American reacts to Nürburgring "The Green Hell"

[@craddocraddoc]

You should really watch a nürburgring-compilation, not for the crashes, but for the vehicles driving on the track. From mailmen with their vans to oldtimers, to coaches, everything can be seen on the track there...

[@siriuspyramid7441]

Totally agreed there are many insolits vehicles 🧐😅 (no spoil)!

[@katii1997]

... nah let's be honest... he should watch a compilation for the crashes

[@marvinlinnarz5856]

Btw the 6h Race is tomorrow from 12pm-6pm Central European Summer Time

[@drachenfliger1368]

And the Porsche 919 Evo Speedrun

[@siriuspyramid7441]

@@katii1997 no this trash to laughing about people were in danger and lost their cars. To my point of view.☹

[@mgcharoudin]

Holy sht you dug up old overweight footage of me😂😂😂

[@B-B224]

😂😂😂

[@The3COS]

I thought the same in the moment I saw it. "wait thats our car with misha" 🤣

[@bakerfx4968]

This was the first video I saw of you and then went and found more recent stuff and was shocked at how much more in shape you were! It’s a good thing! This shows your progress haha

[@evolad2463]

you're still overweight

[@True-Success1million]

lmao

[@holgerczubka5453]

The Nürburgring is a official public road! It's defined as a one way street with toll which you can access with your private car. RIP Sabine Schmitz She Was a race driver and the queen of the Ring. She died by cancer

[@archiegates650]

Yeah, the legend, queen of the Nürburg Ring Sabine: Especially when she challenged the Top Gear Guy Richard Hammond driving a van.

[@michaelmester4790]

@@archiegates650 I thought this was Jeremy Clarkson.

[@archiegates650]

@@michaelmester4790 Sorry if I was wrong. I dont make these fine distinctions, one of Thommys from that show.

[@vHindenburg]

@@archiegates650 Just wanted to comment on the delivery van thing, its really worth the watch as it is quite entertaining.

[@xrecix]

​@@michaelmester4790 acutally it was rich hammond kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3zMdGNplNyJoMU

[@conceptSde]

25 years ago I owned a Porsche 911 and made regular weekend trips to the Nürburgring to have some fun. But there was a sudden end when I came around one of the blind corners and suddenly had a coach with tourists right in front of me. My speed was around 180 km/h at that time, the coach at an estimated 40. Fortunately I managed to pass the bus (no chance for braking). Although I had paid for three more rounds I left the track immediately and never returned. A few years later I heard that coaches were banned from the track because they hac regularly caused horrible accidents. The learning is that driving fast is obviously dangerous but on the Nürburgring driving slow is dangerous, too. One more thing: Most European car manufactures facilitate the Nordschleife as a testing track. In just a few weeks you can simulate years of a car‘s life in terms of stress, wearing and behaviour at the limit.

[@michaelgoetze2103]

Not just on race tracks. On motorways one of the gravest dangers in the speed differential between fast and slow cars.

[@frederickpallas7130]

My girlfriend wanted me to buy a birthday present some laps round the ring,but with a 650 KG /60 HP VW Polo i just declined that offer.way to dangerous if you dont have something like a 328 bmw which is more like it.

[@fonkyman]

@@frederickpallas7130 all these comments are stupid... nordshleife has open tourist days were everybody can go on.. but its also has track days for paying members... if you really wanna destroy the ring or yourself you need to pay for track day...

[@ilias9875]

​@@frederickpallas7130depends on your driving experience i know a girl with a VW Polo who drives like hell over ther Nürburgring and catches up with the big Boys

[@abridgingpanda7372]

German? And by gosh, I really want either 996, 997 or a 718. Or a TVR Chimaera to go on Track.

[@tosa2522]

One lap on the Nürburgring/Nordschleife puts as much strain on the car as 120 kilometers on a normal road. For this reason, it is also a test track for car manufacturers.

[@Muck006]

That depends on what you call "a normal road" ... because not every country keeps their roads in good condition ... and the USA is stupidly famous for "only having straight roads" (because their drivers cant turn corners).

[@watersnortmoment3734]

@Muck006 You have to realize most of us Americans view racing as straight lines. That’s why our cars aren’t made to corner either. I personally wish there were curvy roads, but there’s nothing close to me that would be fun to rip a car through, and the ones that exist have cops everywhere. Although there are plenty of American drivers that you wouldn’t even have a chance against through corners, they’re just in actual racing series.

