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Nurburgring
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 10:26 pm
by djalbin
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
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:19 am
by FZRDude
That's crazy!!!
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 9:31 am
by sickle44
NICE!
Now if I only knew what a standard lap time of the Nubrging thing is I could equate to something, little help Don?
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:49 pm
by Hooligan
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.
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:16 pm
by spook
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!
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:37 pm
by djalbin
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