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KoJaKCZE (July 22, 2008 at 7:23 pm)
Its 100% true men !!! THUMBS UP
F1Ram (June 28, 2008 at 11:12 pm)
The greatest GP circuit ever
Tobus75 (June 10, 2008 at 7:25 am)
When I drive the Nordschleife in "Grand Prix Legends" on my pc, I literally sweat to get under 9 minutes. Now, to do this for 20+ laps and around 8 minutes laptime is crazy. Those guys had stones. Safety aside, these kind of circuits seperated the boys from the men.
HondaRacingDevellopm (May 22, 2008 at 10:50 pm)
BIG DRIVER'S safety = 0
zeroelus (May 19, 2008 at 9:54 pm)
But still, modern F1 cars arent designed to cope with the demands of the Ring. But I'd expect Heidfeld would do pretty good if he was to really get on it in a current F1 car, as the rest of the other drivers, at lest of the top 5 teams. And yes it's amazing you can now do a similarly timed lap in a street car, and with a much better chance of survival too!
barath4545 (May 18, 2008 at 9:20 am)
Forgot to mention that alot of the bumps and such were removed in 1970, so what you run today is a "light" version of Norschleife, at least its a lot safer, so maybe its 15sec faster now.
barath4545 (May 18, 2008 at 9:18 am)
Nick Heidfeld has as only F1 driver nowadays done just that, but not on full throttle, it was for show. But they estimated he could get just under 6mins at the 20.8km(Pure NordSch). Lauda did 6:58 at the 22.8km in 1975
helschinki (May 16, 2008 at 6:39 pm)
I only know about the fastest lap ever done in a racing-car. It was the german driver "Stefan Bellof" doing a lap in a Porsche 956 in 6:11 min for pole position of the 1000km race in 1983. (also the shorter 20,8 km lap) A modern F1 car nowadays should do it in < 6 mins, but you need a driver with balls like "coconuts" *lol*
Alexsered (May 16, 2008 at 6:29 pm)
thanks for the info, I still think it's crazy how much technology has improved. Any idea's on what a modern formula 1 car would do on that course?
helschinki (May 16, 2008 at 6:22 pm)
@alexseredthats because nowadays the circuit "nordschleife" is "only" 20,8 km long, in 1967 it was 22,8 km. (I think nowadays you don't drive the old start/finish straight, the old south-curve and the opposite straight which led to the north-curve - 0:17-0:56 at the vid)the next thing is, that the fastest lap in qualifying was 8:04 done by Jim Clark, and at the race 8:15 by Dan Gurney. |
