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You Know The Germans Always Make Good Stuff

You Know The Germans Always Make Good Stuff

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You can tell this race is extra hardcore, because they’re using the spectators as mileposts and curbstones and bollards. Spectators don’t have much stopping power, but they pay extra to sit on the curb. Everyone knows that if you hit water hard enough it’s just like hitting concrete. I’m almost positive the same applies to humans. Not that it would ever come to that. The driver seems like he could hit the apex of any corner on Earth at mach speed, driving a golf cart with three wheels, while blindfolded. The golf cart he’s driving in the video seems to have all four wheels, so he’s at a definite advantage.

Every good job has a cool uniform, and their fireproof pajamas are some of the coolest I’ve seen. I guess to them racing is just a job. Just another day at the office. The only difference between me and them is my office doesn’t have 552 horsepower — and I don’t work in an office.

Like Karaoke for Auto Racing

Like Karaoke for Auto Racing

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So, there’s this racetrack in Germany. The Nurburgring Nordshleife, AKA The Ring. It’s a full 13-mile circuit. It twists and turns its way around a little town called, you guessed it, Nurburg. The course was designed to be a test track and racing circuit. It got to be world famous. They used to have Formula 1 races there, until Niki Lauda’s Ferrari left the track and burst into flames in 1976. Not good. They built a new, safer track nearby, and started racing on that.

So, what do you do with a used, 13-mile race track? Well, it’s still used occasionally as a test track, and there’s smaller scale racing there, but on weekends and other slow times, they simply open up the track and call it a road. No speed limits. Anyone can drive on it, and everyone does. Like knuckleheads, mostly. That’s where we come in.

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