Some history of the Nordschleife: the steep section

Posted on 05-04-2016 at 20:26 by rynnus – 25 Comments”

The frequent ringrijders recognize this piece of road, but know that is also why it’s there?

The Nürburgring is, for many, a great challenge and a perfect place to the passion between a man (or woman) and machine to the limit. The current Nordschleife (the track without the GP track) as it is now, through the years, many different forms are known. So there was on the site of the current GP track, the Südschleife, which, together with the Nordschleife in a 28km storey round created.

There are numerous examples of how the Nürburgring its original form has lost. We focus for now just on a small, 450m main piece of track, between Kloster and Hohe Acht, as seen below. It therefore goes to the middle, straight path.

It is a very steep slope, built between 1926 and ’28, designed as a test track with a gradient of 27 percent! Manufacturers could here their newest cars dread pops and the parking brake test, or something like that. In any case, there were enough cars in that time that the hill came up.

Made of grooved concrete for extra grip and a vormvaster surface, was the steep section in the first instance, not accessible to the public. But that all changed. The piece is never for races. Quite logical, too, because the circuitdeel what advice, can largely speed to be taken which means that such a hill for quite a lot of… eh, spectacle would provide. Below is a quote from the regulations of the Nürburgring at the time, that the above supports.

(§ 8 of the Fahrordnung): “Nicht gestattet ist – a bei genehmigten Versuchs – und Trainingsfahrten oder to Run – das on foot! of the steep section (27 %).”

In the sixties, is the steep section open to the well-known Touristfarhten, so you get the Carussel could skip it. At the end of the steep section, you could then insert at Hohe Acht. A life-threatening action that logically for a few fatal accidents has resulted. Strange time it was… Since the accident is the steep section never been accessible to the public, but always stayed in honour preserved.

The piece of geschiedenisweg is nowadays still visible, albeit behind a fence – if you are from Kloster in the anchors need to be in the direction of the Carussel racing, and is still in excellent condition.