Thanks again Neilbo75! Great pics!!

 

All I need is a little encouragement!

So here's a few more:

1. Black Group's instructor, Uwe, aka God. He has several 24 hour Nurburgring competitions under his belt, not to mention world rally championship driving, where every turn is a new adventure. A zen master if there ever was one.

Here's my take on Uwe: I got the unexpected chance to ride a few laps with Uwe in the back seat of his lead car during the morning on Day 2. The track was soaked with rain. Sometimes the fog was so thick you couldn't see 50 metres ahead. At other parts, the visibility was good (there are lots of elevation changes at Nurburgring). Uwe is always driving with one hand, holding the walkie talkie with the other, updating the group at every turn. I got the feeling this is Sunday in the park for him. Which it was.

But Uwe is getting paid, and so he's doing what he can to get the group to go as fast as conditions allow. Several times, I feel his specially-prepared C63 Race Taxi sliding sideways, quite unexpectedly. This isn't drifting or usual oversteer. No, straightahead traction is breaking down -- so much rubber has been laid down on the "line" (into, around and out of the turns) of Nurburgirng that it becomes treacherous in the wet. (Real race drivers change the line accordingly, but that's too complicated for us amateurs, so we slow down and continue to follow the dry lines.)
Of course Uwe feels the slides, and catches each and every one nonchalantly with one hand ... while always taking care to announce to the group that that particular patch is "very slippy".

Smooth, in the moment, that's Uwe.
Fast.
Zen.

2. OK, how about this one as my avatar? I love the sun shining on my old-fashioned wood steering wheel. That's Antoinette trailing me in her rented SLK. Catch as catch can ...

3. Or maybe this should be the avatar. Now it's a pesky CLK DTM on my tail! WOT is the least I can do. The telephoto lens is spot on for the AMG Aero wheels - ten inches wide at the rear, just look at that lip! The rims were brand new and still shiny, but the brake dust is quickly turning them gun metal grey....

 

Great pictures and would love to hear more details.

Fantastic!!!!

 

OK, you got it.

1. A slice of life in the "Green Hell".

2. Proof that you really can fly in an AMG - all four wheels are off the asphalt! I'm not sure if this shot was taken at the famous "Flugplatz" - there are in fact two or three places where you can get airborne with enough speed. Uwe warned us to be careful not to load in steering inputs before liftoff!

3. Antoinette on my tail again, this time near the infamous Adenauer-Forst.

 

My favorite thread on this forum EVER!!!!!!
Great job Neilbo75

 

That is the flugplatz..... I can tell from my first hand knowledge of GT4

 

LOVE IT !!! grt pictures!!!

 

With critics like you, how can I resist doing a few more?

Especially when I stop cursing the keyboard, start looking for help on this forum, and finally figure out how to post real images...


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You're looking at a AMG "race taxi" that was Uwe's lead car for our group 6.
These vehicles start out as C63s. The exhaust is totally unrestricted -- outrageous sound! The suspension is re-worked, roll cage added - and voila they become amazingly capable cars in the hands of a good driver. The're too good to be true, really. Notice the license plate on the dash. These are not street legal cars.

This was the start of day 2. Notice how foggy it is. Notice how the steady drizzle is putting rain drops on the car. Not good. So let's put Day 2 off for awhile and keep on enjoying Day 1....