Nürburgring

The Nürburgring is a 150,000 fowk capacity motorsports complex locatit in the toun o Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It featurs a Grand Prix race track built in 1984, an a muckle langer Nordschleife "North loop" track which wis built in the 1920s aroond the veelage an medieval castle o Nürburg in the Eifel muntains. The north loop is 20.8 km (12.9 mi) lang an haes mair nor 300 metres (1,000 feet) o elevation chynge frae its lawest tae heichest points. Jackie Stewart elk-named the auld track "The Green Hell". Oreeginally, the track featured fower configurations: the 28.265 km (17.563 mi)-lang Gesamtstrecke ("Whole Course"), which in turn consistit o the 22.810 km (14.173 mi) Nordschleife ("North Loop"), an the 7.747 km (4.814 mi) Südschleife ("Sooth Loop"). Thare wis a 2.281 km (1.417 mi) warm-up loop cried Zielschleife ("Finish Loop") or Betonschleife ("Concrete Loop"), aroond the pit aurie an aw. Atween 1982 an 1983 the stairt/feenish aurie wis demolished tae create a new GP-Strecke, an this is uised for aw major an internaitional racin events. Housomeivver, the shortened Nordschleife is still in uise for racin, testin an public access. References Freemit airtins Offeecial wabsteid: German | Inglis Map an circuit history at RacingCircuits.info The Nürburgring on Google Maps (Current Formula 1 Tracks) Ben Lovejoy's Nürburgring wabsteid Archived 2018-04-20 at the Wayback Machine Nurburgring Webcam 24 hours Archived 2013-01-07 at the Wayback Machine One full Nordschleife lap with an on-board camera on Kinomap Leet o Nurburgring Nordschleife lap times Nürburgring caur hire an experiences Template:Z148