[@TKommando]

​@watersnortmoment3734 may I point you to the Pontiac Fiero? They may not have a ton of horsepower, but they make up for it with their handling characteristics. And there's a strong aftermarket that can also further improve the handling.

[@zorro8027]

@@watersnortmoment3734 Uhhh no, cars like the corvette and mustang have been designed to take corners for a while now, including things like the Camaro, Cadillacs, etc. etc. The cars you’re thinking of are challengers and chargers, which are generally driven by people whom can’t corner.

[@sabinereimer7809]

Was going down this racetrack years ago with a 1956 Volkswagen Beetle...😂 earnd a lot of waving and laughter from people watching along the most dangerous parts... because I was going slow! But it was so much fun!😂😂😂

[@arnodobler1096]

👍🤣

[@kaileyg3947]

Geil!!! 😂 The original Beetle can do so 😂😂😂❤

[@berlindude75]

In 1976 at the Formula One (F1) German Grand Prix, Austrian three-times F1 World Champion Niki Lauda crashed on this track in his Ferrari 312T2 racing car just before Bergwerk at Nordschleife ("North Loop"). The Ferrari burst into flames and Lauda was trapped in it until freed and pulled from it by fellow drivers a few minutes later. He barely survived and suffered severe burns to his face and head, scarring him for life. The 2013 Ron Howard movie "Rush" with Daniel Brühl and Chris Hemsworth covers this crash and the Hunt-Lauda F1 rivalry.

[@timsuter3030]

Niki lauda will forever be F1s goat closely followed by Clark and vettel

[@semiramisubw4864]

hes also still on TV when its about races. I kinda like him

[@berlindude75]

@@semiramisubw4864 Still? Niki Lauda died four years ago (May 20, 2019).

[@derauditor5748]

Daniel Brühl was SO awesome in his Performance as Nikki Lauda.

[@FlankerB3]

not just external burns. His lungs were burned from inhaling hot gasses.

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

A gifted German female driver, living nearby, the late Sabine Schmitz, for some years drove a "Ringtaxi" taking paying customers round the Ring in a fast car, and most likely scared the shit out of them!!! She also was a guest in English 5th Gear, driving in a commercial van at record speeds, round Nürburgring.

[@ferrari2k]

*Top Gear but the rest is correct. Sorry, I'm German, cannot help being pedantic :D

[@AngelinaJolie734]

Walter Röhrl to know the Nürbugring perfectly, and he still does good times on this track.

[@Axel_R_not_F]

On some weekends and during the week it´s normaly open for everyone, who is willing to pay about 30$ for a round. On several weekends it´s closed for racing events.

[@juergenstange6844]

Sabine Schmitz (unforgotten 😢) , the queen of the "ring", did it with a van. So funny ! She had overtaken many of the wannabees. Look at Top Gear...

[@jurgenwittmann2905]

You must watch videos with Sabine Schmitz. She was the queen of the Nürburgring. Nobody had more rounds on the ring. Her videos with the BMW ring taxi are legendary. Unfortunately, she died much too early of cancer. Rest in peace Sabine!

[@MegaManNeo]

The Nürburgring is amazing albeit plaged by weird weather phenomenons during the time when the 24h race actually happens (snow and aquaplaning like crazy being mentioned). Never had the chance to go there myself, my boss invited us past year as he is a former professional on that track but I had an appointment on the same day and so I still wait for another chance to get there. Watching 24h races on both the Green Hell and LeMan's is pretty intense, I can tell ya.

[@muffin5949]

If you are at the Nürburgring on the Seats, like i was this Year, its even harder than in front of the Tv

[@berndheghmanns1437]

Walter Röhrl, the two-time world rally champion, holds the record for the slowest lap on the Green Hell!! What did he ride? a Porsche P111. Look it up, what kind of vehicle that is!!😂😂😂

[@EyMannMachHin]

The legendary P111, Porsche even had an ad for when someone brought it in for yearly inspection 🤣😂🤣😂

[@arnodobler1096]

😂Built in Manzell near Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance.

[@berndheghmanns1437]

@@EyMannMachHin Yes the P111 is a legend for it self!!🤣🤣🤣

[@martinkasper197]

The P111 is a legend like the Lanz Bulldog...🚜 Does one remember the Stihl Traktoren - from the nowadays famous chainsaw manufacturer?

[@HATECELL]

Auto Motor und Sport once did a full lap with a Claas Xerion. But that one is about 3 times as fast as a P111

[@skinnyjohnsen]

Studying the map and terrain before trying it out is a good advice.

