Mux213 Levin GTS

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Ian.G Wrote:I'm not implying that the console is going to teach you anything other than a general idea of corner sequences. I am going to be very very careful when I visit the place. Its weird - I've been track driving for about 9 years now but I can't imagine anything at all can prepare you for the mighty ring.

Hey Ian,

Thats exactly the spirit I'm trying to convey to people. A flat track like Zandvoort or Lelystad or Silverstone(asfar as I know, never driven it) or whatnot does not prepare you at all for the ring. You learn car controll, but you dont learn the ring...

The ring consists of many different types of concrete, each having their own level of grip. This is what writes off many cars of people who thing they can simply drift the ring..
There isn't a flat piece of ground. Coming on from wipperman to eschbach to brunchen you think that its all flat when you are in the car. But I've walked that bit and I can tell you, Mt Akina is more flat then that bit of the ring, just walking from Brunchen to Eschback (the opposite of driving direction) I was dead tired when I finally came to the top, that must be over 15%. Its fun to watch there though but I saw some very dangerous antics there not to mention last year a civic type R went headlong into the guardrail (I only saw him spinning after he hit the guardrail standing at the bottom of brunchen I).
And the worse bit about the ring I think is that most of the road is curved! This really makes for some unpredictable behaviour in your car.

I haven't joined in but every 2nd christmas day a group of dutch guys go to the ring to walk the 22km through the snow, I want to do this maybe this year because you learn so much about the ring just walking over it because you see details you mis when going over it at 100kmph. Very dangerous details....

Taking it slow, not taking risks, and realizing it takes 50+ laps slowly increasing your speed to really learn the ring. Anything else and you'll end up in the guardrail sooner or later..