Nurburgring. M3 GTR. Hans Stuck.
 

http://www.mpactmotorsports.com/albu...urburgring.wmv

SICK. :shock:

OMFG!!! I thought the film had been sped up! :shock:

Damn... By listening to the engine, I think he actually hit whatever the aero speed limit the car has on a couple of those "straights"....

The sheer number of turns on that thing is mind boggling... I'm sure you could learn it, but even then, having your eyes up has got to be a requirement just to jog the brain cells early enough as to what is next...

Now Kevin, I would agree, that probably isn't a great track for your first track event! :)

Yea, the Porsches just crawling along was a dead giveaway of that... :lol:

Intense! I had to watch that last straight twice!

I think he was definitely maxed on the long straight after the second banked turn. I felt like firing up GPL and driving the ring after watching that.. 8)

Döttinger Höhe... I think *any* car that's setup for the rest of the 'Ring will top out on that straight, unless you've got like 8 gears. :lol:

http://www.seccs.org/images/misc/Nurburgring_1967.gif

I keep watching this video over and I see something new every time. DAMN that car is fast.

Our mustang is built up enough that things start happening pretty fast when you're on track, but that GTR just takes it to a completely different level. I have a new respect for Stuck's driving skills..

did you really watch the driver? I think in one of the straights he could have shifted up one more time then he finds himself looking for the shifter in another shoot where he thought he was in a higher gear :P


just razzen he's an awsome driver 8)

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Hans Stuck is one of the best sports car racers in the world ever...
ANd, he has a bad ass haircut...
I have to find the jumping BMW Picture from nurb...

http://www.racing.stephan-kremer.de/...gring_1981.JPG

Jumping at Nurburing...That's Hans behind the wheel of that car..I believe that is taken at or near the "Flugplatz" turn at the ring...

Sweet, here's an older jumping BMW, again, Hans behind the wheel...I guess he's made a few laps around that circuit over the years. :lol:

That's the picture I thought you were going to post 1st!

Well, the other one has more air, so it got top billing...I used to have a clip of the late 80's/ Early 90's Group-C Sauber Mercedes Prototype running the straight at the nurburing, and it's wipers blew off the windshield and were spinning around like string... Crazy... That happened at Le Mans too.

Typical Mercedes quality :lol:

By the way, I've watched that video a few times thru, and like Austin said, I see new things every time, just when I think I've got a 'feel' for the course..I swear it changes..

Anyway, the speed that car carries, and the amount of time it's spent wide open in the top hole lets you know he's flying...

Very impressive vid.

Nevermind that Sauber Mercedes Dominated FIA Group C for a few years before the FIA had to make rules changes to limit their domination...Oh yeah, they had a pretty good driver named Michael Schumacher back then too... 8)
http://www.drivewerks.com/catalog/fu...ontQuarter.JPG

Isn't that the car that got a little breeze under it, then proceeded to lift off the tarmac and do like 3 back-flips enroute to the trees off the side of the straight?

Yeah, so? :lol: They fixed the windshield wiper problem though.

I'm sure this guy is really happy the wipers work better.

Dude, that will buff right out...

That's a fine example of what happens when your flux-capacitor kicks in BEFORE hitting 88 MPH.

Damn

"Flugplatz" would make sense for this picture.

For our German impaired viewers, "Flugplatz" in German means airport. Literally translated, it means "A place to fly." :twisted:

Sweet...I knew "Flug" was something to do with Fly...that makes sense...ahaha...I love that they named a part of the track that...

Well, cars have been jumping that section for years... assuming Grand Prix Legends is accurate. I can get my Lotus to leap about 100 ft, 5 feet in the air. The only problem is that you land into a right hand sweeper with a nice hill on the outside that likes to put an F1 car on it's lid. :shock: :lol:

Yeah,it is evident that the car is in no shape for the corner if you fly very far...

There is also another right-left combo in there somewhere, where the wall on exit really sneaks in on you, I imagine it's claimed a few right fronts over the years.

BTW, sorry, but it's me we're talking about here.

The car that did the flip that's most famous was an early CLK-GTR (check the dual oval headlamps, as opposed to the streamlined projectors of the Sauber Group C car)

Thats it in the film clip above, on the Mulsanne straight . Note that Mercedes CLK-GTR's did this twice, and neither time were they in a slipstream that would give them an excuse, just got light and up and over they went.

The Evolution model of the Porsche GT1, however, resolved a similar issue with the Porsche GT1's. An early GT1 did the same thing on a smaller Eurpean road course, on a long straight behind a Toyota, if memory serves; he got int he slipstream, negating all his front downforce, and then got light over a rise......he went vertical and then slammed back down forwards, spinning into a wall after breaking the car in half....

Scary stuff.

I can't imagine why those "prototype" cars don't fly as well as a good old sedans and coupes...

That's what happens when you drive a vacuum-cleaner 150+mph and the vacuum turns off over a rise. :shock:

Is this the picture of that car by chance?
http://www.forum-auto.com/uploads/20..._20voo_202.jpg

That's one of them.

Sweet. That is really impressive...and scary.