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08/04/2021 9:52 am
The Nürburgring race track in Germany is opened to the public at selected times during the year. They have between 2 and 12 deaths each year. Your vehicle needs only to be "road qualified" to enter the course. No extraordinary safety requirements need to be followed. Amateurs can drive their personal road cars on the Nürburgring race track. As usual mayhem follows! There is a compilation.
08/04/2021 10:07 am
Thanks, David. You can spend hours on YouTube watching these clips. Not all the vehicles that challenge The Ring are sports cars.
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
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08/04/2021 10:44 am
" . . . there were 81 accidents last year involving tourists who were racing around the Nürburgring. Two people died, 18 were seriously injured and 43 suffered minor injuries. Already in this year, there have been 29 accidents, with one fatality and eight seriously injured. And the season has only begun."
I'm surprised that there haven't been more deaths at that track. Horrendous crashes.
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08/04/2021 11:16 am
" . . . there were 81 accidents last year involving tourists who were racing around the Nürburgring. Two people died, 18 were seriously injured and 43 suffered minor injuries. Already in this year, there have been 29 accidents, with one fatality and eight seriously injured. And the season has only begun."
I'm surprised that there haven't been more deaths at that track. Horrendous crashes.
I'm absolutely amazed that they allow people of limited racing abilities to put themselves at jeopardy like this. Many of the crashes display drivers losing control by vastly overdriving the road profile encountered and also then failing to regain control; not remotely close to that of a skilled amateur racing enthusiast.
08/04/2021 11:25 am
I assume that if you crash your car at this facility in this manner your insurance is void?
08/04/2021 2:26 pm
yep, no insurance...
But then again, most Germans don't know that their insurance won't cover anything when they speed the Autobahn....
08/04/2021 3:08 pm
The insurance risk is greater than most think. If you wreck, you have to pay salvage expenses to get the wreckage off the road, which may take a crew and special equipment, for any damages to the road, guardrails, etc, and for any clean-up expenses. While the Nurburgring is technically a public road, few insurance companies will cover damages incurred there.
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
08/04/2021 9:27 pm
I'm so glad that I already took my B.P. meds.
I'll be driving to San Diego tomorrow..lol.
09/04/2021 6:23 am
Just when you think you've seen it all, you realize you haven't.
12/04/2021 1:30 pm
People even "do" the Ring with their RVs as a friend told me.