The Nurburgring Just Banned Production Car Lap Records - Page 6

BMR Sales · 09-22-2015, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Denis

there's a video Top Gear did of them racing that transit van around the ring, if I remember correctly the woman driving it wasn't wearing a helmet.

found it

I would trust Sabine without one though!

CamaroSkooter · 09-22-2015, 12:42 PM

What I don't understand about all of this is, if you have a spectator fatality at a race track, shouldn't your solution be to prohibit spectators from the area where the spectator was struck (and all similar locations) instead of banning cars from going fast on a track that's designed for cars to...you know...go fast?

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Originally Posted by CmeltoN91

Sounds like Circuit of The Americas needs to step up and offer official testing times!! If F1 uses it,surely it would be sufficient for testing of high powered consumer cars.

Why do people use commas to represent decimal locations? To me, that reads three thousand, four hundred and eighteen miles...that's greater than the distance from Miami, FL to Seattle, WA...or from Bangor, ME to San Diego, CA.

102SS · 09-22-2015, 05:13 PM

That was awesome.

What in the world was he thinking?

He had absolutely no chance of making that next turn at that speed even if he hadn't crashed.

KaBoom1701 · 09-22-2015, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Apex Motorsports

You don't impose a speed limit when you find a safety issue. You fix the safety issue. Its a race track. The production car record laps is a big part of what gives "The Ring" its world status. Sad.

+1 Agreed

FKNGRSY · 10-02-2015, 04:59 AM

Don't spectate on the outside of a corner for starters. Those that do, are often photographers looking for crash photos.

I went to the ring when I was in Germany and it is incredible in person. Losing lap times and imposing speed limits sucks. The ring is iconic. I am a diehard motor sports fan so I guess it means more to me than others hah.

09-22-2015, 05:13 PM	#73
102SS waiting at the tree Drives: SIM 2010 2SS/RS A6 Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Niagara Falls Posts: 4,540	That was awesome. What in the world was he thinking? He had absolutely no chance of making that next turn at that speed even if he hadn't crashed. __________________ 2010 2SS/RS A6 Just a few bolt-ons and appearance doo dads

10-02-2015, 04:59 AM	#75
FKNGRSY Drives: 2014 1SS Join Date: May 2014 Location: Canada Posts: 158	Don't spectate on the outside of a corner for starters. Those that do, are often photographers looking for crash photos. I went to the ring when I was in Germany and it is incredible in person. Losing lap times and imposing speed limits sucks. The ring is iconic. I am a diehard motor sports fan so I guess it means more to me than others hah.