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4 Feb 2004, 13:11 (Ref:862636)
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Nurburgring Corner names
can anyone translate these?
Brankekopf Aschenschlag Seifgen Blocksberg Mullenbach Rassruck Scharfer Kopf Gegengerade |
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Re: Nurburgring Corner names
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  (sorry, my GCSE German isn't up to the job!). Bable fish doesn't offer much either. They are Brankekopf: Brankekopf. (i.e. no translation) Aschenschlag: Ash impact. Seifgen: Soaping gene. Blocksberg: Block mountain. Mullenbach: Mullenbach. (i.e. no translation) Rassruck: Racing jerk. Scharfer Kopf: Sharp head. Gegengerade: Gegengerade. (i.e. no translation) |
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4 Feb 2004, 14:23 (Ref:862738)
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hmmm I not quite sure these are correct!
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4 Feb 2004, 15:10 (Ref:862792)
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No I have my doubts too!
 It does, simply, lose something in the translation  Interesting question though, I look forward to more educated answers. |
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4 Feb 2004, 15:25 (Ref:862805)
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I was reading a book earlier that had a bunch of corners there using thier english names (but not german), Hunting Brook, Swan Neck, Flying Place (Flugplatz) etc...
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4 Feb 2004, 15:37 (Ref:862821)
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Mullenbach is a nearby village
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Rassruck?? -you'd better hope no one else from Sevenoaks reads that Mr Collins!
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Is Fuchsrohr (?) the Foxes Throat. If it isn't, it should be.
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"fox hole" reason its called that...
when they were building the track the workers found a fox in a drainage pipe, and thus they found a fox in the hole and called it foxhole. i used to know alot more of these, there was a website with all the translations somewhere, not quite sure where tho |
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The link provided by GolddustMini is very interesting.
I just beg to disagree concerning the explanation for Fuchsröhre. In my opinion the most popular version - that the turn was named after "a frightened fox dived into a drainpipe during the construction of this section, and the workers named the section after it" is incorrect. Older books and most German drivers I talked with attribute the name to the profile of the track at that point, "narrow, steep and dangerous as the throat of a fox". I heard the same from the people in the Nürburgring Museum when I asked this specific question in 1998 (already at that time I was looking for an answer to this question). Just my two cents... Cheers, Muzza |
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One addition:
Gegengerade was the name of the straight that used to run parallel to the start/finish straight in the old Nordschleife and the Start-und-Ziel-Schleife/Betonschleife. The Gegengerade was the straight right behind the pits in the classic, old Nordschleife configuration. After the start line, the cars would go around the 270-degree Südkehre and come back by the Gegengerade. This part of the track was destroyed when the new "Nürburgring" was built. Gegengerade, means "Opposite Straight" (literally "against-straight") as this part of the track was parallel, in opposition to the start/finish line. Cheers, long live the Nürburgring, Muzza (survivor of a wild excursion at Adenauer Forst in 1998) |
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the bend names I need are on the sudchleife
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yup certainly have.
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Thank you Muzza !!
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Oh I was in touch with rob ages ago! very helpful indeed. Hopefully will meet up at the ring in a feww months to investigate the Sud.
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