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A Corvette and a Clio crash at the Nürburgring
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Car Friday is generally known as the unofficial season opener for the tourist drives at the Nürburgring, so every year there are thousands of spectators visiting the track to attend the tourist drives either as a spectator or driver. The enormous number of cars on track often leads to dangerous situations or to crashes like this one... Be careful on the Nordschleife...

View: https://youtu.be/BoBYgzBXD5M


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[t-tony]

Bad luck for Plato but nice to see Andy Priaux do well again.

Tony.

 

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BMW beats Mercedes to Nurburgring 24 Hours pole, thanks to its DTM star Augusto Farfus.

http://bit.ly/1ELh8KK

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Nurburgring 24 Hours: Farfus grabs pole
The Marc VDS BMW team will start the Nurburgring 24 Hours from pole position after DTM star Augusto Farfus topped Friday afternoon’s thrilling 30-car shootout qualifying session.
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Flying lap: once again, the final top-30 qualifying for the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring proved to be very spectacular, with car taking some serious elevation at Pflanzgarten. See all the photos from the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring at: http://bit.ly/1EJ8zAi

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[t-tony]

It's time F1 went back to this type of qualifying, all out on track together, just like it used to be.

Tony.

 

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As darkness approaches, both BMW and Mercedes have lost front-running cars after four hours of the Nurburgring 24.

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Nurburgring 24 Hours: BMW leads, but is chased hard
With a sixth of the race distance in the book, the polesitting #26 Marc VDS BMW Z4 continues to lead the Nurburgring 24 Hours.
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Oops, ........

Published on May 16, 2015
A Black Falcon Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 driver looses wheel and tries to fix it on the track. This happened during the 2015 Nürburgring 24h race at Kesselchen. Eventually he is towed away to Steilstrecke where spectators and marshals try help reattaching the wheel.

Ein Black Falcon Mercedes SLS verliert im Bereich Kesselchen das hintere linke Rad und versucht es händisch wieder anzubringen. Nachdem er damit scheitert wird er von den Marshals zur nächsten Bucht gezogen (Steilstrecke). Dort versuchen Zuschauer den Schaden zu beheben.

View: https://youtu.be/iWWNSrBUtGA


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Fun times, sunk a boat load of Champagne, Spa Francorchamps......
Crap photo, Big Man and me and some fat git.........

Porsche Supercup

New rubber........

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After 24 hours of gruelling racing around the Nurburgring Nordschleife, Audi R8 beats BMW Z4 by just 40s!

http://bit.ly/1EQ3eXV

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Nurburgring 24 Hours: WRT Audi survives fire to win classic race
Despite a flash fire during a pitstop this morning, there was no stopping the #28 WRT Audi R8 LMS from winning the Nurburgring 24 Hours, ahead of the #25...
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[t-tony]

Bugger!

Tony.

 

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With the issue having returned to the agenda in the wake of Justin Wilson's fatal IndyCar crash, the FIA plans to hold new closed cockpit tests.

http://bit.ly/1Kh6XoR

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FIA set to carry out closed cockpit tests
The FIA plans to hold new closed cockpit tests next month, Motorsport.com has learned, with the issue having returned to the agenda in the wake of Justin Wilson's fatal IndyCar crash.
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Jenson Button

The motorsport World comes to a standstill once again. Justin Wilson was a great person and racing driver. I raced with Justin as far back as 1989 in Karting and remember his smile was infectious, such a lovely guy. My thoughts are with his family. ‪#‎RIPJustin‬

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UPDATED: 00:19 GMT, 6 September 2015

Horror at Spanish rally race as car veers off track and ploughs into the crowd at high speed.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-injuring-10-Spanish-rally.html#ixzz3kuyg2Ykh
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[miller1098]

That's awful ,I was just watching and old YouTube video of group B rallying ,and I remember standing on the side of the road when we used to follow the RAC spectacular but an accident waiting to happen.3 were killed watching the Jim Clark last year in Scotland .

 

[t-tony]

It's nothing short of a miracle that more people don't get killed on those events. I watched a program on TV about the end of the super fast cars which claimed the lives a good few drivers and co-drivers and some spectators said that they gathered on these fast corners and set up a "party" complete with loads of booze. Not a good combination really.

Tony.

 

[miller1098]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iNyKimU9_Po

 

[miller1098]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ND7Qjj0eZ5o

 

[t-tony]

Toivenen and his co-driver were burnt to death in their Lancia They were basically sitting on top of the fuel tank, when rescuers got there they were burnt to bone, nothing left.

Tony.

 

[andyglym]

Missed that on the News, absolute shocker! Very sad for all involved.

 

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This is just........

Published on Sep 5, 2015
2 Monster accidents at the start of the Formula Renault 2.0 (WSBR) race at Silverstone, UK.

View: https://youtu.be/U1rs5YZXnec
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