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Imagine piloting a posh shopping trolley at breakneck speeds and you have some idea of 1960s racing.
This unscientific but largely plausible fact comes courtesy of today's video; on-board footage of a camera-car valiantly attempting to keep up with Hubert Hahne.
Old Hubes, as we shall now call him (because he is actually old), used to race for BMW in F2 back when the ’Ring allowed the series to run alongside F1. Here he pilots a BMW-Lola 2.0-litre 16v F2 car around the old Nurburgring's 174 bends.
Look at the tyres! Won't someone think of the tyres! Watch the video closely and you will instantly learn the Official Guidelines on Testicular Circumference For Racing in the 60s.
Racing then really was a balls-to-the-wall marriage of going fast and not dying, compared to today's racing which is a millimetre-precise marriage of physics and engineering. Still, it sometimes goes wrong, like here...
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XakaB commented on this article
at 01:44 pm on 07 December 2010
wow OMG!!!!!! you wouldn't survive in that track if didn't had big balls made of titanium!! and look at the bloody track looks like a normal B road of death I mean if you crash you go directly to the trees OMG
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Lamborgboy commented on this article
at 02:32 pm on 07 December 2010
Fantastic this is the best Nurburgring film ever
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kis2007 commented on this article
at 02:33 pm on 07 December 2010
Looks a bit like a German Goodwood without the straw bails. That bloke in front is inch perfet, but then he would be, because 1960s racing is a bit like natural selection, all the people who make mistakes have been removed from the gene pool.
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at 02:44 pm on 07 December 2010
Nurburgring is literally my favorite race course in Gran Turismo... favorite because it is SO FREAKING DEADLY!!! There is no question why the course was dubbed "The Green Hell".
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LordFarquhar commented on this article
at 03:07 pm on 07 December 2010
Balls like boulders! I so want to go there and go for a run. The best track ever.
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