Video: the Ring's oddest racers

The Nurburgring is more than a deeply scary racetrack. It's a test-bed for prototypes, a universal (and debate-inducing) benchmark of fast cars, but also the de facto destination for have-a-go heel-and-toe heroes.

Being a public toll road, if you've got a valid driving licence and road-worthy machine, you can rock up and pay €27 to lap the legendary Green Hell for yourself.

Which means, normally, an array of supercars, track prepped specials and more than a handful of ratty BMWs driven by average drivers who bury them into the Armco.

But there's also a subset of ambitious drivers who bring absolute oddities to the ‘Ring. And, for our viewing pleasure, someone's stuck them all together in the video above.

Take, for example, the man straddling a fully laden Vespa. Or the coach trip that took a wrong turn at Nurburg Castle and ended up holding off a McLaren 12C round Brunchen. Oh, and a rather familiar ratty Toyota Cressida that lives for sideways. 

But Top Gear doffs its hat to the enthusiastic helmsmen competing in the completely unofficial van class. There are a few of them in the video, but we must give a shout out to the DHL delivery driver who went for an outside overtake on a VW Polo. True commitment to the cause, that cause presumably being to make sure Herr Hatz's Amazon delivery got to him before 4pm...