Nurburgring 27 August

After breakfast (which included options such as chocolate pudding and quark, as well as all the baked and fried eggs, sausages, bacon etc you might want) we snuk in to the pit racing area, just boldly walked through security. Hung out at the track (saw one car do a 360 spin) and checked all the tents with fancy racing cars in them. There was a nesecity to dodge heavy downpours by ducking in to other tents or private catering tents. The rain was so heavy that the gutters were not coping and the entire area was occasionally awash with water. One of the catering tents collapsed completely. About 9:30 we started debating whether to stay and watch the Top Gear Stunts show, and hence another night, or get on our bikes.

We checked and there were still tickets for the Top Gear show so we decided to stay. The heavy down pours were also not encouraging for cycling. Unfortunately the hotel price was even steeper than yesterday because it is a race weekend. So we carried out hanging out around the track, finding some sneaky back routes in and out of the huge stadium, and trying to avoid security people that might want to encourage us to move along (we figured out later that it was free entry today, tomorrow you have to pay). This was fun, in between dodging more heavy showers. I had to use the hair dryer to dry my trainers (yuch, warm smelly feet odour). We had hoped that the Nissan people that were setting up a display would be providing us with more freebies, but they probably won't crank up until tomorrow, once we're gone.

The Top Gear show itself was a dissapointment. Only 50min long, none of the three Top Gear hosts were there, and the entire thing conducted in German. The stadium was only about a quarter full and the acts were on the whole not that exciting. The more interesting included four motor cyclists whizzing around in a cage, Suzuki soccer game (Germany 3 - Holland 2), the Carmogedan was quite fun. There were another 2 sets of stunt driving and one slow parade of super cars. Ah well, may be next time. On to Koblenz tomorrow, just hope that the weather is much much much better than today, otherwise it will be a miserable day.