[@windhelmguard5295]

i'd really recommend having a co-pilot with experience on the track, it's extremely treacherous.

[@Metzwerg74]

most important is to have respect for the track....

[@neoplan6116]

Well Ryan - there is one problem when you driving there at tourist day: even you dont want to drive fast, you start to get a kind of race fever and if you dont tame it you will go faster and faster.... btw, nominally it is a public toll road!

[@Jeni10]

Motorsport is not a hobby, it’s a professional sport with millions of supporters globally!

[@georgeb5262]

It can be both.

[@MotorsportTukker]

for most its a hobby

[@enzoferrari8980]

i live near the nürburgring and its just the main part of my life. watching a race is my first memory i ever had (at age 1 or 2) and my life is soooo much about cars, i dont even bother thinking about other things. im 20 and have never had a relationship, thats partially because theres just car stuff in my head. and on weekends i take my own car to the ring, a brutally underpowered vw fox with 54hp but on semi slicks and that thing will die on every straight, in one section with a 17% elevation im literally getting slower at 110kph but because the car is so light, the turns are a dream. i can literally stick to the rear bumper of a fully built, rollcaged, semi slicked, interior stripped, bucket seat, kw v3 track tool like an e36 and stay on him on my favorite section which is hohe acht (the highest point in altitude) until brünnchen. but one thing is very wrong: people dont crash their car frequently, you watched the absolute wrong video to get to know the track. the guy who made the video has no idea either. almost everyone who even does a single lap knows pretty well what corners are coming at what point by at least watching videos or by playing some racing games. most people there have their project car that they only have for doing laps on weekends and ofc everyone of them has experience. you will never go like “haha lets go flat out and see what happens”, the first laps are always very careful to get a feeling of your cars behavior and feel the bumps in the road to get used to how you will have to predict the cars reaction when you take them at higher speeds. and going on the limit in a regular road car is actually so fast already that its miles out of anyones comfort zone and you always underestimate the car instead of overestimating it. its really a wrong impression that people crash their cars there all the time. let there be 2-3 accidents per day with many thousands of laps being driven. and then theres a lot of safety systems ofc, as soon as anything unusual happens, they bring out the flags and indicate that you have to go slow and watch out, and even if they wouldnt do that and even though corners are sometimes blind (by far not 90% of them) you are still slow enough to brake when anything would be on the road. the faster you can go through a corner, the wider that corners radius has to be auyomatically so you see further. crashing into a standing car ag 200kph because you couldnt see it is just not happening. also, the track is very wide, there can always be 3 cars next to each other in terms of space easily. come to germany, ill take you for a lap xD… i personally have done about 19.500 laps in granturismo and i have several world records at the track, including the fastest time in any road car with any modifications and settings to the car, the fastest ever lap in the night without lights (yes its basically going blindfolded entirely) and the fastest lap in reverse gear ever done, made possible by an unusual gearbox setting that allows you to make the first gear suuuuper long. and simracing helps crazy for real life experience. when i got my license in 2021 and did my first lap, i already knew every millimeter of the track and how every bump and every curb feels in any possible speed you can hit them at so that my first lap irl was literally just muscle memory in slow motion.

[@christophfriedrich5289]

Next you should react to the Porsche 919 Evo record lap on the Nordschleife

[@Metzwerg74]

true...

[@Prof.Dr.Diagnose]

3:13 Not only normal cars. Someone, a few years back, even drove a tourist bus on the Ring, which was absolutely hilarious

[@Happymali10]

Small info: The track in the video is the "Nordschleife" (northern loop), the original "Nürburgring", named that as it loops around the Nürburg (a castle). They later added the GP-track (a conventional racetrack, usually referred to as the Nürburgring). there was also a "Südschleife" (southern loop), but that was demolished a few decades ago.

[@mueesli4745]

Actually most parts of the Südschleife are not demolished, but repaved as public roads. One of those leads from the GP track down to the village of Müllenbach, but some smaller parts later on the track are now on private grounds or in fact demolished or grown over.

[@darkredvan]

You definitely have to check out Sabine Schmitz, the „Ring Queen“. Especially her driving Top Gear’s Ford Transit Diesel Van, a complete lap of ~ 13 Km in just over 10 mins. She drove the „Ring Taxi“ too. RIP Sabine.

[@Arverni_Ursi]

Touristenfahrten days are the open to public days. You go there with your car, wether it's a Corvette C7 Z06 or a Mitsubichi Colt, you pay to enter, and that's it, you're rolling on the most difficult racetrack of the world.

