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== 2007: The unexpected comeback ==
== 2007: The unexpected comeback ==
Future wife Claire is the origin of Guillaume's sudden comeback in the spring of 2007. Indeed, she asked him why he had stopped playing and told it would be nice to see him PRing again. Then, he came back on RR first, where he still had good rankings despite of time. He performed his first top 10 f-lap with a 17"37 non-NBT, which was a better non-NBT performance than the current most impressive French player Florent Lecoanet.
All spring and summer long, Guillaume drove on all tracks to reach higher standards and get close to overall top 30: he went to CDF 2007 as #32 in the world, and had important ambitions before he came back to this championship, aiming for an overall top 10 on 24 players. He managed to achieve this personal goal, classifying #10 after correct general performances including a good #7 in the Time Trial contest, especially regarding he was driving non-NBT while most of his big opponents were using NBT skills!
Guillaume ended the year with one main goal: getting into the world top 30 before turning into the dark side of driving - NBT, of course. He suceeded, becoming #27 in December and starting to play NBT to enter top 25 just at the deep end of the year. But he made something much stronger in the beginning of November, switching on NTSC for a few days and breaking the French Record on Rainbow Road, being the first French guy under the 1'25" barrier (1'24"99), ranking #6 on the NBT side and even #3 on the non-NBT charts! His 16"89 final lap in this epic race also earned him a #6 non-NBT f-lap rank.
The year of the comeback ended in a very positive way, and Guillaume could think about starting NBT with the pressure of a new rival, Italian [[Angelo di Vano]] who climbed incredibly fast from PAL #154 to #30 in less than 4 months! A legendary rivalry was approaching...
== 2008: Reaching new standards ==
== 2008: Reaching new standards ==