My Nurburgring Trip - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

kanundrum · 08-21-2014, 01:09 PM

[ame]http://youtu.be/fwxFJb94od8[/ame]

Rented a Race prepped car from Rent4Ring. Originally I had a gt86 rented how ever the Direct Injection failed (again) and so they have to give me a VW Scirocco.

The Ring is a addiction, I am actually going to be looking into moving to europe for maybe a year starting the end of this year. Its that good. Its not too technical but mainly its just lots of memorization. I only was able to complete 6 laps while my friend did 4 laps. My best timings were somewhere around 10:30 which I was happy with considering the penalty for crashing was 8000 Euro.

kanundrum · 08-21-2014, 01:10 PM

All my Pictures of the trip can be found here: https://plus.google.com/photos/11823...201?banner=pwa
I did go to BMW Museum, Mercedes Museum, Audi Factory, several brew houses, Austria, Belgium, Bruge, and Amsterdam. Here are just some more nurburgring Pics

kanundrum · 08-21-2014, 01:11 PM

kanundrum · 08-21-2014, 01:11 PM

kanundrum · 08-21-2014, 01:15 PM

Also got to Drive/Go to F1 Circuit in Belgium Spa De Franco Champs

Teseo · 08-21-2014, 01:15 PM

More pics pls. That place is the disney world for cars nuts.

Nevermore · 08-21-2014, 01:35 PM

Is it always one car at a time? I kind of want to go to track days, but at the same time I'd prefer if I was on a track by myself, so I probably won't ever go to a track day event.

tahdizzle · 08-21-2014, 02:52 PM

I'm so jelly!

strat61caster · 08-21-2014, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nevermore

Is it always one car at a time? I kind of want to go to track days, but at the same time I'd prefer if I was on a track by myself, so I probably won't ever go to a track day event.

If they did that they'd be bankrupt, they'll put many cars on an open/track day, expect to get passed by a handful of Porsche's, BMW's, Audi's, Corvette's, Mustangs etc. The closest you'd get to an open track experience would be a driving school like Skip Barber where just about every car on track has an instructor to keep things nice and calm. Of course the real fun comes when you get your stuff together and your 86 blows by a couple Corvette's and Porsche's on your 'prius tires' proving that the biggest improvement you can make is the nut behind the wheel.

Rough estimate, renting out a track like Laguna Seca is at least $30k for the day.

Nevermore · 08-21-2014, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by strat61caster

If they did that they'd be bankrupt, they'll put many cars on an open/track day, expect to get passed by a handful of Porsche's, BMW's, Audi's, Corvette's, Mustangs etc. The closest you'd get to an open track experience would be a driving school like Skip Barber where just about every car on track has an instructor to keep things nice and calm. Of course the real fun comes when you get your stuff together and your 86 blows by a couple Corvette's and Porsche's on your 'prius tires' proving that the biggest improvement you can make is the nut behind the wheel.

Rough estimate, renting out a track like Laguna Seca is at least $30k for the day.

Well my question was really about the Nurburgring since the way he puts it sounds like they do one at a time. I know the norm is always multiple cars which is why I don't want to go.

strat61caster · 08-21-2014, 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nevermore

Well my question was really about the Nurburgring since the way he puts it sounds like they do one at a time. I know the norm is always multiple cars which is why I don't want to go.

Then add a bunch of money to my cost estimate as it's a more desirable track with higher upkeep costs and my point stands, probably approaching if not exceeding 6 figures for the track all to yourself for a day. The rest of my post stands.

kanundrum · 08-22-2014, 02:12 AM

Lots of Pictures Added

Jyn · 08-22-2014, 03:09 PM

This is awesome and I am jealous. I told my manager (who lives in Germany) anytime he needs me over there, let me know. He knows I wanna drive the BurgerKing.

King Tut · 08-22-2014, 05:07 PM

I didn't know there were so many damn manufacturer camoed cars being tuned at the Nurburgring. James May will not be happy about this.

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kanundrum Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Drives: 2013 Whiteout FR-S Location: Laurel, MD Posts: 5,364 Thanks: 2,704 Thanked 3,016 Times in 1,711 Posts Mentioned: 106 Post(s) Tagged: 3 Thread(s)	My Nurburgring Trip [ame]http://youtu.be/fwxFJb94od8[/ame] Rented a Race prepped car from Rent4Ring. Originally I had a gt86 rented how ever the Direct Injection failed (again) and so they have to give me a VW Scirocco. The Ring is a addiction, I am actually going to be looking into moving to europe for maybe a year starting the end of this year. Its that good. Its not too technical but mainly its just lots of memorization. I only was able to complete 6 laps while my friend did 4 laps. My best timings were somewhere around 10:30 which I was happy with considering the penalty for crashing was 8000 Euro. __________________ Ive spent most of my life racing... The rest I just wasted

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kanundrum Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Drives: 2013 Whiteout FR-S Location: Laurel, MD Posts: 5,364 Thanks: 2,704 Thanked 3,016 Times in 1,711 Posts Mentioned: 106 Post(s) Tagged: 3 Thread(s)	All my Pictures of the trip can be found here: https://plus.google.com/photos/11823...201?banner=pwa I did go to BMW Museum, Mercedes Museum, Audi Factory, several brew houses, Austria, Belgium, Bruge, and Amsterdam. Here are just some more nurburgring Pics __________________ Ive spent most of my life racing... The rest I just wasted Last edited by kanundrum; 08-22-2014 at 02:01 AM.

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Jyn Noob Join Date: Jan 2014 Drives: FR-S Mammogram Location: Austin Posts: 1,594 Thanks: 577 Thanked 888 Times in 485 Posts Mentioned: 24 Post(s) Tagged: 2 Thread(s)	This is awesome and I am jealous. I told my manager (who lives in Germany) anytime he needs me over there, let me know. He knows I wanna drive the BurgerKing. __________________ :@ChaoyD

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