{"id":494070,"date":"2014-10-01T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.sportscardigest.com\/?p=6363"},"modified":"2024-12-27T01:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T01:26:45","slug":"ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/ring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every enthusiast should drive the N\u00fcrburgring, it\u2019s open most days of the year and costs just a few Euros. Sensibly, you do not complete a full lap, you are pulled off just before the end of the start\/finish straight, so we mortals do not get a flying lap. To judge by the churned up grass and fresh skid marks from a standing start, this is a wise precaution. Local panel beaters are prominent citizens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first thing you have to do is to ignore signs for the N\u00fcrburgring, the modern track, but follow signs to the nearby Nordschliefe. Denis Jenkinson always reckoned that the new track should be called the Eifelring, and that is how I think of it. To call the new circuit the N\u00fcrburgring is like taking a dummy from a tailor\u2019s window and calling it the Colossus of Rhodes (to scale.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? You&#8217;re missing out<\/h2>\n<p class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content\">Any Text Here<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a07online-global-marketing-prompt\" href=\"https:\/\/supercars.memberful.com\/checkout?plan=86696\">Get Started<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-signin\">\n<h4 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-signin\">Already a Member? <a href=\"https:\/\/supercars.memberful.com\/account\">Sign in to your account here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every enthusiast should drive the N\u00fcrburgring, it\u2019s open most days of the year and costs just a few Euros. Sensibly, you do not complete a full lap, you are pulled off just before the end of the start\/finish straight, so we mortals do not get a flying lap. To judge by the churned up grass and fresh skid marks from a standing start, this is a wise precaution. Local panel beaters are prominent citizens. The first thing you have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":707774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,11272,261,18207],"tags":[18323,17152,17140,548,17143,17201],"class_list":["post-494070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-members-only","category-motorsport-racing","category-special-feature","tag-2010s-all","tag-car-culture","tag-members-only","tag-motorsport","tag-special-feature","tag-last-lap-column"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Ring<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/ring\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Ring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Every enthusiast should drive the N\u00fcrburgring, it\u2019s open most days of the year and costs just a few Euros. 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