I'm not that easy to scare in a car, even when i crashed it into the armco at the Nurburgring while doing 175kph, i didn't really get scared, just too busy trying to avoid any big damage!
But later in 2011, i really got a scary encounter when i was doing 180kph in one of the numerous blind corners at the Nurburgring again (i'm a slow road driver so everything happens on track with me), about to overtake a slower M3 E92, just behind a very fast Z4M, both cars slammed their brakes just in front of my nose (about 5-6 feet away from my bumper), so i did the same. The rear end started sliding, bringing my car closer to the E92, the front looking the opposite way toward the armco. I tried to evade on the right, justto see 4 cars totalled in the wall and halfway on the track, so released the brakes to get grip again and throw the car tothe left, just to see a 5th car in the wall on this side of the track. So, while still trying to avoid a crash with the two BMWs which were braking in a very straight line thanks to all the electronics onboard, i went sideways on the grass, doing 160kph between the two cars braking on the track and the car exploded into the wall on the left. I finished the next right hand corner in the grass still, to finally escape from all that big mayhem.
I litterally finished my lap trying to not think about that near-miss, then parked the car and went for a beer with the boys!
And that's at that time, with a beer in hand, that i asked my friend who came as passenger for his first ever lap on a track, firt time at the Nordschleife, first time in a track car, if he didn't get too scared. His answer was : "you seemed to control all that very well so i trusted you and didn't get scared at all."
Now i know, there is someone more nuts than me
