Ring run in the rain raises the bar
You might be a good driver. Perhaps you’ve had a few good runs at your local circuit, taken a lesson or two from Skip Barber or even tried your hand at some wheel-to-wheel racing during Sepang’s open track day. We’re going to go out on a short limb, however, and respectfully say that you aren’t as good of a driver as Andreas Gülden.
Mr. Gülden is the chief instructor at the Nürburgring Driving Academy, meaning he has complete access to the famed track as well as a fleet of Formula Super cars. At least one of those cars has a camera on it, and for that, we’re thankful.
You see, racing is not easy as it seemed. Go too fast into the corner, and you’ll understeer and bang the rubbers. Go too slow and you’ll lose time. What’s worse is if the car is running sleek tyres, you’ll need to drive at a certain high speed to keep the tyres hot enough to get sticky. And obviously when it’s raining, your tyres no longer get sticky, and your grip decreases a lot. That’s when you need balls of steels to drive.
Gülden took the keys to said camera-equipped car and set out on a lap of a soaking wet Nürburgring. The resulting footage is a master class in car control, a shining example of nerves of steel and the type of lap we can only dream of.











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