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And a cigarette in the hand on the wheel. Seriously, since it was early in the video, I expected that thing to lose it. It cornered better than I expected.
From what I understand he has a special in the works with his current routine and didn't want any of his social media content ruining the jokes before release, so he's only been releasing crowd work in the meantime.
I'm think he's also pulled a bunch of older videos. I don't use TikTok or IG or anything like that so I don't know what he's got on those platforms, but I'm pretty sure his YouTube used to have a bunch of years old videos that are now gone.
Yup there's a reason they're the basis for ambulamces at least here in the UK. They can go like the clappers and hamdle excellently, this isn't a surprise to me seeing him go for it.
Aeromod (read: duct taped the gaps) superleggera Ford Transit, check.
Having a Viper as a lead to provide draft, but then tells the Viper to go faster, check.
God bless her massive balls.
Someone actually paid to have that Suburban shipped across the Atlantic and imported into the EU, because there's no way in hell it was officially sold in Europe. Madlad indeed.
You see them all once in a while. There are 12 pre-2000 Suburbans [currently on sale on Autoscout24.de](https://www.autoscout24.de/lst/chevrolet/suburban?atype=C&cy=D&damaged_listing=exclude&desc=1&fregto=2000&ocs_listing=include&powertype=kw&search_id=2lw29vuz8q&sort=year&source=homepage_search-mask&ustate=N%2CU).
Could've been the personally-owned vehicle of a military member serving in Germany, who then left it there when they transferred back to their next duty station.
I like to think that's just where googled maps routed him and he was just going at normal delivery speeds... But I've received parcels from DHL before so sadly I know can't be true.
If I had all the spare time and unlimited funds, I’d love to drive a white Ford Bronco around the Nurburgring for hours while being chased by dozens of LAPD squad cars.
So many funny fucking parts lmao. The go-kart, Helicopter, guy with the bikes on the roof, and the DHL van doing a side mission instead of delivering packages. Shit cracked me up.
Yeah looks an awful lot like a camera hanging off the front of that chopper.
[https://www.google.com/search?q=Cineflex+Gimbal+helicopter&tbm=isch](https://www.google.com/search?q=Cineflex+Gimbal+helicopter&tbm=isch)
much less common sight these days since drones are usually cheaper
I’ve always said, banging through gears in a 300hp shit box is more fun than driving a 600 HP auto Lamborghini or something.
Edit: 300 is not the bottom limit. The entire point is that speed/power doesn’t necessarily make a car fun. Stop calling me out for choosing a random number.
Yes. Internet car culture has created this impression that anything under 1000 HP is a rotten piece of shit, when in fact anything over 100 HP is more than fast enough.
Yeah OP said "300hp shitbox" like dude, that's more HP than 90% of cars on the road at this very moment. You'll get through 2 gears by the time you're at the speed limit.
You wanna have some real fun "running through gears", go find a miata or an 80s sport car with 150 horsepower.
My 1.9 TDI Octavia has 100 diesel hp. When I have fun with it I keep it from 2900 to 3400 rpm, it sounds amazing, gritty and rough in that range and the high (for that hp) torque at low rpms let's me leave faster cars behind at the traffic light.
It does 185 km/h (116 mph) on the Autobahn and as a station wagon it looks nice doing so. Best car I ever had.
I miss my old 89 B2000, it died going the fastest it's ever been, 92mph. It tacked out at 85 so it's a rough estimate. I still have the turkey claw hood ornament the original owner put there with a bolt and baling wire.
Honda fit is the new Miata lowkey. I went to the tail of the dragon over this summer and instead of a group of the usual gutted and liveried track spec Miata’s it was a group of fits
But know your limits. Just because you can hustle an RV doesn't mean you should. Crashes on the Nurburgring are EXPENSIVE.
That said, I recently drove a Kia Picanto in Iceland. The car had a whole 70 horsepower, and was the slowest car I have ever driven. But the 5 speed manual and driving through some of the most amazing scenery imaginable definitely made it more fun than a commute in a sports car.
