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“I tootled out, did a lap like, ‘What the heck is this?’, then came to the straight, and I’ll never forget thinking, ‘Okay, I’ll give it a squeeze’,” Faldo laughs once more. “I’m only in third [gear], so I give it a squeeze, and the only way I can describe it is it goes off like a catapult!
“It wasn’t accelerating like it’s a car, it just went boing, and it was gone. That’s the scary bit, the instant pick up – it’s ridiculous. It’s probably even more frightening now.
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“Anyway, it’s very bumpy, and if you hold the steering wheel light, you let it ride the bumps, and if you hold it tight, because you’re scared… the thing is like wiggling.
“I literally held my breath, gave it a squeeze. You suddenly go 120 mph or something, but it was more the wobble that scared me.
“Then I breathed out into my visor and completely fogged it up. Like an idiot, I put my thumb under the visor, pulled it out an inch, and of course the air comes in all over me! I kept going and was getting a little bit better.
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