Euro tour summer 05

[NoHachi]

@Robo, the car isn't the problem. Its the guard rails (armco) that I REALLY care about. At several hundred Euro's a meter its probably worth twice as much as your car. Then there is the towing costs etc etc. It adds up onto several thousand euro's.

@Mo, really laptimes should be the LEAST of your considerations. Thats a totally wrong frame of mind to be visiting the ring. I can understand it though.
For a beginner with no experience expect 10+ minute laptimes. Probably somewhere between 12 and 13. You are constantly looking your mirrors and getting of the line for faster competitors (of which there are always several).

Fun on the ring isn't measured in laptimes(although some people are persistent in believing that the length of their penis is).

I'll give you an example: The first time I went to the ring, my laptimes where fast. I underestimated the influence of surface changes etc and quickly settled into a rythem that was way too fast. End result was almost crashing the car at Breidscheid and standing still on the middle of the track in a fast (blind)corner, in a car that wouldn't start. A recipe for disaster..luckily nothinh happend and I got the car started in about a minute.

These days when i go, I just focus on particular sections of the track. Hitting the apexes at hatzenbach, storming through Fuchsrohre and clipping the curbs at the exit, scrubbing of as little as possible speed through hohe acht, finding the fast line through the blind corners of pflantzgarten2 (way cool!)
Sections that I'm not comfortable with I consiously back off the throttle. Kallenhard to wehrseifen is such a place. i never feel 1005 comfortable in the car at those points, so why take a risk? Usually i let the car cool of between Bergwerk and Steilstreckecurve instead of straining the car on the way up. Have a chat with the passenger etc..

This way, i never attempt a fast lap. i always think in sections. Start with the front and work your way to the back.

I'm not saying that me and mux are saints.We were newbies ones and made some mistakes ourselves. We're just giving you the oportunity to learn from them.