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Funny thing. I timed the lap standing at the Bridge so I basically timed the lap by my ears. Guessing when they passed the start and finish line.
(The car rolled out from T13 driving towards me and turned around before Tiergarten to start its lap.)
When I went to bed I checked the timer and to my surprise:
"Respect the Green Hell and take your time learning it."
Very true words, attended a trackday on Monday this week with a couple of friends. I am now north of 60 laps, but still guessing where to go at some of the 73 turns... but one of my friends took it to easy and went to quick to fast, crashed the almost new GT3, the other was quite close acording to our coach.... both with very limited seat time at the Ring. So take it easy!
The RCN4 race turned out to be a very hot and fun and disappointing race.
I took the first stint and realized as I passed the startline that the automatic timing equipment (Race Navigator) did not work.
(Later it turned out that it was not problems with the Race Navigator but with the user: I forgot to press the button that makes the RN show the timing. So it was working but I could not see that it was doing so.)
I switched over to use the newly bought manual timing clock instead. Worked very well.
I did my laps, we where 5th in class when my co-driver took over the steering wheel. I was confident that he would bring us up to 4th (podium) or maybe with help of great luck even 3rd place.
I went over to the hotel and took a shower and started to try out suitable clothes for the price giving cermony when the text arrived saying: "I'm sorry, I've crashed in Eiskurve."
It turned out that my co-driver did an overtake he shouldn't done after being held up by another car for a long time. Simply said: The track turned to the right after a blind crest and the rear wheels ended up on the grass and the rear snapped and the car crashed into the right hand barriers with it's left side.
Then we drank beer.
Later we collected the car and it looked like we got way cheap: Steering rod, rear wheel bearing and some minor damages to the fenders.
The drivers briefing
The car with its strange toe out.
The fallback equipment for manual timing
On the way back to the hotel there was a wedding going on in the Nürburg church.
Changed from discs and pads on the 997GT3 )wow, what a difference!).
Did some taxi laps, Porsche friends from my hometown that just happened to be in Nurburg.
Then I was called "Famous racing driver" by Frau Schmitz (Sabines mother).
Not sure if it is a sign of her getting older or if she was making a joke. I choose to believe her words.
Now is the RSR trackday, thanks Mika911 for helping me.
07-03-2018, 04:34 PM
safe driving, looking forward to the pics
