This thread is about crashing your car on the Nürburgring...

[Shomegrown]

So, any ******* with a license and car can go balls out on the most challenging race track in the world.

What could possibly go wrong?







Almost a crash...





I love it that the wrecker is mixing it up in traffic.





Understeer in an Audi? No wai!





The aftermath...







And some classics...

[Fritz27]

All that tells me is that lots of Americans visit the Ring. Europeans don't crash. It's true, I read it in a book.

[euro+tuner]

So, any ******* with a license and car can go balls out on the most challenging race track in the world.

What could possibly go wrong?

Hahhahahahaha

[Mr Miyagi]

Watched the Top Gear Nurburgring Episode where Jeremy was trying to get a 10 Minute time, and every few corners there were cars being pulled out. Really slippery over there.

[Subwoofers]

I swear the 7 sec ring master is a member here in TCL. I remember him posting about it when the video was posted up last year.

[valfaw]

best part is you get a bill for the damages and services needed to drag the carnage away...

could make for an expensive vacation.

[KrautFed]

A car dying on the Ring is like dying of an aneurysm during an orgasm with Jessica Biel. There's no other way to go.

[Subwoofers]

A car dying on the Ring is like dying of an aneurysm during an orgasm with Jessica Biel. There's no other way to go.

Even if it only lasts 7secs?

[Mr Miyagi]

A car dying on the Ring is like dying of an aneurysm during an orgasm with Jessica Biel. There's no other way to go.

I dont think that is an accurate comparison...A car dying is nothing like a human dying.

[Murderface]

I remember from driving in a sim that Adanauer Forst is a deceptively slow chicane...I bet most of those people were riding the brakes freaking out about coming in too hot and spun around

Here's a good save (or was it on purpose?):

[Woodski]

No save.

He looped it just after leaving the shot.

[.KIX.]

If you are in a trck, and there is a crash the most stupid thing you can do is stay and get down and walk like a fool.
I have seen terrible accidents caused by other racing cars to stupid dolts who dont know how to behave in a track...

And yes most Americans do not know **** about driving fast, most american roads are flat and straight and on top of that they have a ridiculous speed limit, hence they come to the Ring only to crash...

[KrautFed]

Even if it only lasts 7secs?

Lets make if fair... I'd trade 7 min orgasm w/ Jessica Biel over 7 min Ring lap time anyday.

[jduarte]

Sorry to be a VW nerd, but the R at the end of this vid sounds incredible:

[warrenW]

there are soooo many crappy cars that race there!!

[Woodski]

there are soooo many crappy cars that race there!!

[weitaro]

there are soooo many crappy cars that race there!!

[Swapped6n]

best to go there when there isnt so much traffic.

Therefore, you arent "competing" and therefore driving way too hard.


A few of my friends from New York are coming with me to the ring this summer, i think the night before we hit the track I will get us all to gather around the TV and watch these haha Just to add a bit of extra 'oh yea... that CAN happen'.

[gas, meet foot]

A car dying on the Ring is like dying of an aneurysm during an orgasm with Jessica Biel. There's no other way to go.

Except that the manufacturer of the bed and sheets doesn't send you a bill for cleanup.

[gas, meet foot]

A car dying on the Ring is like dying of an aneurysm during an orgasm with Jessica Biel. There's no other way to go.

Except that the manufacturer of the bed and sheets sends you a bill for cleanup.

[Shomegrown]

best part is you get a bill for the damages and services needed to drag the carnage away...

could make for an expensive vacation.

I've forgotten the exact price, but you also must pay a couple hundred dollars per meter of guardrail you damage.

[Mikedav]

I've not crashed myself thankfully but was a passenger in a MKIV Golf GTi When the driver lost it in the wet....my first ever lap too. Snapped left, right, left then slid across the grass and bang. We clipped the guardrail at about 70 on the rear left corner, minor damage. Pulled over, waited for the track inspection boys to confirm no damage to the guardrail, drove off.

I swear the 7 sec ring master is a member here in TCL. I remember him posting about it when the video was posted up last year.

It was years ago, IIRC they simply pulled the bumper out with a chain around a rock and then were back on track half an hour later, it wasn't a big one. There were photos of the car after floating around at one point.

[VdubChaos]

What's the old saying? If you can't push it off the cliff, don't race it.

[Archaeopteryx]

As found on http://nurburgring.org.uk/prices.php :

Base fee for attendance of armco truck: €150
Removing damaged armco: €10/metre (x2 or x3 or x4 for multiple-height sections)
Replacement armco: €31/metre (x2 or x3 for double/triple height)
Removing damaged armco posts: €5.10 each
Replacing armco post: €39 each
Safety car attendance: €82 per 30 mins (car + 2 people)
Circuit closure: €1,350 per hour
Recovery truck: €190 (inc VAT)

[NoDubJustYet]

best to go there when there isnt so much traffic.

That's why I'm going next week. It shouldn't be too crowded this early in the season.

[Swapped6n]

That's why I'm going next week. It shouldn't be too crowded this early in the season.

Thats great Weather should be good too, i think..its warming up at least!

Ill be going hopefully in june or so..maybe we can meet up there for a few laps/laughs

[Sir UNBANNED_GERBIL M.B.]

I love the classics vid. All the old BMW's want to go around backwards and all the OLD VW's want to go around upside down

[patrickvr6]

Seems like the guy in the yellow GT3 lifted and paid the price.

Great thread!

[Dravenport]

Lets make if fair... I'd trade 7 min orgasm w/ Jessica Biel over 7 min Ring lap time anyday.

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[Mosbius Designs]

I worked with a guy that flipped a 5 series about 10 years ago on the ring. Some guys in motorcyles were screwing around in front of him...it was either take them out or flip the car. He and his wife walked away with just bumps and cuts. He showed me pictures of the car afterwards...it was nuts.

[Shomegrown]

All that tells me is that lots of Americans visit the Ring. Europeans don't crash. It's true, I read it in a book.

What do you think would happen if they opened up Laguna Seca and made it a free for all...

-A couple bucks to get on
-NO tech inspection
-NO instruction
-NO safety gear requirement
-NO flaggers
-Cars/trucks/busses/RV's/motorcycles/quads are OK

Do you think it would work? I don't.

[gas, meet foot]

What do you think would happen if they opened up Laguna Seca and made it a free for all...

Do you think it would work? I don't.

I think it would work BEAUTIFULLY, as long as you had to sign an iron-clad disclaimer before you enter. You-tube was MADE for this. Hell, it could be a Sunday-evening show, a la America's Funniest Home Videos.

[Shomegrown]

I dunno how he managed this one...



Wrecking the rental car, glad I'm not this guy.

[Richard Hurts]

The United States and it's litigious society could learn a lot from the Europeans.

It's called personal accountability. You race, you crash, you pay.

[C4 A6]

The majority of Americans can't drive for ****. This ******* I know keeps wanting to race my Integra in his SRT-4. I keep saying "why not do it legally at a road course"? He thinks he'll win despite my 4 HPDE days under my belt at 18 (and many more to come) because it's a mad tyte SRT-4 with factory stage 1 making 280wheel and cold air on the snail and no front camber and just strut bars and untuned suspension. He hasn't gone to a road course once.

:hammer: on me, I'm beat. Can't compete with that godly SRT-4.

Americans can't drive; why do you think most "racers" choose to drag race instead of road race? That's right, they don't know how to take turns fast without hitting a wall and damaging their precious 40k EVO.