Nordschleife F1 cars
#1
Posted 25 April 2013 - 09:34
Heidfeld did it last time (any times?)
Were there more F1 cars running the circuit since there was no race here?
Any times?
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#2
Posted 25 April 2013 - 10:19
I'm afraid I can't help with any demonstration runs since the GP moved away from the Nordschleife.
#3
Posted 25 April 2013 - 10:37
#4
Posted 25 April 2013 - 11:54
Edited by nmansellfan, 25 April 2013 - 11:55.
#5
Posted 25 April 2013 - 15:51
Nick Heidfeld was driving at the NoS in 2007 - I was there
I wonder what would have happened if he had taken the conventional line through Karussell... I presume he was instructed not to do so.
#6
Posted 25 April 2013 - 16:06
... I presume he was instructed not to do so.
IIRC that was the case.
#7
Posted 25 April 2013 - 17:01
http://www.pitpass.c...ve-Nordschleife
As Duncan said earlier, the massive changes needed to enable any recent F1 car to lap the Nordschleife without shaking itself apart or grounding means that any times would be quite meaningless, though I did hear an interesting rumour that MS had insisted on a clause in his contract promising that Sabine Schmitz wouldn't zoom past him in her M5 Ring-Taxi.
#8
Posted 25 April 2013 - 17:16
The myth that never seems to die, this appeared on the normally fairly reliable Pitpass site on the Schumacher story, read down to the final paragraph and weep at someone's ignorance of motor sport history.
http://www.pitpass.c...ve-Nordschleife
Unlike old golfers, old legends do not lose their balls.
#9
Posted 25 April 2013 - 18:53
Anyway, an excuse to post my favourite Nordschleife onboard video - Augusto Farfus taking his wife for a spin: http://www.youtube.c...;v=2hJfBM2sRkQ#!
#10
Posted 25 April 2013 - 21:06
I think it's a question of the car's track. Latterly some of the Porsche sports cars had to go round the top as they couldn't fit on the banked bit (or concrete-lined ditch if you prefer)I wonder what would have happened if he had taken the conventional line through Karussell... I presume he was instructed not to do so.
#11
Posted 25 April 2013 - 22:34
Anyway, an excuse to post my favourite Nordschleife onboard video - Augusto Farfus taking his wife for a spin: http://www.youtube.c...;v=2hJfBM2sRkQ#!
Watching that, if I close my eyes and ignore the fact she's squealing in Portuguese, that could have been my first wife.
#12
Posted 26 April 2013 - 07:34
Were there more F1 cars running the circuit since there was no race here?
Any times?
There have been a few demo runs with older F1 cars in the past, as part of the 24-hour race supporting programme, but I believe Heidfeld's run in April 2007 was the only time a contemporary F1 car has lapped the track since the 1976 German GP. His lap times are, in my view, completely irrelevant, however, for a number of obvious reasons.
The as yet last time a F1 car was on the track was probably in April 2012 when Ron Howard shot scenes for his upcoming movie Rush.
#13
Posted 26 April 2013 - 13:25
Anyway, an excuse to post my favourite Nordschleife onboard video - Augusto Farfus taking his wife for a spin: http://www.youtube.c...;v=2hJfBM2sRkQ#!
There's nothing like a healthy relationship, is there?
#14
Posted 26 April 2013 - 13:41
Anyway, an excuse to post my favourite Nordschleife onboard video - Augusto Farfus taking his wife for a spin: http://www.youtube.c...;v=2hJfBM2sRkQ#!
After watching that, I can't help wondering if they are still married.
Does anyone know?
#15
Posted 26 April 2013 - 14:01
After watching that, I can't help wondering if they are still married.
I was wondering that, too. In any case, a poor display by the guy.
#16
Posted 26 April 2013 - 16:02
After watching that, I can't help wondering if they are still married.
Does anyone know?
What's the betting that it was a few days before he got his leg over again?
#17
Posted 26 April 2013 - 16:20
#18
Posted 26 April 2013 - 19:03
#19
Posted 26 April 2013 - 19:09
After watching that, I can't help wondering if they are still married.
Does anyone know?
I know. They are. Very much so, in fact.
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#20
Posted 26 April 2013 - 20:18
That's good to know. Come to think of it, if they weren't that film wouldn't be on You-Tube.I know. They are. Very much so, in fact.