The Road To Abu Dhabi Part 3: Disappointment in the Desert (cont.)
By Mike Kojima
When we last left off, we had just finished a demo shredding the shit out of the 5 star Yas Hotel. The action was so intense that the Hotel management asked us to stop!
First I would like to apologize if a lot of this seems like Mike’s bad vacation slides that you are being forced to watch but I didn’t come to primarily shoot the event like a photo journalist, I just snapped pics between doing things. The sight seeing stuff is, well just stuff some of you might be interested in. Sorry if this is boring.
For previous installments of our adventures click here!
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| After our demo run, the next day we had a treat and got to visit Ferrari World. Ferrari World is an amusement park with a Ferrari theme that is built on the track grounds. It is a truly amazing place, it is nearly a half mile square under a space age roof full of, well Ferrari stuff. Ken Gushi’s crew poses in front of a sign in the long hall from the entry building to the main hall. |
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| JRod has got a golden ticket. Drivers and Formula D folk got in free, crew people had to pay. I got a free media pass which was cool because I think it cost a couple of hundred bucks to get in. Everything around here is expensive. |
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| Hallway going into the main building, yes that is all solid marble. |
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| First stop was a roller coaster where you race the coaster next to you on side by side tracks. It was pretty fun but not too extreme. |
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| That was fun, what’s next? |
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| You turn a crank and it makes Ferrari noise depending on what car you are standing in front of. Dai wishes his S13 sounds like that. Frederic Aasbo’s 2JZ sounds nice by design. |
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| Tanner in front of the Ferrari test driver simulator. |
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| Some video crew covering our trip fitted Tony B and Dai with POV cameras. |
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| Chris Forsberg, Mad Mike and Ken Gushi in the waiting room for the test drive simulator. |
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| We watch a video on what to expect in the simulator. |
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| Whoa Ferrari pelts on the wall! |
