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07-03-2008, 09:12 PM
It's something to experience for sure. I'm hoping to be able to do the BMW school again there next year. There is a little bit of an issue now with rental cars -- when I did the school you could get any rental -- now most companies, the ring is verbotten. There is a company they found (BMW CCA) though that rents prepped race cars, which would be the thing to do anyway.
It is a "balls" course for sure. The Probe would do terribly though, the back straight is uphill for a long long time.
With the BMW club, on the first day, we were at dinner at a great traditional German restaurant. The US club leader came by and showed us all pictures, after we ate, of a wrecked participant a few years before. Evidentally he and his brother-in-law were debating whether they could take the last turn in Kesselchen flat out.
Turns out they couldn't, they rolled and the Z3 convertible ended up on its roof on the guardrail, one of the two was killed.
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After that school, my perception of "safety" was forever changed. There is no safety, there are only perceived levels of safety.
My friend Gene and I rented a BMW 118i for that event. It was slow, underpowered. But in that car at the ring I was more concerned than any race I've ever done. That didn't slow me down however
It is a "balls" course for sure. The Probe would do terribly though, the back straight is uphill for a long long time.
With the BMW club, on the first day, we were at dinner at a great traditional German restaurant. The US club leader came by and showed us all pictures, after we ate, of a wrecked participant a few years before. Evidentally he and his brother-in-law were debating whether they could take the last turn in Kesselchen flat out.
Turns out they couldn't, they rolled and the Z3 convertible ended up on its roof on the guardrail, one of the two was killed.
--
After that school, my perception of "safety" was forever changed. There is no safety, there are only perceived levels of safety.
My friend Gene and I rented a BMW 118i for that event. It was slow, underpowered. But in that car at the ring I was more concerned than any race I've ever done. That didn't slow me down however