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Race Idiot wrote:Some of the roads in southern spain were fantastic, I remember driving up to ronda wishing I was in my 2 not thrashing the balls off a focus rental car.
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How hard is it to keep it running over there? I thought that spain was a bit harder to own a modified car due to yearly inspections being a bit harder to pass with mods?
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You are right.
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It's really difficult to own a modified car in Spain due to extremely restrictive laws.
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It seems that they try to push you to buy a new car instead having an old one.
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- Decat? Forbidden if your car has been built since 1994
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- Coilovers? Forbidden.
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But you can legalice them as i did
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(paying.
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of course)
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- Bigger IC? Forbidden
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(i picked my pipes powdercoated in wrinkle black.
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as i wanted to have an almost stock ic style)
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- Forged? No way
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- Body kit? Yes if you pay
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- Bigger brakes? Yes if you pay a bit more.
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And what about running at high speeds? 15 years ago it was possible.
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but today it's almost an impossible task
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(bunch of radars everywhere)
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Near to Ronda there are very interesting roads.
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and you can find Ascari's circuit too.
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I remember i had the chance to bring my recently bought tubby there two years ago with no mods, hardened tyres, rusty bushes and bouncing suspension.
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Horsepower was just fine.
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but everything else.
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just failed!
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(Ascari is an high speed track.
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and you need to have a really healthy and prepared setup)
After a 15 minutes stint, my car came back to boxes with white smoke coming out from the four brakes!.
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It seemed like the old Delorean from Back to future Movie.
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but the car raced quite decently against much bigger and heavily modded cars.
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Who knows.
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Maybe one day this tubby will come back with more bases covered to race hard
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Cheers!