The old Nurburgring was not one but two circuits which could be used together (making a total of 172 corners) or as separate entities. The Nordschleife (North Loop) was 14.2 glorious miles of tarmac and the Sudschleife (South Loop) was a mere 4.8-miles. W This vast circuit was the site of Tazio Nuvolari's greatest victory for Alfa Romeo in 1935; of Juan-Manuel Fangio's greatest drive, fighting back from a delay in his Maserati 250F to win in 1957; and of Jackie Stewart's remarkable win in the fog of 1968, Such a fast and spectacular track must also have its victims and all around the old Nurburgring there are places where the fast and wild died young. The march of time dictated that safety and television would become important factors. It was virtually imp But it was the safety which finally - inevitably - put paid to the old Ring. It was, by its very nature, almost impossible to make safe. Despite a three-year program in the early 1970s to erect barriers and create run-off areas there were still safety pro Other racing went on for another six years but in May 1982 the old circuit held its last international event - a 1000km sportscar race - and work began on the vast new Nurburgring. This extraordinary enterprise was completed in the Spring of 1982 and to c Formula 1 visited the new Nurburgring in October that year for the European Grand Prix, won by Alain Prost in a McLaren and again less than a year later - in August 1985 - when Michele Alboreto won the only German GP to be held at the new track. And then In the late 1980s and early 1990s the new Nurburgring survived without Grand Prix racing. The new track hosted a variety of events, from international level down to club races. Occasionally the local racers used the old circuit for races, the highpoint of The rise of Michael Schumacher, a local boy from the town of Kerpen, just 40 miles to the north of the track, led to increased pressure for a F1 race and in 1995 the F1 trucks rolled into the circuit once again. The change in all the F1 circuits in the la Much of the romance of the old Ring went with the bulldozers. The grandstands now feature strange crane-like support which give the feeling that the whole place has become a dockyard. But at the top of the track there is the comforting sight of the old Nu Across the bridge at Adenau, the road curls uphill and round behind the hillside towards Bergwerk, and off to the high-speed run along the valley where Lauda crashed. At the top of the valley the track curls to the left and climbs steeply up to the Karuss "Nothing gave me more satisfaction than to win at the Nurburgring," said Jackie Stewart, "and yet, I was always afraid. When I left home for the German Grand Prix I always used to pause at the end of the driveway and take a long look back.

"I was never sure I'd come home again."

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