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Destination Nürburgring 10!

Setra Motorsport took part of the tenth edition of Destination-nürburgring Trackdays on the Nordschleife.

Here you can read more about the trip.

Trackwalk on the ring:

We scheduled good time for this trip, so we arrived Nürburg a couple of days before the driving begun. In the evening on one of this days we took a walk on the track after it had closed. The weather was beautiful and so was the track. Here you'll see a couple of pictures from the trackwalk

Trackday day 1

Day one started with us getting the car down from the trailer, filled it up with gas and was about to head out on track for a few installation laps. Unfortunately we didn't get that far because a golf have had a bad crash at the "Foxhole". Red flag and closed track for a couple of hours.

Only 15 min after the track had opened...

 

When the track went green again we went out to have a couple of flying laps. Unfortunately the traffic was really bad, so we ended up going around the nordschleife in a line more or less.

After some food, another red flag and another gas filling, we headed out and got a couple of good laps with a bit less traffic.

Here's a video with the wife in the passanger seat.

At the end of this stint we heard a bad noise coming from the rear of the car. Turned out one of the bushings to the diff had failed. Fortunately a local shop had one in stock and we were abel to get it fixed in the afternoon.

 

Trackday day 2

The car was ready after yesterdays repairs and I was ready to set some good lap times.

Unfortunately the traffic was a bit to much to set the times I was hoping for, but at least I proved to my self that the pace is good.

Here's two flying laps around the Nürburgring Nordschleife.

 

Later in the day a power steering hose burst and the M3-R needed help by a rescue vehicle to get back to the pit.

Luckily no big thing and the car was still in one piece, but it meant the end of the day for us.

All in all there was too little driving for the long trip, but we had a good time and met some really nice people.

 

Hopefully we're be back stronger and better next year!

 

 

30.07.2014