[@aaronmahlke]

Just finished watching a Misha video just to see him here again, legend.

[@basslastig7456]

I was born near "the ring". My childhood was influenced by racecars and motocycles. And also the tragic days with serious accidents with serious injuries and deaths. Nevertheless, the nürburgring is an important part of German society. Tourism on the one hand economically on the other. A piece of gold for the structurally weak Eifel. Every visitor who dares should treat themselves to a tourist ride. With your own car or with a 550hp taxi. AMAZING.

[@asaris_]

Honestly, camping on the track and walking parts of it (Rock am Ring Festival) is already scary... 🤣

[@Bloodbound89]

out of curiosity we drove it virtual in a gokart XD ... took us a forking 76 mins XD

[@wolkentaenzer]

I attended the 24h-Race some years ago as a visitor. Only 60% of the cars finished the race. One of the Finisher was covered in Duct-Tape after a small accident.

[@jacobmoses3712]

On most days except for winter, you can pay a fee and drive your car around the Nurburgring. They have races there too but most of the time the circuit is open to the public

[@miaklauk16]

I go to the 24h race with my aunt every year and the atmosphere at the ring is something different. my aunt works in a racing team and travels all around the world but she says the atmosphere at the ring is one of a kind

[@ElTio.45-70]

1:25 That's Hans Laine, with AAW Racing Porsche 908/2, died in practice session for Nürburgring 1000 Km race in 1970. He was 25.

[@nicomeier8098]

"I don't understand, it looks like people are driving normal cars through there". Some do, in fact most. But a lot of them are German/European high performance cars and lots of drivers have specialized track cars, called track tools.

[@adlerweb]

Fun fact: A Part of the Nürburgring/Nordschleife is actually closed and cars nowadays use a detour - the "Steilstrecke" (literally "Steep section") features a 27% incline, which was considered "too steep" for most cars. After being build in the 1920s several cars even flipped over backwards. It was optional to use until the 60s, nowadays it is closed off and only used in special occasions to test cars.

[@benjaminbeier4036]

Everyone can drive on the Nürburgring and its called "Touristenfahrten" (touristdrives). There is loads of fun video compilations about that on KZbin.

[@conbertbenneck49]

Ryan; The Nuerburg Ring was a "make-work" project in the early '30's. It was built in a forest, and as a driver you have no physical reference hints to the road because there are no houses, road crossings, signs, - none of the normal things that as a driver tell you where you are at. The layout is fiendishly clever. You come up a hill (and can't see the coming turn till you crest the hill, and then find that you have a sharp right or left turn. The only clue you as a driver have, are the kilometer markers. When I lived in Koeln, my cohort / our helicopter pilot and I would declare a holiday from our daily helicopter problems (we were delivering 25 Sikorsky helicopters to the German Army) and jump into our 356 Porsches; head for the Nuerburg Ring and chase each other several times around the track for an afternoon. Anybody can drive it; you just pay an admission fee.... The idiot drivers, thinking that they are race drivers, usually manage to crash their cars. The towing service is happy to retrieve the wrecked car and take it back to the entrance. We've put in many a driving round on the Nuerburg Ring track, but drove very carefully, knowing its deviousness. The real Grande Prix racing speeds that race drivers are doing means that they have to know every meter of the course; know exactly where they are on the course; and, .... know exactly what's coming at them in the next corner. The slightest misjudgements on the part of the driver, and he's dead.

[@prinzleistenschmerz8171]

Hello my friend, I live in Germany near the Nürburgring. There are open race days there. That means you can drive any car, or motorcycle on the track on those special days. However, if you crash your car.... Bad luck. At the annual 24-hour race, several professional racing teams race in different classes. That's close to 200 race cars. All at the same time against each other. You can find many videos of it here on youtube. Also a 24 hour recording. Check it out when your baby doesn't want to sleep. Standing at the track and feeling the race cars doesn't replace that in any way of course.... If you still have questions, write me! Cheers! 🎉

[@MegaBorusse1900]

A tourist ride trip on the Ring costes 35 Euros. That is quite affordable and the racing track makes money when there are no big events. It is quite a sight to see wrecked, pimped-up family cars at the guard rail, while almost crying fathers, who thought they had the car safely under control, call their wives with trembling voices. P.S. Most German car insurance companies do not pay for damage caused by such trips.

