Eifel Forest — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Jackie Stewart coined the Green Hell phrase after surviving the old Nordschleife in rain-soaked Formula 1 conditions, and the nickname stuck even as major championships migrated to the GP loop. Touristenfahrten sessions still open the north loop to road cars on selected days, while VLN and the Nürburgring 24 Hours treat the full layout as the endurance benchmark German motorsport fans measure everything else against. The GP-Strecke opened in 1984 alongside the retained Nordschleife, giving major championships a modern pit-and-paddock infrastructure while preserving Jackie Stewart's Green Hell on the north loop. Formula 1 returned to the Nürburgring GP layout for the 2020 Eifel Grand Prix after a seven-year absence from the German calendar — a reminder that the shorter circuit carries its own broadcast-era identity separate from touristenfahrten folklore.