Nürburgring Nordschleife: 1967 vs 2014! 

Conclusion, the Green Hell has getting much greener over the decades.

Out of all the nurburgring videos ive seen on the web, this one is by far the coolest!

Seems it like more fun to drive back in 67 since you have a grand vision of the road ahead. thanks

Great pictures, should allow a game developer to use these, would be great to see a 1967 nordshleife on games?

Man the old one looks so nice tough

@ 0:40 , that view man, wish there wasnt that many trees now.

I would have killed to go see the Grand Prix from 1967 at the Nürburgring Nordschleife with Jackie Stewart, Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Bruce McLaren, John Surtees and Dan Gurney. Sadly being born in 1993 I couldn't see it

Analog cameras should make a comeback, the quality is crazy. No pixels

Most kids will be surprised how good the graphics were in 1967. ^^)

The history is magnificent. I spent a good half hour looking at the first comparison of the Exit Hocheichen pics. It's simple what the differences are but it's still incredible to look at, it looks like two totally different worlds. In a lot of regards I guess, they are.

You did a really great job matching the focal length and angles of the original photographs. Shame there isn't more of it.

All the trees grew! love that

Today we can produce much more agricultural goods on less ground. The landscape of 1967 was formed by the agricultural needs of the time from 1800 till 1950. Hardly any food was imported, people used local wood for building and heating. Today Germany and the whole of middle Europe have more forests than anytime in the last 1000 years.

1967 was the early beginning of trees on Earth. Amazing to be able to watch it

Would love to have tried lapping the original north loop and the south loop. To have a time machine tour of the decades 1927, 37, 47 etc and to do it with both modern machines but also something from the era. Great video going back to the older shot again after was a nice touch. A longer version of this would be well received :)

Un grand merci pour ce partage. Je suis né en 1967, et j'ai (heureusement) beaucoup plus changé que le Nürburgrig : )

Wow what a truly gorgeous place to just drop in some tarmac and call it a race track back in 67 the views look fantastic. 🤯😎

Absolutely brilliant. Big thumbs up for this video.

Great pictures. Thank you!

The view at Aremberg is still there, behind the small row of trees at the edge of the track is a farmer's field. You can stand on the softly sloped edge of the mountain, in summer you could sit on the haybales that are stored there. It's the best view in that part of Germany, but also definitely the best view you could find on or around a race track.

I really dig the scenery of the older Nordschleife

What an excellent video!

Very interesting, thanks for upload.

Simply wonderful. Thx a lot

Thank you! Great stuff.

Wonderful video!

Great work!

Nicely done (the montage ) ;)

0:40 The view puts the whole track into a beautiful perspective. On the new Nordschleife, I always feel a bit like in a tunnel because there is way too much vegetation! I feel like the track loses its connection to the surrounding topography. I'd feel much more immersed if I was aware of what hills and villages I'm going around. It's hard to see the greater context if you can't see a good view, not even from the higher points of the track.

Thanks Jack

Very cool to see, thank you.

Most of the trees from 67 are still there. Touching !

Oh, god! Why this video is so short? Wanna more, much more!!! :-) Seriously, thanks for sharing, it's amazing!!!!

Beautiful to see this as one who lives near the nordschleife

Damn! I always wondered how well GPL recreated the old ring. Well, I literally get flashbacks from those old pictures!

You can get a similar set of reactions by checking out the various 1000km races run at the Mt Panorama circuit in Bathurst, NSW, Australia. The scenic tour (complete with opportunities to fall of the mountain) have been replaced with wall, safety barriers and sand traps!

Safety aside, the old one had a "backroad" taste that the new one has definitely lost: today, it simply looks like a very dangerous racetrack. In 1967 it felt like an ordinary road closed for racing, non too dissimilar from the Mountain in the Isle of Man, Clermont Ferrand, or the legendary Lario Circuit, even though The 'Ring was built purposefully for racing. A totally different "flavour". The bright side: the original layout is still active and used without big modifications, unlike the vast majority of circuits born in the first half of the XX century.

Great video

Amazing pics man.Nurburgring always mean auto passion

Amazing how similar it actually is.

