A Trip To The Nürburgring

March 30, 2010 in General Motoring | No comments

Right this is on one of my have to do sometime soon lists because well, I have to do it sometime soon! preferably while I’m still able to drive and petrol is still available and hasn’t become a fought over commodity (well a more thought over commodity anyway…) Anyway, I hope to do this one day and I’ve decided I’m going to turn it into an awesome car fan road trip.

Starting off at a track day somewhere in The UK, possibly Castle Combe in Wiltshire, it will be the meeting point for everyone before we all get single seater car rental or Caterhams to do some laps in. Hiring a car will make sure we don’t break our own cars before we’ve even set off, we have plenty of opportunity to break them later…

After the day of that we start to make our way to Dover for a late night ferry ride to Calais, once we land in Calais instead of heading straight through France to Germany we shall de-tour a little bit and go down to Paris. Here we will get some more car hire in France and let the ladies go off for a little bit of a shop whilst everyone else tries to recreate the famous 10 minute sequence from “C’ était un Rendez-Vous”

Of course we will do it a lot slower and not be illegal about it… The traffic might help us stay under the speed limit anyway. Still it is one of the best car films ever and is something that needs recreating!

After the day in Paris we shall have a big champagne party in a big posh hotel with everyone and then set off the next day for our final destination in Germany, The Nürburgring! Here we will finally put our own cars to the test and spend a week racing and watching and filming and hopefully partying every night.

By the way did I mention this will be really rather expensive so YOU can pay for it all. Cheers!