Heidfeld will run the BMW Sauber F1.07 on the Nordschleife

[Valve Bounce]

Well the Auto Union had no wings so air wouldn't get under them to flip the car. It wouldn't bottom out over a bump and go straight on and also would be much slower round the corners. If prepared properly and driven with care a modern BMW.Sauber is undoubtedly safer but I guess there is much more to think about that to prevent situations occurring that could take the car out of the driver's control.

Well, Nick isn't going to race the thing, is he? He is going to drive it around at a safe speed. As I said before, I'd be much more impressed if he took Niki's Ferrari around the whole track and tried to match Niki's track times.

[nigelred5]

OT, but Hell, I'd like to see current F1 cars race on a lot of the worlds less than billiard table smooth, tilke-ized, neutered tracks. I'd like to see how fast the cars are when the suspension actually has to move more than half a millimeter.

[Valve Bounce]

You'd probably have to redesign the suspension as well as the aero to race on such tracks in todays' F1 cars. Personally, I'd like to see the removal of all the wings and winglets. The rear wing can be replaced by a flat single element board to carry adverts, that's all.

But that's another story

[Mikeall]

You'd probably have to redesign the suspension as well as the aero to race on such tracks in todays' F1 cars. Personally, I'd like to see the removal of all the wings and winglets. The rear wing can be replaced by a flat single element board to carry adverts, that's all.

But that's another story

Then all the cars would look exactly the same...

[ArrowsFA1]

Heidfeld did his run yesterday and completed three laps, with a best time of 8m 34s, although that wasn't representative as he was asked to slow for photos to be taken quite a few times!!

He was impressed:

"This drive was simply incredible. I thought it would be great to drive on the Nordschleife before I started out. But it was even better than I had expected. This racing track is the best in the world."

mokin:

[Valve Bounce]

Then all the cars would look exactly the same...

OK! So colour them different.

[Valve Bounce]

Heidfeld did his run yesterday and completed three laps, with a best time of 8m 34s, although that wasn't representative as he was asked to slow for photos to be taken quite a few times!!

He was impressed:

mokin:

I knew I should have gone to Germany with the camper van; I knew there was one place I wanted to go round and have the wife take pictures of me.

[ChrisS]

I just saw a few clips of this on Eurosport 2 they said the BMW used extra hard tyres and was setup with short gears for safety reasons

they also said 45,000 fans were there to see the BMW do the laps

[nigelred5]

There's video up in several places now. Awesome to see amodern F1 car on the Nordschleife, but I couldn't fathom seeing them actually race there now. the racing surface alone on most Tilkedromes is wider than the entire area between the guardrails in most areas of the Nordschleife.

[Viktory]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek1JUfd3R8w

Very nice! Hope that a full onboard-camera lap will be released soon