Nurburging 24: motorsport’s most hardcore fan festival in pictures

The view up the hill from the Brunnchen fanzone. Any view is always improved by a caravan.

This Volvo 850 looks like it was driven into place before being ingeniously converted into a hot tub. It wasn't the only water feature in the village, either.

This is how the local N24 fans roll. With a tractor - and what looks like a homemade corrugated caravan. "Have you come far, then?"

"I fear the lounge suite may never be the same again, dear. Told you we should have brought camping chairs."

Imagine climbing this, drunk and carrying the chainsaw that so many here consider essential for a weekend's camping, and it'll become clear why a medical presence may be necessary

The German Red Cross has a sizeable presence in the Brunnchen fanzone. Stretchers and bodies not pictured.

The view you get of Pflanzgarten from the trackside.

Car on fire? Then of course you need recovery by a pickup truck liveried in flames.

"The more the merrier," roughly translated. At least we think that's what it says.

"What's the yellow one called again? Licking what? And what about the noisy black one?" Luigi only knew the Ferraris.

And wouldn't Maxi's mum be proud of what he'd made?

No scaffolding-based paddock edifice would be complete without a nice bit of trellis and some flower baskets

This won our prize for 'fire most likely to cause injury and also be visible from space'. Was still burning at 9am, when most others were smouldering remnants

Empties. Plenty of hangovers, too - not pictured.

Even the plywood gets dressed up on saturday night at N24.

In observance of the rules, camper vans were not to be found anywhere. But lashed-up deathtrap monoliths and homemade swimming pools are fine, obviously. Fill your boots.

"A half of your finest pale ale and a glass of dry sherry, please. I do carry my CAMRA membership card if there's any chance of a discount."