This thread is well worthy of a bump.
Kreshchatik street in Kyiv has seen things including many military parades and even the Orange Revolution. In 2001 West McLaren Mercedes were running their West Adrenaline show there and I was stupid enough to miss it. Not this time though.
Here's a video of Romain Grosjean making a soaking 60`000 crowd happy using Renault R27 last weekend
According to the official sources he hit 280km/h!
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Apart from that there was a run by Sakon Yamamoto (R27). Also several runs of the ferocious Renault Megan Trophy duo and the so called Car Toons trio that looked like cars from the French Mitjet series painted to resemble African animals.
A playlist of amateur videos can be viewed
here