Just spotted this on another forum some interesting regs on here:

General Rules:-

- Stupid parking (i.e. any parking not in a clearly marked place) will be rewarded with a 100% guaranteed winning ticket to pick your car up from an exciting location in Adenau. This means verges, over kerbs, abandoned next to mates cars which aren't moving etc...
- Crap parking will also be rewarded with a day-long ban from the Nordschleife AND its car park.
- Parking capacity will be expanded before season begins to match the above enforcement
- No change to basic rules - no vids, no paid taxi laps, etc...

It seems they are going to come down HARD on cars that arent prepared correctly!

Car Rules:-

- Bonnet pins are now TOTALLY verboten. Even if covered with tape or rubber. It's flush mount or standard bonnets only
- Interior trim - NO sharp edges or even tatty-looking 'rip outs' will be tolerated. You must have door cards installed, you can't leave shin-breaking metal beams uncovered under your dash.
- Roll bars and cages must be padded where your body will hit them. This will be checked more.
- Expect more TüV time - this is where a Meister guy from the the standards body here in Germany spends time at the gate spot-checking for safe and unsafe cars. This can only be a good thing provided the decisions are consistent.
- valid MOT certificate, tax-disc and insurance that does not have funny small print. if you already fail to produce any of the above criteria then game over.
- weld in or bolt in cages only with certificate from the manufacturer or TUV stating the complete construction of car/cage is safe and solid and from within the last two years. same applies to harness bars, especially concerning the welds.
- seatbelts/seats/seatmounts fall in the same criteria, so unless you have a certificate from a governing body (uk or germany does not matter but german preferred) saying the construction is save.
- bucket seats and harnesses will only be tolerated when mounted on corresponding subframes and only seats/harnesses still within FIA will be accepted at spot checks. anything out of date will not be tollerated.
- perspex windows is another sore point on modern cars as they are part of the carrying structure of the vehicle. not so much a problem with older cars with rubber seals.

dont really think thats anything new, maybe just starting to see them actually enforcing it cos of how busy its getting.

they were a lot tighter on parking and cars when we were there last year, a few british sheds getting turned away cos bonnet pins and bolt on spoilers.

There was also a properly sorted skyline turned away cos of bonnet pins which i was suprised to see, was expecting it to just be the sheds that refused

Where did you see this matt? Though to be fair the .R should pass all of that.

Yeah the TUV stuff has been bubbling under for a couple of years. As fat controller says I think theres nothing new there (other than the new parking regs) It looks like they are making noises about enforcement. To be fair there are always these rumours in the pre season run up. The other years the rumour was that they were going to start getting tough on noise testing. I went and got a backbox put on the F1 prior to that trip. Of course when we got there it was a free for all as usual.

The parking looks to be a good thing the facilities have always been laughably overcrowded although getting stuck in the carpark is part of the experience.

I think there will be a lot more rules and regs coming along to try and spoil the fun over the next few years. As that theme park comes on stream public days will be ever more rare. If you've never been before my advice is to drop all your holiday plans right now and go this year. The people that are putting it off and off till next year and next year will end up missing out as it will be impossible soon to have a decent crack at driving the circuit.

AS SAID ON OTHER FORUMS, HALF THE RULES WONT BE EVEN CHECKED. THEY DO IT EVERY YEAR TO PUT THE CHAVS AND HEROES OFF.

NORTHLOOP BOYS SAY THEY DO IT ANNUALLY, PUTS THE ****TERS ON THE BAD EGGS THEN.


yes i had caps on by accident

Feck me, most of that applys to my .R! and others too.