Round 2 - Internationales Avus-Rennen [Jan 27th]

Here is a image of the old South curve from the 20's. There are a few other pics in the link.

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/570901690242024042/

Richard Coxon wrote:: Here is a image of the old South curve from the 20's. There are a few other pics in the link.

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/570901690242024042/

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Richard Coxon wrote:: Here is a image of the old South curve from the 20's. There are a few other pics in the link.

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/570901690242024042/

Now that's some banking Shocked

Report is up HERE.

Hope you enjoy it. It may well be the last report in this format.

Timo

Timo Vermeersch wrote:: Report is up HERE.

Hope you enjoy it. It may well be the last report in this format.

Timo

"Germans are reasonable and intelligent people. But whenever they get to design race tracks, they develop a chronic inclination for madness and insanity."

Best. Opening. Ever! LOL lol!

Great report as usual, just a note: 77 is a BMW Austria entry prepared by Schnitzer for Quester, Helmut Marko had his own car #88 entered for Gartner. study

Alberto Ibañez wrote:: Great report as usual, just a note: 77 is a BMW Austria entry prepared by Schnitzer for Quester, Helmut Marko had his own car #88 entered for Gartner.

Thanks Alberto. I took the info from the pop-ups that appear when you click on the cars in the results pages on the home site.

I'll see how I can work around this as it kind of ruins my Helmut Marko story lol!

Timo

Great report cheers

Timo Vermeersch wrote:: Thanks Alberto. I took the info from the pop-ups that appear when you click on the cars in the results pages on the home site.

You are right, we must fix that :doh:

Just watched the race report that looked like great fun... well done guys Wink

commentary was excellent :clap:

Nordschleife has no signature bends Timo ? How about Flugplatz or the two Karussells ? Wink

Guillaume Siebert wrote:: Nordschleife has no signature bends Timo ? How about Flugplatz or the two Karussells ?

Opinions my friend, opinions... Still, are those really in the same league as Blanchimont, Signes, R130, Masta, Maison Blanche, Canada Corner... Les gouts et les couleurs, as they say in France. I'm not a big fan of the Schleife... But I guess that was already clear Very Happy

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Timo

Timo Vermeersch wrote:: ... Signes, Masta, Maison Blanche, ...

And here I am and have no idea where any of these three are located in the world :aie:

We're all different I suppose :hihi:

Signes is the fast right corner at the end of the Mistral straight at the Paul Ricard.
Maison Blanche doesn't exist anymore, it was a very fast left kink at Le Mans.
Masta was a super fast and scary chicane on the old version of Spa. You have died multiple times there if you have played Grand Prix Legends

There are so many iconic pics taken at Flugplatz or the Karussell that I can't see how they can't be classified as legendary turns, even for somebody who doesn't like the track Wink

Guillaume Siebert wrote:: Nordschleife has no signature bends Timo ? How about Flugplatz or the two Karussells ?

TBH Flugplatz is not a bend, it's a crest that causes cars to go airborne and the Karrussell (the first one) can be considered only "signature" if you understand that as iconic, i.e. a very recognizeable feature of the track itself. But not if you consider it a technically challenging turn unequal to any other track in the world. The Karrussell is not difficult, nor high speed, nor unequal to any other track in the world, as many feature hairpins and even cambered hairpins.

The Ring is inconic as a whole, not because of a particular turn you can consider signature in that regard, it is not a single bend what gives the track most of its character, it's the whole of it. Very much like Indianapolis or Daytona (Though at Indy you could argue with turn 1).

Alberto Ibañez wrote:: The Ring is inconic as a whole, not because of a particular turn you can consider signature in that regard, it is not a single bend what gives the track most of its character, it's the whole of it. Very much like Indianapolis or Daytona (Though at Indy you could argue with turn 1).

And like Bathurst IMHO for that matter.

Timo