I was gonna put this in my car thread... but its just too sad, it deserves its own place. “With just hours to go on the last test day, the worst thing happened to the Audi test team. Just coming into the part Brünnchen at the Nürburgring, this million euro expensive Audi RS8 prototype caught fire and burned up totally. There is not much left of this super fast super car with a V10 engine. The only thing revealing that it was the RS8 are the wheels and the mid-engine layout… The fire really took it all; nothing is left from the beautiful aluminium body. Just the roll bar survived the fire making the remainders of the car look like a skeleton. The fire was probably started by an oil or gasoline leak. But most important, the driver didn’t get hurt, according to our information.” - Hans Lehmann R.I.P poor audi :( [Via Winding Road (http://news.windingroad.com/safety/rip-rs8-audi-supercar-prototype-burns-up-on-nurburgring/)]
hmmmm i thought they made concepts out of that clay stuff. because i don't think aluminum can melt like that from a small fire
^ thats what i thought too with a metal car before i saw a flaming car on the shoulder while driving to montreal last thursday... like... it was a HUGE flame... engulfed the whole car..... huge black smoke as if someone dropped a bomb on the thing... it probably ended up like this audi..
Hasn't hundreds of peopled died at that track throughout the years. Heard the track is dangerous. Had nothing to do with the fire though, siggh.....such a sad sad day for us all.
holly crap! poor car!! oh well they are rich. this car is definitely "smokin". looks like a live version of the cart in I, Robot.
The Nurburgring is definitely a dangerous roadcourse... but its still better then racing on public roads. One of my dreams is to go to Germany and race a car on the 'Ring'.-inlove
I heard somewhere that all you have to do is pay and they'll let you in to run with no intructor or anything.
yep, its open on weekends for anyone to drive, for a fee ... my Integra's engine would be completely destroyed after 2 weekends on there lol + my brakes and tires, but it would be so worth it
my 99 Accord probably wouldn't even make 1 lap. Be redlining in 5th gear. Everything would be broken, breaking, or need to be replaced right away. lol. But it should be fun, I'd probably be driving like 30 kph to be safe. lol, to scary, haha. My car would probably push really bad into the 1st corner. haha, not suprised. lol
