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Post #236,843
by bepatient
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12/2/05 9:17:48 AM
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New What are you on about?
Nordschleife was a great road course that completely vanished (and the name should have with it) when F1 took over from GT racing and completely changed the course. Still, for the F1 cars its a pretty good test of speed and handling combined. (I'd still like to see them on a road course 5 times the length...that would be fun.

The others historically were odd shaped circles. Cars of this day probably wouldn't even have to apply brakes (much like Indianapolis, where so many road race enthusiasts bore themselves to tears every Memorial Day in the US). So I would say that modern times have made them a little more challenging than less.

If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition

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Post #236,870
by scoenye
12/2/05 1:57:02 PM
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New The Nordschleife has one fundamental problem
It's a ring around a mountaintop (which makes it an odd shaped circle, doesn't it ;). Which was fine for its original purpose as a testing track, but makes for a very dangerous racetrack that can't be made safe.

The GT cars later got so fast (even eclipsing the F1s) that tracks like Le Mans were forced to put in speedbumps. So the days of the Nordschleife as a racetrack were numbered in any case. F1 may have accelerated it a bit, but I doubt it made little difference.
     While we're reminiscing... - (pwhysall) - (15) - Dec. 2, 2005, 08:32:12 AM EST
         What are you on about? - (bepatient) - (1) - Dec. 2, 2005, 09:17:48 AM EST
             The Nordschleife has one fundamental problem - (scoenye) - Dec. 2, 2005, 01:57:02 PM EST
         it's die Schleife, not der;and it's the Ring you're on about - (CRConrad) - (12) - Dec. 2, 2005, 05:57:07 PM EST
             Which reminds of another question - - (Ashton) - (11) - Dec. 3, 2005, 04:14:04 AM EST
                 There's hope yet. - (pwhysall) - (6) - Dec. 3, 2005, 04:24:24 AM EST
                     Ahh.. there's One - (Ashton) - (5) - Dec. 4, 2005, 04:48:33 AM EST
                         Always remember... - (pwhysall) - (4) - Dec. 4, 2005, 05:10:15 AM EST
                             And I bet she uses paddles to shift :-P -NT - (drewk) - (3) - Dec. 4, 2005, 05:30:02 AM EST
                                 Did you ever get those permissions sorted out? -NT - (pwhysall) - (1) - Dec. 4, 2005, 06:17:48 AM EST
                                     o0oo oo0o -NT - (drewk) - Dec. 4, 2005, 02:06:47 PM EST
                                 <raspberry juice = 5 /> -NT - (jb4) - Dec. 5, 2005, 02:08:30 PM EST
                 Need to learn some other languages - (jake123) - (2) - Dec. 3, 2005, 10:26:27 AM EST
                     Oui, c'\ufffdtait simplement r\ufffdve. - (Ashton) - (1) - Dec. 4, 2005, 04:44:40 AM EST
                         Mit Deutsch auch -NT - (jb4) - Dec. 5, 2005, 02:09:44 PM EST
                 In the German navy ships femminine, airships masculine :) -NT - (GBert) - Dec. 6, 2005, 03:52:39 PM EST

Geez can’t we all just be Canadians or something?
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