It was 11 in the morning. A 25-year-old German pastry cook was sleeping after a hard night’s baking. Until the phone squealed. He decided to ignore it, turn over and go back to sleep, but it was no good, the phone just rang and rang. So he answered it. At the other end, the gruff voice of Alfred Neubauer asked him to a Mercedes-Benz test session at the Nürburgring. The baker was completely awake after that. He didn’t know it…
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