AM track days on the Nürburgring with AM test center dinner

[Grant3]

Thanks for sharing, great photos Angel, aside from that strange chap at the beginning

Now the driving impressions please, of course we know the AMV8 came out tops, particularly the Roadster

[bmartin]

Thanks for the pictures Angel, cool event ! The weather looks like the usual Eifel Sommer

Now if you could only tell me how a mere mortal like me could attend such a track day too ? Does my dealer have to arrange this or how does it work ?

Thanks
Martin

[:J:]

That looked like an awesome day out....barring the weather

Out of interest though, who ran/invited you to the day ?

You say it's an AM Track Day, but if you check their website, www.astonmartintrackdays.com , you can clearly see it wasn't an official Aston Martin one ? I know it was 'someone' at AM that ran it, which obviously makes it an AM Track Day, but like I say, it wasn't the official people that are designated to run such events ?? So how do you get invited to something like that, and do the prices work out any better than the 'official' ones ?

I see the official people have the 'ring on both Nordschleife and GP circuits planned for next year, but they haven't run any events there at all this year ??

I guess it would also mean you didn't get the official Aston Martin Intructors, or any of the other structure that would come with the official track days either ? I know the instructors there would have been proper, but they can't have been trained in the 'Aston Way' as such ? So, if you have done an official day with them as well, how did the days differ ?

I have been on a couple of the official ones and I am interested in how the one you went on came about, and how to get in on the action ?

Thanks.

Edited by :J: on Thursday 2nd October 20:11

[:J:]

bmartin said:

Thanks for the pictures Angel, cool event ! The weather looks like the usual Eifel Sommer

Now if you could only tell me how a mere mortal like me could attend such a track day too ? Does my dealer have to arrange this or how does it work ?

Thanks
Martin

I know it's not run by the same people the OP went with, but if you want to go on an 'official' Aston Martin Track Day, just click on the link below. You can register your interest directly. :

www.astonmartintrackdays.com

This is from the site :

The calendar for next year is still being finalised but at the moment the proposed tracks are as follows;

Silverstone, UK
Donington Park, UK
Spa, Belgium
Nürburgring
Nürburgring - Nordschleife, Germany
Laguna Seca, CA North America
Sebring, FL North America
Watkins Glen International, NY North America
Shanghai, China
Fuji Speedway, Japan
Eastern Creek, Australia
These venues are yet to be confirmed.




Hope that helps.

Edited by :J: on Thursday 2nd October 20:18

[Camel]

That looks like it was a cracking day out Looks like AM have got a pretty impressive facility there now, I wonder if I can get something organised through my dealer

[XXXAngelXXX]

41 european dealers where allowed to bring like 100 guests to the Ring everything was paid or by Aston Martin England or by the dealer (my dealer paid even all our drinks at the bar - i still got a headache)- instructors have been supplied by Mr. Schuhbauer (head of the AM testcenter) we even had Manuel Reuter as an instructor...

programm for the GP track:
Wednesday, 1st October 2008

Before breakfast Check out / storage room for luggage available (reception desk)

07:00 – 08:30 Breakfast in separate room of the Dorint Hotel: ‘Indianapolis Lounge’

08:15 Briefing No. 1 during breakfast

08:45 Crossing the track to enter pits

09:00 – 09:15 Briefing No. 2 in pits 2 and 3

09:00 – 12:00 Snacks and drinks available

09:15 – 09:30 Guide Driving Session I

09:30 – 09:45 Guide Driving Session II

09:45 – 10:00 Guide Driving Session III

10:00 – 10:15 Guide Driving Session IV

10:15 – 10:30 Guide Driving Session V

10:30 – 10:45 Guide Driving Session VI

10:45 – 11:00 Guide Driving Session VII

11:00 – 11:15 Briefing for open pit lane

11:15 – 11:35 Open pit lane group I

11:35 – 11:55 Open pit lane group II

12:00 – 12:00 Lunch Break

13:00 – 13:15 Briefing for afternoon sessions

13:15 – 17:00 Several sessions

17:00 End of track day, picking up of luggage



Last not least:

THANK YOU ASTON MARTIN FOR LETTING ME WITH THE DBS ALONE ON THE TRACK WITHOUT A GUIDE IN FRONT OF ME !



PS: @ the Eifel (Ring) weather - we got lucky - it wasn't snowing

Edited by XXXAngelXXX on Friday 3rd October 09:31

[williamp]

Wow those are great. thanks for sharing. And next time, rather then bring a pretty woman, how about bringing one of us lot? !!!

[XXXAngelXXX]

its wife 1.0 i cant upgrade without losing to much money

[Nurburgsingh]

top pics... lovely collection of cars...

but...

the GP circuit isn't really the 'Ring'

Did you go on the NS?

[XXXAngelXXX]

f*** me i didn't know

i am happy enough that we have been on the GP track that was much fun already (in the wet)

[bmartin]

On the 'ring (the Nordschleife actually) the "failure rate" in the wet would have been significantly higher

Definitely not the terrain where you would let people drive a DBS in the wet for the first time in their life (our AngelXXX excluded of course )

[XXXAngelXXX]

of course

[:J:]

Thanks for the info, it appears it was an invite only job then

Pretty sure it can't have had anything to do with Aston Martin UK though, as like I said, they run the official track days, so this must have been something that someone decided to do off their own back ?

Edited by :J: on Friday 3rd October 12:27

[XXXAngelXXX]

BS .......

[:J:]

XXXAngelXXX said:

BS .......

What is ?

[XXXAngelXXX]

it was, as mentioned before, an unofficial invitation by AM England and european AM dealers for max. 5 guests per dealer....

but whatever...

IT WAS GREAT FUN AND I THANK EVERYONE WHO ORGANISED IT FOR 2 GREAT DAYS !

[:J:]

XXXAngelXXX said:

it was, as mentioned before, an unofficial invitation by AM England and european AM dealers for max. 5 guests per dealer....

but whatever...

IT WAS GREAT FUN AND I THANK EVERYONE WHO ORGANISED IT FOR 2 GREAT DAYS !

You seem to think I care about this more than I actually do

I was only trying to get an understanding of what the day was, as I have done a couple of days through Aston On Track and was under the impression that any track day, dealer or not, involved (or should involve) them at some point.

As they seem to have had nothing to do with this one, it just got me wondering.

That's all

Irrespective of that, and like you say, you had a great time anyway

Edited by :J: on Friday 3rd October 13:01

[Wantanewnoble]

I have always assumed that the AM Trackdays mean using your own car. This looks like cars were provided. Are both my assumptions correct ?

[XXXAngelXXX]

well i drove my own car there and my dealer provided several of his demonstrators including the DBS

[clorenzen]

I was invited by my danish dealer but unfortunately I could not attend so thanks for the pictures Angel.