Great stuff

I like the atmosphere in the '67 photos... So much less trees and other flora.

Nice to see how the trees are still the same😏

brilliant! Daumen hoch!

Die Strecke wirkt in alt noch zehnmal gefährlicher! Wahnsinn. 😯

First pic looks so good would compliment any wall if it was a printable picture. The track looks better with less trees.

The old pictures must be even older than 1967 since they depicts the older "narrower" karusell which only existed before 1966 when it was rebuilt. The one from 1966 onwards is still the same as today with more space on the inner side of the banking.

I like how 1967 has less tree but 2014 has so many trees just to perfectly name as the green hell

Respekt echt cool gemacht

I'd love to see the whole lap. The guys that drove on this track in 67 were boarder line nuts Scare place particular in wet.Drove past line this track it's very green here and very forested, beautiful country.

I really like how it kept the roots and the corners are like 100% the same and you can really recognize it, I like that they didn't changed much even though f1 won't race there anymore

Amazing ! Thx

Great Video from the year I was born

awesome!!

We want more, we want more, please

Geile Zeitreise 😁👍

I didn't expect this

Very cool one

Well done. Great pictures BTW Grand Prix Legends made a good computer circuit of the 1967 Nordschleife.

wonderful

geil. danke

Super!

Truly legendary curcuit

Huge concrete plates on carousel haven't changed since 60 year's. Dope 🤣

Nearly identical pavement layouts. The forestry around the track has aged significantly. It seems like the land was rather barren in 1967. Could this have been because of WW2?

anybody notice how much longer the run between Qudiddelbacher-Hõhe and the entrance to Flugplatz was in 1967 than today?

Wow, how did they come up with the name "green hell" back then? Forestation increased in every picture! At least concerning the surroundings the Nordschleife grew beautifully in that period.

Wow that shit looked terrifying

Muy bueno el vídeo

You forgot to compare the Porsches who are always on the Nürburgring 24/7.

Apparantly the 1967 race was covered by German tv in colour. It would be amazing if that footage came to light. The Ford Cosworth promotional film 9 Days in Summer is good but seeing Jim Clark's 8 mins 04 seconds pole (10 seconds quicker than anyone else) in video would be awesome.

I dont wanna say this but the trees on the side of the track blocked the view of the lovely landscape

ace work

Great !

Muito bom 👏👏 !!

AMS 2 brought me here and very soon AMS 2 will take me there :)

I believe that those pictures must be from before 1964 as it was around that year when the Karusell was made to look as it does today. Before 1964 it looked as in the video without any asphalt on the inside, just a paved ditch. I don't know if they changed the radius as well but the picture(s) can't be from 1967.

Anyone have a link to the reddit thread?

so many trees compared to the past damn

Did it changed during the dacades?

Nice

Is it only me wondering about the amount of woods growing more nowadays? I thought it is the other way around...

Kinda feel like I'm the only one who likes the current forrested track much more than the old one. Don't know, it feels a bit like due to the trees, you're even more secluded from the outside, which makes the track even more intimidating

Exelent

Great video. 1967 version looks so much nicer

Romantic strasse

Wonder if they are the same trees

20km and 65413 turns and the only I remember is the Karrusel

Это трасса легенда!

We decided you didn't need all that visibility so grew loads of trees. Now guess where the road goes.

in 1967 hat mein Vater einen Fahrlehrgang bei Scuderia Hanseat gemacht.

We want back analog cameras!!!!

Nurbugring is still alive but i miss the old

VS?

Based on other period photos from the Nurburgring, those 1967 images seem very sparse in terms of forestry. Might there have been a significant period of timber extraction in the period prior to those wonderful photos being taken?

Could have used some background music..

This actually makes me sad but i dont know why 🥲

And People still say we have less Forests and Trees nowadays

So it’s not the hills, but the trees that made this track so dangerous. If we cut those trees, we will not only have better view, but also huge run off area. Maybe also widen the track and replace the curbs so that F1 cars can run there again.

Why do the lack of trees and generally the older track look make things look so much less intimidating and instead calm