The CS Diaries: We Ride Shotgun in a Radical SR3 Around the Ascari Track [w/Videos]

Patience is not included in my (admittedly limited) repertoire of virtues so, being soaked to your underpants after spending the most part of a day exposed to rain in a race track would, in any other occasion, is too much to tolerate.

Uncharacteristically, though, the cold wind that’s making my body shiver cannot wipe the wide grin off my face. If anything, the past few minutes have erased my grumpy mood and, right now, I’m up for almost anything.

I am at the Ascari race circuit in southern Spain for the launch of Bridgestone’s new Adrenalin RE002 tire. The weather did, as mentioned, its best to throw off this nicely organized event and the cars brought along for us to sample topped off with an Audi TT 1.8 TFSI; hardly something to get truly excited about, right?

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The Rain in Spain and My Track Day at Bridgestone’s Adrenalin Experience at Ascari

This most definitely is my winter of discontent. Never mind the calendar shows we’re nearing the end of March. I’m in southern Spain and the weathermen forecast warm and sunny weather. They very nearly nailed it, too: it’s only 10-15 degrees colder than they said it would be and the sun is nowhere to be seen. Rain, on the other hand, is omnipresent.

That greenhouse effect has messed up the seasons but of all the days in the year and all the places in the world, why here and why during this event? “Here” being the Ascari Race Resort in the mountains above Marbella, an hour drive from the beach, and the “event”, Bridgestone launching its new Adrenalin Potenza RE002 tire at said venue.

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