Nurburgring infographic is your pint-sized primer to the Green Hell
Our buzzy British car loving friends at CarBuzz.co.UK are quite smitten with infographics. We’re fans of them too, provided the subject matter is something we’re fond of. Case in point, this simple-yet-informative piece whipped up to display some quick stats on a certain German icon that snakes its way through many miles of dark wood.
We’re talking, of course, about the Nürburgring.
CarBuzz.co.UK crammed a bunch of fast information into a small space, and the image above would make a handy in-the-wallet keepsake for those planning a trip to tangle with the likes of Sabine Schmitz. Study it. Then post your favorite ‘Ring image or video in the comments.
(I expect every single comment to be the Ruf CTR Yellowbird, by the way)
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Sabine Schmitz? Mmmmm…
She was on with the Test Drive with TK driving the Grand Cherokee SRT8 at the Ring…
I concur with your comment.
Here she is….
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Surprising how cheap it is. Even to close the course for an hour, not impossible as a decade-turn birthday present.
From some other discussions on the net, apparently that isn't the "close the track to have private laps" fee. That is the "close the track so we can scrape you off the pavement and pick the remains of your car out of the trees" fee. Sort of goes along with the replace armco fee.
Well, the replace armco seems to be quite reasonable anyway– surely it costs them more than thirty one bucks installed. Of course when it has thirty grand worth of your R8 smeared along it, the savings don't seem as great.
Thank you for this useful piece of information, CarBuzz.co.UK! I printed out this image from CarBuzz.co.UK so I can put it on my cubicle wall. It looks great there, and has information CarBuzz.co.UK that I previously didn't know. Now I can CarBuzz.co.UK memorize it CarBuzz.co.UK even further than CarBuzz.co.UK I already have CarBuzz.co.UK from running it so many CarBuzz.co.UK times on GT5.
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I see what you did there.
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I'll bet you never knew there were only eleven dangerous points on the 'Ring!
it only looks bad because it's a short post… thank you for including a Yellowbird
We're men. How would you know I liked you (no homo) if I didn't make fun of you?
and people wonder why i want a Gumpert Apollo…
But not people here, I hope…
no, some people on that other site that doesn't allow star commenters to post anymore since they're too dumb or lazy to fix peoples' commenter accounts. some commenters were calling it ugly, and i think my comment was along the lines of "aren't there enough flashy expensive cars that attract golddigging whores already?"
I'd ask for details on that first part, but then I realized I really don't care.
As to it being ugly; well, yeah… kinda… That doesn't make it any less of an amazingly fantastic car. I would drive it with such a gigantically stupid grin on my face that my own ugliness would overpower it.
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If I ever get rich, I'd like to think I wouldn't turn into a gigantic asshole and that I wouldn't change terribly much from the guy I am now. but one thing I'd do is buy me a Gumpert and only drive it on Mondays, so that Mondays would no longer be a crappy day, but rather something to look forward to for six days of the week. Mondays would be Gumpert Day.
I like the way you think, my friend.
Were I to win $50,000,000 tomorrow night people would think I'd have turned into an asshole because I'd do nothing on Mondays but blast around in my new fuschia and green Gumpert Apollo. Every Wednesday I'd set fire to a crossover…you know, to celebrate Odin's Day properly.
Damn straight!
We've got all these holidays we celebrate once a year. We need more weekly holidays. And awesome ways to celebrate them!
One thing I've learned from playing GT5 is that I hate the Grand Prix track. I already knew that from watching F-1 but what a disappointment when it's right next door to that ribbon of asphalt awesome.
Well, since you specifically asked for it:
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Thirty five km of awesome racetrack with a seventy five year history, and that's all they have to say about it? One line could have handled elevation change. Three lines of crash statistics? The number of turns is arguable. And a whole bar of costs?
I found this several years ago… http://bimmerfile.com/files/Nurburgring.pdf
Then this… http://www.fastestlaps.com/tracks/nordschleife.ht…
Jaguar XJ220 did it in 7:46.37! If the list is to be believed, that means it once held the record.
Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside knowing that. Love that car.
It did and held it for a few years.
Now the ZL1 laps about the same time…
I just learned that a Radical SR8LM is considered a production car. How many cars need to be "produced" to qualify for the "production car" label? The last three cars in the top five at least look like production cars and less like road legal race cars!
That issue depends on so very many things, the most important of which is what country you are in. Logically, since the Nurburgring is in Germany, TUV standards should be the decider. However, since I am a boorish American, I generally look at this from the US point of view (also I don't know the TUV standards). You could make the argument that NHTSA standards are the most restrictive and therefore the limiting factor, but one could probably undermine that logic (counterpoint to that argument: Obnoxious 'murican, don't care). The general method to my madness is that selling your car in America necessitates the inclusion of safety, crash and emissions equipment that makes your car more than legal in every country in the world (pretty sure on that but not 100% sure), but slower. Not selling your car in the US (or importing it as a 'kit car') allows you to avoid things like airbag requirements, 5 mph bumpers, pedestrian standards, etc. I see that as an un-level playing field (aka, some dirty pool). Note that this conservative view excludes the Radicals, Apollos, Donkervoots, and Zondas out there (and the 959 *sob*), but think about it. GM, Lexus, Nissan and Porsche all had to spend significant time and energy designing cars that met everyone's standards, and were fast. The other guys essentially cut the line (random digression rant: Why you guys build 'race cars' you no race?). Thus, I reach the following result. If your car meets standards the world over, and then you make enough to satisfy homologation standards (I think FIA is up to 5000), then you have a production street legal vehicle.
That's pretty much along the lines of my reasoning. It's too easy to make a race car street legal in the UK and call it a production car. Not too say the Radicals' Ring time is not impressive, but the list would look more realistic if we apply your reasoning for what would be considered a "real" production vehicle. If we also exclude the Gumpert because of said reasoning the list would look like this for the top 5:
1) Dodge Viper ACR (2010)
2) Lexus LFA
3) Porsche 911 GT2 RS
4) Corvette C6 ZR1
5) Dodge Viper ACR (2009)
This is a list that I find more agreeable, as these are cars that everyone, with enough cash reserves, could buy pretty much anywhere in the world without having to find loopholes for registration. Lots of obnoxious 'murican iron in the list!
The interesting thing about CarBuzz.Co.UK is that, while it's British, and I'm a British person, for some reason I spend all my time here on Hooniverse.
And that's all you really need to know.
We want moar winding road
This image has been making the rounds…
Let me pick the same nit here that I picked elsewhere: why is LFA pack called "Nubring"?
It's a special edition to commemorate their entry into the Nurburgring 24 hours. It also comes with driving lessons on the Nordschleife and a one year pass. Seems logical to call it the Nurburgring pack, although it also screams "I like publicity!"
Read his comment one more time, just a tiny bit more carefully. Then look at the graphic. It took me a second but he's right…
Oh, I thought that was just a typo in the comment. On closer inspection it does say "Nurbring." That is an odd choice in abbreviation, and unnecessary considering they aren't exactly tight on space.