A good friend of mine, André, and me were at the Nordschleife for a car meeting in summer 2003 and did a Touristenfahrten-lap afterwards. Back then, I didn't even know "regular" people were allowed to drive on the Track!
End of 2011, I finally bought an XBox to play some online games with him, including (mostly) Forza Motorsport 4. We ended up driving almost only on the Nordschleife, not only because we drove there in real life years ago, but also because it ist such an awesome track. After a few weeks, it became clear we had to go to Nürburg again.
Wich we did.
The second time we went there was on my birthday, and André texted me I shall download Harry's LapTimer. He'd pay. But he wanted to try it out. So I downloaded it, but we hit by the feature load, and hardly had a clue to use it.
Also, on this day, we didn't drive our own cars, but rented a Suzuki Swift Sport from Rent4Ring. André was already considering to buy one of their "old" ones, and after a lot of consideration on my part, we bought NN in November.
Sadly, while he test drove it in summer (without me), I was unable to drive it on the Ring yet. I do, however, drive it on the road to have standing all the time. And because it had some technical difficulties, wich I described
here.
However, here's the car.
- Exterior
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Please note that the wheels are the standard wheels that we used with normal street tires during the winter (and probably racing in the rain at some point). Normally, the car has 15" Motecs mentioned below.
And the inside.
- Interior
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While the cockpit still has most of the interior sans the roof and windscreen pillar/a-column, the back seat is gone and so is almost everything else.
I quote Rent4Ring:
Manufacturer Suzuki
Model Swift Sport Stage 2
Engine 1.6ltr inline four cylinder
Front wheel drive
Transmission 5-speed manual
Power 125+bhp
Weight 1025kg
Pro laptime 8m45s BTG
• Stripped out and fitted with a full Weichers rollcage, racing seats and harnesses
• Upgraded H&R suspension with modified geometry
• Toyo R888 grooved semi-slicks fitted to wider, lightweight, 15" Motec alloys
• Racing four-into-one exhaust and sports air intake
• Upgraded brakes with top-spec Endless Racing pads, fluid and hoses.
I am desperately looking forward to summer, now that I have spent some time with HLT on what I refer to as a "logical test track". That is, some POIs and a start/stop trigger around my town.
And sorry for the long post, but I think just make & model and a picture is a little too less.