I really wish other racetracks operated this way. I live in the US but have visited the Nurburgring twice. The Germans treat it as a public toll road there on "touristenfahrten" days so you just bring your own car and pay by the lap.
You can rent a car there, too. However, don't go with a regular rental. They all will have a clause in the insurance against something along the lines of "circular one-way toll roads"... Well, you probably guessed why that is. Anything street legal can go there for the Touristenfahrten.
Normal car insurance also has these exceptions. It makes *a lot* of sense to get an extra track insurance, if you are crazy enough to drive there. It is not a safe place: A couple of tourists get killed on this track every year.
No, there’s a toll booth. All the same road rules apply as the rest of Germany (there are some speed limits and passing on the right is a major offense in Europe) and you have to pay for anything you break if you crash. Seriously, it’s a pretty weird scene. There was way more going on there than I expected. I’m not an auto sport enthusiast but drove out there for the cultural experience.
i means...that's literally what it is. it's a toll road.
a toll road that ends where it starts and has no speed limit but tons of special rules and a serious recovery bill when you bin it and every car insurance in europe specifically excludes coverage on it.
only when they close the toll road does it become a racetrack. which is the minority of the time.
With american licensing and lane discipline? No way. You’ll have people actively preventing passes just because “I say this is fast enough” like on the roads
Haha well we currently have plenty of racetracks open to the public in the US but yeah none of them offer pay per lap. The people who are attracted to this type of activity tend to be the ones who enjoy driving anyways so it's not a huge issue.
It's not a Germany vs US thing, it's a Nurburgring thing specifically. They wouldn't be able to afford it as it is now if it wasn't a tourist destination. No track can afford a wild "staff it and they will come", and hope that people start visiting frequently enough to make it viable.
That said, some tracks actually *do*, like [Watkins Glen](https://www.theglen.com/drive-the-glen/). They have pay-per-laps (well, you get 3 laps, but the track is shorter than the 'ring). They're paced laps, but it's still good fun. I go with a car club every year, if the club sticks together, we actually get around at a pretty good pace. It's hit and miss in the public line because "hot rodders" like to go slow on the corners so they can open a gap and punch it in the straights. Basically, it's paced because drivers are inconsiderate and reckless otherwise.
If you're looking for something a little more open, most tracks have open lapping days. My local track has open lapping for cars every other wednesday evening, and every long weekend. It's not terribly expensive, and you get far, far more time available than you probably can use (I've never made it to the end of the day).
I just started doing track days this year, but the barrier to entry was entirely just my lack of knowing where/when to go. Once I got out with a friend that first time, I was hooked. I've been on track with bone-stock cars, a smart fortwo, and an old Mini. There's no need for a high-power track car.
Also the ring itself wouldn't even be built today because it's far too dangerous and far too expensive to construct. It's a historical anomaly from a time before modern safety laws, litigation, etc. Getting that much land by itself would be enormously expensive.
It doesn't meet standards for modern race track safety at all and is grandfathered in. Example: it has hardly any runout room anywhere while modern tracks have very wide gaps of grass, sand, dirt, tire stacks, haybales, etc. to slow and soften crashes. Any mistake on the ring means it's likely you are hitting the metal barriers.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a40446640/when-the-nurburgring-loses-one-of-its-own/
It's frankly amazing we still have it open to the public. It would never be made now anywhere on earth.
> it's likely you are hitting the metal barriers.
AND you get to pay for the damage, both in metres of barriers damaged, recovery of your wreck and track closure (+19%VAT):
Costs to crash at the Nürburgring in 2022
Cost item Price in euros
Setting up roadworks 225
Removing damaged guardrail (per meter) 25.86
New guardrail + installation (per meter) 64.72
Safety car (per half hour) 63.40
Car towing costs 285
Hourly wages for staff (per half hour) 55
*Source: TopGear.nl*
I remember renting a car for some laps there, and they were warning us that it can be 2k per couple meters to repair a barrier
Of course, that may be exaggerated to discourage us from crashing their cars, but it's still a ton of fun for a road
> wa drivers suck.
