Nurburgring

I got mine today, just got back from 350 miles of roofdown fun, burned my
head, but **** me, what fun. I departed from the A1 at seahouses to really
give it some down country lanes

Seems fucking awesome so far.

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Nige,

'Candygram for Mongo'

R1

 

This is a Coming Out post. Right?

 

<dons sensible hat>

Have you checked your insurance situation for this?

You're highly unlikely to get cover for your own car on a 'Tourist' day
- although EU legislation says they can't really exclude cover, the
insurance ombudsman has recently sided with the insurers on this one.

However, that's the least of your problems - given the relatively low
value of the Eunos.

You really need to find some kind of 3rd party cover - not only because,
should you hit someone and seriously injure them (even worse, if you hit
a loaded MPV or coach.... although if you hit a biker, that could
possibly be the absolute worse case), your insurers will pay out, then
come chasing you for the money, but also because, should you have an
accident which closes the track, they'll come looking for several
thousands of Euros to cover repairs and lost revenue.

Again, the insurance ombudsman has sided with the insurers on this -
meaning they'll pay out, but *will* chase you for the money.

You can get 3rd party policies, but they look hugely expensive, and have
several 'get out' clauses.

Essentially, the situation is that UK drivers / riders effectively take
to the 'ring totally uninsured these days.

The risk is up to you, but, personally, I don't think I'd want to take
the chance.

 

we need to rename this newsgroup uk.rec.gaylords.

 

Don't care ! See my previous post about driving home.

Still going to do it.

I am sitting on the balcony at The Hotel an Der Norschliefe as I write
this, and nothing's gonna stop me now.

 

Can we include people who like to dress in leather ?

err... hang on a mo...

 

(SteveH) wrote in

http://www.leeds-solicitors.com/nurburgring_insurance.html gives the
details. You omit to mention that the situation has been referred to the
European Court. I suspect the UK insurers will have to roll over and
provide the same cover that is given by German insurers under the
"minimum EU cover" regs.

 

Well, there are a few things to consider based on that.

Currently, a UK insurer will come chasing if they have to pay up. This
is not good, as it could well ruin you for life.

We don't know when the EU case will come to court, so the above applies
at the moment.

The bloke who wrote that stuff on the website has massively agitated
people on Piston Heads due to his agressive attitue to any questioning,
and has also posted that 'I have a policy which covers me, so **** you',
without actually disclosing who it is who offers cover - leading people
to believe he doesn't actually have cover and that his legal advice is
more than slightly questionable.

The advice over there is 'if you do it, drive like you're uninsured,
because you probably are'

 

Or are we going to start calling Munich - Muenchen,

Cologne - Koeln, uws, usw ?

There's a "UK" in the name of the newsgroup not "de"

 

Genau!.