My el cheapo RyanAir flight left at 0715hrs from Stanstead, so an early morning meant I had to leave mine at 0400hrs...
A quick ontime flight and I had made it to Frankfurt Hahn and met Dad and off to Bauler to see Manfred @ AutegMotorsport, who's looking after the Golf for us.
After collecting the Golf, we went to check in at the B&B in Nurburg and en route it started to rain... Snow had been forecast for that day, however it remained a few degrees over zero and was cold.
I hadn't brought a coat so it was off to the museum to purchase an Offical Nurburgring Jacket and here we met up with Duncan, Rachel and Annabelle and had lunch.
I had never driven the ring in the wet and on pulling out to go back to Ring, a brand new Aston Martin DB9 with severe front end damage passed us on the back of a recovery truck. A reminder that this place bites.
The carpark still littered with autoporn despite the bad weather, we pulled out onto the track.
The first section is quite easy and I made sure I was very slow going into the first major corner Tierarten. Complete understeer and I was only travelling about 20/30mph if that!!!! It was like sheet ice. This continued around the whole track and I wasn't going to be a hero, I just wanted to finish the lap safely!
A few cars were still lapping hard and came flying past, however we managed to pass a few Elises that weren't taking any chances and also 1 Ariel Atom where the driver and passenger were soaked!!
Some photos from another site :
After finishing the lap we decided to call it a day, slightly dejected about the weather however met up with Duncan and went to the Paddock Bar to watch the F1 on massive screen
It was then down to the PistenKlause for tea.. Its one of the main bars in town that do the famous PK Steak. Its basically a fillet of steak served on a baking hot piece of stone, that has been baked in an oven. You then cut the steak and cook it yourself on the stone!! To say its delicious is an understatement and always a treat in Nurburg
A few beers and with Dunk talking rubbish :drunk: it was off to bed for some sleep. The highlight was Dad getting the poor old Golf up a hill to the Burgstube with us all in it!! Couldn't have you walking up there guys!!!
I know Maddogs lad, Jay, runs his mk2 very successfully out there but I suspect my car is a lot closer to yours in specification, so any pointers would be great.
Thanks dunc) and you are looking to carry more of the speed through the corners making sure you get your lines right. I have found the standard brakes to be quite good surprisingly. My scoob suffered from brake fade something chronic at Snetterton and that was only after a few laps but the Golfs are fine and we have done a few laps consecutivley in it too!
