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Originally Posted by G30M
The Ring since last year has become undrivable. Prior to that not many people knew about it, only the pure drivers. Then thanks to social media every man and his dog wants to go there, and it's become a tourist destination.
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It's not since last year, but way longer than that. I would say this has been going on for at least the last decade or even longer.
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helmet91 says, it has always been a tourist destination. And that every man and his dog where lapping on their own pace was a big part of the charm of the Nordschleife. There where two distinct groups of drivers, the locals who where fast and the tourist who where not. Those two groups got allong just fine and there was mutual respect.
But ever since Top Gear featured it in one of its episodes it has all gone down from there. It became more crowded, character of the visiting groups changed and social media did the rest. I totally agree whit
helmet91, TF lost it's innocence and it ís really dissapointing.