Organisation manager Hanns-Martin Fraas was interested in what has happened at the Nürburgring and around the heart of the event, the 24-hour cycle race on the legendary Nordschleife. His research brought some impressive figures to light.
"The participants in the 24-hour race on the Nordschleife alone have completed a total of around three million kilometres since 2003," reports Fraas. In 2003, just 70 cyclists registered for the round-the-clock competitions; by 2011, 4,000 had already taken on the great challenge of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. Since then, around 17,000 participants have been registered, generating an output of 17,250 kilowatt hours with muscle power on around 115,000 laps of the Nordschleife. This energy would be enough to supply an average German household with electricity for five years.
The Nürburgring-Nordschleife is an up-and-down track, with around 530 metres of elevation gain per lap - this varies slightly depending on which line the cyclists choose on the wide track. Calculated over the thumb, all the "Rad-am-Ring" heroes together have climbed an incredible 60,950,000 metres in altitude during the nine races that have already taken place. This is impossible to achieve without proper catering. Around 60,000 portions of pasta certainly played their part, washed down with 72,000 bottles of non-alcoholic Erdinger, among other things.
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