Nürburgring Nordschleife Photoshoot by Sean Klingelhoefer

Really this is a first on our website! A photoshoot of a race track may not be that usual in the automotive website world but we have got it. Somehow we always wanted to get a better view at what the Nürburgring Nordschleife presents to the automotive enthusiast. The whole track is a masterpiece of design, history, racing pedigree, legendary races and legendary drivers. But not all get to see it, or to be correct, see it in this way. We are very thankfull to Sean Klingelhoefer for letting us publish his amazing work here.

If you forgot, or don’t have a clue what Nürburgring Nordschleife presents, here are some information and details about it. The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. It is located about 70 kilometres south of Cologne, and 120 kilometres northwest of Frankfurt. The old track was nicknamed The Green Hell by Jackie Stewart and is widely considered the toughest, most dangerous and most demanding purpose-built racing circuit in the world.

Originally, the track featured four track configurations: the 28.265 kilometres (17.563 miles) long Gesamtstrecke (“Whole Course”), which in turn consisted of the 22.810 km (14.173 mi) Nordschleife (“Northern Loop”), and the 7.747 km (4.814 mi) Südschleife (“Southern Loop”). There also was a 2.281 km (1.417 mi) warm-up loop called Zielschleife (“Finish Loop”) or better known as Betonschleife, around the pit area. Between 1982 and 1983 the start-finish area was demolished to create a new GP-Strecke, and this is currently used for all major and international racing events. However, the shortened Nordschleife is still in use, for racing, testing and public access.

Many different car manufacturers take their sports cars to this track to test it and develop it better prior to the public release to the racing world out there. But in the last few years, many car companies began testing their road cars here, to get a better feeling of what new technology, design and other upgrades and modifications will do on a challenging race track like this, so by that proving it’s worthiness on the public roads. The gruelling test sessions often get a feeling of what thousands of kilometers of normal, everyday use would do to a car in just a few days.

The best known thing about the Nürburgring Nordschleife are pretty much the times set by the best and fastest production cars out there. We wrote about Nissan GTR breaking the record on a few occasions, with Porsche following closely by. With numerous races, like the famous 24 Hours of Nürburgring attrack hundreds of thousand spectators every year. With the track being open to the general public who is willing to test their and their cars potential, this is one of the favorite racing tracks in existence today.

* The photographs are copyrighted by Sean Klingelhoefer and may not be republished without prior permission from the author. Please do not direct link to the images, link to the article instead, our bandwith is not endless.

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