We're At The Nurburgring 24 Hours And It's Like A Crazy Party For Speed Freaks

Adnan and I have been wandering through the forests, chatting to drunk Germans and meeting loads of CT fans! Here are some of the highlights in pictures!

Alex Kersten

16 May 2015

We're At The Nurburgring 24 Hours And It's Like A Crazy Party For Speed Freaks

N24 has been running for approximately 23 hours, and Adnan and I have loved every second of the action. Last night, we met up with a couple of German CT fans (thanks for being our personal tour guides!) and spent the evening and early hours roaming the forests, getting track side and chatting to terrifically drunk people, all of whom were in high spirits.

As the sun went down, we watched the racing from a few of the track’s hottest spots, including Brunchen, Pflanzgarten and Flugplatz, and at around 2am, we called it quits and headed back to our hotel in Maria Laach (about 25km away) in the wonderful Aston Rapide.

So far, we’ve met 30-40 CT fans on our travels, and we’ll be heading back out for more vlogging! If you see us, make sure you say hi. For now, here are some of the highlights of our incredible time here.

Filling up the thirsty V12 Aston before we headed to our N24 car park

We spotted this stunning AMG GT while looking for a spot. Rude not to take a pic with our Rapide! — We spotted this stunning AMG GT while looking for a spot. Rude not to take…

A few hours later, I got to drive a lap of the 'Ring before the race began. This Vantage GT12 was my pace car — A few hours later, I got to drive a lap of the 'Ring before the race began…

We followed the track round and used our press tabards to get up close and personal — We followed the track round and used our press tabards to get up close and…

Darkness fell slowly with intermittent rain

Germans line the track, drinking beer and generally having an awesome time

At 21:30, the track was almost cloaked in darkness

Outside the track, people were lighting fires and listening to bad German music — Outside the track, people were lighting fires and listening to bad German…

And fireworks. There were a LOT of fireworks!

We met Nurburgring and Top Gear legend Sabine Schmitz!

The winning cars were given their own podium

After 24 hours solid racing, Falken's 911 looked wonderfully battle scarred

Champagne and the bronze trophy for Falken's 997 GT3 R team

We’ll be updating this post with more pics after the race has finished (the wifi here is worse than terrible!). If you’ve got any pics to add to the list, upload them below!