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Nürburgring Nordschleife track is a giddy, giggly dream
Driving where the great Juan Fangio and other legends have raced is the stuff of fantasy
13 February 2020 - 05:06
After nearly 25 years of lusting at the prospect of driving there, and vicariously experiencing the place through computer games, the dream finally came true recently when two friends and I alighted from a rental Opel Astra straight onto the tarmac of the most storied racetrack in the world, the 21.9km-long Nürburgring Nordschleife (North Loop) in Germany.
The track opened on June 18 1927 and the current layout is shorter than the original, which spanned an unbelievable 28km. Motorsport history is deeply engraved both on its graffiti-coated tarmac and its steel barriers...
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