Nurburgring Nightmare: How to Ruin Someone’s Lap on the Iconic Track
All you need is a GTR, a lack of talent and a lot of self-confidence.
A lack of talent mixed with an equal amount of self-belief is a dangerous thing. Or perhaps the GTR driver in this new clip from YouTuber Taurim truly believes driving a Nissan GTR is just like playing a video game. Either way, its driver enthusiastically set about messing up the Exige driver’s day. Right up until the GTR driver dive-bombed him into an early left-hand turn, the Lotus probably had an almost empty lap of the Nurburgring ahead of him.
It’s immediately clear as the GTR exits the corner that the driver doesn’t know what he’s doing. A few turns later, it became painfully clear. It’s like watching someone playing Gran Turismo for the first time. He’s clearly not modulating his inputs at all. Just jerking the sticks around and reacting to turns rather than preparing for them. Dipping the left side of the car onto the grass and nearly losing control is just his first attempt at getting into a Nurburgring Crash compilation video. The second attempt, well, it’s obvious he hadn’t turned all the driver aids off. If he had, he would have been in the barrier at Adenauer Forst.
After the Exige driver passed the stricken GTR, he got to enjoy himself on a clear track. Let’s hope he gets another crack in similar conditions, but without the clueless idiot.
