Nurburgring 24hr 2024

[thegreenhell]

It sounds like they've called it for tonight, back again in the morning.

[jasonrobertson86]

[rallycross]

Red Firecracker said:

The Giti car went over van der Linde!

If you play back the replay slowly he's punted into the left hand armco and then the next time he appears is airborne on the right hand side of the track ahead of the 99.

It's a race of scary incidents so far.

It’s amazing you found that in slow motion as watching it normal speed you’d have no idea of that frame it’s so quick .

What I noticed watching ot back a few times is the 1 series braked unexpectedly hence the Porsche having to jink out and clipped the lead bmw can’t see why the 1 series braked.

Shame we now have to wait till daylight for the restart but other sensible option at this race.

[airbusA346]

rallycross said:

It’s amazing you found that in slow motion as watching it normal speed you’d have no idea of that frame it’s so quick .

What I noticed watching ot back a few times is the 1 series braked unexpectedly hence the Porsche having to jink out and clipped the lead bmw can’t see why the 1 series braked.

Shame we now have to wait till daylight for the restart but other sensible option at this race.

Exterior video of the BMW rolling.

https://youtu.be/dKPOv8J1ibY?si=ZjX8TuRS3zMu9m8o

[rallycross]

airbusA346 said:

Exterior video of the BMW rolling.

https://youtu.be/dKPOv8J1ibY?si=ZjX8TuRS3zMu9m8o

Thanks for that clip shows just how scary that was ( way more than you’d guess from the first onboard but that’s a very quick part of the circuit )

[Joeywinkle]

Next update at 8am local time/ 7am BST!

[freedman]

Doesn’t look like a restart any time soon

[Joeywinkle]

9am….

[fridaypassion]

Hmm....

[Joeywinkle]

I bet Mr. Gilckenhaus is wishing he’d changed that engine for quali now

[Crafty_]

pit exit is green at 9:30, 30 mins from now

[PRO5T]

Here we go!

It’s amazing it still looks undeliverable in sections.

[Crafty_]

Im quite surprised, as you say even on the GP circuit visibility is awful, not really any better since the 7 and 8am calls or even last night coming to that. There's little chance of drivers seeing flags at marshall posts at the moment.

Maybe they're going to hold on the grid for a while

Edited by Crafty_ on Sunday 2nd June 08:36

[Truckosaurus]

The suggestion seems to be that they wait on the grid so they can get going as soon as the fog lifts enough to be safe.

[Sandpit Steve]

It still looks awfully foggy!

[jasonrobertson86]

Truckosaurus said:

The suggestion seems to be that they wait on the grid so they can get going as soon as the fog lifts enough to be safe.

Long time to sit ...

[boxedin]

Not sure ( and I'm being very generous ) if the exposure on the cameras make it look worse than it actually is.

Personally, I'd give it another 60-90 minutes.

[jasonrobertson86]

boxedin said:

Not sure ( and I'm being very generous ) if the exposure on the cameras make it look worse than it actually is.

Personally, I'd give it another 60-90 minutes.

Oh well, the sun is shining. Better get out and on with the day

[Joeywinkle]

We had a similar situation on a BTCC meeting I marshalled a few years back; crisp morning but racing was delayed until 11.30am(!) due to the fog despite there being sunshine. Paddock Hill into Druids was completely covered to the point you couldn’t even see the light boxes flashing - let alone flags.

Hoping it won’t be a similar situation here!

[ecsrobin]

The big one is being safe for the rescue helicopter to fly. Same with TF.