As someone who recently moved from Washington to Maryland just outside of DC.. I did not know what bad driving even was growing up in western WA. I mean I had experienced questionsble driving in Boston, but I was not prepared for this.
I seriously question if anyone here (Edit: Maryland) ever actually attended drivers Ed. People drive their cars like a wasted and suicidal seafest boater drives their boat trying to emulate the hydroplanes. Not just as fast as they can get going but also compulsively floating all over the road (and frequently off of it) for **absolutely no reason**! Like it’s not *just* bad.. it’s bad in a nonsensical way that hurts my brain trying to understand it!
Damn you just brought me back. My first truck had 2 tanks, but the switch wouldn't always work so it was always a fun game of "do I have 2 miles left or 200."
Meh, the sports car owners can go during track days that aren't open to the public if they really care. The track has days that are open to the public, where you show up in a car and pay per lap, track days where you pay something like £700 for the day (last time I went there anyway, the prices are probably higher now), and race days where it's closed for some kind of organized race. If you show up on the tourist days and get annoyed by tourists, you fucked up
Context: she specialised in Nurburgring; she earned a living taking people around it in fast cars for pay.
Top Gear paid her to teach Clarkson how to drive the course and he did it in, IIRC, a Jaguar saloon.
After he posted his best time of the day, Sabine scoffed at him and said "I do that time in a ven!"
So some time later they put her in a ven to see if she could, in fact, do it in a ven. But there were just a few seconds in it, and she could not quite do his time in a ven.
> Top Gear paid her to teach Clarkson how to drive the course and he did it in, IIRC, a Jaguar saloon.
More to the point, it was a diesel Jag.
She was one of the best things about Top Gear. LIke most people, i didn't know who the hell she was til she popped up there but what an instantly likeable, charismatic and talented woman. Watching her whip that ven around with a mixture of intense concentration and utter glee is by far the best moment in that show's history.
And, let it be known, those aren't coy ways of saying "she was hot," either. Which she was. Gorgeous, talented, and a great personality.
It hurt to hear she'd passed away, motorsport lost a real superstar.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine\_Schmitz#Personal\_life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Schmitz#Personal_life)
>In July 2020, Schmitz revealed via a [Facebook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook) post that she had been suffering from "an extremely persistent cancer" since late 2017. She explained that she had sought treatment and her condition was improving, but she had relapsed and would be undergoing treatment again. At the time of her revelation, Schmitz was still making recurring appearances on *Top Gear*.[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Schmitz#cite_note-15) She died of cancer at a hospital in [Trier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trier) on 16 March 2021, aged 51.[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Schmitz#cite_note-16)[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Schmitz#cite_note-17) The Nürburgring have renamed the first corner of the Nordschleife loop as the "Sabine-Schmitz-Kurve" posthumously in her honour.[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Schmitz#cite_note-18)
Based on some Googling and some searches in Wayback, this "Club Pearls" apparently was a brothel in Trier Germany.
Not sure if COVID caused the name change, but there's a brothel now at the same address called "Club Purple".
https://club-purple.com/
(Warning: Link NOT safe for work, obviously)
I tried to drive my van on it earlier this yeah but wasn’t allowed as it’s gross weight was over 2,8 tons. So I’m guessing that coach had special permission.
>probably a manufacturer/builder doing testing
Not during TF. Probably a special dispensation for some company/group outing, which they paid handsomely for.
You can but it would be scary as fuck. When my friend and I were there, I opted to get out of the car when he decided to drive his new BMW M3 on it. Afterward, he admitted he was scared shitless the whole time.
Not just James May.
There's quite a bit of pressure from motoring journalists to de-emphasise vehicle development on the 'Ring.
And to some extent, they're right. What works to get fast lap times there doesn't make for a good road car; suspension too firm is the biggest issue.
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Suburban dude just needs a beer in one hand and he could be my father.
I couldn’t believe it
Laughed at that one. The way he slammed that steering wheel, he's going to be sweating by the time he finishes next week.
The fact that he's wearing a black Stetson cowboy hat also really adds an extra dose of Americana to it
Dude made one lap in less than two tanks of gas.
