mgmarsh39

My wife and I decided to vacation in Germany/Austria this summer. The most important part of our trip was my "rent a race car" at the Nurburgring and our stop over in Stuttgart to see the Porsche Museum.

I am currently sitting in our hotel in Vienna bored so I figure I will share my pictures so far.


Driving to our hotel in Cologne I spotted this GT2


first sign for the Nurburgring!


getting closer!

spotted a race car at the gas station haha


made it!

Walked through the Ring Werk museum and took some snaps of the cars. here are a couple...





this sucker was in the gift shop of all places!

now its time for me to get my race car!
so many choices!! which one will I choose??




I choose...

have to since its my first time :P

Ok, so we follow the owner to the track so that he can take us in a van on the instruction lap. *pretty sure this guy could beat me in his VW van with me driving the gt3 lol*

some of the sights






and finally my car!

130hp suzuki swift!

Now we get in the van and go around the track *rather briskly... haha* Tried to get a couple shots but they didn't turn out well. go figure.


So, I get 4 laps. Ran my first 2, took a break then ran my 3rd and took a lap time on my phone of 11:13.78. Not super accurate but not too bad I guess. I was passing the other guys, but I wanted to do better, so I really focused on my final lap. I ended up with a time of 10:30.12! hows that for a first timer in a suzuki swift :P When I get home I am going to try it on the xbox and see what I get... hehe

oh and on my way back to Cologne in my e200 coupe rental car I hit 248km/h on the autobahn!! was a bit scared to take a pic going that fast so I slowed up a bit.


Well, we do some more touristy stuff, then we head to Garmisch. On our way we stop in Stuttgart to go through the Porsche museum. Here are a couple shots I took.







So I opened the door on this next car and got yelled at... haha oops :P






I have a bunch more, so if you want pm me your email an I can invite you to see my album.

Anyway we are here for another couple of days. Going to sight see in Vienna and then head over to Berlin for a couple days.

While we were in Garmisch we went to a couple castle and saw this beautiful blue lake. Here are a couple shots.




here is our rental car... We got lucky and our tour guide paid for the upgrade since they were out of automatics *wife cannot drive a stick*



I will definitely be back to the Nurburgring for round 2 in a year or so I have been bitten by the bug. I would love to do this at Sebring since I live in SW FL. Gotta buy me a track day car!

BigLou

Looks like an awesome time. I need to fit that into my trip to Europe next time. Thanks for sharing.

Tolgahan Ures

Great pics I did the same trip with my friends in June 25th and it was great .
There was a big E30 M3 meeting and we drove all the way from Turkey to Nurburgring to join the meeting.
I also rented the suziki swift stage 3 race car and it was fun to drive
Nurburgring is definately a great place to race and meet enthusiasts around the world.
I will go back again

mgmarsh39

Definitely a must

very cool. Did you use the same company as me? Great people and decent price. I really want to use that GT3 next time .

Tolgahan Ures

I used tthe company Rent4ring. They are in Adenau . Next to the other entrance of Nurburgring.
Ralph works there and he is a good friend of mine. If you go there again. Tell him that you are a friend of the Turkish guys and ask for discount

mgmarsh39

haha will do. what cars do they have?

Tolgahan Ures

They currently have Suzuki swift's . Just pick up a stage 3 and you will be happy with it .
900 kg and 150 hp. It handles pretty damn good with the semi slicks

spekkie

got to love the ring its a paradise for carlovers .
i'm lucky to live only 2 hours away
How was ring-work ? still need to visit that .

beentherebaby

It doesn't get much better than Germany, Porsche and the Nurburgring.

Tolgahan Ures

Ring werk is ok. Its like a big shop for buying small gifts. But there are also nice things to see inside.
There is a car museum inside with some entartainment stuff.
And there is a big tv inside. I was luck enough to watch a world cup game there

spekkie

i'm going to check it out the next time i'm there

mgmarsh39

I liked Ring Werk a lot. I really wanted to sit there and play ps3 but all the kids took them :P.

They had a ton of cars and some nice exhibits. I've got a free ticket for next year... Guess they were running a promotion.