Nurburgring Corner names

can anyone translate these?

Brankekopf
Aschenschlag
Seifgen
Blocksberg
Mullenbach
Rassruck
Scharfer Kopf

Gegengerade

Originally posted by ss_collins
Aschenschlag

:eek: ;)

(sorry, my GCSE German isn't up to the job!).

Bable fish doesn't offer much either. They are

Brankekopf: Brankekopf. (i.e. no translation)
Aschenschlag: Ash impact.
Seifgen: Soaping gene.
Blocksberg: Block mountain.
Mullenbach: Mullenbach. (i.e. no translation)
Rassruck: Racing jerk.
Scharfer Kopf: Sharp head.
Gegengerade: Gegengerade. (i.e. no translation)

hmmm I not quite sure these are correct!

No I have my doubts too! :laugh: It does, simply, lose something in the translation :)

Interesting question though, I look forward to more educated answers.

I was reading a book earlier that had a bunch of corners there using thier english names (but not german), Hunting Brook, Swan Neck, Flying Place (Flugplatz) etc...

Mullenbach is a nearby village

Rassruck?? -you'd better hope no one else from Sevenoaks reads that Mr Collins!

Is Fuchsrohr (?) the Foxes Throat. If it isn't, it should be.

"fox hole" reason its called that...

when they were building the track the workers found a fox in a drainage pipe, and thus they found a fox in the hole and called it foxhole.


i used to know alot more of these, there was a website with all the translations somewhere, not quite sure where tho

http://www.nurburgring.org.uk/bendnames/index.html


i knew id seen it somewhere!

The link provided by GolddustMini is very interesting.

I just beg to disagree concerning the explanation for Fuchsröhre. In my opinion the most popular version - that the turn was named after "a frightened fox dived into a drainpipe during the construction of this section, and the workers named the section after it" is incorrect.

Older books and most German drivers I talked with attribute the name to the profile of the track at that point, "narrow, steep and dangerous as the throat of a fox". I heard the same from the people in the Nürburgring Museum when I asked this specific question in 1998 (already at that time I was looking for an answer to this question).

Just my two cents...

Cheers,


Muzza

One addition:

Gegengerade was the name of the straight that used to run parallel to the start/finish straight in the old Nordschleife and the Start-und-Ziel-Schleife/Betonschleife.

The Gegengerade was the straight right behind the pits in the classic, old Nordschleife configuration. After the start line, the cars would go around the 270-degree Südkehre and come back by the Gegengerade. This part of the track was destroyed when the new "Nürburgring" was built.

Gegengerade, means "Opposite Straight" (literally "against-straight") as this part of the track was parallel, in opposition to the start/finish line.

Cheers, long live the Nürburgring,


Muzza
(survivor of a wild excursion at Adenauer Forst in 1998)

the bend names I need are on the sudchleife

Originally posted by ss_collins
the bend names I need are on the sudchleife

I don't know if you have come acorss this yet but there is a website dedicated to the Sudschleife, maybe it would be worth contacting the guy who runs that? I'm sorry I don't have the URL here (I'm at work) but a Google should do the trick - but I guess you may have already done that!

yup certainly have.

Thank you Muzza !!

Originally posted by ss_collins
yup certainly have.

And did Rob reply? I can't imagine he wouldn't, try again if he hasn't and tell him Michael and I sent you.

Oh I was in touch with rob ages ago! very helpful indeed. Hopefully will meet up at the ring in a feww months to investigate the Sud.