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Background [spoiler]The 24 Hours Nürburgring is a GT and touring car endurance racing event on the Nürburgring, inspired by the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Spa 24 Hours. The venue of this event is held on the Nürburgring Nordschleife (north loop). The event unconventionally accepts entries of low powered production cars and not so experienced drivers alike, which makes it for a tougher excersice to the top racing drivers competing in GT2 FIA compliant Racing machines as the abundant traffic in the already vastly difficult and dangerous Nordschleife adds as a huge difficulty factor. This is the highest class of racing currently held on the track and thus it is of special significance for car manufacturers due to the prestige involved as a racing pedigree testing event as the entered GT2 class cars are directly derived from commercial road going sports cars. Conversely, the related 1000 km Nürburgring sports car racing (introduced in the 1950s) race admits higher end Prototypes that are not in relation with any commercial car, and is held since 1984 on the shorter and safe venue used for Grands Prix.
Officially called ADAC 24h Rennen Nürburgring in German, it was introduced in 1970 by the ADAC as a real race, unlike the earlier endurance contests, over 12h, 24h (in 1961 and 1967), 36h, 84h and even 96h Marathon de la Route[1], the substitute for the Liége-Rome-Liége and Liége-Sofia-Liège rallies, held on the Nürburgring from 1965 to 1971.
Typical entries range from standard road cars to European Touring Car Championship vehicles, and sports cars like the Porsche 911. As interest had dropped in the 1990s when only rather standard FIA Group N cars competed, stronger vehicles were admitted since 1999, like the Zakspeed Chrysler Viper GTS-R which originally was built to FIA GT2-spec, modified Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters cars from Opel and Abt Sportsline-Audi, and the Schnitzer Motorsport-entered BMW M3 GTR V8 that had been run in the 2001 American Le Mans Series.
Due to various changes and versions of the Grand Prix Strecke, the overall length of the track varied from the original 22.835 km (14.189 mi) to nearly 26 km (16.2 mi) of the maximum length configuration which was in use in 2002 and 2003, after the GP track had been extended by the Mercedes Arena. As this Arena was useful as extra paddock zone for the competitors of the support races, it is bypassed with a sharp Z-shape chicane since 2005 for a 25.3 km (15.7 mi) track length.
For practice, 230 cars are allowed, 220 qualify for the race, driven by 800 or more drivers, as 2, 3 or 4 can share a car. One driver is allowed to drive 150 minutes nonstop, and can enter on two cars, yet a rest time of at least 2 hours has to be observed between two turns.[/spoiler]
Official Track Map [spoiler][/spoiler]
Former Winners [spoiler]2009 Bernhard / Lieb / Dumas / Tiemann (Porsche 911 GT3 RSR)
Coverage / Live Streaming [spoiler]In Germany Sport 1 (former DSF) usualy airs pretty much of the race. There should also be a Live Stream on the official Webside http://adac.24h-rennen.de Link will be postet as soon as it's availible.[/spoiler]
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sport1 will also show the support races
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Rahmenrennen: Scirocco Cup, Mini Challenge, SEAT Leon Supercopa 15.05.2010 10:15 - 11:15 Uhr Live
SPORT1 berichtet auch in diesem Jahr 2010 rund 16 Stunden live vom 24 Stunden-Rennen auf dem Nürburgring. Traditionell geht beim Nordschleifen-Klassiker in der Eifel ein Starterfeld der Extraklasse ins Rennen - von Aston Martin über Audi und Porsche bis hin zur Viper (erstmals wird auch ein Ferrari-Team dabei sein) reicht die Palette der Sportwagen, die am Himmelfahrtswochenende die Herausforderungen der "Grünen Hölle" annehmen werden. Heute berichtet SPORT1 live von den Rahmenrennen Scirocco Cup, Mini Challenge und SEAT Leon Supercopa.
Well, I'm going but just because it'll be an epic clash of the works teams
Traditional corso of competitors around the track on wednesday evening - cancelled Traditional Adenau Racing Day on thursday afternoon - takes place on the "Ring Boulevard" which is nothing else than the main road behind the grandstand
I make two daily visits on thursday and saturday. It's just 100km, so that's easy going for me.
I'm doing LMS Spa (friday to sunday) and Le Mans (monday to monday) and I still consider going to Brno for FIA-GT because I don't have to make it back home in time as monday is holiday. Spending another half a week at the Ring is not possible and actually I don't want to be with most of the Nurburgring campers from what I've experienced last year as a daily visitor We were lucky from 2003-2005 when we were in the woods at Wippermann, right above the main access path. More relaxed folks there, but the closer to the track you get, the more annoying the people are...
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The offocial 24 h Stream usualy shows just a webcam at night. But usualy there is completely no coverage at night, so this year might be more availible.
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. Cant wait to go back.