me) who have left their brain in the car park.
Brush up on your first aid, someone else might need you.
Drive well within your limits and enjoy it, it's so good they have to ban it soon.
Ian D
Oh, and the engine on that mini is nowhere near as big as everyone who has been overtaken by it say it is.
Take it very steady on your first few laps and then again for another few after your first off road excursion at Adenauer Forst.
If someone quick comes up behind you in a mini clubman, indicate right pull over and let them through.
Then try and keep up for a bit.
Then give up and start to cry.
Never overtake on the right. EVER.
Remember, a blind bend always conceals a coachload of tourists doing 40kph.
Get an E111 filled in and stamped at the post office just in case that coach really is there and you are driving a bit too quickly to stop.
Check your vehicle recovery service covers getting the car back home (AA 5 star excludes the ring).
Satisfy yourself you are comfortable with the insurance (or not) situation.
Keep an eye open in your mirrors for crazed bikers (like me) who have left their brain in the car park.
Brush up on your first aid, someone else might need you.
Drive well within your limits and enjoy it, it's so good they have to ban it soon.
Ian D
Oh, and the engine on that mini is nowhere near as big as everyone who has been overtaken by it say it is.
Three tips i can give:-
1. don't even try to remember all the corners, just try and remember the scary ones !!!!
2. Look for the tyre marks on the armcos, they give a good indication of turn in and apex points used by the regulars !!!
3. Leave your testosterone at home, that mini clubman will be trying to get past you, but he will know where the next corners goes, YOU WON'T'
G.
1. don't even try to remember all the corners, just try and remember the scary ones !!!!
2. Look for the tyre marks on the armcos, they give a good indication of turn in and apex points used by the regulars !!!
3. Leave your testosterone at home, that mini clubman will be trying to get past you, but he will know where the next corners goes, YOU WON'T'
G.
and no, I haven't been yet and I so want to!!!!)
Thanks Guys...I think! It seems that if I get back alive I'll have a achieved something on a par with the Colditz boys!
What is an E111?
ian_dorrian said:
Get an E111 filled in and stamped at the post office just in case that coach really is there and you are driving a bit too quickly to stop.
What is an E111?
Not sure it covers the medi-vac service though. I'd take out serperate travel insurance just to be on the safe side. The medi-vac fees can be EUR 15k!
Hopefully you'll never need it.
Drive/ride safe.
I would try to get a few laps with other people so you can see where the circuit goes. As has previously been suggested, initially only try and remember those corners which surprised you on the pax laps.
Hopefully you'll never need it.
Drive/ride safe.
I would try to get a few laps with other people so you can see where the circuit goes. As has previously been suggested, initially only try and remember those corners which surprised you on the pax laps.
roygarth said:
Has anyone got any top tips for me?
You will see crashed cars - make sure it's not yours.
Dave
www.northloop.co.uk
My best advice is to use a driving simulator (better ones are in my view Grand Prix Legends and GTR) and drive, drive and drive again.
I did just that 5-6 years ago (using GPL) and then drove many laps at the 'Ring since then.
Although there were discrepancies between the virtual and the real 'Ring, the most important things were that (a) I knew beforehand where I could get easily caught and (b) I had also learned a reasonable line and was not a mobile chicane.
These days, with good driving simulators on PC, it makes more sense to learn virtual tracks before learning the real tracks.
I did just that 5-6 years ago (using GPL) and then drove many laps at the 'Ring since then.
Although there were discrepancies between the virtual and the real 'Ring, the most important things were that (a) I knew beforehand where I could get easily caught and (b) I had also learned a reasonable line and was not a mobile chicane.
These days, with good driving simulators on PC, it makes more sense to learn virtual tracks before learning the real tracks.
PhilRS said:
My best advice is to use a driving simulator (better ones are in my view Grand Prix Legends and GTR) and drive, drive and drive again.
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These days, with good driving simulators on PC, it makes more sense to learn virtual tracks before learning the real tracks.
Personally I would suggest that you use simulators only for knowing which way the track goes (and for having safe fun) - attempting to translate much more than that to the real thing could be dangerous (depending on the attitude of the individual).
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