Nurburgring

djalbin · Post by **djalbin** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 10:26 pm

Video of Bridgestone tester Tim Röthig doing a sub-eight-minute lap of the Nordschleife, complete with MotoGP-style gyrocam.

http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-new ... 18697.html

Post by **FZRDude** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:19 am

That's crazy!!!

sickle44 · Post by **sickle44** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 9:31 am

NICE!

Now if I only knew what a standard lap time of the Nubrging thing is I could equate to something, little help Don?

Post by **Hooligan** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:49 pm

7m 50 seconds is pretty darn quick, sickle.

however, sabine schmitz (queen of the ring) did the full course in a ford transit diesel powered van (the big euro version, not the new north american version) in 10 minutes 8 seconds.

spook · Post by **spook** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:16 pm

Hooligan wrote:however, sabine schmitz (queen of the ring) did the full course in a ford transit diesel powered van (the big euro version, not the new north american version) in 10 minutes 8 seconds.

Yeah! I saw that on topgear... pretty funny!

djalbin · Post by **djalbin** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:37 pm

sickle44 wrote:if I only knew what a standard lap time of the Nubrging thing is I could equate to something

The lap times can vary depending on the measurement points. A full lap of the Nordschleife is 20.832 km (12.944 mi) long. Supertests cover only about 20.6 km (12.8 mi), and laps timed "bridge to gantry" are only 19.1 km (11.9 mi).
The video claims to be a Nordschleife lap (full lap) which would the 20.832 km length.

Nürburgring Nordschleife lap times are listed at this website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N% ... _lap_times

Motorcycle contests were discontinued after 1994. The fastest officially timed motorcycle lap at that time, on the 20,832 m distance, was 7:49.71