[@TheMannificent]

You should look for a video of the fastest lap record with onboard cam - thats insane! But even more insane, but not related to Germany, is the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy. Thats a motorcycle course/race on the Isle of Man. On average there are 2.6 deaths per year on the race

[@pokeface6675]

Fun fact: the Nürburgring is a public tool road for most of the year you can get in any road legal car and pay to drive there or alternatively, pay for a ringtaxi to have someone that drives there every day drive you around in modified (still road legal) cars

[@rileyxxxx]

It's also used as camping zone for rock am Ring festival. I used to camp on that track several times. You can barely fit one tent between the track and the barrier.

[@marcusbalzer8393]

On days without racing events or car industry bookings for tests, the ring is open to the public. Then you see regular cars on the track. They got the name "Touristenfahrten". "Tourist drives".

[@herrlehmann2101]

yes, normal people go with normal production-cars on that track. another thing is the weather. i saw an endurance race and in the starting round/pit-out-round the sun was shing at startline, but 10 km after it it gave a huge hail storm on an uphill part -> all cars got slicks on it and wasnt able to get uphill :D

[@Rico197_]

I drive it in my tuned Skoda every year. I life 30min away from the track. You defently must see a video about the 24H NBR, where nearly 300.000 fans are coming and camping there.

[@E85stattElektro]

The Nürburgring is basically the international reference track for highspeed cars. Manufacturers from all around the world come to the Nürburgring to test their cars there, if they think that they have got something really fast. The fastest american street legal car around the ring was the Dodge Viper ACR with 7:01. The record is held by the Mercedes-AMG One with 6:30. PS: You should watch a whole video where someone actually goes around that ring!

[@JanS-660]

My Home Track, last Saturday was "Run and Bike Day". I drove with my Mountainbike 71km/h down to "Fox Hole"😁

[@ralfjansen9118]

By the way, if you want to visit: Nürburg is in the very west of Germany in the Eifel mountains, Rheinland, don't mismatch it with the famous Nürnberg in northeast Bavaria. The Nürburgring has been opened in 1927 when racing was a lifethereatening adventure so there are only few safety measures, at least on the famous north loop; modern Formula 1 races were held on the much shorter south loop, of course with recent safety standards. Yes, every amateur could buy a ticket and explicitly risk his life on that circuit.

[@user-rp4je2gc2o]

I've spun out at schwedenkreuz at just under 200kmh, finishing 4 brand new michelin pilot supersport tires in one slide, luckily no barriers were harmed and i went home on a set of spare wheels

[@keyandeweerd7714]

Hey Ryan, nurburgring is a very known track worldwide where amateur people want to race around, you can buy a ticket and go for a lap around the track with almost any car. Last year I went on vacation to the Nurburgring with some friends and went and got a lap around the track, people from all over the world come to visit the Nurburgring with their car to take a lap. It is really fascinating to see that you have people from England, the Netherlands, Germany itself, France and so on go to that track and see what kinds of cars there are

[@zskfalken]

You should watch the on board video of the Track record in under 6 minutes set by the Prosche 919 Hybrid Evo. It takes corners at full speed where you‘d normally brake. Very impressive!

[@akteno2796]

The German normal car is basically a race car to Most others... A completely normal VW Passat goes up to 230 km/h And the cars you saw there are the Sport Variants or just "normal" looking with more PS than two ford Pickups together. Oh and they are all pimped to the legal limits.

[@sickmit3481]

Racing is still big in germany we have the DTM series, NLS series and the 24 hour Nürburgring race (yes they really drive 24 hours on this deadly track). Then there was F1 a while back in germany and we got some rally events still left. I hope racing geta much bigger here and F1 comes back to germany.

[@dinonuggies2276]

Im really glad this is my home circuit. Its awesome and has so much history. Lots of potential react content too, like Timo Bernhardt's 919 record lap, or Kevin espre's insane overtakng streaks at the 24h

[@Athena621]

Ah, fond memories. We took our then new W115/8 for a spin. It was a 200D, so 0-60 took about two minutes 😅😂 On the other hand, fond memories of freezing at the old Elefantentreffen ... Or indeed Rock am Ring. Those were the days

[@Waschbaer_Mann]

As a German I can confirm people are driving everything on the nordschleife. From a Volkswagen Golf mk 4 to Porsche 911 GT3 RS. It's a VERY difficult track and as said in the video the most dangerous. The nordschleife is really a special place

[@LuzthegodWitch-yi5mq]

Wer kommt hier auch noch aus Deutschland 😂😂😂?

