Every enthusiast should drive the Nürburgring, it’s open most days of the year and costs just a few Euros. Sensibly, you do not complete a full lap, you are pulled off just before the end of the start/finish straight, so we mortals do not get a flying lap. To judge by the churned up grass and fresh skid marks from a standing start, this is a wise precaution. Local panel beaters are prominent citizens.
The first thing you have to do is to ignore signs for the Nürburgring, the modern track, but follow signs to the nearby Nordschliefe. Denis Jenkinson always reckoned that the new track should be called the Eifelring, and that is how I think of it. To call the new circuit the Nürburgring is like taking a dummy from a tailor’s window and calling it the Colossus of Rhodes (to scale.)
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