We all have bucket lists. And while some of the items on those lists are wild fantasies, I’d wager that most of us linger the longest on dreams about the stuff we think we might actually get to do one day. Otherwise, the whole thing is just too depressing for day-to-day life.
So when people hear me describe the experience I’m about to detail in this story and ask if it was on my bucket list, I usually answer, “Not really.”

Because racing on the Nürburgring was, for me, just one of those back-of-the-mind fantasy exercises. I thought of it in the same way that anyone who has ever picked up a basketball dreams of dribbling onto the court at the Staples Center, or how every aspiring guitarist dreams of plugging into an amp and hearing that first bit of feedback roll over Madison Square Garden as they shout into the mike, “Good evening New York, 1-2-3-4!”

What I discovered was that racing at the Nürburgring was not only a realistic goal, but also a highly attainable one.

So here’s the bottom line–and I feel like I need to share this right up front, since I certainly can’t be the only one who’s harbored these deep-seated fantasies of racing at one of the world’s great motorsports facilities: If you are a licensed wheel-to-wheel racer in the U.S., racing at the Nürburgring is 100 percent within your grasp.

Sure, you may have to skip a vacation or, you know, eat the generic ramen noodles instead of your name-brand ones for awhile, but you’re going to be shocked at how affordable and easy it is to take your racing career overseas.


[Post edited by EDGEMAN at 05/31/2019 07:53AM]