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The Little Toll Road in the Eifel Mountains: A Challenging Adventure

It's the little toll road that winds through the forested Eifel Mountains in Germany. It's surrounded by walls on all sides, and it's 12.9 miles long. When you get on it, you end upright back where you started.

This road is one of the most exhilarating and unforgiving roads in the world, and they call it the Grune Holle. D-holes have been asking for this one forever, so here we go.

The first episode of Battle Racetrack has arrived. This is everything you need to know about this thrilling experience. The anticipation is building, and we're ready to take on this challenge together.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- It's the little toll road that windsthrough the forested EifelMountains in Germany.It's surrounded by walls on all sides,and it's 12.9 miles long.When you get on it, you end upright back where you started.It's one of the most exhilaratingand unforgiving roadsin the world, and theycall it the Grune Holle.You d-holes have beenasking for this one forever,so here we go.The first episode of Battle Racetrack.This is everything you need to get.This is everything you need to knowto get "Up to Speed" on the Nurburgring.(electricity crackles)(upbeat video game music)Way back in the earlydays of motor sports,there weren't dedicated tracksfor people to race their cars on.And in Germany in the early 1920s,drivers would put theirracing skills to the teston public roads.But much like roller hockey--- Car!(James sighs)(engine hums)- But much like roller hockey--- Car!(James sighs)(engine hums)- But much like roller hockey,auto racing was found to be too dangerousfor traditional public roads.Car!Thanks to a little thing calledthe Treaty of Versailles,the reparations Germany had to payfor World War I were really steep.And when combined with the massive tariffsby foreign governments,the German economy wasmore like the eco-no-money.One government official by the nameof Dr. Otto Creutz was like.- We got no safe to race.We got no jobs, andI'm tired all the time.- Then he had a (speaksin foreign language) moment.- We will build the--(car engine rumbles)- That's a (bleep) mailman.- We will build the longestmotor sport racetrack in the world,and we'll make it anunemployment relief project,thus giving our economy a boost,while also providing a place to showcasesuper-fly German auto engineering, ja?- Track developmentstarted in the fall of 1925with Gustav Eichler as the lead architect.With the help of over 25,000 workersand 40 million Reichsmarks,which is the equivalentto $146 million in today's folding money,they were able to completethe circuit by spring of 1927.When all was said and done,the Nurburgring was 17.6 miles long,comprised of three loops,and features 174 turns,with about 1,000 feetof elevation changes.There was the southloop, A.K.A. Sudschleife,which was about 4.8 miles long.Then there was the 14.2 mile north loop,A.K.A. Nordschleife.And there was a little start stop loop,also known as Zielschleife, which helpedjoin the two major loops together.And the best part of the whole thing,is that the track was also a toll road,which meant anyone could drive it.The Eifel Race, christenedthe track in June of 1927.85,000 spectators gatheredfor the two days of racing,which featured 100motorcycles on Saturday,and 65 race cars on Sunday.Rudolf Caracciola won the first auto raceand also became the first ringmeister,which because I'm almost fluent in German,I can you tell you means ring master.I'm also a bit of a ring master.(elegant string music)Sparkly, luxurious, decadent.The first German Grand Prixwas hosted about a month later,and drivers from all over Europewere blown away by the immense lengthand poo-your-pantschallenges of the circuit.After only three GGPs on the full course,they decided to race just the north loop,and leave the south loop tomotorcycles and smaller races.The Great Depressioneffed up the early '30swith the Grand Prix beingcanceled in both '31 and '33.But in 1934, the race wason and a legend was born.(car engine whirring)That year, race officials had put on a capon the car weight of 750 kilograms.But Mercedes didn't get the memo.So they showed up with acar weighing 751 kilograms.The crew scraped off the lead-based paint,revealing the silver aluminum body.The Mercedes W25 went on to win the raceand was nicknamed the Silver Arrow.This day, Mercedes still usesa silver motif on their livery.Unfortunately, just as thingswere heating up at the Ring,dub-dub-two happened because bad guyswere doing bad thingsand had to be stopped.So racing resumed in 1947,and in 1951, Formula 1 joined the party.What started off as a great marriagebetween track and racing body,quickly turned into a nightmare,as the cars got faster and faster.In a 15 year period from '54 to '69,five F1 drivers died at the Ring.It also led to Sir JackieStewart naming it Green Hellafter he won in the1968 German Grand Prix.By the '70s, the F1 carswere just too frickin' fast for the track.Between the steep elevationchanges, jumps, bumps,blind corners, and almostcomplete lack of run-off areas,the circuit was a recipe for disaster.In 1971, F1 drivers refused to race thereuntil the track was made safe.The bumps and jumps were smoothed out.The occasional corner wasadded to keep speeds down,and of course, some safetybarriers were installed.Despite the changes, afiery accident in 1976almost killed F1 championshipleader and legend, Niki Lauda.After Niki's wreck, Formula 1quit racing there altogether.After losing the Formula 1 series,the Ring built a more traditional2.8 mile Grand Prix circuitknown as GP-Strecke.It was way frickin' safer,and only featured 12 turns,which was quite the downgradefrom the Nordschleife's 73.The first race held onthe new track was in 1984.And a young Brazilian bythe name of Ayrton Senna,you ever heard of him?He frickin' won.He was driving a Benz.He went on to win his firstF1 race just a year laterat the Portuguese Grand Prix.Portuguese Grand Prix.Portuguese Grand Prix.