Nürburgring
Circuit Statistics
Location: Nürburg
Established:
Circuit Type:
Road
Designed by:
Gustav Eichler
Capacity:
290,000
Turns:
16
Direction:
Clockwise
First Grand Prix Race:
Rebuilt:
Total Races:
12
About Nürburgring
Nürburgring was completed in 1984 and called GP-Strecke ("Grand Prix Course"). It was built to meet the highest safety standards, but was considered in character a mere shadow of its older sibling.
Virgo take dramatic win.
Rob Bell and Gianmaria Bruni secured a dramatic win for the Virgo Motorsport team at the Nurburgring, despite its yellow Ferrari 430 being severely damaged in a fire during Friday practice.
Nurburgring - Race Results.
1. Sarrazin/Lamy Team Peugeot Total Peugeot 908 HDi 5hours 44mins 58.174 seconds 195 laps LMP1 2. Gene/Minassian Team Peugeot Total Peugeot 908 HDi +16.161secs LMP1
Legge struggles with inexperience at `Ring.
Katherine Legge's lack of Nurburgring experience counted heavily against her as the latest round of the DTM took place in some typical Eifel conditions, but she showed some fighting spirit before her race ended earlier than expected.
Kagayama: Hand injury is holding me back.
Yukio Kagayama has admitted that he is being held back by the hand injury he sustained in an accident at the N?rburgring last month, but remains adamant that just one thing is motivating him to return to full fitness as rapidly as possible - victory.
Schumacher: I quit to save Massa`s F1 career.
More than a year-and-a-half on from his retirement from Formula 1, Michael Schumacher - the most successful driver in the sport's history - has revealed that he walked away to save his team-mate and friend Felipe Massa's career.
WSS: Hill breaks thigh bone on return.
Tommy Hill has been diagnosed with another broken thigh bone after being taken out in a first corner melee on his return to action in the World Supersport Championship this weekend.
Haga in a thankful mood after double.
Noriyuki Haga has paid tribute to his doctor for giving him the chance to take two superb victories in the latest round of the World Superbike Championship at the Nurburgring.
Q&A: Heinz-Harald Frentzen - EXCLUSIVE.
by Russell Atkins TO LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW IN FULL: CLICK HERE
Race result - Euro 3000: Nurburgring, Race 1.
Full race results from the ninth round of the Superfund Euro 3000 series at Nurburgring. 1. Norbert Siedler ADM 58mins 46.799secs 42 laps 2. Jonny Reid JVA +0.533secs 3. Nicky Pastorelli Draco +1.092secs
Nurburgring 2004: Three in a row for Paffett.
Mercedes-Benz driver Gary Paffett clinched the sixth round of the DTM today [Sunday] at the Nurburgring, with a start to finish victory, in front of a sell-out crowd of over 100,000 spectators.
Takuma Sato's lap of the Nurburgring.
BAR-Honda driver Takuma Sato describes a lap of the Nurburgring - site of this weekend's European Grand Prix...
Circuit Information
Nürburgring was completed in 1984 and called GP-Strecke ("Grand Prix Course"). It was built to meet the highest safety standards, but was considered in character a mere shadow of its older sibling. Some fans, who had to sit much farther away from the track, called it Eifelring, Ersatzring, Green Party Ring or similar, believing it did not deserve to be called Nürburgring.
The new circuit also had a characteristic of many of the circuits at the time, in that it offered few overtaking opportunities.
Prior to the 2013 German Grand Prix both Mark Webber and Lewis Hamilton said they like the track. Webber described the layout as "an old school track" before adding, "It?s a beautiful little circuit for us to still drive on so I think all the guys enjoy driving here." While Hamilton said "It?s a fantastic circuit, one of the classics and it hasn?t lost that feel of an old classic circuit."
Source: Wikipedia