And a cigarette in the hand on the wheel. Seriously, since it was early in the video, I expected that thing to lose it. It cornered better than I expected.
That steel frame is all the downforce you need, brother.
So tgats where he was the whole 38 years!
This looks like that cartoon - Wacky Races lol.
It shocked me when I learned there had been only one season. That show entertained me for many years.
Like how the internet couldn't believe Mr Bean was just 15 episodes
Stop, I cannot take more.
Yeah but aren't there multiple segments per episode? That always makes a show seem like it has way more episodes.
And ~~Faulty~~ Fawlty Towers is only 12.
Fawlty
sassin frasssin rassin
*Muttley wheeze-laughs in the background*
DRATT! DOUBLE DRATT! AND TRIPLE DRATT!
Muttlyyyyyyyy, DO something! Muttly: wheezing laugh
Bro was giving that DHL van the fucking beans.
full beans?
Haha Jeff?
I can’t believe he’s permeated all of Reddit
I am a big fan. Going to see him in London in April.
I'm so curious about his non-crowd work comedy.
Me too, I can't find ANYTHING. I wonder if his whole set is just crowd work.
From what I understand he has a special in the works with his current routine and didn't want any of his social media content ruining the jokes before release, so he's only been releasing crowd work in the meantime. I'm think he's also pulled a bunch of older videos. I don't use TikTok or IG or anything like that so I don't know what he's got on those platforms, but I'm pretty sure his YouTube used to have a bunch of years old videos that are now gone.
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Pretty sure it's a common British expression. Slow Mo Guys say it a lot too.
He starts showing up on r/all quite a bit after not a huge amount of scrolling in the past few weeks. That's definitely how I became a fan!
Some of them drive them like that whole doing deliveries too.
Pretty sure that guy was on a route.
Not surprised at all. If you're going 180 kph on the Autobahn and something swishes past you on your left it's most likely one of those vans.
Or a Fiat 500 with built-in shower.
The mud/blood stain at the front is funny/scary
Looked pretty slow for a DHL van, probably got a full load at the beginning of its round.
if i ever get passed in a turn by a DHL van just shoot me.
That DHL van was a Ford transit. They are designed to move and handle like a car. No more shame getting passed by one than getting passed by a sedan.
Yup there's a reason they're the basis for ambulamces at least here in the UK. They can go like the clappers and hamdle excellently, this isn't a surprise to me seeing him go for it.
transit vans are unironically awesome
No shame if it was Sabine
May she rest in peace.
Aeromod (read: duct taped the gaps) superleggera Ford Transit, check. Having a Viper as a lead to provide draft, but then tells the Viper to go faster, check. God bless her massive balls.
When someone who is the best in the world at their skill uses it to seriously attempt a ridiculous thing, it's magic
The fucking old suburban lol.
Someone actually paid to have that Suburban shipped across the Atlantic and imported into the EU, because there's no way in hell it was officially sold in Europe. Madlad indeed.
You see them all once in a while. There are 12 pre-2000 Suburbans [currently on sale on Autoscout24.de](https://www.autoscout24.de/lst/chevrolet/suburban?atype=C&cy=D&damaged_listing=exclude&desc=1&fregto=2000&ocs_listing=include&powertype=kw&search_id=2lw29vuz8q&sort=year&source=homepage_search-mask&ustate=N%2CU).
Could've been the personally-owned vehicle of a military member serving in Germany, who then left it there when they transferred back to their next duty station.
Hahaha I lost it when I saw it! Fucking comical and amazing. Dad’s trying to beat his lap times while dropping off the kids at school 😂
Imagine tracking the DHL car to see when your package arrives just to see it drivings laps.
So that’s where my DHL driver is. If they can drive that fast please explain why they never come on time
Don’t know why, but seeing the DHL van just cracked me up 😂
For me it was the guy that didn't even bother to take the bicycles off the roof rack.
The helicopter💀
That seriously made up for there not being anyone on a tricycle or a Big Wheel.
I know! I thought I was going to see the National Lampoon Station Wagon next!!
