Leading never seems to be a good idea at the Nürburgring 24 Hours: it’s almost a dead-cert for fate to deal you a bum card. Of the leaders from early on in the race, only the two Heico Hankook Mercedes SLS, the #3 Phoenix and #26 Mamerow Audi R8 LMS Ultras haven’t suffered any major [...]
George A. Romero references aside, the earth has finally turned just enough on its axis to allow the sun to shine on the Eifel region once more. For the sleep deprived, the darkness seemed to last an eternity. At 05:38AM the ball of fire poked its head about the horizon but with it came another [...]
Time slows to a crawl at night during endurance races. For a period that takes up well over a third of the race, the darkness does more than make it extra difficult for drivers to pick their way round the pitch-black track – it also shrouds the race itself. With the race’s TV coverage put [...]
We live in a time when all you Speedhunters out there can check out Formula Drift events via live streaming from anywhere in the world, but only a lucky few of you might actually have the time and means to attend one of these events. When you’re not here in person you can miss the little [...]
 What an opening period for this year’s Nürburgring 24 Hours! Hours before the start the officials started assembling cars on the grid: all three starting groups were crammed onto the length of the entire start-line, with the pole car right down on the sloping approach to the first turn and the third group stretching [...]
The Nürburgring 24 Hours is well under way, and we’ve seen a chaotic opening couple of hours. The grid was as insanely busy as ever, and the thousands of people in the throng around the cars were roasted by a burningly hot sun – though fog and rain is predicted for later… The #19 Schubert [...]
I cannot recall ever attending a race that had a public grid walk that wasn’t total mayhem, but the grid walk at the Nürburgring 24 Hours is a different beast entirely. Thousands of people turn up to see their favorite cars, take a few photographs and, of course, gather as much free swag as they [...]
We’ve got a great selection of desktops from this week’s car features to share with you guys. Here they are. First off we have a selection of images from Bryn’s VW Vento shoot. Dino has some shots from the time he spent with the Toyota 86 on the beautiful roads of Japan. He’s also included [...]
If a trip to the Nurburgring is not on your lifetime to-do list, you may have to question your credentials as a car enthusiast. It’s safe to say that we’d all fancy a trip around the ‘Ring in a high performance machine and with our focus on the N24 this weekend, we thought we’d add [...]
Six hours of track time were dedicated on Thursday and Friday to setting the majority of positions for the 2012 edition of the 2012 Nürburgring 24 Hours, the 40th anniversary of the race. Thursday had seen a long, four-hour session starting at 7.30pm and running into the dark. This was seen as being the main [...]
Team Need For Speed drivers Matt Powers and Fredric Aasbo will be competing in the first round of World Drift Series China in the city of Tianjin this weekend. They line up alongside fellow Formula Drift drivers Vaughn Gittin Jr, Chris Forsberg and Kyle Mohan at the event, which is held inside the Olympic stadium. Matt has been [...]
The Nürburgring is an amazing circuit that surely needs no introduction, and it’s as difficult as it is rewarding not only for drivers but also photographers. Trudging through the mud, slipping and sliding and hiking through the woods and going up and down extreme grades can be tiring, but the pay-off is always undoubtedly worth [...]
It’s around midday here at the Nürburgring and the sun is shining once again. The 24HR cars are just completing their second qualifying sessions but I’m inside preparing for the ADAC Nürburgring Classic race which takes place in about 90 minutes times. Whilst I’m waiting for some batteries to charge, I thought I’d upload a [...]
Paddy McGrath has already talked about the irresistible pull of the Nürburgring 24 Hours and how drivers, teams and fans come back to it year after year. But what’s it like for the first timer? The Nürburgring newbie? The 24-Hour ‘Ring rookie? Well, I’ll try and give you a sense of being introduced to it, this [...]
Democracy is a powerful thing, and it’s because of you guys that I present the following car feature.
Late last year when we did our Speedhunters Awards, we included a category for Reader Cars of the Year – a group that included a huge selection vehicles from across the world. We asked our loyal readers to select their favorite, and when the voting finished a 1973 Datsun 240Z out of Northern California had emerged as the winner.
