scoobydoo

I am thinking about arranging a trip to the Nurburgring. Not sure when yet but please post whether you would be interested here.

Likely to be Friday eve crossing and returning Sunday evening.

Costs will be hotel at approx

MarkB

Might well be interested in this - keep us informed.

BenHampton

Hopefully not putting a dampener on things, but are you aware that the Ring isn't open to tourists every weekend?

See here for opening times:

http://www.nuerburgring.de/eng/frame_04.htm

I know for a fact that the Ring is open the entire weekend of 16/17 August as this is when I'm bringing a few mates over. Problem is that there is a DTM race that weekend so many of the hotels in the area are fully booked.

PM me if you want anymore information including pace notes, in car footage, etc etc

Cheers

Ben

Moggy

i'm interested, but not before October. This is a definate for me next year

AlexC

Interested - provided you guarantee good weather, so I can whip your uberwagon ass

rralston

Me too - and anyway, the uberwaggon bis ass was wipped at SM3 in the wet

Cheers
Rich

BenHampton

I'm gonna end up sounding like a right know-it-all, but I've been to the Ring 7 times now and have driven nearly 80 laps. That means I *slightly* know what I'm doing!

Anyway, the weather at the Ring is often totally unpredictable and on my last trip at Easter, we actually had snow in the morning and bright sunshine in the afternoon. Bizarre! In fact, I've never had a trip that's been rained off but I think that's just luck.

The Ring is often open the entire Easter weekend and that's been a good time to go - much earlier than that and you're really running the risk of crap weather. Similarly, going after September is a bit of punt weather-wise, so I've never gone later than August to ensure good driving conditions.

Having said that, my mate Griff_Lurker has been on a rainy weekend and got a lot out of it - frequent changes of underwear excluded. He rates this as one of his better trips and you can play with the car without too much fear of things going pear-shaped. Me, I prefer a nice dry track so will go in the Easter to August bracket and keep my fingers crossed.

Oh, if you wanna see what a nice S2000 looks like on the Ring, see here:

http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/a8d91bdf/bc...CA4kH_Awu_MbStx

or miscellaneous pictures at:

http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/kedelb...rc=bc%26.view=l

If these don't work, check out

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/kedelbach

and go to the "Ring Trip Easter" folder for a taste of what's instore.

HTH

Ben