Vrroooom...... DTM 2008It was a sunny and cool day, spent with more than 100,000 other car fans in Hockenheim Ring. The screeches of the tyres of the race-cars were deafening, more so coz I was seated like 200m away from the track! This was my first time to a car-race, so everything there was fascinating: from the warm-up to the pit walk, to the start presentation and finally, the 1-hr race! The cars & their drivers were displayed like horses, parading around for all to see, to bet on who to win!!!Haha! But no doubt Germans have their hot favorite: Audi's Timo Scheider.
My seat was closest to 3 cars: JungeStern AMG Mercedes, Pixum AMG Mercedes & Playboy Audi A4 ( yeah playboy, with the pink bunny proudly displayed as the logo)! The JungeStern driver looked the cutiest, so I decided to support him instead of the other 2. The playboy guy dropped out after 2 laps coz his car was semi-'destroyed'. The JungeStern guy was ok, he came in 12(out of 14, but 5 others were kaputted). I finally got to try wat was like to be glued for 4hrs to the seat, with matching food: 1 can of beer, cheese-fries, currywurst, Snickers, a cup of hot coffee, plenty of cigarette smoke, and a huge crowd of Germans, all hugging to their jackets coz it was cold in the open-foyer! (oh, forget about toilet break, the toilets are few & crowded & way too far away) Timo Scheider won the DTM 2008 with a timing of 59:01.290.
Oh, and my next tickets will be to watch the Mannheim Alders Eishockey, and going to Kaiserslautern to watch the national sports, Fußball.
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