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Round 10 of 13 rounds in the 2011 Superbike World Championship. and Round 9 of 12 rounds in the 2011 Supersport World Championship. | |||||||||||||
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Date | September 4, 2011 | ||||||||||||
Location | Nürburgring | ||||||||||||
Course | Permanent racing facility 5.137 km (3.192 mi) | ||||||||||||
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The 2011 Nürburgring Superbike World Championship round was the tenth round of the 2011 Superbike World Championship. It took place on the weekend of September 2–4, 2011 at Nürburgring, Germany. The second race here turned out to be James Toseland's last race, as a crash aggravated the injury he picked up at Motorland Aragón earlier in the year and was forced to retire. [1]
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The Nürburgring is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer Nordschleife "North loop" track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. The north loop is 20.8 km (12.9 mi) long and has more than 300 metres of elevation change from its lowest to highest points. Jackie Stewart nicknamed the old track "The Green Hell".
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The race was red-flagged after 13 laps because of heavy rain. [2]
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