Advice for first time at the 'Ring

[NanceMan]

As part of my coming business trip to Germany I'll have the opportunity to take a day to head to the 'Ring. I'm planning to do the Renault Clio 200 rental, but other than that I truthfully only know what most of us have heard.

If any of you have tourist days experience, by all means share any and all advice. The trips is roughly a month away, but as some things should be booked ahead of time I wanted to get the ball rolling.

[stephenkirsch]

If you have a game console, buy a game that has the ring as a track. Drive it to learn the corners.

[MIMI1]

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[pottsalot]

Good luck out there, have fun and stay safe

[PorscheH6]

Don't crash.

[blegroswro]

Good luck out there!!!!!!http://fashionold.com/4e.jpg

[323i E30]

My $0.02: Don't get a Renault or any other French *crap*.
I have no experience with that specific car so my opinion might be off, but I've driven a lot of French cars including Renaults (older and newer ones) and they just drive like ^%$@.

[moriad02]

If you have a game console, buy a game that has the ring as a track. Drive it to learn the corners.

I have heard from Ring instructors that this is the worst thing you can do. It gives you false confidence at the ring. The instructors cringe when someone goes “O I learned the track of GT5”. From what they say for practice, is to go and drive a mountain pass or twisty country road. There is a lot of blind corner after blind corner, so unless you have been around those corners 1000 times there is no way to really know it.

I was told from the same source that Rent4Ring is the best way to experience the ring. Check the website out. http://www.rent4ring.de/en/

[ChristopherG]

Don't crash, they charge for trucks, posts and steel barrier by the foot. And don't even think of taking a regular rental car on the ring, the spotters will bust you and you'll wish you hadn't. Have fun.