Norisring 200 Miles
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The Norisring 200 Miles (in German: 200 Meilen von Nürnberg) was a sports car event taking place at the Norisring temporary street circuit in Nuremberg, Germany. The race ran consecutively from 1967 until it was replaced following the 1987 event by shorter touring car races. The race's short length made it a sprint event, with lap times reaching below a minute in some years.
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[edit] History
The event was first run in 1967 with backing from the ADAC before it joined the Interserie championship in 1970 and running a variety of sportscars. In 1973, the Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft held a 100 km (62 mi) race at the track before they took over the 200-mile (320 km) event from the Interserie in the 1974 season. DRM would use slower grand tourer and touring cars running separate 100 mile races (combining for the 200 mile total) until they eventually switched to the Group C formula in 1982 and ran single 200 mile races.
This formula remained until the DRM was folded after the 1985 event, leaving the World Sports-Prototype Championship to take over the event briefly in 1986 and 1987. These races would become among the shortest in the history of the championship, with the both events coming immediately after one of the longest on the schedule, the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The DRM's successor series in Germany, the Supercup would also run the Norisring. Their inaugural 1986 event would actually be shared with the WSPC event, running the two at the same time. In 1987, Supercup would run a shorter support event, before they took over the 200 mile races in 1988 and 1989.
[edit] Other races
Earlier in 1984, the new Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft would hold their own 100 km event at the Norisring. The series would return once more in 1987, before 1988 saw the series adapting a two-race event totalling 200 km. The series would continue to run at the Norisring regularly until it too folded at the end of 1996, being replaced by the Super Tourenwagen Cup until 1999. A newer Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters would return in 2000, using the two race format one final time before a single 100 km race was held starting in 2001 and continuing to this day. Although still a sprint event, the race no longer runs for the 200 mile distance it originally had.
[edit] Winners
Note that the 1973 DRM event is not listed due to it being a shorter, 200 km (combined) support race.
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