The Nürburgring GP circuit is a really popular track with racing fans, with a tight, twisty but high speed nature and technical sections that it’s hard to nail lap after lap. But it’s great for racing and it’s sad it hasn’t featured at all on any official F1 games for the last 10 years.
F1 2013 was the last official F1 game that featured the Nürburgring GP circuit. The track was also raced in the real life 2020 F1 season as the Eifel Grand Prix, but was not added to the F1 2020 game.
Here’s a full list of official F1 games that feature the Nürburgring circuit:
- F1 2013
- F1 2011
- F1 2009
- F1 2005
- F1 2004
- F1 2003
- F1 2002
- F1 2001
- F1 2000
From the mid 2000s until 2013, the Nürburgring track tended to alternate with it’s fellow German track the Hockenheimring, with the former taking the “odd” years and the latter taking the “even” years. Before 2005, it was also featured as the European Grand Prix, not the German Grand Prix.
But the Nürburgring has not featured regularly on the calendar since 2013, only arriving as a late fill-in track for the truncated 2020 real life season (there wasn’t enough time to put it in the 2020 game unfortunately).
F1 2013 Nürburgring Hotlap
See here for a video of a YouTuber revisiting the Nürburgring track on the F1 2013 game.
Games That Feature The Nürburgring Nordschleife Layout?
Racing fans often want to test themselves out not just on the shorter GP layout, but on the massive Nordschleife layout, which spans almost 13 miles and has 154 turns. Good luck remembering all those!
The Nürburgring Nordschleife layout does not feature on any official F1 games, but is very prevalent on many other racing games.
Here’s a list of some other games you can drive this layout on:
- Project Cars
- Project Cars 2
- Assetto Corsa (DLC)
- Forza Motorsport
- Forza Motorsport 2
- Forza Motorsport 3
- Gran Turismo 4
- iRacing
See here for a video of a YouTuber trying out the GP circuit mod on Assetto Corsa in 2020 cars.
