THE RACING SERIES
24h-ADAC-Rennen
24h-ADAC-Rennen 2010 [13.-16.05.2010]
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.
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.
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,
the substitute for the Liége-Rome-Liége and Liége-Sofia-Liège rallies, held on the Nürburgring from 1965 to 1971.
http://adac.24h-rennen.de
http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hours_Nürburgring
get a feeling for the racing course on board of the winner 2009:
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VLN Series
VLN-Series
The Nürburgring Endurance Cup (VLN) is taking place for the 33rd time. Its history is unique and the
success outstanding: Often more than 25.000 spectators are lining the legendary Eifelcircuit, and the
racing teams many times impressed the audience with 200 and more spectacular racing cars, that compete
on the most beautiful, longest, most challenging, and most travelled racecourse in the world!
Dates 2010
16.01.2010 VLN Jahressiegerehrung Saison 2009 (Award Ceremony for Winners 2009)
20.03.2010 VLN Probe- und Einstellfahrt (Test runs)
27.03.2010 57. ADAC Westfalenfahrt (Competition, 4h)
10.04.2010 35. DMV 4-Stunden-Rennen (Competition, 4h)
24.04.2010 52. ADAC ACAS H&R-Cup (Competition, 4h)
12.06.2010 41. Adenauer ADAC Rundstrecken-Trophy (Competition, 4h)
03.07.2010 50. ADAC Reinoldus-Langstreckenrennen (Competition, 4h)
17.07.2010 33. RCM DMV Grenzlandrennen (Competition, 4h)
31.07.2010 6h ADAC Ruhr-Pokal-Rennen (Competition, 6h)
25.09.2010 42. ADAC Barbarossapreis (Competition, 4h)
16.10.2010 34. DMV 250-Meilen-Rennen (Competition, 4h)
30.10.2010 35. DMV Münsterlandpokal (Competition, 4h)
www.vln.de
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Veranstaltergemeinschaft_Langstreckenpokal_Nürburgring
Nürburgring - Nordschleife
Nürburgring Nordschleife – „The Green Hell”
Both 'VLN Endurance Cup' (10 races) and '24h-ADAC-Rennen' (1 race) take place at the famous “Nordschleife” of the Nürburgring in
Germany: With its 33 left turns and 40 right turns meander through the „Eifel" – it is unique. The complete race track is 25.359 km long
and full of every driving challenge you can imagine: Some of them are well known all over the world, like „Karussell", „Brünnchen" or the
endless straight „Döttinger Höhe" with the tricky left turn at the end. Some Grand Prix drivers founded their reputation and fame by
winning on the Nordschleife - like Jackie Stewart (1968) or Jacky Ickx (1969).
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Loveletters To The Nürburgring
„The Nürburgring is the circuit, on which every race driver just wants to win, once. "
(Jackie Stewart, F1-champion 1969, 1971 and 1973)
„For me, the Ring is the most beautiful and most difficult racetrack in the world. By the way, the Nürburgring is also
my son´s favourite."
(Hans Stuck, father of Hans-Joachim Stuck - one of the most popular drivers in Germany - F1 with Brabham in the 70s)
„I think, the Nürburgring is THE racetrack, on which a driver can work wonders, in case he knows the Ring by heart.""
(Juan Manuel Fangio, five times F1-champion)
„The Nürburgring - patriarch among all racetracks! "
(Dan Gurney, American F1-heroe, founder of All American Racers)
„I am happy and proud that my name is on the list of winners of the Nürburgring. This is to be my favourite memory
of my career as a grand prix driver. "
(Jacky Ickx, runner-up in F1-championship 1969 and 1970 - drove for Ferrari)
The Racetrack
Worth Knowing
Built: 1925 – 1927
Opened: 18/19 June 1927 with the GP of Deutschland
Costs: approx. 15 Million Reichsmark,
Length: 20.832 km Nordschleife (till 1982: 22,8km), 4.556 km grand prix circuit
Upward slope: max. 17%
Downward slope: max. 11%
Altitude difference: approx. 300 m
The motorsport complex Nürburgring is located around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern
Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around
the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. It is located about 70 kilometers (43 mi) south
of Cologne and 120 kilometers (75 mi) northwest of Frankfurt. The old track was nicknamed The Green Hell by
Jackie Stewart and is widely considered the toughest, most dangerous and most demanding purpose-built race
track in the world.
Originally, the track featured four track configurations: the 28.265 kilometers (17.563 miles) long Gesamtstrecke
("Whole Course"), which in turn consisted of the 22.810 km (14.173 mi) Nordschleife ("Northern Loop"), and
the 7.747 km (4.814 mi) Südschleife ("Southern Loop"). There also was a 2.281 km (1.417 mi) warm-up loop
called Zielschleife ("Finish Loop") or better known as Betonschleife, around the pit area. Between 1982 and 1983
the start-finish area was demolished to create a new GP-Strecke, which is currently used for several major and
international racing events. However, the shortened Nordschleife is still in use, for racing, testing and public access.
Links
www.nuerburgring.de http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nürburgring