Ten years ago emergency crews cut me from a mangled car, a friend dead in the front seat and the rest of us lucky to escape with multiple fractures.
Two months in hospital, fours months in rehabilitation and it's no wonder I'm the world's worst passenger, especially in a Hong Kong cab.
The thought of climbing into a car that has just hit 300km/h down the back straight of the new Shanghai Grand Prix track should scare the living daylights out of me.
Strangely, I'm excited by the prospect, intoxicated even. The sight, smell, sound and speed of more than 60 Ferraris and one in particular - an Enzo Ferrari - are seductive.
A distinctive red blur screeches to a halt beside me and, in typical James Bond fantasy, out of the Enzo emerges Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng. You half expect Pierce Brosnan to emerge from the driver's seat as if Tomorrow Never Dies II is being shot at the Shanghai circuit, but it's Yeoh's good friend from Hong Kong, Patrick Ma, the owner of this exclusive expression of extreme sportiness.
Yeoh is renowned for performing dangerous stunts, but she has been somewhere she hasn't been before.
'How fast did you go, Patrick?' she asks excitedly. 'Three hundred kilometres per hour,' he says.