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Historic Eifel tour in a classic car - a journey through nine decades

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Created on May 18, 2020

Reading time 6min

Written by:

Wolfram Hamann

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Anbremsen und den Scheitelpunkt suchen ...

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Historische Karte

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Historische Karte

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VW Käfer 1303 startbereit

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Zündschlüssel des VW 1303 Cabriolets

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Einfache Instrumentierung im Käfer

Bild von Partner Planai Classic 2025 Inline 1

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Burganlage Nideggen

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Ausblick von der Burg Nideggen

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Ausblick von der Burg Nideggen

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Blick in die Eifel

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Lange Gerade, damals wurde hier voll "gebrettert"

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Neu aufgebaute "Schmugglerkirche St. Mokka" in Schmidt

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Von Heimbach nach Vlatten

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Unterwegs in Richtung Vlatten

Summary

The Eifel Tour was held four times between 1923 and 1926, with each of the five laps being 33.2 km long. It took place on roads that were barely surfaced, so taking part was correspondingly dangerous. Almost a hundred years later, you have to search for the course of the circuit at that time, but the author of this article has gladly taken on this task and reports from a time when car races were still held on normal roads and through villages.

This article contains the following chapters

The time before the Nürburgring
Anticipation is the greatest joy
Start in Nideggen

Estimated reading time: 6min

Preview (beginning of the article)

"The race track was 33.2 km long: on the day of the sports car race, it rained in torrents that you could have thought the world was coming to an end. ...storms and rain... so bad and so heavy that falling roofs hit a passer-by and a cyclist was thrown against a tree..." Of course, we are in the Eifel region, which is notorious for its weather. However, the description of the weather situation "in the Eifel mountains" is older. It refers to the Eifelrennen - then called the "Eifelrundfahrt" - of 1924, and the chronicler is the famous racing driver Rudolf Caracciola, who took part in the second Eifelrennen from July 17 to 19, 1924.

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