Nurburgring/Nordschleife Information on Wiki The current 20.8 km (12.9 mi) Nordschleife course. The Nordschleife has remained a one-way, public toll-road for nearly 80 years except when it is closed off for testing purposes, training lessons or racing events. Since its opening in 1927, the track has been used by the public for the so-called "Touristenfahrten", i.e. to [...]
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Always take your keys out of the ignition when something unexpected happens. Variations of this include someone bumping into the back of your car at traffic lights, you get out to talk to the other driver, someone jumps in your car and shoots off, then the driver that bumped you shoots off as well, leaving [...]
What a race! Congratulatons to Lewis Hamilton the 2008 Formula One World Champion.
Following unfortunate misunderstandings in the Grands Prix at Valencia and Spa, the FIA has revised the Red Car Rule for Formula 1. These amendments will be applied with immediate effect: Overtaking a Ferrari is not permitted under any circumstances. In the pit lane, a Ferrari always has precedence over other cars. Any driver finishing less [...]
Y You can view and download the photos here: JapFest 2008 – Photobucket Album You can download the videos here: http://cid-d473a3cf272e65e0.skydrive.live.com/embedrow.aspx/JapFest2008-CastleCombeCircuit Use the SkyDrive folder above to download the all videos and watch the YouTube playlist below to see video taken by myself and others at Castle Combe on the day. [...]
Put some music on and lets go for a drive…
On the way home from the 40th anniversary celebrations at the Lotus Factory, and exactly one year after buying his new car, his pride and joy if you will; this driver was momentarily distracted from the road ahead. He still in the car at this point [see attached] waiting, almost patiently for the fire brigade to [...]
So there we are, the Scumball wagon is now parked outside my house after a round trip of around 1600 miles covering 5 countries, numerous beers, 1ltr of premium rum, 3 pizzas, 4 track burgers, and 1 horses head. Scumball was awesome, big-ups to all the teams – a great bunch of [...]
