Articles about Nurburgring Nordschleife

It actually started out as a company presentation

Alois Ruf Jr. is explaining how to pronounce his surname. "Just say it as though it has two O's in it, like Fiddler on the Roof," he says with a smile.The briefest of pauses, and he continues: "'Ruf,' in German,

He’ll be reuniting with his championship-winning RB7 from 2011

Sebastian Vettel retired from Formula 1 at the end of last season, but far from putting his feet up, the four-time champion has instead set his sights on the most fearsome racetrack on the planet-the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Yes!He

It won its class too

On regular days, the Nürburgring sees a wide range of vehicles do a lap or two. There's the 'usual' Porsche 911 and BMW M3, as well as some oddities such as pickups and base model economy cars. But during last

It's called the Type R S

The Honda Civic Type R recently made headlines for becoming the fastest front-wheel drive car to ever lap the demanding Nürburgring Nordschleife. However, the record run was met with some controversy when 'Ring Raider and Youtuber Mischa Charoudin pointed out

You can bet rivals are working on this

Porsche has set a new lap record at the Nürburgring for production road cars. Its 691hp 911 GT2 RS-fitted with a new Manthey Performance Kit-managed a stonking lap time of 6min 43.3sec around the 'official' 20.832km circuit.

Long live the queen

Officials at the Nürburgring have announced that a corner will be renamed in honor of Sabine Schmitz, who lost her battle with cancer earlier this year.The first corner on the Nordschleife-a left-hander after turning off the Grand Prix

This Bimmer is for those who find the M4 too subtle

Hands up if you find the latest BMW M3 and M4 are actually a touch too subtle for you. We don't see many hands. Those sheepishly sticking their mitts up at the back, though? Let's hope you have a racing

We’re pretty sure you’ve watched some of this...

Back in 2004, Jeremy Clarkson wanted to test the then-new Jaguar S-Type diesel's credentials in the usual manner: a hot lap around the fearsome Nürburgring. His coach? One Sabine Schmitz. She helped Jeremy coax out a 9min 59sec

“The Top Gear family will miss her terribly, as will her army of fans”

The motoring world lost one of its true legends last night, when the powerful and irrepressible Sabine Schmitz passed away, aged just 51.Already a key figure at the Nürburgring after becoming the first and still the only woman to win

The Nordschleife BtG section, to be exact

The Toyota GR Yaris is a true hot hatch. We haven't driven it ourselves yet, but we're taking the word of the guys from Top Gear UK for it. It's tiny, it's fast, and it looks like a

After retaking the title from the Porsche Panamera Turbo S

Ridiculous news just in: Mercedes-Benz has retaken the record for the "fastest luxury class vehicle on the Nordschleife" from Porsche, after AMG development engineer Demian Schaffert set a time of 7min 27.8sec in a 2021-spec AMG GT 4dr. The

Talk about scary

Remember Group B? That crazy period of motorsport in the '80s where the rule book was thrown in the shredder so that utterly bonkers cars could be produced? Well, Norwegian firm Zyrus Engineering has summoned the spirit and insanity of that era

*To the ones in the locality, at least

The Nürburgring's 'Touristenfahrten' sessions-where the whole 21km Nordschleife is opened to the public-are the stuff of automotive legend. Something every petrolhead ought to have on his bucket list. Around 170 were planned for 2020, but the COVID-19

What's your favorite?

We suspect Marco Mapelli's face may have been attached to a few dartboards in Stuttgart and Woking.This is because he drives for Lamborghini, and managed to drive a specific Lamborghini around the 20.8km Nürburgring Nordschliefe in just 6min

We're the winners in the end

Nürburgring lap times divide car folk like little else. They split hardcore petrolheads-the sort who normally agree entirely on matters such as manual gearboxes (good) and digital dials (bad)-right down the middle. Some relish the pantomime of records being

A conversation with Ron Simons, founder and CEO of RSRNurburg

You can't call yourself a real gearhead if you haven't heard about the Nürburgring or understand what it represents. Nestled in the thickly forested Eifel mountains, about an hour-and-half drive from Frankfurt, the Nürburgring is the

Fancy a flat-out, silent run around the Green Hell?

How does one prove that one's car is sporty? Why, take it to the Nürburgring, of course. A handful of laps clearly wasn't enough for Jaguar, though, because it has now decided that the I-Pace should become a

It seems Elon Musk has set his sights on a ’Ring record

Hello and welcome to today's edition of 'What bonkers ideas has Tesla boss Elon Musk tweeted now?" His new wizard-wheeze is simple: "Model S on the Nürburgring next week." See?This is curious. Tesla is, let's face it,

Part of the Japanese carmaker’s new technical center in Shimoyama

The Nürbugring Nordschleife is one of the world's most grueling road courses for car testing and development, but if you're a Japanese carmaker based halfway across the globe, it's not like you can turn up there anytime you

We finally take on the 'Green Hell'

It's dangerous and intimidating. So why would you want to drive around the 'Ring? The answer is simple: To drive the legendary track that has immortalized racing legends is high on the bucket list.Watching Formula 1 and sports car races