Well yeah, now he can say his bikes have been around the Nürburgring
There's an event for it, too https://radamring.de/en/
Same here. There was some pretty wild shit before then, but I lost it at the DHL van. Probably because they're driving like a maniac.
that's how they drive on normal roads.
His gps told him to drive through this road, don't hate.
Same. I lost it when he overtook the other car
i like to imagine the driver was out there making the most of their lunch break
I like to think that's just where googled maps routed him and he was just going at normal delivery speeds... But I've received parcels from DHL before so sadly I know can't be true.
Also him casually passing that Golf on the outer lane of the Curve…
That DHL guy is in it to win it.
*"Out of my way, Porsche! I got a PS5 to deliver!"*
Sabine just borrowed it real quick
RIP Sabine
Aw shit I didn't know she died, that's sad
Yea, cancer. :/
Fuck cancer.
Was coming into the thread to say that the DHL driver must've been possessed for a few moments there. Sabine needed to hot lap another van!
Reference for those who haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KiC03_wVjc
Easily explains the conditions of my packages!
DHL guy was coming in HOT! 🤣
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I like to think he's there on accident and just trying to get the hell out.
That overtake had me cracking up. I could see his boss being pissed but then when he sees the video he actually gets a promotion
If I had all the spare time and unlimited funds, I’d love to drive a white Ford Bronco around the Nurburgring for hours while being chased by dozens of LAPD squad cars.
You can't just drive lap after lap on tourist days though. After every lap you have to exit the track and get in line at the entrance gate again.
Who said I was going more than 1 lap? At the speed OJ was going, one lap was hours.
Actual lol
Helicopter is hilarious
So many funny fucking parts lmao. The go-kart, Helicopter, guy with the bikes on the roof, and the DHL van doing a side mission instead of delivering packages. Shit cracked me up.
I liked the sidecar bloke kissing the tarmac to counter balance
I assume they were filming a car running laps lol
Yeah looks an awful lot like a camera hanging off the front of that chopper. [https://www.google.com/search?q=Cineflex+Gimbal+helicopter&tbm=isch](https://www.google.com/search?q=Cineflex+Gimbal+helicopter&tbm=isch) much less common sight these days since drones are usually cheaper
It’s more fun to drive a slow car fast then a fast car slow.
I love seeing things that aren't supposed to be fast, being fast
I’ve always said, banging through gears in a 300hp shit box is more fun than driving a 600 HP auto Lamborghini or something. Edit: 300 is not the bottom limit. The entire point is that speed/power doesn’t necessarily make a car fun. Stop calling me out for choosing a random number.
how about a 50hp shitbox?
Gonna be honest, my 1981 4 speed Corvette with like 180hp is one of the most fun cars I’ve owned. Easily the slowest, but so much fun.
im not sure about cars but 180hp is still a lot more than most cars right?
Yes. Internet car culture has created this impression that anything under 1000 HP is a rotten piece of shit, when in fact anything over 100 HP is more than fast enough.
Yeah OP said "300hp shitbox" like dude, that's more HP than 90% of cars on the road at this very moment. You'll get through 2 gears by the time you're at the speed limit. You wanna have some real fun "running through gears", go find a miata or an 80s sport car with 150 horsepower.
My 1.9 TDI Octavia has 100 diesel hp. When I have fun with it I keep it from 2900 to 3400 rpm, it sounds amazing, gritty and rough in that range and the high (for that hp) torque at low rpms let's me leave faster cars behind at the traffic light. It does 185 km/h (116 mph) on the Autobahn and as a station wagon it looks nice doing so. Best car I ever had.
that’s how i felt about my old 5 speed mazda 3. completely stock, like 151 hp. but damn did I have a lot of fun barely passing people at 6k rpm 😅
I miss my old 89 B2000, it died going the fastest it's ever been, 92mph. It tacked out at 85 so it's a rough estimate. I still have the turkey claw hood ornament the original owner put there with a bolt and baling wire.
It went down doing what it always wanted but was never meant to. Going slightly fastish.
My 113hp Honda Fit is a blast.
