If Like Overtaking Then This Is For You.(BMW M6 GT3 Onboard)
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Stunning and with those speed differences quite frightening, to be honest. I don't track and after watching this video I'm even more certain that I wouldn't want to try Nordschleife myself: I'd have to keep watching the rear view mirror so much that it would be hard to concentrate on the track anymore.
DMike said:
Yes indeed, the speed differential is dangerous enough on a track full of racing drivers. At Nordschleife it is far more dangerous. I started one lap in my old Fiat Coupe with the roof open and the windows down, thinking it would be good to chill for a lap and cool the car down. That lasted about four corners before the reality of how dangerous that was hit home.
Love the video OP.
Thats some driving that, fast thinking and braking
Mixing vehicles and drivers with vastly different performance/abilities is just a disaster waiting to happen. Hope the track has good insurance because signing a waiver, exonerating the people managing the sessions from any responsibility, probably won't cut it these days.
Paulwirral
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I suspect it was a qualifying lap or very quick practice lap for the vln race series , it definitely wasn't a tourist session , they were all race cars using the full vln track , includes the gp track .
If you pick your dates carefully for your visit occasionally the full vln track is open , usually the day after an event , for tourist sessions , we went early August and scored the full vln track on the Monday night . It's a great experience and the first time I've had the luxury of the whole track including the gp track in 17 years , although I was a bit lost on the gp track for the first couple of laps
If you pick your dates carefully for your visit occasionally the full vln track is open , usually the day after an event , for tourist sessions , we went early August and scored the full vln track on the Monday night . It's a great experience and the first time I've had the luxury of the whole track including the gp track in 17 years , although I was a bit lost on the gp track for the first couple of laps
Attleborough, Norfolk
Couldn't have been a race lap. At those speeds he would never have started with so many in front of him surely? So yes, possibly practice or qualifying?
Either way, how he didn't finish with at least three other cars as bonnet mascots I have no idea! He seemed to work on h theory that if you aimed straight at the other car, by the time you got there it wouldn't be there any more.
I then watched a couple of the hairier bits a second time, only this time watching the in car footage of him driving. Not so much as a blink!
Either way, how he didn't finish with at least three other cars as bonnet mascots I have no idea! He seemed to work on h theory that if you aimed straight at the other car, by the time you got there it wouldn't be there any more.
I then watched a couple of the hairier bits a second time, only this time watching the in car footage of him driving. Not so much as a blink!
Paulwirral
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Vln races are an anomaly , many different classes and sometimes 60 plus cars on the track racing for between 4 to 24 hours , one of the strangest sights I've seen is a white flag being waved by the marshals , it means there's an ambulance on track during the race
I reckon it was practice as he wasn't directly racing anyone in the same class , there's a couple of seventies opals race in the vln , a manta and a kadett , that are in the same race as that car , just gives the faster drivers something else to think about !
I reckon it was practice as he wasn't directly racing anyone in the same class , there's a couple of seventies opals race in the vln , a manta and a kadett , that are in the same race as that car , just gives the faster drivers something else to think about !
Paulwirral
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mmm-five said:
Looks like any other Touristenfahrten lap to me
Your not far wrong , the Monday night I was there followed a Porsche experience day then there was some sort of mega rich mans track day on the Wednesday, the standard of some of the driving on the tourist sessions following was shocking , i can only assume some of the owners have balls of steel and bottomless bank accounts.
Not the sort you folk you want to be mixing with on a track day. :crazydude: :cpilot: :w00t:Paulwirral said:mmm-five said:
Looks like any other Touristenfahrten lap to me
Your not far wrong , the Monday night I was there followed a Porsche experience day then there was some sort of mega rich mans track day on the Wednesday, the standard of some of the driving on the tourist sessions following was shocking , i can only assume some of the owners have balls of steel and bottomless bank accounts.
