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Nurburgring, Koln, Ypres, Germany
Monday, Jun 23, 2003

I survived the Ring

David Murray
2007-02-02 03:56:44

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Five weeks ago, myself, Lucy and our mate Andrew Faulkner, loaded up the golf to do a spot of camping and to drive a lap of the Nurburgring. Synonymous with Nikki Lauda crashing and catching on fire. I had booked the trip two weeks previous and I had booked another one for the bike four weeks later. After the trip in the car, I knew it was a mistake going on the bike, but I was booked and had to go

On Friday, Ducati loaded up, oh yeah, I had bought another Ducati, so I have 3 now, I met up with my mates Paul and Al and caught the train to Calais for the ride to Köln drop the bags off and then hit the Ring for a quick lap or to. But first we had to make our way there, and I was with to boys who ride fast and I did promise Lucy that I wouldn't ride any faster than 85 mph. Well as soon as we hit France, the only time we were under 95 was when we pulled into servos. We were flying. Eventually we made it to Köln and dropped off the bags so we could hit the Ring.

Well, it is about 60 miles to the Ring and with Paul leading, the roads were all like the Old Highway out of Sydney and we managed to do 70 miles before we realized that we were lost. Al was sure that we had gone under that same bridge at least three times and why were those same kids waving at us !!!. We arrived pumped, and the carpark had a few vehicles and then we were told the bad news. The track was closed due to a Ferrari flipping, crashing, catching fire and killing the occupants. My nightmares were returning about going to Nurburgring. We had a coffee and then hit the autobahn where we sat on around 120 mph to get back fast so we could get pissed and boast about the scars we have and women we had lost. Usual bikers talk !!!!!

The next morning, I led as we wanted to arrive promptly. Different roads but equally as challenging with slow/fast corners, we arrived and once again, the track was closed due to two bikes coming together, but this ...