The Nürburgring is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer Nordschleife track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle. The north loop is 20. 8 km long and has more than 300 metres of elevation change from its lowest to highest points.
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The Nürburgring is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer Nordschleife track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle. The north loop is 20. 8 km long and has more than 300 metres of elevation change from its lowest to highest points. Jackie Stewart nicknamed the old track \”The Green Hell\”. Originally, the track featured four configurations: the 28. 265 km -long Gesamtstrecke, the 7. 747 km SüdschleIFE and the 2. 281 km warm-up loop called Zielschalife or Betonschlife around the pit area. Between 1982 and 1983 the startfinish area was demolished to create a new GP-Strecke and this is used for all major and international racing events. On 5 August 1961, during practice for the 1961 German Grand Prix, Phil Hill became the first person to complete a lap of the NordsChleife under 9 minutes, with a lap time of 8 55 2 seconds in the Ferrari 156. In 1953, the ADAC 1000 km race was introduced, and several rounds of the German motorcycle Grand Prix were held on the 7 7km Sockenheimring. After World War II, racing resumed in 1947 and in 1951, the Nordschleife again became the main venue for the German GP as part of the Formula One World Championship.
The track was opened to the public in the evenings and on weekends, as a one-way toll road. In the early 1920s, ADAC Eifelrennen races were held. on the twisty 33. 2 km Nideggen public road circuit near Cologne and Bonn. The first races to take place on 18 June 1927 showed motorcycles and sidecars. The first motorcycle race was won by Toni Ulmen on an English 350 cc Velocette. The cars followed a day later, and Rudolf Caracciola was the winner of the over 5000 cc class in a Mercedes-Benz Compressor. The fastest time ever around the full GesAmtstRecke was by Louis Chiron, at an average speed of 112. 31 kmh in his Bugatti. In 1929 the full Nords chleife was used for the last time in major racing events, as future Grands Prix would be held only on the N Nordchleiffer. Over half a century later, even the highest performing road cars still still have difficulty breaking 8 minutes without a professional driver or one very familiar with the track. The Nords Chleife is still in use for racing, testing and public access, but the track has been closed to public access since the 1990s. It is still the main site for motorcycle racing and the Solingenring and Solering were the main sites for the Grand Prix Grand Prix.
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