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We drove out to Yakimanka and picked up speed. There weren’t many cars, everybody drove fast. Once outside the center, people saw the wide and open road before them and pressed on the gas. Nice new cars passed us from both sides and flew ahead. Smoke from the tailpipes, mixing with whirlwinds of snow, rose from the roadway.
“Sure! They’ve got crazy power under those hoods!” Said the driver.
“What do you care? You’ve got bald tires! Drive carefully,” said Max.
We were quickly approaching October Square when an Audi, rudely cutting in front of us from the right, attempted another brazen maneuver to overtake the next car up ahead. The car in front of us wriggled slightly to the right. After that, I could no longer understand what was happening, but that car, the one that wriggled… went
