Besides appearances in video games and being lionized in more mainstream automotive media, much of the Nürburgring Nordschleife’s growing popularity has come from YouTube channels. Multiple channels such as Auto Addiction share clips of cool cars and occasional driver slip-ups on the track. Another channel is that from Misha Charoudin. As he notes in his channel description, he lives near the track and spends an enormous amount of time there while documenting his adventures. He both competes in professional races, and takes a huge variety of interesting street cars out for test drives on the track during public days. He’s become a fixture of the track, and has managed to attract 1.77 million subscribers. He even went out on track with Ben Collins, Top Gear‘s former Stig, and has driven the Bugatti Bolide at the track. Not everyone is apparently happy with his activities, though, as a petition has surfaced looking to ban Misha temporarily from participating in public driving days.
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