well it was my first ring trip, and i was going over in a full striped 205,

paul (3dr-rally-slag) was my passenger, and my mate karl and his mate simon came over with us in a 57 plate RS4 Convertible

so there was a slight diffrence in machinary

but we set off 1am friday morning 29th of august, heading for a 7am ferry from dover to bolugne.

we had no issues what so ever and got to dover with an hour or so to spare i was pleased the reliablility of the 205 was still going strong

on the ferry we met up with Jonnybravo (and his bag) alpina wes and (i forgot the other lads name)

here is a picture after the ferry crossing




i think i was the odd one out

we then set off for the ring, was a steady 80 at first, the lads a few blasts, while they did i just cruised at 100..lol and it was steady a rock

all the time cruising the 205 was returning 36mpg

hotel was 100yrds of so from ring, so that was awesome

as soon as we got there, i setabout changing to work clothes and ripping the 205 apart, i have been having issues with my adj TCA's and i wasn't comfortable with them, so swapped back to stad arms, setup the tracking and then went on the ring

first lap, was proper scary, car was fine, but my god i didn't realise the slopes and inclines

but i did the lap, no off's and i reckon i must have been loom 8's well when i say low 8's i mean 18 something

saturday came and the first people out, had a major pillup and shut the ring for several hours

i just found a clip of part of the carnage

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xUkK21JQmOk

6 in total, 2 bikes and 4 cars

anyhow, track opened and i had my second lap, the idea of this was to film the RS4, but he was just a bit to quick for me so filmed him for a bit then he went on

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s7XGokBx7XE

we missed he first part, but i's around the 11min time

as you can see i dont know the lines of the track and took my time


here is lap 4, bit longer than the above so it's in 2 parts

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0QuvjuFz9mo
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c19Slh3gFBc


just to add, the track was a bit scary but was great, the whole ring trip was amazing, and i will be going back

the 205 drove home, and was absolutly 100% and reliable

who says french cars are crap

there is so much more i could probably type, but i wont bore you with all the great details, like michael schumaker taxi ride's

Mr hurricane




here are some pictures we took, well paul and there are around 350

 

forgot to add a pic i bought out there

 

Cool little review and awesome collection of photos Spikester

That Lambo looks proper serious!

Crash of the Porka looked VERY bad, you could see the oil as the camera car headed towards it, but guess the Porsche driver didn't

Glad to hear the little Puggy handled it well

Where was the track painting done? I'll look out for it next time I'm there.

Si

 

coooool pics

 

nice pics spiky,stick your report over on northloop.
looked a busy weekend,might try going for a week next time and doing the evening laps in the week

 

the prima colouered lambo was stunning,

the bonnet, side panels wing mirrors spoiler, splitters and defusers were all carbon fibre

i never even got a look in the window, as i assume there was more inside,

VERY expensive car that

the writing is 10feet from the BRIDGE (start)

 

cracking photos Spiky. Looks like you had a great time

 

glad you enjoyed it
just watched the vid of your 2nd lap, very impressed

 

LOVING...

STR4P plate
White 430
white gtr
white r 8
GT2
the wide R5's

Bummer for the new red m3

what is the grey lambo? surely not a reventon?

 

Toooooo many pics!!

I cant load them all on here lol

 

Great Pics Spiky!

Glad you had a straight forward trip!

Were going back next year thats for sure.

 

what impressed you?

the fact i stayed on the black stuff

 

Won't let me view the pics on my phone but I'll look forward to seeing them when we get in.

 

Must have been some Reno Club thing on at the time - cant imagine why else you'd see a Reno 4 at a track and those 5s are awesome.

Respect to the little 205, isnt it the electrics that fail on french cars though? Yours being stripped wont suffer these problems - you've even cured the 205s leaky roof issue!

Great pics. Really nice to see all those cars from totally different eras mixing it up.

 

very good, just ate my lunch whilst reading/looking at this thread

What happened to your mates old shape M3? it was on a low loader then didnt see any more of it.

 

it was the World Renault Series on at the F1 track, which was free enry into the circuit, they even giving away FREE 18" slicks

i have reduced the electrics, and as the engine has different wiring, i guess i sorted most of them

the micture of cars was great






https://passionford.com/forum/general-car-related-discussion/256389-fao-rammer-rainbird.html

 

Great pics. I hope to make the trip myself in the not too distant futrue. How may Porsches??!! That BMW M3 looked in abit of a sorry state! Please dont take offense at this, but the 205 looked kind of out of place amongst those cars pictured. Bet it was a hoot round the track though! I've owned a 1.9GTi myself, loved it.

 

How many pics lol!! Nice one Steve, Cheers for sharing.


Whats the score with 'tagging' the road? If and when I make it out there, Its something I want to do!

 

looks like you all had a great time, tell karl he's still a cunt though LOL

ummm430scuderia LOL

 

well we walked into the offical nurburgring shop, saw cans on paint and picked on up and the lady said" its fine for tarmac"

she said they dont mind this paint, just dont use road paint



yeah my car was lost with all these, they had wheels worth more than my car

i didn't care, was good fun

 

you should of come, it was awesome

 

Changed the pics to Clickable Thumbnails now

 

I knew it wouldnt be much, but at the luck of it though

 

Cool thread.

 

some aweseome photos there, looks like you had a good time!

nice rs4 aswell, always see that driving around, didn't he used to have an m3 vert?

 

yeah he did

 

had a great weekend overall

the weather was fantastic

cars needed to be seen to be believed

the scenery at the ring and on the journey over was spectacular

great company, nice to meet you all

only down side i can think of was the lack of female eye candy, but i guess you cant have everything


soooooo many memories (not enough mamories)- the banter on the radios on the way over, jonny b's handbag, the taxi ride, the steak, mr hurricane, nearly having a heart attack thinking someone was coming down the track while we were signing it then realizing the main road run along side us, constant twintown quotes

gareth you should have come you would have loved it

spiky's car was not that lost there tbh, not all the cars were thoroughbred tarmac terrorists, there were mini buses, vans and the odd std road car including an old citroen zx derv, i just didn't think it was worth taking pics of them

its a long way but if your thinking about going its well worth the effort

 

sounds like you had a blast, will look out for your tagging, got the bullet cam set for mounting under the front spoiler on the 16i's so should get a good view.

loving all the pics and videos

 

Loooks awesome! Wish i could have made it.

 

Ive stayed at Ringhaus. Nice people (though booking a room online is a NIGHTMARE) They did screw up our food order though. So some Norvern Monkeys (also with a Track 205!) had to go without for a while BUT it is very competitively priced and they all speak fluent English. Even the 13 year old girl (daughter?) that helps out. Even pours pints in the bar. Imagine the shit if a 13year old English person did that over here!

Also check http://www.8200rpm.com/webcam/ Its a link that saves all the webcam pictures, so if you know what times you went out you might be lucky.

 

wiked time u had there

 

great pics looks like good times!

 

Glad you had fun Spiky - pics are ACE

 

My mate went out there last weekend in an old 3 litre n/a Supra and hismate with a turbo'ed Corrado.Said it was one of the best weekends he's had.Going to go next year for sure.

 

same here dude,

was an awesome weekend

 

maybe next time guys