A few months ago, an accident during the VLN Endurance Championship at the Nurburgring led to the death of a spectator. This is the sort of thing that motorsports organizations have made big advances in preventing, and officials at the ’Ring took immediate steps to keep it from happening again. That meant, among other things, the implementing of a speed limit until all factors that might affect safety on the course could be evaluated. That has now been done, and it was announced that Nurburgring officials now have a plan to lift the limit once the new safety measures are in place.
The bulk of the changes are to focus on spectator safety, which certainly makes sense given what motivated these changes. This will mostly mean new fences and guardrails, in accordance with FIA regulations governing such things. There will also be a section of the track that will be resurfaced; about 500 meters of particularly bumpy surface resulting from extensive wear. The fences and guardrails will theoretically better protect spectators in the even of a crash, but the resurfacing will hopefully keep the accidents from happening in the first place, which would ultimately be far preferable.
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