Page 18 - Paddock Life Issue 13 ADRENALINE

Our silver BMW doesn‘t hang about, he takes the Porsche then weaves behind a 30‘s Aston before overtaking him to get up on the lorry. I‘m trying to give the Mille Miglia cars room, but our 124 clearly has more power and longer legs than most of the cars in front, so I throw a wide one down the outside as soon as I have room. The BMW is passing the lorry as on-coming traffics squeezes into their curb to give him room. I see my chance as the road bares left up a hill with a wide safety lane and overtake the Aston as he is overtaking the lorry. I am now flat out trying to catch the Silver BMW 328 as we think this guy will show us some action.
Now running behind the silver Spider as he drives the wheels of his German classic through a series of sweeping bends and feeder roads onto fast A roads, this guy is flying. I can see a junction ahead with traffic lights as we lift off the power. There is a line of cars waiting to turn left when the lights
“AND THE RAIN CAME POURING DOWN”
change and two or three cars stopped to go straight ahead. The silver Spider makes a lane between them and hardly slowing runs through the red lights (nothing is coming the other way) and makes the left turn. I follow through passing what looks like a black 1937 model 328 roadster BMW waiting to turn as we go.
We accelerate up the hill and are soon away from the main roads and on a hilly country road section with sweeping curves and the occasional hairpin. Jenny is filming the BMW Mille Miglia as I sweep from apex to apex behind it. I see in my mirror the black BMW roadster from the traffic lights coming up fast. He must have been flying as we weren‘t hanging about and his double kidney grill is fast coming to fill my mirror I wave him past as I swing wide off the natural line so he can take the racing line through the bend inside me. He is on the silver 328MM in seconds pushing him through the sweeping bends as we descend back into civilisation. A long fast sweeping right-hander takes us past some buildings, which looked like a restaurant or café, with a large local crowd waving us past. The BMWs race each other hard as we trail behind, we are coming into another town.
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