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[Mjolner]

Nick Heidfeld apparently drove this circuit over the weekend in his BMW/Sauber F1 car. Any ideas what sort of times a car like that might put in? I do not know if his session was timed. Does anyone know? Would be interesting to compare the lap times with more humble machinery.

[Mjolner]

Bugger - sent prior to editing, have no idea how to edit afterwards. Heading should say "F1 back at Nordschleife"

[Neilpeel59]

apparently did a 6:58 but got slowed down by a bloke in a sidecar down foxhole ;-)

[Mjolner]

Never mind, found this:

"Despite unusually hard demonstration tyres and short transmission ratio, Heidfeld notched up a top speed of 275 km/h on the long straight called the “Döttinger Höhe”. The second lap was his fastest lap and took 8:34 minutes. A camera car took shots of the 29-year-old on some sections of all three laps and Heidfeld slowed down for the photo calls."

[s3am]

www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=384496&i=0&hm=