What Would You Do With The Nurburgring?

"CRider" (crider) 03/07/2014 at 06:12 • Filed to: None

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Another week, another !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! about who's buying the most famous race track in the world. What do you think the new owners should do with it once they have it.

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f86sabre > CRider 03/07/2014 at 06:17

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Keep it just the way it is. Let people run on it and let car makers test on it. An occasional race on it just for fun.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > CRider 03/07/2014 at 06:29

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I'd keep it the same as they had before. Evidently it didn't quite work as a business model, so maybe I'd increase the ticket price for a Touristenfahren by €5 or so.

Marginal price increases across the board to get back into the black.

Oh, maybe I'd start a LeMons/ChumpCar style series there. Just because we need one in Europe :)

Tyler's SVT Focus Hates Him > CRider 03/07/2014 at 06:33

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Change absolutely nothing. The touristfahrten, the factory test facilities, the 24 Hour race, keep everything as it was.

Except once a year....

Bring these bad boys over to Krautland. Let the big V8's rumble through the Black Forest, just to remind them who owns who.

#MURICA

#BACK2BACK WORLD WAR CHAMPS

big eagle > CRider 03/07/2014 at 06:54

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Add an Off road park somewhere in there. (There's gotta be room in there) add a dragstrip, rally stages, oval track, and motocross track. Create a mecca for all types of racing.

Invite the NHRA, indycar, f1, NASCAR, v8 superstars, any other series that I might have missed to run the full ring.

Increases across the board for the prices of everything. Not large but about 5-10% to get profitable while in transition.

Remember, the best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a large one. So it'll probably still lose money.

ReallyColorful > CRider 03/07/2014 at 07:04

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Rip it off the ground. Throw it in Massachusetts.

Flavien Vidal > ReallyColorful 03/07/2014 at 07:08

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Not a doable concept in north america... the US is waaaaay too lawsuit friendly for such a thing.

ReallyColorful > Flavien Vidal 03/07/2014 at 07:11

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Jobjoris > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 03/07/2014 at 07:29

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The Touristenfahrten were not what made it into a moneypit. It's the fun-parc/commercial areas they built near it that caused all the financial issues. At least, that's what I'm told. Did you track your 156 already over there?

puddler > CRider 03/07/2014 at 07:50

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i would put a girls only college in the middle, turn the town into a party town, but you can't get in until you beat a time related to your cars abilities. it would be difficult to get in...

oh, night racing, too...but no track lights, car lights & muscle memory.

Team6.1 > CRider 03/07/2014 at 08:07

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I agree with ripping it out of the ground, but I vote Nevada instead. Granted when it's 115° during the day no sane person is gonna race, but that still leaves 10 months of the year with perfect weather. We definitely have the space. Lots of tourists (hell we already have exotic rental race tracks), plus if we have prostitutes I'm sure there is legal leeway for this.

t_s > CRider 03/07/2014 at 08:37

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Close it down to everything except Nissan Leafs and Teslas and watch the internet explode.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > Jobjoris 03/07/2014 at 09:24

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Ah I see. They'll still need a business plan to recoup the previous administration's losses on that.

I'd love to track the 156 on there, but I feel it'd need a 3.0l before I do :) that's on the list of upgrades anyway.

I really want to take the spitfire there once it's finished actually. It should have lots of adjustable suspension goodies so I can do some setup work.

Jobjoris > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 03/07/2014 at 09:36

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Just let me know when you're taking the Spit6 over there, my 2002tii Touring will probably be ready then as well and if not I'll just take something else from my man-cave. And it's not that far a drive.

jsmizira > big eagle 03/07/2014 at 09:38

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Bring Nascar to Germany! let them run on rain tires and let it be a five hundred mile race. what is that, like 12 laps or something? oh and let them run the full course including the f1 circuit.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > Jobjoris 03/07/2014 at 10:45

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Shall do :) how's that coming along?

Something else from your man cave? What else do you have?

Jobjoris > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 03/07/2014 at 12:57

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'71 Dino 2400 Coupe (probably don't dare running that over or to the Ring as every time I drive it something seems to break), '87 911 Carrera Coupe, the miss's '06 V50 T5 AWD or the DD V60 D6. But my focus is getting the 2002 Touring tii ready for this summer so I surely hope that!

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > Jobjoris 03/07/2014 at 13:21

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Duuude, you've got a Dino? One of my all-time favourite cars. Immensely jealous. What's it like?

Jobjoris > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 03/07/2014 at 16:44

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It's awesome. It's sound is like Bruce Dickinson on stage when going high in rpm. But... Everytime I take it for a spin you'll walk into another issue. Some call it charm. I call it the reason I bought german classics... The one in your picture is a 2000, the 2400 looks like this (and is what mine will look when I get the rims like this):