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Which was, at the time, it was four lanes and it was straight.
And if you had an RX-7 or an Escort panel van on a Friday night, you'd head up the Tarapa Straits just after pouring diesel on the road outside the 50-order BP, doing some burnouts, and then you hit Tarapa Straight.
Is that kind of behaviour still going on?
Well, I was operating a Suzuki, two-door Suzuki Jeep.
It was a Jimny before the Jimny.
I like a Jimny.
And now it was a 900cc.
It wasn't even one litre.
And dangerous on the open road.
How'd that go on the straights?
Not good on the straights either, to be honest.
It's really struggled to even get up to speed.
Not good on the open roads, straights.
But the wheels were so thin on it and the wheelbase so narrow that you'd often get up on two wheels when you really didn't want to.