WATCH: Our Guide To Nordschleife Pronunciation Excellence


The Nürburgring-Nordschleife is hard to drive - and its sectors are also hard to pronounce for non-German speakers. To help you out, we have created a handy video guide.

With the iRacing Nürburgring 24 Hours Special Event happening this weekend and the real endurance classic being only two weeks away, the legendary Nordschleife is the main focus of many sim racers. And as hard as the track is to drive, it might be even harder to pron9unce its numerous section names correctly if you do not know German.

So, to point you in the right direction, we have created a video guide on how to do just that. Not to be condescending, of course, so we also threw in some trivia about the Nordschleife sections and how they got their names, plus some attempts at the correct pronunciation by Emily and Markus. All in good fun!


Whether or not this video helps you, we wish everyone who is taking part in this weekend's twice-around-the-clock contest a successful race - and most importantly: Have fun while tackling the Green Hell with your friends and teammates!

Let us know in the comments or on Twitter @OverTake_gg if some of the Nordschleife pronunciations surprised you - and how your Nüburgring 24 Hours Special Events went, of course!
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Yannik Haustein
Lifelong motorsport enthusiast and sim racing aficionado, walking racing history encyclopedia.

Sim racing editor, streamer and one half of the SimRacing Buddies podcast (warning, German!).

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OverTake
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To 'repay' Yannik / Michel / everyone for such a handy video and thread I thought I'd demonstrate why such a video is needed!


I definitely haven't corrected my Swedish Cross pronunciation (the 'ch' in the German throws me for some reason),but I hope most of the others aren't too bad.

Posted a bit later than I wanted as I tried to comment on my wr lap, then found the video hadn't recorded the sound - doh. And of course I couldn't beat my ghost when the sound was working. I'll have another go when my hands and wrists recover, as I've definitely left a second or two out there.

And I can't have that :)
That's a great video, thanks for sharing :)
And you were doing pretty well with some of the sector names, just a matter of practice for the others, I'd say. I did have a bit of a chuckle at the 'Coca-Cola Karussell" :D
Nice lap as well! The ghost disappearing in the distance is even more impressive - shame the recording did not work for the record run. Extra props for the sim kitty at the end :)
 
OverTake
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I would rather translate it to "Dare Curve", "Nerve Curve" or "Boldness Curve".
You have to have "courage" to push it there, but courage is a bit too heroic. It's more the kind of courage that you need to jump from a mountain with your wingsuit. Being a daredevil :D
Bravery and being a daredevil can both be called having "Mut" or being "mutig", while English has way more words depending on the context.


Yep! Although I don't really know where it originates from. Might be the shape or because there actually was a gallow..

It's Piff-Paff in German :)
I know the Miss-Hit-Miss as "Dreifach-Rechts" (triple right), but Miss-Hit-Miss seems to become the German name too.
regarding Mutkurve, I heard the term "Confidence Corner" a lot while coaching at the track, so that is another option for the translation.
 

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