Man shares how his car storage business at the Nürburgring ended up causing a divorce

With a garage full of the fastest cars on the planet to test around Germany’s famed Nürburgring circuit, Ray Francis, of car storage business Ringfreaks, revealed how one customer hid cars from his wife and got caught.

The Nürburgring is the Rainbow Road for supercar enthusiasts, serving as the playground to push the fastest toys in the world to their limits.

Instead of driving these cars across Germany on the regular, though, some customers use businesses like Ringfreaks to keep their rubber and carbon fiber safe until next time they’re in town.

However, one man took a lot of liberties, and it came to light that he was hiding some big surprises from his other half.

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Running a Nürburgring rental car business is jam-packed with drama

The Nürburgring plays host to the fastest – and slowest – supercars in the world every day.

Whether it’s famed Gran Turismo icon Jann Mardenborough flying around in a Mutaung GTD, or the BYD U9 Xtreme smashing all EV records with a sub-seven-minute lap time, the drama is never far away.

That goes for the rental and car storage business Ringfreaks, too, as founder Ray Francis recently revealed how he once handed over the keys to a mystery F1 driver who put in some of the best laps he’d ever seen.

But the fun doesn’t stop there.

Francis also took to a VINwiki video explaining how he was once storing supercars like a Porsche 911 GT3 RS for an unnamed Russian racing enthusiast, and it ended with a marriage being torn apart.

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Man explains how his car storage business nearly caused a customer’s messy divorce

In a recent interview on the channel, Francis revealed how cars such as the Porsche 911 GT3 RS, a Lamborghini Aventador, and a Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale were all being stored at the Ringfreaks location for this one man.

He explained how he kept the customer happy by taking delivery of these cars directly from the manufacturers, instead of having them flown in from Russia, and found ways to help him store them despite a 90-day rule on foreign plates being a ‘logistical nightmare’.

However, one day, a Russian family came in to check out the collection and snapped pictures of the cars.

It turns out, they were friends with the wife of the owner, and they were supposed to have been ‘sold’.

“So what happened actually was in the end the reason he told her that he was selling his cars.

“Once she started to ask questions, he said, ‘Well, I’m not that rich. I always need to sell a car in order to buy a car.’ But he never sold a car,” Francis said.

After visiting the shop, the wife soon caught on, and after piecing the puzzle together, she found out the true valuation of her husband’s collection and couldn’t get on board with the lies.

“And then the trust was gone, and she says, ‘I don’t want to deal with this anymore.’ Because now she thought it was dodgy, which it really wasn’t. That’s how they ended up in a divorce, actually.”

Let that be a lesson to us all: honesty is the best policy, even at the expense of a Porsche 911 GT3 RS.

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