Thanks mate, quite a shock you can imagine, both guys still had lots of good years ahead of them.
Was supposed to meet them later, but nobody showed up which just wasn't like them at all, mobiles weren't working, etc.
And when I finally found out, well hey, a death just doesn't get more pointless than that, that really had me shell shocked for quite some time.
Nürburgring is incredibly tough from what one hears. I don't race myself and never have but still keep an eye on what's going on, and pretty much all car companies in the world fine tune their new cars setups on the Nürburgring just because it is so demanding.
Some better, like Nissan with it's new GTR which is very safe and fast. Some worse, like Ferrari with the 360.
It's successor is better, but still not as safe as a Lambo or an R8, its 2 main mid-engined competitors. Heck, even a power and torque monster like the Bugatti Veyron is so safe a granny could drive that.
Even Formula 1 don't race the old course anymore because it was considered too dangerous, they got a new tamer one there.
Problem is danger atttracts people like free beer, and everybody can race their cars there on the old track for a fee, and don't have exact numbers right now, but my buddies deaths aren't the only ones there in a year by a far measure.
NurburgringWarning.co.uk
I'm sure you are good at what you do and have great fun doing that, but just drive carefully, nothing is worth ending up in a wheelchair or worse because one didn't accept ones limits that even a Schumacher has and respected.
My buddies left lots of pretty angry family behind, not just bewildered friends.