- Portuguese.- With the new trackcame the return of F1,but all was not well for the Ring.They were going broke.F1 president, BernieEcclestone was chargingso much to license Formula 1 events,that lots of tracks were losing money.So to generate revenue, thetrack charged spectatorsmore for tickets, andspectators were like.- Nah, we'll just watch it on TV.- While F1 was a financial strain,other series helped generate some revenue.There was the 24 Hours of Nurburgring,which started in 1970 aspart of the VLN series.There was, of course, the DTM,or German Touring Car series.And in 1986, the Ringhosted the first-everTruck Grand Prix, which isstill one of the track'sbiggest annual events,in more ways than one.Get it?Trucks, they're big. (laughs)But still, the Ring was having troublestaying out of the red.That is until the Germanauto industry stepped in.See, starting in the late '60s,consumers wanted sportier carsand manufacturers were churning 'em out.But manufacturers neededa proper testing groundfor development and research.And the Ring offered everytype of driving conditionin one, beautiful, little package.Up until the '80s, onlya few manufacturersused the track as a test facility.The M Sport division of BMWstarted testing there in 1972,but for the most part,the track sat vacant.Not to be outdone by theultimate driving machine,other German manufacturersbuilt research facilitiesnext to the track.And since cars break oftenwhen driven on the edge,parts manufacturers moved into the areato supply the engineers.That's how Nurburg becameone of the dopest car townson the planet.By the start of the '90s,the track was packed with test mules.To help keep the tracksafe, management set aside16 weeks of track time,exclusively for industrial testing.By the mid 2000s, manufacturers, media,and consumers becameobsessed with the Ring.I'm obsessed with theRing, you might be too.(car engine whirs)Even traditional land yachtbrands, like Cadillac,were testing and developingnew sedans and coupes there.The 2009 Nissan GTR'ssuccessful reemergencewas almost entirely predictedon its seven minute, 28 secondlap around the track, which at the time,was faster than any othermassed-produced vehicle ever.Since then, almost everynew sporty car soldadvertises it's lap time around the Ring.In fact, the 2020 Road& Track Performance Carof the Year was a Hyundai Veloster,that was almost exclusively designedand honed at Nurburgring.With all these cars testing at the track,manufacturers needed drivers.And one of the most notabledrivers is Sabine Schmitz,also known, The Queen of the Ring.Sabine claims to havedriven over 20,000 lapson Nordschleife, and it shows.She won the 24 HoursNurburgring in '96 and '97,as well as the VLN Championship in '98.It was a good three yearsfor her, very exciting time.(tires screeching)Sabine, along with otherhigh-performance drivers,actually offer taxiservices for those willingto fork over some dough to experiencethe full-speed sweeping turnsand crazy G forces of Fox Hole,or the technicallycomplex Bergwerk Corner,or the (bleep)-your-pants,throw up-in-your-shirt,piss-in-your-shoes jumpat Pflanzgarten 2.(quirky music)I just wanna apologizeto my German-speaking audience out there.I'm doing my best.No disrespect. (laughs)(car rumbling)(people laughing)But let's say you're moreof a hands-on kinda personand you wanna take yourown car around a track.Well luckily, that can be arranged.For $35, depending on the day and week,you can drive the Nordschleifeas part of (sighs)Touristenfahrten.(flatulence toots)Which means public driving in German.Not only are you liablefor damages to the track,there's also towing and ambulance fees,and lost track time due to stoppage,which can be almost $2,000 an hour.Say you can't bring yourcar because it doesn't fitunder the seat or in front ofyou or in the overhead bin,you can still enjoy Touristenfahrtenby renting a track car.The cars come with rollcages, sticky little tires,and for a few Euros more, youcan even hire a navigator.Plus you can buy expensiveinsurance packagesthat help you avoid evenmore expensive repairswhen your rented Renault Cliogoes flying off the trackat Quiddelbacher Hohe.Trying.Another little bit of advice?If you want to drive the Ring,you better do it sooner than later.Many racetracks are suffering financially,but due to its size, thistrack is especially hurting.In 2012, the track went bankruptbecause they built a bunchof tourist attractionsand then the tourist numberreally didn't increase.Then the engineeringfirm, Capricorn Group,bought the place for 173 million bones.But since their all Capricorns,they couldn't make uptheir frickin' minds,so Russian billionaire, Viktor Kharitoninbought the majority ownershipof the track in 2014.So now you know a little bit moreabout the Nurburgring.And maybe, just maybe,if you're a good personand do good things, youwill someday find yourselfburning rubber in the Grune Holle.We have a second channel.It's called Donut Podcast.We are so, so stoked about this.It's my favorite thing to do.Our first podcast is called "Past Gas",where me and the boys dig deepin the craziest stories andpeople in automotive history.Check it out at Donut Podcastor stream it anywhere you stream podcasts.