Continuing on with the small chapter series.


Chapter twenty-eight

Nürburgring GP: 10:39 AM

3 Days before the 24 Hour Race

Mario, Torque, Professor Gadd, and even Koops went along to see the fierce and simple SP8 class cars. Additionally, there was also the SP8T class: cars of the SP8 reserved for touring cars.

It seemed funny to Mario. On one end the SP8 class cars consisted of those from chief manufacturers like Lexus, AF Corse Ferrari (number 77), Corvette Racing (number 15), and the works-backed Hankook Team Farnbacher Ferrari (number 89).

But on the SP8T class, there were cars like the Nissan GT-R and Volkswagen Golf GTIs (one, which from the race team called Touring, held the start number 68).

"That Ferrari…" Mario said to Torque. "It must have cost millions of dollars, pounds, euros... and coins to make."

The Farnbacher Ferrari model was built on an F458 Italia; renamed the F458 Italia GT. Like every car there and Koops noticed this, the car had the sponsor Gran Turismo 'The Real Driving Simulator', on each windshield.

The Nissan GT-R, on the other hand, even had the colours of the actual Gran Turismo game painted on it (carbon black, perhaps), with German and Japanese drivers standing beside it…

"AF Corse," Torque said. "So you've got a F430 model versus a F458 model… I think that that Farnbacher team might have potential to beat their class."

"And the race," Mario said. "All in all, we need a bunch of teamwork to get this thing done."

Like most of every car there was, apart from the obvious sponsors, they all had spoilers on the end to maximise downforce. The Volkswagens too had spoilers equipped on their tops as well.

"However," Torque said. "With the workforce we have in BMW, and high-end engineering that equally rivals everyone else's, this shouldn't be a problem."

They took a few more looks around the area to examine the Corvette, which was built on a modern Stingray model, and Lexus cars. For sure they were faster than the SP8T class, but then again their focus was to survive the race and hopefully win their class as well…