[@alexandermuller5683]

Mehr als die Hälfte bestimmt 😅

[@LuzthegodWitch-yi5mq]

@@alexandermuller5683 😂😂

[@exxos104]

Hey the german guy here I live 30 min away form the Nürburgring. And yes Germany love racing. You can drive a rent car also your own car at the nordschleife. It is big fun , you get also a season card for driving there.

[@Bonsai61]

I live not far from it and I pass it once in a while during a 1 day motocycle trip. Some times I stop and watch privat driving on the track. I've seen already quite a few crashes. Many years ago I took my heard in my hand and went for a ride. It was an amazing and scary experience for the first time. But I never did it again. You need a lot of time and quite a bit of money (35€/turn) to gain the experience to set a reasonably good lap time. Sabine Schmitz (Queen of Nürburgring) made it in a bit more than 10 minutes in a Ford Transit diesel van ... a lap time that a lot of Porsche driver could never reach. 😁

[@palantir135]

Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson tried to set a record for a diesel engined car.

[@ebbhead20]

This is together with say the track used in Monaco probably the most known track on the planet. I had race tracks of the most fameous danish track Jyllandsringen for my radio controlled cars, but i knew you could get the Nürburgring as well.. Top Gear did a bit of fun stuff on it back in the day. They even had a run in a van round it with this female german driver that became the Stig for a while. The only time they where scared they said. 😊

[@nightcorelore5648]

The track is a standard way to evaluate different cars and compare them to each other This is one reason, why you see normal cars going on this track sometimes, another would be races with normal cars or privat driving as a hobby However, my point being: it’s a very good way to decide between two cars when everything has a professional driven time on a very complex course

[@rexmcstiller4675]

There also so called Ring Taxis. That are two seated race cars or tuned cars and you can hire a professional driver to drive you along.

[@Happymali10]

The 24h-Race is 24h, but it's with several drivers per car, so they take turns. Iirc you have to provide at least 3 drivers to compete. The wild thing is, it's well over 100 cars, from GT3-racers to barely-modified hatchbacks and even vintage cars.

[@johnp8131]

A beautiful area too. Hilly, forested, lots of other things to see including plenty of vinyards on the slopes of the river Ahr.

[@kidneybone1534]

I´ve visited the ring plenty of times and actually drove 5 laps in total with my old BMW (2005 E90 330i), basically a completely stock street car. Theres those trackdays called "Touristenfahrten" where you can buy a ticket for one lap and drive anything as long as it is streetlegal. There´s some special rules, such as overtaking is only allowed on the left side and it doesn´t really matter if you´re going fast or taking it easy. It´s basically just going for a sunday drive with a few dozen other people on the same street, except some of them are going fast as hell ^^ I can say it is so much fun, but indeed dangerous if you´re going fast and not really know what you´re doing. I´ve had a moment myself at Pflanzgarten (the jump section), right after the jump there´s a sharp right turn and in that exact spot, my brakes faded and I almost went off. What´s really interesting is that you really learn how a car behaves in abnormal situations. If you´re going fast on this circuit, you´ll find yourself in situations that would never ever occur on regular public roads and you´ll get a better understanding of your car.

[@MrNice-zm9qk]

There are regular public open track days on Nürburgring. You pay a fee and take your car around track. Hopefully not ending in one if the barriers.

[@MikkoRantalainen]

Nürburgring is a publicly accessible toll road with one way traffic. It's privately owned road so if you crash the barrier, not only you have to pay for removal and repair of your own car, you also have to pay for the repairs you cause to the road. For example, if your car leaks oil to the road, you have to pay for its removal. If you damage the steel barriers, you have to pay to replace the barriers. Toll for riding one lap around the ring is 30-35 euros. Or you can get season ticket for 3000 EUR which people like Misha obviously get. The video recording rules are pretty strict, too. You are not officially allowed to publish any crash videos from Nürburgring but some people take a risk and publish videos anyway.

[@dragineeztoo61]

It's a toll road, so you can buy and ticket and drive the Ring. Don't crash, if you do you not only have to pay for your crash damage (insurance won't cover it) but you also have to pay for damage to the track and for the safety crew to come retrieve you.

[@TheWolvesCurse]

going slow on the Nprburgring is actually extremely dangerous too, due to the faster traffic. you become an unexpected obstacle, esoecially right behind blind corners.

