What's a better place to test cars than the Nürburgring?

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The car world is crazy over sports cars' lap times on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. But you know it's a great big world, to paraphrase Tom Petty, with lots of places to race in. What's a better place to test cars than the Nürburgring?

We're going with Belgium's Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. Why Spa? It's fast, it's scenic, it's got hills for days and it's twistier than a bucket of night crawlers. "But it's a real racetrack with real racetrack tarmac, not weird bumpy stuff," you say. C'mon, that's nothing a truckload of smashed cement blocks wouldn't fix. It's also got a history of tragedy and triumph that rivals a civil war battlefield. And plus, where do you think I got my DJ name — Masta Kink?

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