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Old 18-05-2012, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Scooby_Greg View Post
Just a quick heads up regarding the insurance which you may want to check. I have a policy with additional track cover. I was speaking to my insurer and they advised that the Nurburgring nordschleife is not classified as a track but a closed road and is therefore excluded from most policies and many specific track policies. I'm now looking to get the cover, but thought I should highlight the issue so you could check. In the worst case scenario I didn't want anyone not to be covered after I was told about the issue.

If you have arranged with Gary I'm sure he would have made sure you're covered, but it could be worth checking if you're not.
After years of getting "Insurance" for this trip, I have not bothered this year. There are so many caveats involved with the Nurburgring Nordschleife (Toll Road, One Way Road, etc etc) that 99% of insurance will get out of paying up. If you could get a 100% cast iron policy, I would take it out. But the levels of small print bull**** puts me off the idea these days.

I expect you could get proper 100% cover for the Nurburgring GP circuit, as you can with the tracks we do over here, but the Nordschleife is a whole different bag of tricks.

This is where IMHO The German authorities have got this wrong. The whole world KNOWS that the Nordschleife IS a track, car companies worldwide use it as a testing facility, they even have "closed track trackdays" there. But still, we the public are left to struggle to do the right thing by not being able to insure our vehicles for going round there.

I can't see that it would ever change, which is both blinkered and stupid.

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