[@bastianjansen3212]

i u fall in love with this racetrack u get so adiktet man this is pure dope

[@sodaaccount]

I love this track from the bottom of my heart. There is no second one like it. Been there since waay back when I was 6. Been a marshal for a few years at this point. Eventhough the video is great, it doesnt even come remotely close to feeling those heightdrops (you dont really feel the climb most of the tracks length. Oh and incidents, not necessarily meaning crashes, happen around every 15.000km driven, excluding races.

[@jonathanweber3029]

What the video failed to make clear: people can and do go to the Nürburgring with their private car. The same car they use on the public streets to drive to work etc. that’s why some of those cars shown in the video look so „normal“ as you mentioned on 03:16 . A friend of mine usually goes to the Nürburgring with his private car every 2 or 3 months in his freetime

[@robertheinrich2994]

because it is a public toll road. and I understand everyone who wants to try it.

[@dvont1383]

I live near the Ring. All I can say is: If it's got wheels, it's been on the track yet for sure. And if it's a Coach, that's okay, too.

[@Rev.Happy.]

Been running the ring online on gran turismo since I was a little kid. Its been a dream of mine since to go there and drive the ring as many times as possible

[@django8987]

The nürburgring has track days where anyone can take their car and pay 30quid for a lap. U can see almost full spec race cars on the track with a Nissan Micra sending it as well.

[@ixiwildflowerixi]

My understanding is that with the Nürburgring the goal actually is to not crash your car as opposed to crashing your car.

[@germanmosca]

What has been forgotten in this Video: Another challenge is, that the weather conditions on one side of the Nord Schleiffe can be totally different to the other side.

[@liveandletdie138]

Strange that the video didn't mention it was a public road to explain why normal cars can be seen regularly driving it

[@RalfSteffens]

Im Frühling kommen tausende Motorradfahrer zum "Anlassen" auf den Nürburgring. Da habe ich zum erstem Mal ein "Speedlimit 200 km/h" gesehen. Und auf dem Heimweg haben Polizeigesellen uns usererem Motorradverein "auf den Zahn gefühlt". "Haben Sie was mit Ihrer Maschine gemacht?" - "Wie? - Gemacht?" - "Aah, vergessen Sie's."

[@phoenixsui]

Now you should watch the 54 overtakes in one lap video from the nurburgring.

[@sonja_blub]

I was grown up und the Eifel in the near of the Nürburgring. And yes, you can Drive with your normal car this Track, nur there are a lot of famous Professional Racing Events like 24h Race or Formula one. One day on my bucket List is to Drive with a Race Taxi, where you Drive line in a Taxi in the Front on the Right Side of the Car and the driver is a pro Racer

[@bjorntantau194]

Several years ago a group of somewhat famous German bloggers got contracted by a car maker to go around the Nürburgring for a promotional video. They decided not to release the footage because the car got severely damaged. But not for the reason you'd suspect. I think they only went around the small part of the track. The car remained intact for the first three or so bloggers. They told the last guy to drive that the best way to maneuver the track would be to not shift at all. They meant that he should stay in second gear. He took it to mean to stay in first gear. Apparently it totally destroyed the car's transmission. No names because I'm probably breaking someone's NDA by telling the tale.

[@davidjuncker1442]

Every year there is an event on The Ring that's called "Rad am Ring" (Bike on the Ring). Yes, there are bikes races on this track! In 2008 I participated and wen't down to fox hole with about 90km/h. I've already been faster in other situations, but what that makes in incredible is the fact that you roll up the following hill with more than 70, on a bike!

[@UltimaDoge]

The Nürnberg Ring is actually one thing they hold on to keep the no speed limit. Because the Nürnberg Ring is under German street laws and if they impose a, for example, 120 Km/h limit. This would also be the rule for the Nürnberg Ring. Because it’s basically an official road with no speed limit.

[@Turbobuttes]

Another dangerous aspect about the track especially for endurance races is the weather. It's a pretty elevated, hilly region that can experience sudden shifts in weather, and when it does they're also pretty localized, so it could be beautiful sunshine at the starting line and pits, and hail cats and dogs at the other end of the track, and a lap generally takes up to ten minutes for touring cars. At points in past years they actually had to halt the 24h race for up to several hours because of bad weather, one time even stranding a bunch of race cars somewhere on the track for an hour because of sudden hail that was effectively like driving on frozen marbles and caused the slick tires to have literally zero grip ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIjJnGaHeseYgbM ). Also fun fact, German car insurances generally have a "Nürburgring clause" in their contracts, because the Nordschleife legally counts as a toll road for public visitors it would fall under full coverage normally, but due to the severity of the crashes and the costs involved (several thousand bucks for a tow truck and a couple of yards of guardrail repairs PLUS the damage to your car) this clause means your insurance won't cover those expenses anymore, only the legally required liability for damages caused to other motorists should they be involved in a crash of yours.

