24h Nürburgring Nordschleife

[Driverdb]

This weekend the Nordschleife was packed with cars for the ADAC Zurich 24h-Rennen. Around 200 cars in lots of different classes.

Overall winners were Timo Bernhard, Marc Lieb, Romain Dumas and Marcel Tiemann in a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR and they managed 148 laps.

Here's a video of practice highlights.

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I really need to watch this race live some day!

[Fahad_H]

The flying Aston Martin is AWESOME.

My coach crashed in his black Alfa after five minutes of his race.

[Driverdb]

My coach crashed in his black Alfa after five minutes of his race.

Only 23:55 to go! :D

Anyway, it must be a complete pain in the *** to drive one of the faster cars with this much traffic on track as it is during the 24h. I found this clip of Richard Göransson preparing the BMW Z4 for the 24h at the VLN 4 hours... just look at all the annoying traffic! :mad:

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[Fahad_H]

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My coach crash.

[Ryan]

That flag was clearly visible, I'm very surprised that he missed it.

That said I one time missed the meat-ball flag for like 4 consecutive laps.:banghead:

[Maxx]

Ryan,

Careful now .. I'm watching :)

Remember that the video camera is further back, with a wider FOV and is more central than me. The 2 cars I let by had blocked my view as I approached the corner and when the flag gets visible on the video I am already looking into the corner (bit quick there :))

Wouldn't have been so bad in a 20 minute sprint but we still had 22.5hrs to go :( so still feel pretty bad about it but as everyone keeps telling me (and I keep telling my bank manager/wife) "That's Racing!"

Maxx

[Maxx]

I just posted my quali lap + telemetry on Youtube :

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=b34EIgZc54Y

Maxx

[Maxx]

I also noticed that the original crash video didn't get the YouTube HQ treatment so have reposted in a suitable format : http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=I94E-nAlbIk