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Re: Regular Communist (1986) - Racing and Car Rating! [RACE
The statesmen were pleased by the Top 10 results of the last Race, they were amazed how much performance the manufactors got out of their tight budget. But they want to gather more about the real track performance and planned to head to a world famous race track in germany - more precisely the Nordschleife. That also was quite a challenge for the cars, as they had to drive about 3000km, pass 3 borders and get heavily checked on the Inner German border in Eisenach. Also the convoy started to split up after the 2nd fuel stop in 3 different groups as some drivers were too annoyed about the often re-fuel stops on the journey. The Sabre GT, Austin and Polmot grouped up while the ZSD was the lone wolf far behind.
Yes the ZSD... the statemen were pleased by the trackperformance, and one decided to join the driver of the ZSD on the journey to the Nordschleife. The poor guy had to put on ear protection and take some pillows from the hotel to have altest some comfort in that car. On the 2nd fuel stop, which was -thanks to the ZSD- just after 520km, the statemen decided to take a ride with the Prolewagon and changed to the Z220 while they were checked up in Eisenach.
Upon arriving in the nice village of Müllenbach , which is next to the Norschleife, the soviet politician stated, that both the Prolewagon and Z220 were pretty good cars, while the Z220 was more comfortable, it lacked the nice sound of the V6 engine, but also complained that Belford decided to put in this complex V6 inside of their car, he was a real fan of the small OHV Pushrod, as he is able to fix it with almost any tool he has in his tool bag. Which only contains hammers, one spanner and a single screwdriver.
But he noticed that 3 cars were still missing... the FIL Perestroika, ZSD Vroom and Strom Travill. They decided to postpone the race 2 days after their arrival, IF they ever arrive. And they did arrive, in the middle of the night and woke up everyone. As all 3 of them were on a truck-trailer as they broke down on the Journey or ran out of fuel... The statemen were really angry at the driver of the ZSD, as he apparently forgot to stop for fuel and not using his brain. Also they were not pleased that he Perestroika and Travill were delayed by a small mechanical problem, because that leads to bad reputation of reliable and good soviet products.
On the following morning they decided to repair the cars and top-up the fuel on everyone car and make a footwalk around the track.
And today is the race-day... after a in total 7 day journey, which consisted 2 days of driving and 5 days or preparing and waiting they finally can race again.
Here they are - the results!
Standings after R2: