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Nürburgring
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thumb|right|Tower of Nürburg Castle The ' () is a 150,000-person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long configuration, built in the 1920s, around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. The north loop is long and contains more than of elevation change from its lowest to highest points. Scottish racing driver Jackie Stewart nicknamed the track "the Green Hell'".
Key facts
- Motorsport venue.name
- Nürburgring
- Motorsport venue.location
- Nürburg, Germany
- Motorsport venue.logo
- 230px
- Motorsport venue.image
- class=skin-invert|230px
- Motorsport venue.image_caption
- Configuration for GP-Strecke (2002–present)
- Motorsport venue.track_map
- class=skin-invert|230px
- Motorsport venue.track_map_caption
- Configuration for 24 Hours Circuit – Combined GP Circuit without Mercedes-Arena (2002–present)
- Motorsport venue.capacity
- 150,000
- Motorsport venue.layout
- GP-Strecke (2001–present)
- Motorsport venue.surface
- Asphalt
- Motorsport venue.length_km
- 5.1480
- Motorsport venue.length_mi
- 3.199
- Motorsport venue.turns
- 15
- Motorsport venue.record_time
- 1:28.139
- Motorsport venue.record_driver
- Max Verstappen
- Motorsport venue.record_car
- Red Bull Racing RB16
- Motorsport venue.record_year
- 2020
- Motorsport venue.record_class
- F1
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
47 sectionsContents
- History
- 1925–1939: The beginning of the "''Nürburg-Ring''"
- 1947–1970: "The Green Hell"
- 1971–1983: Changes
- 1984: New Grand Prix track
- Alternation with Hockenheim
- Return of Formula One
- Fatal accidents
- Racing
- ''Nordschleife'' racing today
- Public access
- ''Nordschleife''
- {{lang|de|Südschleife}}
- Commercial aspects
- Production car testing
- Television and games
- Leisure development
- Ownership
- Layout
- ''Nordschleife'' layout
- ''Flugplatz'' ("air field", a small airport)
- ''Fuchsröhre'' ("Fox Hole")
- ''Bergwerk'' ("Mine")
- Caracciola ''Karussell'' ("Carousel")
- ''Brünnchen'' ("Small Well")
- ''Pflanzgarten'' ("Planting Garden") and ''Stefan Bellof S'' ("Stefan Bellof Esses")
- ''Schwalbenschwanz/Kleines Karussell'' ("Swallow's Tail"/"Little Carousel")
- ''Südschleife'' layout
- Track description
- Sections of routes
- Stichstraße shortcut
- Remaining sections
- Layout history
- Current circuit configurations
- Previous configurations
- Lap records
- Nürburgring Nordschleife
- Nürburgring Südschleife
- Modern Nürburgring
- Competitions
- Current events
- Climate
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Works cited
- External links
thumb|right|Tower of Nürburg Castle The ' () is a 150,000-person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long configuration, built in the 1920s, around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. The north loop is long and contains more than of elevation change from its lowest to highest points. Scottish racing driver Jackie Stewart nicknamed the track "the Green Hell'".
Originally, the track featured four configurations, namely the , which in turn consisted of the then- , and the . There was also a warm-up loop called , or , around the pit area. Between 1982 and 1983, the start–finish area was demolished to create a new , which is now used for all major and international racing events. However, the shortened is still in use for racing, testing and public access.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nürburgring” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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