The AVUS - Track at Berlin TODAY *UPDATED* 10/25/06

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Bottom post of the previous page:

sebbbl wrote:
bbgunn wrote:
sebbbl wrote:My photos are ONLINE here...
Sebbbl - correct me if I'm wrong.
Is this the section where the banking was, or was this the other end?
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This is where the banking was...

I was too lazy to walk the 4-5 km the the Südkehre :oops: (but I'll do that this year...)
Thank you very much for those pictures.
It brings those of us that are not too close
to that area a glimpse of racing history.

I know of old racetracks around here that townhouses are now built on
top of!
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nice pictures from my hometrack :thumbsup:
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Hi Metzo :wave:

do you have any AVUS material you could send here?
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sebbbl wrote:Hi Metzo :wave:

do you have any AVUS material you could send here?
yes i made some pics from the chicane last weekend,
i also have some snow pics from the avus .
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Could you please take photos of this one (I didn't find it as I'm not from Berlin) Or is it just the well known AVUS monument???

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well if i have time i'm gonna go there , it's just 5 s-bahn stations away .
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Metzo wrote:well if i have time i'm gonna go there , it's just 5 s-bahn stations away .
finally i had some time today
i made some pcs from the new "AVUS monument"
i'm gonna upload them tomorrow
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Cool! :happy:
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Great to hear, I hadn't forgot about this...
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thank you very much... I must say, I expected something else, I think it's quite ugly... *modern art* :roll:


I'll have a look at the monument in october... (expect some further AVUS pics)
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well 3 weeks ago I visited the AVUS track again to take photos of the thing I missed doing before...

finally I came to the podium (I had to crawl through bushes and bushes :haha: ) But the feeling there is undescribable :smiley:
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the new (ugly) monument...
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the old south turn (there's absolutely nothing left)...
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and finally a nice pic of the Nordkurve (I even drove on it with my car - great DTM-feeling)...
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I also filmed my drive along the autobahn. It took 4:30 min from south-curve of the F1 track to the north-curve. F1 cars managed it in 55sec - I guess they had less traffic


enjoy :smiley:
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sebbbl wrote:
finally I came to the podium (I had to crawl through bushes and bushes :haha: ) But the feeling there is undescribable :smiley:
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i never knew that there was a podium at the avus :shock:
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Brings back memories of when i was there :thumbsup: Great pictures.
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Metzo wrote:
sebbbl wrote:
finally I came to the podium (I had to crawl through bushes and bushes :haha: ) But the feeling there is undescribable :smiley:
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i never knew that there was a podium at the avus :shock:
It was used built in ca.1959 and used until ca.1990

podium ceremony 1959
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in 1990 Michael Schumacher won the F3 race and stood on this podium
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afterwards the podium ceremony was somewhere else on a little metal-stand
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thanks for the info.
sebbbl wrote: in 1989 Michael Schumacher won the F3 race and stood on this podium
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afterwards the podium ceremony was somewhere else on a little metal-stand
he won the avus race in 1990 , in 1989 he was 3.
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