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PASSIONS<br />
Tour auto Optic 2000<br />
The race to happiness<br />
There is unusual activity in the villages. Ever<br />
since morning, people having been rushing to<br />
the edge of the road or the roundabouts. Why<br />
the excitement? It’s that soon the magnificent<br />
vintage racing cars taking part in the Tour Auto<br />
Optic 2000 will be passing through. The<br />
twenty-first edition has not wavered from the<br />
winning formula that has ensured its success<br />
in previous years: superb cars, beautiful scenic<br />
routes, and a keenly contested race.<br />
This year, the Ferrari GTO is celebrating its fiftieth<br />
anniversary in style. A few models of<br />
this car were on display under the glass roof<br />
of the Grand Palais in Paris, as well around<br />
the fountains in the jardins de Nice where the<br />
race finished, to be admired by the myriad<br />
Ferrari fans, for whom the car has achieved<br />
iconic status. But the reader must not be left<br />
under a false impression: the Tour Auto Optic<br />
is far from being just an exhibition, and even<br />
if the selection of cars on view would be worthy<br />
of the greatest automobile museum in the<br />
world, it is indeed a race, as the all-woman<br />
team - the grey GTO- skillfully showed.<br />
So diverse is the line up of cars, that everybody<br />
will be able to find a car to admire and
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