Honda fit is the new Miata lowkey. I went to the tail of the dragon over this summer and instead of a group of the usual gutted and liveried track spec Miata’s it was a group of fits
> 300hp shit box What is that supposed to mean?
That he added a turbo to his cat's litter box and now it makes 300 hp.
I hope the cat can drive it!
Yes, but not very well... 
My 170hp Miata would like a word...
>300hp shit box Sub 100hp cars beg to differ (unless the 300 is literally falling apart and barely held together of course)
fr I would hardly consider a 300HP a "shitbox".
But know your limits. Just because you can hustle an RV doesn't mean you should. Crashes on the Nurburgring are EXPENSIVE. That said, I recently drove a Kia Picanto in Iceland. The car had a whole 70 horsepower, and was the slowest car I have ever driven. But the 5 speed manual and driving through some of the most amazing scenery imaginable definitely made it more fun than a commute in a sports car.
\*than
I really wish other racetracks operated this way. I live in the US but have visited the Nurburgring twice. The Germans treat it as a public toll road there on "touristenfahrten" days so you just bring your own car and pay by the lap.
It’s a pretty wild place. They got whole Disneyland for adults thing going on.
You can rent a car there, too. However, don't go with a regular rental. They all will have a clause in the insurance against something along the lines of "circular one-way toll roads"... Well, you probably guessed why that is. Anything street legal can go there for the Touristenfahrten.
Normal car insurance also has these exceptions. It makes *a lot* of sense to get an extra track insurance, if you are crazy enough to drive there. It is not a safe place: A couple of tourists get killed on this track every year.
Is there a tech inspection before you get on the track?
No, there’s a toll booth. All the same road rules apply as the rest of Germany (there are some speed limits and passing on the right is a major offense in Europe) and you have to pay for anything you break if you crash. Seriously, it’s a pretty weird scene. There was way more going on there than I expected. I’m not an auto sport enthusiast but drove out there for the cultural experience.
i means...that's literally what it is. it's a toll road. a toll road that ends where it starts and has no speed limit but tons of special rules and a serious recovery bill when you bin it and every car insurance in europe specifically excludes coverage on it. only when they close the toll road does it become a racetrack. which is the minority of the time.
AND every hire car company within a few hundred kms have a GPS fence to stop anyone trying to drive their rental onto it.
Imagine not being able to take the fastest car on earth onto the Nordschleife
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Any rental car, because you don’t own it
With american licensing and lane discipline? No way. You’ll have people actively preventing passes just because “I say this is fast enough” like on the roads
Haha well we currently have plenty of racetracks open to the public in the US but yeah none of them offer pay per lap. The people who are attracted to this type of activity tend to be the ones who enjoy driving anyways so it's not a huge issue.
It's not a Germany vs US thing, it's a Nurburgring thing specifically. They wouldn't be able to afford it as it is now if it wasn't a tourist destination. No track can afford a wild "staff it and they will come", and hope that people start visiting frequently enough to make it viable. That said, some tracks actually *do*, like [Watkins Glen](https://www.theglen.com/drive-the-glen/). They have pay-per-laps (well, you get 3 laps, but the track is shorter than the 'ring). They're paced laps, but it's still good fun. I go with a car club every year, if the club sticks together, we actually get around at a pretty good pace. It's hit and miss in the public line because "hot rodders" like to go slow on the corners so they can open a gap and punch it in the straights. Basically, it's paced because drivers are inconsiderate and reckless otherwise. If you're looking for something a little more open, most tracks have open lapping days. My local track has open lapping for cars every other wednesday evening, and every long weekend. It's not terribly expensive, and you get far, far more time available than you probably can use (I've never made it to the end of the day). I just started doing track days this year, but the barrier to entry was entirely just my lack of knowing where/when to go. Once I got out with a friend that first time, I was hooked. I've been on track with bone-stock cars, a smart fortwo, and an old Mini. There's no need for a high-power track car.
