warrenm2

Just got to thinking, which is your favourite bit of the ring? Please excuse the spellings in advance - Im not German.

So many good bits, Flugplatz, Swedenkruze, Aremberg, Fuchsrohe (esp the dip), Metzgefeld, ex Muhle, Hohe Acht, Hedgwishohe, Wipperman, Brunchen, Pflantzgarten III (where you have the do not lean sign for bikes..)

Whats your favourite - or somewhere else? (think I'll have to go with the dip at Fuchsrohe - you get so much g there....

Gutmann pug

My fav bit starts when I leave home at 4.30 in the morning and ends a few days later when I catch the ferry at 5 o'clock in the evening ....

DocJock

My fave is the bit from Brunnchen 2 through to the end of the Pflanzgarten complex.

I hate Metzgesfeld, scares the shyte outta me.

Karl 227

I'm almost with Jock on this but starting from Hohe Acht through to Schwalbenschwanz. That whole section is where a lower powered car can keep up with the Beetles from Stuttgart.

Metzgesfeld is indeed scary, last year I had a sideways moment at the fast left kink before the corner and very nearly soiled myself. This year should also be very interesting at Metzgesfeld seeing as they've re-tarmaced a section of it and the seam of the new tarmac is right on the turn in point/dot for the corner!!!

warrenm2

how do you know that?

Karl 227

Because I walk my dog past it nearly every day

warrenm2

fairy nuff ! - you live in nurburg then? or adenau?

Scooby-Mark

Personally I love the start line as you know you have 21km of pure fun ahead of you

I can't wait to get out there again this summer

Mark

NOZZER

Kallenhard to Bergwerk is my favourite, i find Hohe Acht to Pflantzgarten II the hardest section to get right, i seem to not get the right line most the time, as they say, practice makes better lines

Karl 227

Adenau

Gutmann pug

He lives under the bridge .............. and you thought that trolls didnt exist

johnfelstead

the exit of the Karusell through to Pflantzgarten 2, it's very technical with lots of camber and elevation changes with a lot of turning under braking downhill going on, which is very challenging to get right. Eiscurve and Wiperman exit are great for power oversteer fun.

NOZZER

Damn right its challenging!

Hammoc

Got my first trip to the Ring planned for May

I'm guessing my favourite section is going to be one I can actually remember from lap to lap.

Gutmann pug

What I want to know is do you have to go looking for the first curb through wipperman? The second one is fine and right on line, but the first one is of no good to me....

Gary

Karl 227

No, I don't think the first curb does anything other than unsettle the car, the second curb, yes, every time and a lot of it.

Gutmann pug

For once I 100% agree with you

Gary

"MADDOG"

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Karl, Gutmann do you know of a good weather guide for "The Ring" and surrounding area ? and back on the subject of which is the worst bend, it must be the one where you turn in to go through to the entry barrier

regards "MADDOG"

PS Karl I take it the weather is still bad over there ?

warrenm2

I just clip the very last bit of the first kerb, very lightly - if you go for it any more you're slightly off line for the second kerb.....

Weather is at http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-b...IDER=anwendung

johnfelstead

It depends what car you are driving. I used both kerbs in the Impreza, i only used the second kerb in the westie.

Karl 227

Tons of new snow over the weekend and minus 18°c this morning.