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YEARS OF SHARP
SPEED DEMON
AUTO EDITOR MATT BUBBERS SAYS IT’S NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO TO TO PICK HIS THREE FAVOURITE DRIVING EXPERIENCES WE MADE HIM DO IT IT IT IT ANYWAYS
ON
MY FIRST DAY AT SHARP
BACK IN 2010 WHEN I I I I I I WAS
23 years old and just hired to to write about cars I neglected to to mention that although I’d done some amateur racing I I only had a a a a a a a learner’s licence (In my defense you don’t really need to learn learn how to to to drive growing up in in downtown Toronto ) What I did have however was a a a a a lifelong obsession with cars and everything about them And
the the the good thing thing — — the the the best thing thing — — about cars is that they can take you anywhere In the years since 2010 I’ve been lucky enough to drive the the world’s best automobiles in some pretty wild places: across the the Bonneville Salt Flats alongside Moroccan rivers over Californian sand dunes through Alpine meadows In other words that lifelong obsession feels entirely justified And
yes I do have a a full driver’s licence now Partying at the Nürburgring 24 Hours
The legendary 24-hour-long demolition derby isn’t so much a a a a a a a race as it it it is is a a a a a a a week-long camping trip with ten-thousand drunk Germans in in a a a a a muddy forest west of Koblenz The enthusiastic spectators love fireworks dancing bonfires bad music pale beer and and shouting — and and they were more than happy to have a a a a a a a a a a a a stranger with zero German language skills join in in in the fun Somehow what was happening on on track seemed like a a a a a a sideshow I don’t remember when exactly I I I I staggered out out of the the forest but I I I I do remember I I I I had to throw out out my mud-filled boots and that I I I I slept through the the end of the race To anyone who says motorsport is is boring try this 86 SHARPMAGAZINE COM