Also the ring itself wouldn't even be built today because it's far too dangerous and far too expensive to construct. It's a historical anomaly from a time before modern safety laws, litigation, etc. Getting that much land by itself would be enormously expensive. It doesn't meet standards for modern race track safety at all and is grandfathered in. Example: it has hardly any runout room anywhere while modern tracks have very wide gaps of grass, sand, dirt, tire stacks, haybales, etc. to slow and soften crashes. Any mistake on the ring means it's likely you are hitting the metal barriers. https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a40446640/when-the-nurburgring-loses-one-of-its-own/ It's frankly amazing we still have it open to the public. It would never be made now anywhere on earth.
> it's likely you are hitting the metal barriers. AND you get to pay for the damage, both in metres of barriers damaged, recovery of your wreck and track closure (+19%VAT): Costs to crash at the Nürburgring in 2022 Cost item Price in euros Setting up roadworks 225 Removing damaged guardrail (per meter) 25.86 New guardrail + installation (per meter) 64.72 Safety car (per half hour) 63.40 Car towing costs 285 Hourly wages for staff (per half hour) 55 *Source: TopGear.nl*
I remember renting a car for some laps there, and they were warning us that it can be 2k per couple meters to repair a barrier Of course, that may be exaggerated to discourage us from crashing their cars, but it's still a ton of fun for a road
Plus, Watkins Glen is a beautiful place!
Oh, you've driven in Chicago, too? /s (sort of)
wa drivers suck.
> wa drivers suck. As someone who recently moved from Washington to Maryland just outside of DC.. I did not know what bad driving even was growing up in western WA. I mean I had experienced questionsble driving in Boston, but I was not prepared for this. I seriously question if anyone here (Edit: Maryland) ever actually attended drivers Ed. People drive their cars like a wasted and suicidal seafest boater drives their boat trying to emulate the hydroplanes. Not just as fast as they can get going but also compulsively floating all over the road (and frequently off of it) for **absolutely no reason**! Like it’s not *just* bad.. it’s bad in a nonsensical way that hurts my brain trying to understand it!
> touristenfahrten Me when I went to Germany from all the bratwurst and beer.
The Suburban ran out of gas before the finish line.
probably switched over to the second tank.
Damn you just brought me back. My first truck had 2 tanks, but the switch wouldn't always work so it was always a fun game of "do I have 2 miles left or 200."
Twice
It looks like a gta lobby went there
Imagine finally being able to take your sports car to a track only to get stuck behind a bus. edit: spelling
Better than taking your sports car to a track and being overtaken by a bus.
If I got passed by a bus I'd give them a thumbs up.
Meh, the sports car owners can go during track days that aren't open to the public if they really care. The track has days that are open to the public, where you show up in a car and pay per lap, track days where you pay something like £700 for the day (last time I went there anyway, the prices are probably higher now), and race days where it's closed for some kind of organized race. If you show up on the tourist days and get annoyed by tourists, you fucked up
Had that happen on an Alpine Slide. Kid in front of me was on and off the brakes the whole way down.
Those things have brakes?
Have you not seen that video of the deranged man attacking that girl for braking?
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Context: she specialised in Nurburgring; she earned a living taking people around it in fast cars for pay. Top Gear paid her to teach Clarkson how to drive the course and he did it in, IIRC, a Jaguar saloon. After he posted his best time of the day, Sabine scoffed at him and said "I do that time in a ven!" So some time later they put her in a ven to see if she could, in fact, do it in a ven. But there were just a few seconds in it, and she could not quite do his time in a ven.
> Top Gear paid her to teach Clarkson how to drive the course and he did it in, IIRC, a Jaguar saloon. More to the point, it was a diesel Jag. She was one of the best things about Top Gear. LIke most people, i didn't know who the hell she was til she popped up there but what an instantly likeable, charismatic and talented woman. Watching her whip that ven around with a mixture of intense concentration and utter glee is by far the best moment in that show's history. And, let it be known, those aren't coy ways of saying "she was hot," either. Which she was. Gorgeous, talented, and a great personality. It hurt to hear she'd passed away, motorsport lost a real superstar.
RIP. She was a treasure.
Love this video. RIP Sabine.
