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Drivers draw crowds of spectators as they perform stunts such as “doughnuts” — spinning their cars in circles until their tires burn rubber marks on the pavement.

“I really trust in the capacity of images to penetrate into the metabolism of the spectator,” Laxe says.

The sound bounced off every corner of the square as 50,000 spectators, some of them war veterans, sat in silence.

At night tens of thousands of local spectators have been cramming into the riverside area to see a lightshow displayed on tower blocks while the gathering is taking place.

Photography and video were banned, even at a Rose Bowl practice open to spectators who faced no such restrictions.