WATCH: Kimi's tyre blow-out and Schumacher vs Montoya – 5 shocking Nurburgring moments

Formula 1 returns to the Nurburgring this weekend after seven years away – but the track has seen plenty of F1 action over the years.

Hit play in the video above to see some of the moments that made the fans gasp as they happened, including Kimi Raikkonen's tyre blowing out while he was leading the race for McLaren in 2005, a coming together between Michael Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya in 2003, and the race in 2007 when driver after driver – including Lewis Hamilton – spun into the barriers at exactly the same place after the heavens opened.

Re-live all those moments in the video – and here's hoping we get more moments of high drama from the famous German circuit this weekend...

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