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Subscribe to this threadNick Heidfeld tackles the Nordschleife in a BMW F1.06
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Yago Bal @ Apr 29th 2007 7:25PM
Heidfeld was instructed not to take any risks and to slow for photo calls on each of his three laps, so his best lap of 8m34s – more than two minutes shy of the outright track record – was not indicative of what a modern F1 car might be capable of.
The ride height of the F1.06 was raised for maximum ground clearance on the uneven surface and the car was fitted with unusually hard ‘demonstration’ tyres.
Despite short gear ratios Heidfeld clocked 170mph the long Döttinger Höhe straight – but admitted he was itching to take the car closer to the limit.
“I’d really like to have emptied the [fuel] tank,” he said.
(from itv.com)