Nürburgring Nordschleife
is really Karussell, Nürburgring Nordschleife, Rhineland-Palatinate
Real place, still recognisable
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
Gran Turismo 7 has the Nürburgring's Grand Prix track, the full 20.8 km Nordschleife and the 24-hour layout that joins them. This is the Karussell, the banked concrete hairpin where drivers drop into a dish of old concrete slabs covered in painted fan graffiti.
The real place
The Nordschleife opened in 1927 in the Eifel hills and was nicknamed the Green Hell by Jackie Stewart. It has more than 70 corners and big changes in height. Formula 1 left it after 1976, but it still hosts the Nürburgring 24 Hours, and on most days it opens to the public as a toll road.
Visiting
On Touristenfahrten days anyone with a road-legal car or motorbike can buy a lap ticket and drive the Nordschleife; check the official opening times, which change often. Spectator spots such as Brünnchen and the Karussell can be reached on foot from parking areas.
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