Save the ring

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Save the ring
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founding December 9, 2010
place Ahrweiler district
state Rhineland-Palatinate
country Germany
management including Michael Frison
Website www.savethering.org

Save the Ring ( abbreviation: STR ) is an amalgamation of interest groups, including racing teams, tourist drivers, clubs and companies, which have stated that their goal is to stop the exploitation of the monopoly by Nürburgring Automotive GmbH. The trigger for the establishment was the establishment of an amusement park at the Nürburgring , which cost more than 300 million euros due to several mistakes.

Save the Ring tries to prevent visitors from being taken advantage of by excessive prices and local businesses being displaced. Equal opportunities are to be ensured for all companies so that the “myth of the Nürburgring” is not further damaged. Another goal is to replace the previous managing directors Kai Richter and Jörg Lindner with motorsport experts.

The name of the organization goes back to the motto “Save the Nürburgring” of the “ Yes to the Nürburgring” association founded around 30 years ago by Otto Flimm . Founded Save the ring on December 9, 2010 by Michael Frison. In 2011, a participant with the organization's logo on his car drove for the first time in the Le Mans 24-hour race .

The club is well known. Many international motorsport magazines reported on Save the Ring , for example ESPN France , Automobilismo ( Italy ), Vesco Racing ( France ), Acid Moto ( Switzerland ), Jalopnik, Topspeed.com ( South Africa ), Autokrata ( Poland ), Total Car ( Hungary) ), Motogonki ( Russia ), Moto 1 ( Spain ) and the province of Porsche Mag ( Canada ).

In Germany in 2011 the reported Trierische Volksfreund , the SWR , the Rhein-Zeitung , the Allgemeine Zeitung , Stern.de , the ZDF , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the current Formula 1 transmitter RTL via Save the Ring and its actions.

In Facebook is one of Save the ring (as of: November 4, 2014) over 90,000 supporters. Flyers are available in restaurants, hotels and shops in the nearby towns of the Nürburgring.

controversy

There are often controversies between Save the Ring and those responsible for the Nürburgring. In February 2011, STR founder and operator of the STR forum 20832.com Michael Frison closed the latter after he had been warned several times by lawyers of the Mediinvest group for inappropriate posts. A newspaper article from the Eifel newspaper , which Frison had reproduced in the original wording in his forum, is cited as the trigger . This was published in the forum under the heading “In a pinch, a ' Deubel ' also eats flies” . Frison reacted to the warning and deleted the alleged entry from the forum, but he refused a declaration of cease and desist on the grounds that he could not monitor the other forum users. It came to the trial at the Cologne Regional Court , which Frison lost. In the second instance, at the Cologne Higher Regional Court , it became clear that this cease and desist declaration only related to this one article. Frison won the case, but still had to issue a cease and desist declaration. After 8 months the forum of the organization "Save the Ring" was reopened.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. STR founder Michael Frison's blog
  2. Links can be viewed on the official homepage
  3. The links can be found on the STR homepage
  4. NORDSCHLEIFE.de: Save the Ring! ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nordschleife.de
  5. Frieder Bluhm: RHEIN-ZEITUNG Ring fan forum should be online again soon Article from October 11, 2011