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In the same way that you don't want to bring a knife to a gunfight, you don't want to show up at the Nürburgring with some floppy old commuter car.

There are parts of this storied circuit that can and should scare the bejesus out of almost any sane human behind a wheel. And when we say Nürburgring, we don't mean the new, safe, runoff-happy GP 'Ring, the one where you could go straight at the end of the straight and the worst thing that would happen is embarrassment as you slowly dug deeper into the gravel trap or slid around on the plentiful grass like a drunken frat boy piloting a golf cart on the links with his bros.

No, we are talking about the old, original 'Ring, the Nordschliefe, the one made in the 1920s with skinny pavement, almost no runoff area and parts so remote they won't necessarily ever even find you when you commit your last big screwup. This 'Ring was built when men were men and death--much more so than in modern times--was a part of everyday life, certainly a part of racing.

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