Originally a 16.08km track, the Schottenring is located near Schotten, in the state of Hessen to the north of Frankfurt am Main. The first race was held on September 12th, 1925, running through the villages of Schotten, Rudingshain and Götzen.
Before 1937 only motorbike races were held, and by 1949 sportscar and race car races were being held. In 1953 the track held the Großer Preis von Deutschland World Championship race for motorbikes, but the Le Mans disaster of 1955 saw the last Rund um Schotten road racing event.

Between 1968 and 1983, the circuit hosted motorbike reliability tests and the occasional rally and hillclimb. In 1983 all race events were halted, and plans were put forward to build a Grand Prix track - these were abandoned after environmentalist pressures.

The organising club of the Schottenring hosted events at Hockenheim during the next few years, but in 1989 the Schottenring Grand Prix was re-born as a historic event on a much shorter track.The old track can now be driven as it is public road.

Run um Schotten for GPL
Notes on circuit: Schottenring is a superbly challenging real track in southern central Germany. The gpl version deliberately has a much wider asphalt surface than the real track (in places up to twice) as otherwise hardly drivable in gpl. Altitudes are accurate mostly, however, the top of the course is slightly different as real altitude range not supported in gpl !! Layout was done as accurately as possible given sources available... in real terms it was mainly a motorcycle and sportscar track used until 1955. It still exists as public roads and I did 5 laps there in November 2002 with slight disregard for road rules on Guzzi 1000cc to get a feel for it. Autumn, 3 degrees temperature of wet air and leaves everywhere almost lead to disaster but thanks mainly to Bridgestone all ended happily ever after etc.... The circuit is truly scary to drive on a bike as the Creator beckons at every corner and some of the straights... However, armed with this information, several maps, many pics and maps from net I got started... many hundreds of hours later I ran out of time and handed on to andre as arranged by eric b and this is the result... have fun :)

Andre Streu, John Basara and Eric Bourgouin have done a superb job of finishing what actually started as project vil2002 strange as that may seem... graphics are absolutely up to their legendary standards and they has captured the feel of the area very well... well done !!

Mark Daniels

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