Trip to the nurburgring/monaco

[M5 SC]

Hi people.

Wasn't originally gonna post this on the forum but i'll ask anyway.
I know we've got the 'vishrun' happenong soon but i dont really wanna do that as it seems like a lot of driving without seeing much of europe.
Anyway me and some of my friends are organising the following, the aim was to have a good experience round europe without doing to many miles so this is what we've come up with:

1 week in september; leave on 17th sep and come back on 24th sep.
*Leave on sat' morning and arrive in france at 13:00, drive to the nurburgring and arrive at approx 5pm, get a feel for the 'ring' and how it works, have a look round, maybe a lap or two - whatever basically. stay at a local hotel - track opens at 8am, straight down there first thing and spend the whole day there, stay at same hotel on sunday night.
(the next 3 nights is not definate but just an idea)
*Monday drive to prague and stay in prague for the night.
*Tuesday drive to munich and stay in munich for the night.
*Wednesday drive to milan/great lakes, stay there for the night.
*Thursday drive to monaco and stay there thursday and friday night (visit south of france - caen, marseille etc)
*Saturday drive to calais but stop for the night half way (paris or lyon or in between)

5 cars going so far, mine included. all 3's apart from one 5, and a CSL is probably going (95%)

Costs are as follows.

Ferry; £48 RETURN, dover to boulogne (car+2) best price anywhere!!! (speedferries)
Hotels; to be confirmed but will not be to expensive; probably about £30/£40 per night based on 2 sharing.
Petrol; 6-8 full tanks maybe more! depends how you drive, £250/£350?

If its a car+2 (split down the middle) gonna cost each person about £250/£350 + food/drink and other bits. (laps at nurburgring - £10 each 6 for £50 etc)

Could easily do the whole weekend on £500 per person.
And its not to much driving in one go.
Anyone up for it let me know. Need defo' answer's in by about 4 weeks time.

COULD ONE OF THE CREW POSSIBLY PUT THIS DOWN AS 'STICKY' - PLEASE



http://www.nurburgring.org.uk/

[Chaos]

All I would suggest dude is that maybe you reverse your schedule. That way you'll be at the Ring in the week and not at a busy weekend, plus if anyone wrecks/canes/blows their car, it won't ruin the rest of their holiday cos they'll already have done the sightseeing bit. Just an idea, feel free to use or discard. :)

[BigFas]

Great point Chaos, worth noting, but let's not turn this into a suggestions session for all.

Black328i, let's register the interest the thread generates over the next couple of days, if it's popular, I'll sticky it. Cool?

[M5 SC]

:bigfas: cheer's mate that fine.

:chaos: undrstand what ya mean mate but the dates for the ring are the best i could find (sat' open 1.30pm/7.30pm + sun 8am/7.30pm) i cant go any earlier because this will take some organising to get it sorted, i thought about going to the ring last but it just means a slight alteration on the planning (going 'anti-clockwise' round europe) and leaving on the 10th and coming back on the 17th. also in the week track days/times are limitied.

But another idea could be to leave on friday (as an extra day on top of the others) the track opens at 2.15 so get a 'feel' for nurburg on fri' evening and have whole of sat' + sun' at the ring (open's at 1.30pm sat + 8am sun, closes 7.30 all days)
Hope that all makes sense!!!!!!

BECAUSE THIS 'COULD' TAKE SOME ORGANISING I'M AFTER A CO-ORGANISER IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED LET ME KNOW. [ok

[lee330sport]

Im might be up for this if the Vishrun doesnt happen. But it all depends on what im doing to my car at the time. One minute i save some doe, the next that damn Roy puts some sexy Carbon fibre pics up and my bank takes a bashing:(

[M5 SC]

Ok mate.
As i said need defo' answer's by about 3/4 weeks as i need to book hotels/ferries, which could take some doing with a few cars going (after about 12 cars - not to many as i dont wanna attract to much police attention!)

[M5 SC]

Come on guys with got the 'ultimate driving machine', now lets put it to the ultimate test on the ultimate race track - which has to be the best race track in the entire world! [cool

[Tin]

can't do the full weeks driving, but can do the weekend trip to the ring.... :(

[M5 SC]

Ok mate, thats fine.
If you can get anyone else on board then let me know!