Continuing with my Recap series of the fantastic weekend at the Nürburgring, here’s something for your eyes! Enjoy all the pictures from past weekend, when Nokia invited Dani Adassa, Iain Wallace and yours truly to the famous Nürburgring in Germany, to be part of the Peugeot RCZ Nokia Driving Experience! Some great days, great friends, great cars and lots of adrenaline!
Check out the full gallery after the break and on Flickr – enjoy and share! 
I am sure you came to my blog, to expect another post of phone impressions or some new rants. If you did, please move on, there’s nothing like this to see here. You may or may not know, but I am also a big car enthusiast, especially tuned cars or sportscars. I have appreciated everything with 4 wheels since i was a little boy, when my uncle (at the time around the same age as I am now), was playing around with his cars back then. With this in mind, i had the absolutely great privilege to drive a Nissan GT-R a few weeks back (see my Flickr gallery here: Riding a Bullet – Nissan GT-R), one of my all time favourite cars. I am not sure if those pictures and my enthusiasm for the car were a factor, when Surya from Nokia contacted me a month ago, asking me if I’d be free at the end of August, to join a few selected Nokia bloggers for a special car/race-related … at the NÜRBURGRING!! But first, I feel like I need to bring you some facts about the Nürburgring and everything that happened there, before I bring you my experiences and thoughts about our weekend!
The Nürburgring – Nordschleife
It is the mekka for every car enthusiast, heaven for some, hell for those without control. 22 kilometres of high-speed straights, tricky bends, blind parts, and of course famous locations like the banked bend called Carousel, or the Airport, where cars could almost completely leave the ground jumping. It’s a wild ride, as i would find out on Sunday. If you love cars, you have to be there at least once in your life!
The Weekend
Peugeot has teamed up with Nokia, to take part in the VLN racing series. The VLN, properly the Veranstaltergemeinschaft Langstreckenpokal Nürburgring (Association of Nürburgring Endurance Cup Organisers) is an organisation of motorsport clubs of which each hosts one event of a ten-race series held on the Nürburgring Nordschleife, the “VLN Langstreckenmeisterschaft Nürburgring” (VLN Endurance Racing Championship Nürburgring). Participants of VLN races range from amateurs in small road legal cars with rollcages and harnesses to professional factory teams racing ex-DTM cars, or Porsche 996 GT3 RSR as in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and similar races. The VLN series is closely associated with the 24 Hours Nürburgring, as it has similar rules (mostly), and mainly the same participants. Find out more about the race series here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veranstaltergemeinschaft_Langstreckenpokal_N%C3%BCrburgring
The Cars
The Peugeot RCZ, a very sporty, cool looking car was beefed up to 200hp in the race version, powered by a 2.0ltr HDi FAP engine and features all the race goodies, like a roll cage, slick tires and more. The Team, a very good mix of veterans, and young up-and-comers has had an incredible successfull season thus far, and well.. it wasn’t the last great race for them, as you will read later on!
The (Nokia) Bloggers
Dani Adassa: I have met Dani at some of the other Nokia events I’ve been to, and she’s always great fun. Female geeks are a rare breed, and Dani represents them with great passion. Dani blogs over at http://dani2xll.com/ and of course http://dailymobile.se/
Iain Wallace: I have met Iain last year at Nokia World, and of course via Twitter. I’ve got to know Iain a lot better this weekend, and he turned out to be a very smart, intelligent guy. Iain blogs at http://doitdifferent.wordpress.com/, a nice little blog, full with useful how-to’s and workarounds! How to upload pictures from a Nokia N8 to an iPad wirelessly? Iain shows you
We were accompanied by Kee Cheng and Jan Bonnevier, both working at Nokia, and Jan’s father. They took very very good care of us, as usual at Nokia’s unique events and I can’t thank them enough for having me! Also with us, was a bunch of Peugeot- und Automobile bloggers from France, who also were invited by Peugeot! All in all, a great bunch of people and fun to hang out with!
But enough with the facts already, check back here this weekend to find out what happened, in my Nürburgring diary!!
Last weekend I was at home, celebrating my great nan’s 84th birthday. It wasn’t the most beautiful day ever, but after some rain it eventually cleared up. I had my Nokia N8 with me these days and thought the conditions could make for some nice pictures.. and well, i was right! Enjoy those and a ton more Nokia N8 camera pictures over at my Flickr Set!
Apr 17
Da ich hier auf dem Thoughts from Hell Blog ohnehin in sehr unregelmässigen Abständen poste, und alle meine Tech Posts in englischer Sprache auf www.fonearena.com/blog zu finden sind, kann ich doch meinen Recap-Post genau so gut hier machen, und das noch dazu auf Deutsch! Ha!
Anyways, ich möchte hier zuerst mal meine Liebe zu Nokia Österreich bekunden. Einer der Gründe warum Nokia immer einen Platz im Geek-Herzen hatte, ist der toller Support gegenüber Bloggern wie mir. Klar, wir reinen Mobile-Blogger sind in good ol’ Austria rar gesät, trotzdem ist es schön dass Nokia Österreich uns immer wieder gerne unter die Arme greift. Am Donnerstag war es wieder einmal soweit, Nokia Österreich hat die üblichen Verdächtigen wie Roman von S60inside, meinen guten Freund Markus von der Wiener Softwarefirma Calista, mich selbst, und einige andere Blogger und Software-Entwickler (in Fachkreisen auch Developer genannt) nach Wien eingeladen um uns beim Nokia Deep Dive eine Vorschau auf das demnächst kommende Symbian Anna zu geben, und uns unsere technikgeilen Finger auf die neu vorgestellten Smartphones Nokia X7 und E6 legen zu lassen!
In what is probably the biggest Day in Nokia’s History, i was trying to find my luck on Nokias internal Servers and Communication Systems, and what I found blew my mind! Capital Market Day is just one more day away, and with the world still wondering what Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia will do, here is the strategic Plan for the ongoing Months:
Although it was very windy today, we had a rather warm and sunny day, so i got out and about, and visited some Friends and Family. Back on my way home, i saw that the Sky had some wonderful Colors to offer, so what better than to stop by, grab the Nokia N8 and snap some Pictures and even Panorama Shots! Enjoy!
And here’s a Shot from my Canon EOS 500D, just for good measure 
….and the best One i’ve ever made i might add. Those Pictures are my own orange Nokia N8, as opposed to the Loaner black and green one’s i had. I still think that the orange one (and blue) are the best looking ones. Although Nokia is in a REALLY tough spot currently, the Nokia N8 was a phone i just had to buy, simply because i love photography and well, the N8 is equipped with the best Camera you can get on a phone. All those pictures are shot with my Canon EOS 500D and the Kit Lens 18-55mm.
Click the big pictures to get to my Flickr Set and watch them all in full resolution. I really hope you like those shots, Comments are more than welcome, and in case you want to use them for yourself, let me know.
It’s the day after the christmas party. you know you had a blast, you know you have an upset stomach from the drinks and all, but this year there’s even more: We drove all the way to the restaurant in Strasswalchen (around 2 1/2h drive) the day before and got surprised by literally TONS of snow. what else to do on the day after to wake up your senses, get out in the cold, grab the Nokia N8 and snap some pics? Enjoy!
These and more Pics can be found in my Flickr Set “Winter 2010/2011”
This turned out better than I thought, underwater fish pic with the #N8, originally uploaded by Stobbsc.
Another great pic from Chris Stobbs, taken with the Nokia N8 UNDERWATER!
