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    Advice for first time at the 'Ring

    As part of my coming business trip to Germany I'll have the opportunity to take a day to head to the 'Ring. I'm planning to do the Renault Clio 200 rental, but other than that I truthfully only know what most of us have heard.

    If any of you have tourist days experience, by all means share any and all advice. The trips is roughly a month away, but as some things should be booked ahead of time I wanted to get the ball rolling.

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    If you have a game console, buy a game that has the ring as a track. Drive it to learn the corners.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stephenkirsch View Post
    If you have a game console, buy a game that has the ring as a track. Drive it to learn the corners.
    I have heard from Ring instructors that this is the worst thing you can do. It gives you false confidence at the ring. The instructors cringe when someone goes “O I learned the track of GT5”. From what they say for practice, is to go and drive a mountain pass or twisty country road. There is a lot of blind corner after blind corner, so unless you have been around those corners 1000 times there is no way to really know it.

    I was told from the same source that Rent4Ring is the best way to experience the ring. Check the website out. http://www.rent4ring.de/en/
    Last edited by moriad02; 04-16-2014 at 11:09 AM. Reason: added space between the two paragraphs
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