Quote: Originally posted by A19 CUP on 07 August 2005
absolutely brilliant m8, me and a few of my m8s are thinking of planning a weekend to the ring, what are the costs involved???
Its about 65 to 85 euros (£40~55) a night depending on single or double rooms (cheaper to share but you have to trust the other person) thats inlcudes breakfast but Germans have weird taste. Also most people never seem to make breakfast as there still sleeeping off there handovers.
Only go though with a group of friends it would be a little boring on your own. Nothing like the antics off the track to realy make a good trip.
Food and drink can be expensive I paid the last nights food bill for 15 people or so and it was £280 that a 3 course meal and a lot of alcohol each person. Id guess Ive ended up paying about £25 a day on food and drink (never bother realy with lunch just tea and booze).
Just got my credit card statment back and for 13 laps plus driving there and back its about £360 worth of fuel. Thats bout 1.3/1.4k of driving from the N/W. However we werent slow foot to the floor most of the way I think we adveraged about 80 and for one hour of the trip 90mph. If you keep the speed down youd save a fair bit we were stopping ever 2 hours I think.
Price of laps isnt to bad its £15 for one laps but if you buy 25 it drops down to £12 I think and its not limited to one car so get together with someoen and maybe share a ticket. the tickets (so long as you buy one for more than 6 laps) are valid for a year or so Ive still got mine somewhere Ill dig it out its still valid till the end of the year though for definate and since Im back in September Im not bothered.
Definatly worth it though even if you (as I did) take a slow diesel there.
its about 1.7k I did driving there 13 laps a bit of round town and back I think.
You can get there in a day though its just a long day. theres a Travel Lodge just down the road which is £40~50 a night if you dont want to do the treck in one day.
Theres a load of good hotels though and so long as you go off peak its very quiet at the hotels etc.
The ring is mental though its the best road ever just treat it like a fast road though as a £1k bill is very easy to get landed with and the police treat it like a normal road so you can get banned. Also anyway can go round there was a bus at one bend whcih f your pushing it can make for an intesting racing line. Also its mostly blind so if someoen rolled it (and it happend) you realy need to be able to manover.
Theres a 95DB limit there which was stickly enforced first time we were there hence Nicks and another car being banned however last time only the bikers were targeted.
You dont need to wear a helmet its just a toll road I didnt when I had passengers to placate there fears but on my own I did.
