The Ring on the 17th and 18th of september

Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:03 pm

Hello guys and girls,

We are going again to the Ring, the Nordschleife. We do make reports of those weekends. With pictures and so on. We would like to make a small report here, if someone would like that. And if you want to see more of it, we can get an url here so you can read the full sized stuff.

The coming weekend, we are going there with 3 E30s, 2 325i and one 318is. With a little luck, two other E30s will join us. So if we can manage it, there will be some great pictures with some E30s on it. And all driving on the Ring.

On the saturday morning we are doing new suspension and shockabsorbers underneath one of the beemers. H&R Suspension and Koni adjustables. That will be a big difference.

Well, we will have some fun I guess.

See you all next maonday here.

Greetz from Bad Dragon

Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:08 pm

Awesome, Nurburgring + E30's = Heaven

keep the posts coming dude!

Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:10 pm

yes keep it coming mate

Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:08 pm

Looking forward to the report!

Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:52 pm

I'll see you there

I'm on the 07:30 train through the tunnel, and should hit the Ring sometime in the middle of the day.

Cheers,

Ian.

Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:25 am

WILL do this very soon, personal ambition. Any good informative websites about what to expect when I get there? How long does it take to drive there from England? Don't really know how it all works, isn't it sort of a public road or something? How do they space everyone out? Me thinks it has got to be a recipe for disaster with fast bikes, slow(ish) cars, eg Mk2 Golfs etc, and very fast cars eg 911 turbo's, Evo's, various exotica all battling it out at once......

Sorry for all the questions....

Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:31 am

you can download a full lap of the ring on winmx or edonkey . its of a r1 v a cbr or the other one is the same r1 v a gt3 they are 2 good full laps of the ring to give you an idier about it . watch the r1 v the gt3 gives you a good idier which lines to take for a fast lap

Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:38 am

Think I might have seen that somewhere mate. Nice to see u calmed yourself down a little Artis, you will find people are a lot more receptive to you in general when you have a nice, helpful attitude. Respect.....

Is there not an official 'ring' site?

Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:45 am

hi ya mate i think there is ill have to ask my brov inlaw ill let you know , im going on easter weekend , i cant wait, just hope my supra is ready by then or ill have to take the 735 round that will be intresting

Sat Sep 17, 2005 2:49 am

That would be cool as fcuk floating a big old 7-series round there!! LOL

Is yours a V8 and how old? I have heard the sevens are a lot of trouble, big bills galore etc...

Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:18 am

There's a few local guys heading over there this weekend too. Looks like it'll be busy.

They're driving a wee metallic blue Nova. Be sure to give them a wave

Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:20 pm

OllieB wrote:WILL do this very soon, personal ambition. Any good informative websites about what to expect when I get there? How long does it take to drive there from England? Don't really know how it all works, isn't it sort of a public road or something? How do they space everyone out? Me thinks it has got to be a recipe for disaster with fast bikes, slow(ish) cars, eg Mk2 Golfs etc, and very fast cars eg 911 turbo's, Evo's, various exotica all battling it out at once......

Sorry for all the questions....

Its not a 'battle' and you shouldn't go with that attitude its 'tourist driving' on a one way public road, you'll find the locals in their golf Mk2s are quicker than most of the Porsche's anyway

http://www.nurburgring.org.uk/ has almost everything you need to know, read it thoroughly

Takes 4.5 hrs ish to drive from calais
Do a search on here for some of my other posts on the subject, that'll give you a bit more info

Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:46 pm

OllieB wrote:That would be cool as fcuk floating a big old 7-series round there!! LOL

Is yours a V8 and how old? I have heard the sevens are a lot of trouble, big bills galore etc...

no its not the v8 it a strate 6 the ony trouble ive had is the box blew but its got new one in now , all thats left is panting

Sat Sep 17, 2005 2:17 pm

Hey Bad dragon, i dont know if you remember but we met at ring racing? when your 320i blew the rings? I was the scottish guy with Simon13 we spoke to your wife for ages?

Andrew

Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:59 pm

Well we are back and safe and sound. But it was a very busy weekend.
First we came to RR were my new 325i is parked and we knew had to fix a hole in te beemer. But the hole was getting bigger and bigger, teh longer we worked on it. But we managed to fixed it anyway. But the exhaust was broken, that we didnt know, so we had to fix that too. Well, it was some work but not a real problem. We had the Group A exhaust there so we changed it.
And the brakepads were worn down, so that we had te do too.
We came on saturday at 09.45 and went to the track around half past three.
Well, we had to change some stuff on the second beemer as well. So, I was very tired after that pitstop. On the Ring it was like crazy, very busy. The cannonballrun was there so it was crowded. When we went on the ring, the track was half wet. So, we took it easy. After some laps we did it better, still a bit wet and tricky and busy, but we could do a nice lap. Nice laptime and that on a track that wasnt totally dry.

At the last lap the enginemountains were ripped off, so we had to stop and with some talks with RR we desided to fix it on sunday morning. So we did. They are great.
So on sunday we did the enginemountains and fixed them so we could drive the sunday. But the suspension of the other Beemer had to be changed as well. So again we were back on the ring around three. And again it was very busy. So we did only two laps that day. Well, next week we hope we do better.

pictures are on my site and also on other site. Here is an example

Greetz from Bad Dragon

Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:44 am

It was a stunning weekend

Here's a writeup that Neil wrote about our trip. More pictures to follow hopefully.

http://www.mukerji.co.uk/nurburgring/trip3/

Ian.

Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:58 am

Brilliant write up fella !!

Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:59 am

Hopefully we see eachother next time.

Greetz from Bad Dragon

Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:42 pm

Bad dragon do u remember talking to 2 guys this summer when u were at RR after your engine blew up on your black 320i In june this summer?

We spoke to your wife for a long time about accidents and safety on the ring! Can't find any pictures to show u of our faces.

But Hi from me and andrew!

Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:22 pm

Well, I was there too and it was a great weekend.
Friday a lot of testing was going on, there was a Range Rover at full throttle and it sounded splendid.
I went along with a couple of friends in a silver E30 AC-Schnitzer Touring and my own red M-tech iS.
I did spot the Sport with M3 machine at Breitscheid, and it is PERFECT....
Did a couple of laps friday and sunday without any drama, the Koni suspension works fine.
Just waiting for spring to arrive, so we can get to the Ring again.

Cheers.

/SRJ

Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:58 pm

Hey guys,
I found some other pictures on certain laps.

Greetz from Bad Dragon.

And We are not married, she is better than that, she is my girlfriend.

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Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:01 am

Sounds and looks like it was a great weekend. Some great pics there from everyone

ian332isport wrote:It was a stunning weekend

Here's a writeup that Neil wrote about our trip.

there were some Porsche drivers looking confused at the sight of Ian's alleged 325i rushing past them!