Events - 24 Hours of the Nurburgring Prior Blog Posts by Date Posts specific to the 24 Hours of the Nurburgring, one of the premier sports car events in the world. January 2009 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 May   Feb RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net Index of prior posts by title Use this calendar to navigate thru prior blog postings by date. Saturday, May 24, 2008    Lexus LF-A competes at the 2008 24 Hours of the Nurburgring   Lexis is running the LF-A prototype at the 24 hour event to gather test data before an introduction of the car into production in 2010. This will be interesting to watch - the car is already doing 7:24 in development laps at the track, bettering the Porsche GT-2 and matching the Nissan GT-R. Note how the car is painted flat black to keep prying eyes away from the details... few of the technical details of the car are known at this early point other than that it is powered by a V-10 engine mounted in the front. We'll have to keep an eye on this one over the weekend. Kudos to Lexus engineers for having the confidence in their work to run a development prototype in a tough race like this! A conventional manufacturer might chose to enter a car after a year of production... Lexus is clearly not a conventional car company!  A completely unconfirmed rumor in the web this past week claimed that the car would retail for $225,000 US when it debuts. If true, that would take it well away from the GT-R in market competition, leaving it above Aston Martin territory and in Ferrari territory. View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Events - 24 Hours of the Nurburgring | Lexus - F Series Performance | Toyota-Lexus | Toyota-Lexus - Concepts | Track - Nurburgring Search Google for similar topics on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net  S2000s at the 2008 24 Hours of the Nurburgring.   S2000s practicing on the course. Be sure to watch the live streaming from the Nurburgring when the race starts later today. View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Events - 24 Hours of the Nurburgring | Honda - Acura | Honda - S2000 | Track - Nurburgring Search Google for similar topics on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net  Honda Fugel at the 2007 24 Hours of the Nurburgring   Review from last year's event: Team Honda Fugel at the 2007 24 Hours of the Nurburgring View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Events - 24 Hours of the Nurburgring | Honda - Acura | Honda - S2000 | Track - Nurburgring Search Google for similar topics on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net  S2000 at the 2008 24 Hours of the Nurburgring   One of 7 S2000s entered in this year's race! 7 of 27 Hondas entered in this event, the third highest represented brand. #96 Honda S2000: Heinz Schmersal, Mike Stursberg ENDURANCE > 24 Hours of the Nurburgring, 2008-05-23 (Nürburgring): Friday qualifying 1 Image by Eric Gilbert View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Events - 24 Hours of the Nurburgring | Honda - Acura | Honda - S2000 | Track - Nurburgring Search Google for similar topics on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net Thursday, May 22, 2008    24 hour endurance race at The Nurburgring this weekend   The 36th annual "ADAC Zurich 24h-Rennen" 24-hour endurance race at the Nurburgring runs this weekend. 230 "showroom stock" (mostly) type entrants, 800 drivers, and an astounding number of fans in attendance. If you're not there in person (and this is one of the premier events in the world that you must attend at least once in your lifetime), you can at least watch on the live webcam on via several enthusiast sites and blogs. Here's the official site, in English: http://adac.24h-rennen.de/en.html Keep an eye on this site for live video streaming: http://adac.24h-rennen.de/en/live/streaming.html  Live webcam (hit refresh to get the latest picture) http://www.nuerburgring.de/fileadmin/webcam/webcam.jpg : View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Events - 24 Hours of the Nurburgring | Track - Nurburgring Search Google for similar topics on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net Saturday, June 09, 2007    24 hour endurance race at the Nurburgring - live streaming   The 24 hours of the Nurburgring is being held in rain and fog. You can watch the race with live streaming video here: http://adac.24h-rennen.de/en/live/streaming.html  Aston Martin is leading with the DBRS9 - shown here passing one of several S2000s that are entered. View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Events - 24 Hours of the Nurburgring | Honda - S2000 | Track - Nurburgring Search Google for similar topics on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net Wednesday, July 12, 2006    Evo in the 2006 24H of Nurburgring.   View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Events - 24 Hours of the Nurburgring | Mitsubishi Evo | Track - Nurburgring Search Google for similar topics on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net  S2000s in the 2006 24H of Nurburgring   The annual 24 Hours of Nurburgring race had a couple of S2000s participating. Unfortunately, there is no other information is available on these cars at this time. There are obviously some things I'd like to know, such as what they are doing for rear brakes. You can see (barely) in some of the pictures that some of these cars have added much larger front brakes. See the complete photo album of 311 images here: http://www.topspeed.com/blogs/nurburgring-stories/24h-nurburgring-2006-ar10878.html - Top Speed and Quentin Lhussier have done a fabulous job with the imagery. It's worth the time it will take to look thru them. Unfortunately, I haven't yet found the race results online, much less all the team sites. The event itself is for cars that are very close to stock - rules that are similar to SCCA T1. Bigger brakes, suspension tuning, roll cages and lots of safety gear - but not much else. In other words, something that we all can relate to. It's open to a wide variety of cars - you'll see an original Mini competing, an old Opel Monza GT, and a lot of newer cars including the latest European Civic (not to mention an Aston Martin and an orange Lambo). And the usual large number of M3s (mostly E36). This is a great race that would be worth seeing - a hint to the Speed channel. I think that given limited time to travel in Europe on personal business, this would be more worthwhile than attending an F1 event because this is something that we can directly relate to, and learn from for our own race usage. We all love the sound of F1 engines, but this is something we can use ourselves. One team site, in German, is here: http://www.honda-maeder.de/web/index2.htm  I'm not clear on the translation, but it appears their car was destroyed in a crash...? Seems that Maeder Motorsport GMBH has been busy with their S2000: 2004 24H Nurburgring: http://www.petercate.com/page76.html 2006 24 hours of Dubai: http://results.24hdubai.com/  (5th overall - across all classes!) View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Events - 24 Hours of the Nurburgring | Honda - S2000 | Track - Nurburgring Search Google for similar topics on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net
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