[W124] RE: [Mercedes] Driving at the Nurburgring

[Gibbons, Paul]

Tom,

I've embedded replies to your questions within your text..

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Reynolds [mailto:kjtar at earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:57 AM
To: Gibbons, Paul
Subject: Re: [Mercedes] Driving at the Nurburgring


Did you get a time for the run, Paul? 

Not really, it was a friends car (3 days old!) so I wasn't going balls-out.
Most people (who actually own the cars they drive) go slowly along the
start/finish straight to let the engine cool down. As the owner was sitting
next to me, that's what I did.

Do they give you a ticket when you start, how does the process work? 

This was a 3- day session organised by a car-club that's no longer in
business (unsurprisingly). The cost was very reasonable spread out over the
three days, but you tend to want to give the car a rest after the first
day's thrashing in case it breaks thousands of miles from home....
   
How much did it cost you, do you remember?  And, is one payment good for as
many runs as you want, or do you have to pay for each one?

I remember it was about a fiver a lap. but I think it's gone up to a tenner
or so now. Still a bargain!

There were 20 cars in our group, mostly Porsches. The vast majority had some
sort of mechanical problem, and a couple were written-off.

It was a little window into a world of affluence I can only dream of. For
example, at the evening meal (that Sabine was the waitress for!) it started
out with a 50 quid whip to cover the food and booze.....half an hour later,
another one! An hour later another one......that's when I realised I was out
of my (financial) depth......
 
Thanks very much,
Tom Reynolds
Sand Springs, OK

At 09:15 AM 05/31/2006 +0100, you wrote:
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>I seem to have missed the start of this thread. 
>Has anyone taken their Mercedes around the Ring lately?
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>I'd be interested to hear as I took a non-Mercedes (Ok, Audi S3) around the
>Ring a couple of years ago and I count it as one of the most memorable
times
>of my life....
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>Sure is a beautiful circuit.....but it bites! 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Nervig [mailto:dakota at mac.com]
>Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 11:55 PM
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>Subject: Re: [Mercedes] Driving at the Nurburgring
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>Wroger Wrote:
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>> Sabine is a helluva driver. The lack of helmets is not such a good  
>> idea,
>> however.
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>> RLE
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>Very cool trip around the Ring, Roger. Thanks!
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