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Experience the most beautiful, longest, most challenging, and most travelled racecourse in the world on your own two or four wheels. Visit the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring. Making the rounds of the Nürburgring with your own car or motorcycle is particularly challenging. Mastering the 20.8 km north loop course means constantly revaluating yourself and your driving skills under demanding conditions.
Nordschleife
Built: 1925 – 1927
Opened: 18/19 June 1927
Costs: approx. 15 Million Reichsmark,
employing up to 3000 unemployed over a period of two years
Length: 20.8 km
Upward slope: max. 17%
Downward slope: max. 11%
Altitude difference: approx. 300 m
Grand Prix Circuit
Length of circuit:
Grand Prix circuit: incl. the Mercedes Arena and the NGK chicane: 5148 m
Grand Prix circuit: incl. the Mercedes Arena and the motorbike chicane: 5137 m
Sprint distance of Grand Prix circuit: incl. the Mercedes Arena and the NGK chicane: 3629 m
Sprint distance of Grand Prix circuit: incl. the Mercedes Arena and the motorbike chicane: 3618 m
Müllenbachschleife of the Grand Prix circuit: 1489 m
Width of circuit:
Sprint distance: 10-13 m
Mercedes Arena section: 14-25 m
Müllenbachschleife: 10 m
Number of bends
Mercedes-Arena: 2 left bends, 2 right bends
Grand Prix circuit: 7 left bends, 10 right bends (incl. the Mercedes Arena)
Müllenbachschleife: 3 left bends, 5 right bends
Nordschleife: 33 left bends, 40 right bends
Further information
Pit lane
Width: 16 m
Length: 381.40 m
FIA fence: 760 m
