View Full Version : Nurburgring.....end of an era?
A Place of Light
18-07-2012, 13:08
Clicky ( http://i.autoblog.com/2012/07/17/nurburgring-goes-bust-eu-not-planning-to-help/)
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:'(
Thats sad news. Wonder if any of the big car companies will buy it once it's value hits the floor :/
A Place of Light
18-07-2012, 20:00
:'(
Thats sad news. Wonder if any of the big car companies will buy it once it's value hits the floor :/
Can't see it happening even if it was sold for a quid. While anyone who's ever been will be aware of the revenue it generates, it must cost crazy money to run or they wouldn't be in such a bad way.
It'll be a real shame if it closes as I'm not aware of anything like it anywhere else
:( Might be worth organising a trip over this summer. Its either this year or nothing.
volospian
19-07-2012, 10:10
:( Might be worth organising a trip over this summer. Its either this year or nothing.
I looked at a trip earlier in the year and it was pretty much blocked out by manufacturers testing until about October. However, I imagine many of those will drop it like a hot coal if it goes to the wall. After all, if it goes bust, there'll be no petrolheads taking their newly bought motors their to drive around it, no petrolheads taking their cars there means no interest in how fast a car can go around it. So why bother testing a production model there? You may as well test at Spa, or Laguna Seca or whatever. If you cannot go there and drive it, it doesn't matter how fast your new motor can get around it. It becomes meaningless.
It'll be a shame to lose it, mind. A truely historic circuit.
A Place of Light
19-07-2012, 13:25
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plus, god alone knows how the local economy will survive if it closes.
It's a shame it's not a financial institution because it would have had loads of money chucked at it to keep it running.
Justsomebloke
22-07-2012, 12:36
Sad news. :(
It's a shame it's not a financial institution because it would have had loads of money chucked at it to keep it running.
So very very true.
If you think, someone like Bernie probably has enough to save it caught up down the back of the sofa. Not that he would though.
A Place of Light
22-07-2012, 19:03
It's a shame it's not a financial institution because it would have had loads of money chucked at it to keep it running.
According to the article they've already had 524 million euro funding and they're still in this position. Sounds like a combination of bad management and foolish distribution of their resources.
The problem was never the Nordschleife itself, but rather the whole entertainment complex that was built around the two circuits over the past five years or so. They spent hundreds of millions on hotels, shopping malls, rollercoasters and all manner of other crap that noone wanted to use and it was a massive failure. More than that, their attempted tie-ins with the hotels and circuits worked against many of the small businesses that had been the life-blood of the region for years and caused masses of animosity.
The tracks will survive, it's just a question of ridding themselves of all the dead wood and coming up with a sensible way forward.
A Place of Light
22-07-2012, 21:50
^
Agreed.
Who decided an amusement park would be a good idea?
How many people take their family to the 'ring?
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