I need to split this Post into 2, as its too much content to cram together.
We left Berlin in the Afternoon on Friday (Delivery was Wednesday). We hit crazy rain but a beautiful landscape emerged glistening.
We arrived at the Nurburgring late Friday Night, pitch black around 11:30PM… Now if you’re unfamiliar with Europe and Small Towns (not in southern europe), everything closes extremely early and not even gas stations are open late. True contrast to America’s 24/7 lifestyle where you can go to Walmart and probably take a mortgage out at 3AM on a Sunday.
We’re starving at this point, no food, no anything. Hotel owner is pissed because we’re there late and we have to wake them up just to let us in. Also pissed that we are asking about food. So we drive back another 45 mins to find a McDonalds where we strugged to order through the drivethru. We do the cliche “eat on the wing” and a bunch of drunk locals engage in conversation. Some good some bad… Ultimately it was fine and we head back to the hotel and get some sleep.
Next morning we wake up to the sounds of RIPPING (as the hotel is right next to the Ring). We get ready and head out to check out the landscape. The amount of GT and M Cars just parked randomly is awesome. People waking from their hotels and grabbing coffee, like an entire city built around one thing.
We also headed over and check out Manthey and got some gas. Something to not be missed is hanging out at the gas station… Really the only gas station in the area so lots of people hanging out. The most interesting part is, the track would close due to a crash… eveyrone would move over to the gas station to hang out, and then you hear the track opening bell and everyone rushes back over.
Lastly we went over to the Devils Diner for some breakfast (terrible food btw) and then head out for some Tourist Days. At this point we felt the car was broken in. We’d done maybe 1,000 miles varying the RPMs and also progressively increasing them. I had still never taken the car to redline or went full throttle until this point. For those unfamiliar with the layout of the Track, you basically start and end at the same point which is a big parking lot loop with the Devils Diner sitting right in the middle of it. So, you do your hotlap, come back in loop the parking lot or park and hangout and then get back on. So there is just a constant trolley of cars parked and driving through, almost like C&C with the Ring attached to it.
A casual 918 was one of the first cars out on track.
Plenty of 718 GT4s on and off track throughout the weekend.
Our buddy from Euro Delivery 
Lastly, we made great local friends. Here is a guy Thilo we met that is very very quick, his youtube channel is here.
Next post, track impressions!