Tomba and I just got home from an incredible day! As we participated in a contest of Toyota, we were selected to go and visit the F1 facility at Cologne, Germany. We gathered at a parking by the highway and drove to Cologne in the Official Toyota F1 Team bus on which the drivers and management drives to all the European races! On the bus, we were pampered with a nice breakfast. Arriving at Cologne, we were invited for an amazing buffet! Japanese food...and it was incredible!
After filling up our belly, we got a tour at the factory. With a very good guide, we visited some of the departments of the facility. We couldn't take pictures, but it was really a once in a lifetime experience! We visited the wind tunnel, the workshop, the engine dyno, the department where they make the carbon fibre parts (entering this part, they were just working on the monocoque),...
The part of the factory where we could take pictures was the hall where they keep some of the cars. But doing the tour in the factory, we came along a lot of old Toyota F1 cars standing in the hallway, waiting for a museum at the facility.
It was an extraordinary day and one we'll remember for the rest of our lives! It was an incredible tour, but for me and Tomba it could take for another 3 or 4 days until we saw everything we wanted!
(Some of the pictures will be put online
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