Adenauer Forst: What a tricky corner

[2o6]

Stumbeled upon this while looking for the GTCC answer.

http://www.ridelust.com/hoonage-deluxe-tricky-nurburgring-corner/

denauer Forst is a a S-curve section of Germany?s famed N?rburgring racetrack. While any S-curve will test the limits of your car?s suspension if you?re driving fast enough, the second apex at Adenauer Forst incorporates a downhill. What does this mean? At the very moment your right side suspension is fully weighted, the track falls away and unweights your suspension. In other words, you go from a nice, sedate four wheel drift to sphincter-clenching snap oversteer (or understeer, depending on you car?s balance) in about a millisecond. Public roads are designed with driver safety in mind. Racetracks, on the other hand, are designed to test the limits of a driver?s ability.


1970's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZb7sbRFCF0

Today - I give props to the 190E driver near the end who held on to that drift.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj-2PUUSYSg

[mzziaz]

1970's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZb7sbRFCF0

Oldie but goodie. Best part is at 1:50 when the guya falls out of his bug, in front of the sliding car.

[68_427]

Oldie but goodie. Best part is at 1:50 when the guya falls out of his bug, in front of the sliding car.

I lol'd

[sportyaccordy]

Jeez those old cars were death traps. I remember one of them rolled, and the doors opened, smashed into the ground and then poked back into the cabin. What the fuck???

All the Porsches spinning in the new vid just go to show... all the money in the world can't defeat physics

[Eye of the Tiger]

I thought Germans were supposed to be good at driving.

[SVT_Power]

Jeez those old cars were death traps. I remember one of them rolled, and the doors opened, smashed into the ground and then poked back into the cabin. What the fuck???

All the Porsches spinning in the new vid just go to show... all the money in the world can't defeat physics

Dunno man... the GTR seems pretty close to defying physics

[Rupert]

I like the bike that just skipped the whole turning part.

[sportyaccordy]

Dunno man... the GTR seems pretty close to defying physics

GT-R = the reverse spinning toilet the Simpsons got on their trip to Australia

[AutobahnSHO]

Speaking of Nurburgring

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/10q2/2011_subaru_impreza_wrx_sti_sets_nuerburgring_lap_record-feature

Subaru gets the fastest unofficial Sedan lap EVAH!!!!                    

[sportyaccordy]

That STI will never see a dealership in the form they had it

[AutobahnSHO]

That STI will never see a dealership in the form they had it

Really wasn't THAT far from the production car. Looks like undercar aerodynamics are the biggest change which would never go to the showroom...

[Secret Chimp]

I was surprised to see so many Beetles in the 70s one...

[mzziaz]

I was surprised to see so many Beetles in the 70s one...

The beetle was the, uh, volkswagen in Germany at the time 

[Autobahn]

I thought Germans were supposed to be good at driving.

Dutch tourists (they lost their caravans at the first corner)

[Autobahn]

The beetle was the, uh, volkswagen in Germany at the time 

[AutobahnSHO]

I was surprised to see so many Beetles in the 70s one...

haha My dad even owned a beetle- In Boise, Idaho.  (Good ski car- at the time most American cars were frontengine rwd....)

[Secret Chimp]

The beetle was the, uh, volkswagen in Germany at the time 

Yeah, but who's been in a Beetle and thought "this thing needs to get on a racetrack"

[2o6]

Yeah, but who's been in a Beetle and thought "this thing needs to get on a racetrack"

Everything goes on the Nurburgring.

[Rupert]

Yeah, but who's been in a Beetle and thought "this thing needs to get on a racetrack"

The same sort that's been in a Swift and thinks the same. I guess there are more people like Nick in Germany.

[Laconian]

Yeah, but who's been in a Beetle and thought "this thing needs to get on a racetrack"

Porsche Speedster owners.

[Secret Chimp]

Porsche Speedster owners.

I'm not sure if that's touche or just plain obvious.