Is Nurburgring the 16 mile track where you pay $10 a lap to drive? I was watching an interview on the Speed channel the other night with Boris Said (a US race car driver) who won a race there, and the way he acquainted himself with the track was to get a car, pay $10 a lap and drive the track. He said you could drive anything on the track, or take a tour. I thought he said Nurenburg, but possibly this was the track. It sounds like a fun thing to do, though rather expensive for us Yankees.
Hope you can pull it off; it sounds like it would be something worth doing.