Big accident at the Nürburgring

My friend got back from the 'ring last night, he said it has been mental there all weekend. Lots and lots of crashes. He also said the driver of the gold Corvette was a grade A ****, he had been following the bloke who was trying to drift round corners and at Brunchen almost spun ended up in a tank slapped and almost took out a GT2 whilst trying to recover.

The main problem with the 'ring is retards.
 
Apparently the ring was closed 6 or 7 times on sat as well due to crashes, it was a german bank holiday so it would have been more packed then usual but still that's a very high amount of crashes.

My friend said you could tell a big crash was going to happen on sun, cars were getting bunched into groups of 10-15 round the track, they should have at least staggered people starting, it's madness. If you have 10 cars putting pressure on the guy at the front who has little experience of the ring they will crash.
 
That crash is mad, the signage is just plain bad for the repair work and should've been put a lot further back before the speeds became too great and also ideally with the track closed (although with that many people there I can imagine it being hard to say no to lots of customers and revenue on such a busy day).

I've seen other poor signage there too, last time I went it warned of an oil spill on a corner the whole time we were there, causing a lot of people to brake unnecessarily/unexpectedly, despite the hazard being cleaned up days before and knowing it's perfectly safe.

Going on a weekend these days is near enough pointless, if you want to have fun on it anyway, too busy and pretty much a certainty there'll be a handful of closures throughout the day. Only worth going for sighting laps and to look at the metal in the car park.

Much much better on a weekday evening, certainly has been on the last few times I've been anyway, near enough empty and depending on your pace you might not see another car on a lap.

As dramatic and bad as crashes are there it's morbidly part of the reason and thrill to drive the place
 
It's not restricted to the 'ring, every track day seems to be full of retards.

I notice there was another accident being cleared up in that video as well (around 12:20).

Gotta say on the last three I've done with bookatrack, there have been none. :)
 
I think its fairly safe to say this particular crash was caused by the road works, not by retards.

Retards will crash on any road/track.
 
Ive done three this year and i must say i havnt noticed these retards ...

sweeping generalization comes to mind ;)


Touristenfahrten and bell ends go hand in hand, paid track days there are different for obvious reasons.

UK trackdays tend to be fairly good depending on who you book with, but still the odd **** creeps in every now and then.
 
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