[@nicovonberg1763]

There are Tourist drives, where you buy a Ticket and Drive a round, and there a vln/nls there the Professional Teams in the top Cars and Amateur Teams in the lower classes, there are often Speed difrences about 100kph

[@CrazyhorseDK]

one word covers that track Sabine Schmitz Queen of the Nürburgring Jeremy Clarkson: "Such a sunny person and so full of beans" James May: "I never thought car makers should be at the ‘Ring, but I always thought Sabine Schmitz should, and would, be" Richard Hammond: "a proper driving legend who’ll be sadly missed by many. The Ring has lost its Queen." Rest Easy Sabine❤

[@HATECELL]

When it comes to runoff areas you could almost consider the Nordschleife a city circuit. The GP-track to the south has more runoff and even hosts F1 races sometimes (the Nordschleife did too, but can't fulfill the current safety rules. Also it is over twice the maximum length for F1 tracks)

[@thomasbohlken4442]

You need to take a look at the current record lap as onboard view like porsch 918 lap on it

[@Jeni10]

Back when I was learning to drive, I had the choice to learn on an automatic or a manual. I chose the manual because I wanted to learn the hardest method so that if I ever needed to drive one in an emergency, I would know what to do. It was one of the reasons I started following Formula One years later, because I understood the gear changes and was keen to learn more.

[@jensschroder8214]

Anyone can drive there, you just have to pay the fee for the tow truck at the entrance. Then you can show if you're capable of staying on the road. Once you've done that, you can think about going faster. But be warned, car insurers specifically exclude the track. It's up to you whether the car stays intact or not.

[@richardbradley1598]

Drove a single lap with my 8 year old son in his car seat next to me, 'Again Dad again!' 'No Son we got away with it once, let's get T shirts and leave it there' 👍

[@nelisvanwieren9508]

Yes they have track days. I watch the clips all the time right here on youtube. Last I heard its +- 25 euros for a lap (as I said last I heard). And I see people pitch up in supercars, performance cars, SUVs, Bikes, Stationwagons, Pickups, normal roads cars you name it

[@X25_Networking]

Every Year there is a FTA Live Stream on KZbin with english commentary, so you can watch the 24h Race live! Its almost in June...

[@Talbuk-yc2xq]

I watch every day Misha driving the Green Hell with a different Car. Sometimes it is so funny when he drive a cheap car from someone.

[@mgrib3594]

For the man, who never was intrested in motorsports of any kind: You can go to the almoust any track on set days, pay for the session and drive anything you came with (no matter: sport car, super car, garage made shitbox, everyday car, microbus - anything) or rent some cars at the track. There is huge misconseption about tracks being "only for professional racing"

[@megunded]

i used to race on the ring with the annual fee card from 1998 to 2008 .....and at least i crashed 2 cars with no accidents ( engine explodes , and gearbox rupture ) a pretty expensive fun ... but as misha said ....after more than 90 years of history there is nothing to impress .. my saying was allways " there is nothing to win , but a damn lot to loose " .. even 20 years ago in a 200 hp clio williams it was expensive as fuck , and the behaviour of the drivers is getting more and more reckless due to .....money no problem ....so , i still love the ring , thank god i live only 35 minutes away and can take some laps during the summer on the weekends . but never again as a full hobby for the whole weekend . in 2000 i drove to the ring , getting a full tank , making a few laps , getting a full tank again , getting a few laps , refuel ,...going home .....roughly 300 eur......today that would be a 1200 eur tour no thank you

[@ErkiDM1997]

I have driven the Nurburgring a few times and love it. The thing why you see normal cars on it iq for touristenfahrten wich means everyone can drive on it for a small fee, a lot of unexperienced people crash then but its actually very cool to see and go there.

[@philippprime6844]

Haven't you heard of german Autobahn? It's part of it. We love to drive fast. I use this track every morning to go to office. That's why there are so many "regular" cars on track.

[@kermit634]

The track is 70 km from my hometown. I am there 1-2 times a week and it's pure fun! As spectator or driver. 😍

[@adamlubieniecki9074]

hallo aus Wittlich !

[@yakari6934]

The reason that there are “basic cars” is that there are tourist days where everyone can take their car around the traxk

[@Zino027]

Sabine Schmitz was the queen of this track. I loved her.