So last week I went with 2 friends I met off the internet to the Nurburgring, and thought I was gonna die many times on my 2 laps around, as I didn't know all the track's turns through the 20.8 kms.
This week, I did around 30~40 laps on the ring on the PC, as well as watch quite a lot of onboard videos to get familiar with the track.
On my 2nd lap today (my 4th ever lap), there was almost no traffic, and I supposedly took 8:30 from Antoniusbrucke to the overpass at the end of the lap, according to my friend's stopwatch (I didn't know he was timing me)
The fastest published lap I've seen for the Z4 3.0 is 8:32, but that probably includes the bit of Dotinger Hohe between the overpass and Antoniusbrucke, which adds around 25s to the laptime.
I'm very pleased as that means I'm only about 25s off pace.
Some info on the car - it has the standards suspension (does not have the sport package), and was on the run flat tyres. I drove with DSC in DTC mode
I did 4 more laps after that but traffic got bad, and my tyres seemed to lose some of their performance too. Even so most laps were around 9:10 despite traffic and yellow flags
On one lap I almost crashed though - took Brunnchen too fast and ended up wide, drifting through the graveltrap at the exit - happened too fast for me to even think "oh shit!
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I don't recall many cars passing me today - A Porsche 997 GT3, a stripped out E36 M3, but not that many other cars :eek5:
Bikes suck though - oftentimes they pass you on the straight and then block the road through the turns
Oh yeah some pictures
captured by webcam:
the eekmobile:
me about to pass somebody
map of the Ring
an example of the roads taken to go to the Ring:
view from the top of the Nurburg castle