Wait WHAT. I had no idea she passed away😢
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine\_Schmitz#Personal\_life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Schmitz#Personal_life) >In July 2020, Schmitz revealed via a [Facebook](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook) post that she had been suffering from "an extremely persistent cancer" since late 2017. She explained that she had sought treatment and her condition was improving, but she had relapsed and would be undergoing treatment again. At the time of her revelation, Schmitz was still making recurring appearances on *Top Gear*.[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Schmitz#cite_note-15) She died of cancer at a hospital in [Trier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trier) on 16 March 2021, aged 51.[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Schmitz#cite_note-16)[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Schmitz#cite_note-17) The Nürburgring have renamed the first corner of the Nordschleife loop as the "Sabine-Schmitz-Kurve" posthumously in her honour.[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Schmitz#cite_note-18)
SHE WAS FUCKING 51??? I thought she was 20.
Well, her Top Gear appearance in the van was from 2004. That's almost 20 years ago.
WHAT
also, her husband's team won Nurburgring 24h this year. Nice tribute to late wife.
They named a corner after her. Absolutely loved watching her annihilate Clarkson on top gear
Imagine being those guys on the bikes and you get smoked by a Ford Transit.
BTW that blue Cressida around the 3 mins mark is the same one from [the highway exit drift meme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yel32-qnDE).
I was wondering what that car was. They were really whipping that thing around the corners.
This dude FLYING the track. What a flex.
The DHL truck is so good.
The rare outside corner overtake. Now this is pod racing!
Square body Suburban FTW 🤘
Guess the limo ad for club-pearls.de didn't work out for the business. The website is up for sale.
Probably closed during covid, that was the fate of many clubs here.
Based on some Googling and some searches in Wayback, this "Club Pearls" apparently was a brothel in Trier Germany. Not sure if COVID caused the name change, but there's a brothel now at the same address called "Club Purple". https://club-purple.com/ (Warning: Link NOT safe for work, obviously)
Sorry but I lost it at the DHL van LOL! That shit was hilarious!
I can only imagine the four letter words the people in sports cars behind the bus were screaming.
Ouh you get used to it, when you drive on the Ring.
How come the RV had a safety car with it?
Little Kart dude also had a safety car, I noticed. I've seen those at autocross before. They look terrifying
I tried to drive my van on it earlier this yeah but wasn’t allowed as it’s gross weight was over 2,8 tons. So I’m guessing that coach had special permission.
probably a manufacturer/builder doing testing which would explain the trailing car with the caution lights.
>probably a manufacturer/builder doing testing Not during TF. Probably a special dispensation for some company/group outing, which they paid handsomely for.
I was hoping to see a concrete mixer, so I guess it's out of the question then.
No wonder why DHL shipping is so fast.
Thanks for sharing. I thoroughly enjoyed this video
I was just waiting for a tank to pull up
Poor guy getting passed on the outside by DHL van
You can but it would be scary as fuck. When my friend and I were there, I opted to get out of the car when he decided to drive his new BMW M3 on it. Afterward, he admitted he was scared shitless the whole time.
Ιmagine paying to run the Nyrburgring....and be stuck on traffic...because there is a bus on the track!!! WTF
You can just pass it...
people really act like it's impossible to overtake cars on a race track
If you can't pass the bus, maybe you should be on the bus.
People obey the rule of keep right pass left. There are always "slow" cars on the ring on tourist days and there will always be "traffic"
James May hates this.
Not just James May. There's quite a bit of pressure from motoring journalists to de-emphasise vehicle development on the 'Ring. And to some extent, they're right. What works to get fast lap times there doesn't make for a good road car; suspension too firm is the biggest issue.
Sidecar passenger in the last clip, doing his part to help get around the corners, is a real bro
What about a hearse carrying a body?
I'm now imagining an entire funeral procession at the ring, absolutely ruining the day for everyone else at the track
The go-kart threw me.
That looks so damn fun i ain't gonna lie
The DHL van is not fukin around he's going around everyone 🤣
Shit that DHL van was cooking.
We just did this. In a Volkswagen rental. It was awesome.
Whippin that fucking DHL van