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Out if breath? :>
Sergio:I tryed to update the car with sattelite navigation but the pimp my ride feature is still not availlable. LMAO good one!
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that sounds pretty cool - wish i had the newer version of my old 306 xsi
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| Quote ( Olivier Deluc @ May 7th 2009,16:50:32 )
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Why? it's good car. Beeing near france it's normal that it would be a car like that. It's a good car though. Japanese and frech rule. Germen are too freking expensive for Price/performace.(Portuguese prices). I'm the maintenance is another problem.
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Beeig a little sleepless (probably the lac of races) i can't help myself but telling you this story...
It was 1997, it was a sunny day and for me it was special.
Today i was going, for the first time in my life, to see a live race at a real track.
Lucky as i was it was the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa Francorchamps.
I bought myself a sunday-ticket and arrived at the track just after the warming up.
It was 13h30.
I found my place on the straight of Kemmel, just after the Eau Rouge and the Radillon.
There was a strange fibe in the air, it was not like in a footballstadion or like a concert, i couldn't putt my finger on it but it was strange. Thousends of people close together, all those colors, all those flags.
Then it happened...
Deep down below in the pitstraight, must be 1km maybe 1.5 away, they fired up an engine.
Suddenly the crowd stopped breathing.
After a few revs you could hear that the car was pulling out. Slowly making his way through La Source. I was not able to see the car but in my mind i could follow the sound. Gooing down to Eau Rouge, the sound became stronger.
You could hear the engine having a little struggle when it drove through THE corner. We woul be able to see the source of all that sound any moment now.
As it glided on the Radillon the sound was increddible and still... it became stronger.
Then the moment was there...
I could see my first glimps of a real Formula One car driving underneed the bridge, closing the gape like i never had seen before, the engine at full trottle, the crowd went wild but still the only thing you heared was the engine.
At full speed Michael Schumacher passed a guy standing on Kemmel whose eyes were almost falling out, goosebumps all over... me.
Speeding ahead to Les Combes and then as a little extra, you could hear the thunder, shifting down to take the corners. First i real thought it was thunder but then looking at the clear skies, i understood it were the gears.
Even now when i try to let you feel what i felt then i get goosebumps.
I'm no Schumacher fan but that moment i will never forget, that red car is burned in my eyes forever...
Trembling greatings
Stijn
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it started raining 15 min before the start, rather heavyly.
All day it was sunny untill the start, real Spa-weather :)
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