Former NASCAR driver Kenny Wallace recently made his dream come true after spending over $2000 for six laps at Germany’s legendary Nurburgring.
The 62-year-old turned a European trip into a bucket list run at one of motorsport’s hardest tracks. The former NASCAR driver spent time in Greece, Italy, and Germany before landing at the Nurburgring, where he paid $2,500. The 20.83 kilometer or 12.9-mile “Green Hell” started construction in 1925 and opened with the Eifel Race two years later.
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On Thursday, April 2, Wallace shared a picture of himself and his invoice on X.
“Making my dream come true. $2500.00 for 6 laps in a race car around [Nurburgring] 😂🏁💯,” Kenny Wallace wrote.
Wallace’s high-speed run on one of the most feared racetracks in the world reached 147 miles per hour at one point during his lap.
Wallace also shared a video from outside the rental race car facility, RSR, in Germany, and reflected on his first lap at Nurburgring, which features more than 70 corners and blind crests. Drivers have compared it to a twisting mountain road rather than a modern circuit.
“Scariest racetrack I’ve ever been on in my life” – Kenny Wallace after a lap around Nurburgring
Kenny Wallace took a “tourist lap” around Nurburgring with other cars and shared his reaction after a lap in a video with friend and pilot John Skittone and instructor at the track, Fabrice, who had completed about 5,000 laps there.
“I’ve made one lap around Nurburgring. You think Darlington is the track that’s too tough to tame? That has to be the scariest racetrack I’ve ever been on in my life. And here’s why. It’s very narrow. The whole racetrack is like a hallway,” Kenny Wallace said.
“I thought, ‘My god, this lap’s never going to end.’ And I was being overtaken by real race cars. And then there were passenger cars mixed in,” he added.
The Nurburgring Nordschleife’s nickname “Green Hell” was coined by F1 legend Jackie Stewart after racing there in wet, brutal conditions. The full Nordschleife lap is 20.832 kilometres, and the circuit sits in the Eifel mountains. It is also notorious for its multiple fatalities across its history, with accidents still happening during public driving sessions.
Niki Lauda’s near-fatal accident during the 1976 German Grand Prix exposed how dangerous the track had become and led to the construction of the shorter 4.556 km Grand Prix circuit (GP-Strecke), which opened in 1984.
Edited by Hitesh Nigam
