RMA course instructor Sabine Schmitz is a great ambassador for the Nürburgring Nordschleife

Disneyland for petrol heads is probably the best description for the Nurburgring Nordschleife and the surrounding area.

Completed in 1927 and initially built to help bring industry to the area, the Nurburgring Nordschleife has certainly put the small town of Nurburg on the map, helped in no small way by RMA course instructor Sabine Schmitz and her appearances on BBC 2 Top Gear and Jeremy Clarkson DVD.

The Nordschleife is universally accepted as the best and most challenging race track in the world and was used to host the German Grand Prix until the Lauda accident in 1976. It now holds its own series of races known as the BF Goodrich Langstrecken Meisterschaft Nürburgring (VLN).

At present, the German Grand Prix alternates between the newly built Nürburgring GP Strecke and the Motodrom Hockenheim.