We met up at the super secret Speed Industries underground racecar bunker in the center of Zurich around 4pm.
The driftcars will stay parked tonight. Oh the misery!
We would be running in the „Run 4 Fun“ class where ridiculous costumes were allowed. This was perfect for us, since we believe wearing neon-colored skintight running pants is extremely lame.
Finally we were ready to rumble!!!
Wearing wide, lumpy and embarassing animal suits imported from japan on the other hand, now that is cool! Our main concern was that we wouldn’t be able to start because a thousand hot chicks would be chasing us down in our erotic costumes!
We went to the starting grid and noticed quite fierce competition! There were at least 50 santa clauses. Most of them looked quite fat and slow but there were a few contenders that could cause the team some trouble.
750 participants were running in our „Run 4 Fun“ class. It’s a WAR!
Also, some random TRAITORS were wearing bear suits just like Thomas from our team. It was my personal mission to beat them at their own game. Damn bear fakers!
The enemy bears. Those guys were quite fast, and stole our costume idea! We had to fight back
When the race was started, around 750 people started pushing trough the gates to the 2.2 km long track that led right trough downtown Zurich while thousands of people stood on the side to cheer everybody on! It was awesome, except for the fact that my lung started to implode after like 10 minutes of running.
Swen was still smiling even on lap 2, while most of my internal organs were imploding
Nonetheless we pushed on for 2 laps and managed to beat the fat santas! However, I failed my mission and was overtaken by the two fake bears just before the finish.
Is that a happy face, or a face of PAIN? Most likely the latter as it started to get tough on lap 2
Within the team, Tobias came in 1st. However he was cheating by using drum’n’base music to boost his body to new heights and put me in 2nd place by at least 30 seconds. Also, I’m pretty sure he used doping and tied my shoelaces together before the start!
Speed Industries represent!!!
We also gave two short radio interviews because people seemed to be wondering why we were dressed up like downs-syndrome patients. The biggest Swiss TV channel was also filming on site, but I’m not sure sweaty drifters running around in animal suits would appeal to their target audience.
Quick pic after the interview. Elmo didn’t seem to like the cold weather
We then returned to the mega secret Speed Industries bunker to slumber and rest.
Stitch needs his share of nicotine too!
All in all a great effort by the team and a great spectacle! We finished around the top 300, which is actually quite good if you consider our self-destructive lifestyle.
You can tell we were just slightly exhausted after the event
And next year we’ll beat those goddamn bears.