Hamza7's trip to the Nurburgring.
Hello Everyone, I hope that all of you are doing great. I just wanted to share my recent experiences going to the Nurburgring, if you don't know what the Nurburgring is, it's basically a giant race track that has many changes in direction 170+ and drastic elevation change. Now I can handle the corners but nothing really prepares you for the elevation change, you will never see something like in any other track because the Nurburgring is based in the Eiffel region of Germany and realistically the roads there are some of the best I have ever seen I mean the roads even leading up to the Nurburgring are amazing...and they have signs everywhere that you shouldn't race on them.
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So step 1 was get a train from Denmark to Cologne, Germany the closest major city to the Nurburgring. I am in Denmark right now because I doing a global exchange program for my education.
So at this point, I was suppose to stay in the train until 6:15 am local time but I fell asleep as it was a over night train and woke up 6:13 am as I set the alarm at that time thinking I was suppose to get off at 6:30 am...anyway my friend George who was accompanying me woke me up grabbed his stuff and jumped off a moving train just leaving the station and I was stuck on because the conductor air locked the doors(I totally could have done it).
This resulted in me getting a free trip to Dusseldorf, which isn't really a fancy city.
I then caught a In City Express train back to Cologne to meet up with George a whole two hours after I was initially suppose to arrive.
We had reserved the rental car for 24 hours to try to save maximum amount of money so we had some time to kill (2:30 pm pick-up) luckily Cologne entertained us with monuments and museums.
This is a Cologne Dom, it's monolithic..words can't describe how amazing this building was..with so much detail and architectural magnificence
Inside
Biggest Organs I have ever seen
Yummy...A S-line A6 Avant, why don't we get these again?
Quite a beautiful city as you can see
Representing Car Care everywhere.
What's this? A chocolate museum? Let's see what goes on in here.
I am a huge hot chocolate fan and I do my best to try some everywhere I go and by far this is the best stuff ever and the freshly made Lindt in the museum also helped as a topper. Cheese cake was good too.
After some more touring, it was time to pick up our rental....a Chevy Aveo but the highlight was this was in a Renault showroom so we had some time to lounge around that area and of course I sat in everything in sight but the 3 cars that stood out were the Clio RS, Megan RS and this the Renault Twizzy, a two seated EV but unlike regular two seater the driver sits in the front and the passenger sits directly behind him and it had lambo style doors.
After cruising at 180 kmh in a car with a 1.4 liter engine we arrived at the 'Ring
but we couldn't find the actual entrance to the Nordschleife so we arrived at the F1 track instead.
Where we found single race car's having their qualifying. Sorry for the blurry picture but a I heard a terrifying growl coming up behind me and I had to turn on the camera and shoot as fast as I could.
There was BMW and Jaguars VIP lounge near the track so we started checking door and apparently Jag really trusts people so they left their doors unlocked so we got a great view of that and sound these cars were making was amazing.
Aston Martin's Nurburgring Testing Facility
Finally it the clock struck 5:30 pm and the 'ring was open for public access, part of our rental agreement was that we were not allowed to drive our vehicle on the ring so I met 3 wonderful British chaps who offered us a lift in their vehicle. I broke my ring cherry in a EK9 Type R from Japan and I'm proud of it.
The second car I was in, was an 350z convertible.
There were some of the other rentals available from various different companies.
View from my balcony in the morning, just 60 meters away from the track. If you haven't been woken up from the sound of a roaring V12 then your missing out.
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Even the hotel I was staying at offering a 'ring rental
If even remotely in the area you will not forget that your at the ring, everything around you reflects it including the decor of your room.
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This gentlemen was very proud of his car and had the decal "647HP" across the back and side of his car to make sure people knew the specs were.
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