Friday in Frankfurt was beautiful and hot. No problem for the Vikings, who after a rainy summer enjoyed the heat and the sun. We waited for the cruísenight and nightdrive to start, and while waiting, we detailed and prepared our cars on our Hotel yard. Car detailing went on for 4-5 hours, and cars looked better than ever. So we went to our favorite romantic restaurant, to wait for our cruise night host, Andrea, to arrive, and while waiting, we ordered some juicy steaks to our table. Suddenly in a matter of approx. 30 minutes the heat and the nice weather was changed. Black clouds appeared on the sky, and rain started to pour down. We sat in the garden, under a big tent, so we thought, we were safe, but before we even got our first chew, a huge thunderstorm swept over us. Suddenly, lightning stroke down, only 50 meters from our table, and in a few seconds, 16 tour members had moved to inside tables to continue eating. It seamed weird, that after 5 hours of polishing cars, rain seemed to be our reward.

We waited some 2 hours, and the rain was gone, and Andrea arrived in her unique and beatifully styled Mustang to escort us to the cruise night. On the way, we realized, that the whole Frankfurt was totally up side down, as the hard rain had caused the river to overflow. Fire department drove across the town from one place to another, while we lined up at Hannover Strasses cruising night place. Athmosphere was good, and especially Risto got as expected lots of attention with the neons, the lambodorrs, the big hifisystem and the Nos system, Tony with his detailed Porsche and Ari with his show appealed Corrado. Also Markos Vectra had now found true appreciation, as the Germans immediteately saw through the flake paint, that Markos Vectra was not an normal Vectra, but changed from a 4 door version to a slick 2 door Coupe.We met a lot of interesting new friends. Stephen from USA ( working for Army media broadcasting in Frankfurt ), with his unique styled Mitsubishi 3000 ( who will attend this autumns Gumball run with this car ), X with his unique Toyota AE86, and Alex with his Omega and Claes with the famous Rockford Fosgate Golf, who where going to join us for the night drive to Magny Cours.Claes had made a nice surprice for the whole tour group. He knew by experience, hoiw it is after a week on the road, so he had prepared a Rockford sac to all participants with a new frech shirt to wear. Wery appreciated, Claes.

The Frankfurt cruise night is on every friday night, and consists of interesting local tuning & styling cars. Like Eurocruising in Helsinki, cars line up for show, but it happens, that later in the night cars leave for another destination, to challenge their friends in an ex tempore street race ( No good drag strip in frankfurt area for Youth to drive on ! ).

We gathered our troops and left town around midnight, with destination Magny Cours. Again, on the road, we where rewarded with more rain, and everybody was eager to drive autobahn as fast as possible to get out of the rain. After several stops for drinks, toilet, gas, coffee, energydrinks and snacks it was getting light and rained stop, as we entered a really small highway crossing a mountain that lead to City of Nevers, 10 min from magny Cours race track.Some of our tourmemebers was feeling tired around 5 in the morning, and needed a 15 min sleeping pause in between, but our new tourmember Claes kept the good feeling and the speed up with the fantastic sound of the Golfs R 32 engine and the Rockford Fosgates soundsystem.

We arrived GTi meet pretty early in the morning,( 9 am) but obviously not enough, because the carlines to the Magny Cours area was massive. And we were guided first around the camping field, and we were in a big need of car wash, after the night drive in rain. To our surprice we found no other carwash in the place than a 2 m hard plastic hose, where cold water could be used to wash the wheels of the car. Could this be possible ? 10.000 of cars, and such a primitive carwash ? We managed to get a basic wash and headed for a carplace, where we made our viking camp, toatally exhausted. After a finnish coffebreak and as sun come out, we got new energy, and started to explore the huge site of Magny Cours and GTi Tuning International.

What a party for Your eyes and senses ! So many wild and cool fantasy cars, and customisations with lots of usage of mixture with wild colours, both in exterior and interior. So many cool cars, on the main stage daredevil race activities, a whole village with Tuning and Hifi, another racetrack with street racing and so little time. Time went by fast, we met Sebastian and among new friends, our dear old friend, Phillippe, and enjoyed the sun and + 36 degree weather, lots of cold drinks and the party atmosphere in the air. Suddenly, some of our tour cars where asked for photo shootings for magazines, and finally the whole group ended up in this activity, as the day was getting to an end, sun was getting down, and almost everybody could feel a slight tireness after last nights drive and a hectic day. To end the day in a nice way, we found our hotel, checked in and sat down in the garden restaurant for some food and beer. At the same time we had a good view of the cruising going on in and out of Nevers. And You can be sure of the fact that our nightsleep, despite sunburned tan, felt soo good...

In the morning, we found a carwash near the hotel, got our cars totally finished and came to the area a bit earlier than the day before. Now, things looked even brighter, as we found out that GTi organisator had reserved a special place for our Viking Tour members.We rolled into the big Magny Cours Village, parked for show, and stárted to take part of the show and programme. Before ending the showday, we took a farvel of 3 of our tourcars and their pilots, who had to leave earlier for home 2 other had planned to leave for holiday in Italy, and left driving in the other direction, while rest of us stayed to watch the end of the show. We also met Heikki from Finland, who travelled fast with Sannas Pug, just in for the weekend in Magny Cours. And our new friends from Denmark, Björn and Lasse had been struggeling hard with their project car since Belgium show.

Some problems had been overcome, and after they choosed to use the campground, they were so tired that it was almost hard to understand, that it was announced, that their matt black airride Peugeot 206 was chosen to be among the Top 20 !!! What a joy, what a happy way of ending the #1 Tour to Magny Cours. The Vikings did not come to Magny Cours without a reason. The barbarians from North, had now a trophy besides all travelling memories and stories, to take with them home, to show around and enjoy.