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Past Gas

S1 Ep300: Nürburgring: The Most Famous Toll Road On Earth

Past Gas

Donut Media

Leisure, Comedy, History, Automotive

4.97.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week, we’re diving into the history of the Nürburgring — the most dangerous racetrack in the world that also happens to be a public toll road. How did a 1920s public works project become “The Green Hell,” hosting propaganda races, Niki Lauda’s fiery crash, and record-breaking laps from the bravest drivers on Earth?

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Doug Demuro here to tell you to listen to This Car Pod, the Automotive

0:06.0

podcast for every car enthusiast.

0:08.5

This Car Pod is a podcast where my friends and I sit down every week to chat about breaking

0:13.5

automotive news, what we're seeing in the car market, and the quirks and features of our personal

0:18.3

car lives.

0:19.3

And we take questions from our amazing audience.

0:22.4

Check out this car pod now on Spotify, YouTube, Apple, anywhere you get your podcasts and add it to your

0:29.0

weekly rotation. Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome back to Paskass. This week we're talking about

0:33.9

one of the most infamous tracks in the world. It can only be the Nureberg

0:38.6

Ring. That's right, the Green Hell. We're talking its entire history from early beginnings

0:42.8

in the early 1900s till today. We're talking some legendary races that happened here,

0:48.1

legendary crashes and everything in between. Sit back and relax. Let's go racing.

0:58.5

Before it had guardrails before it had gravel traps before it was something you could book on a track day website the Nureberg ring was

1:03.6

pure fear Jackie Stewart three-time Formula One world champ was the first to call it the

1:09.5

green hell and he wasn't just being poetic.

1:12.6

Stuart and his fellow racers ripped their way through the rain, through the fog, without safety crews positioned at every mile, in cars that could kill them at any second.

1:21.6

To race at the Nureberg ring meant memorizing all 170 turns by heart because as Stewart put it so eloquently

1:30.7

if you forget one corner at Nurberg ring you die since those days the Nurberg

1:37.4

ring has been modernized repaved and made safer but that doesn't mean it's

1:41.6

relinquished its label as a monster.

1:44.8

No other track blends danger, history, and hype quite like it.

1:49.4

It still punishes mistakes, still demands respect.

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