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Team Polizei, stuck with a broken fuel pump on the legendary Polizei M5, will be driving an all new Polizei car ’round the world on the 2006 Gumball 3000.

Michael Ross was kind enough to offer his 627hp Bentley Continental GT for this year’s Gumball, and in the last 3 days Team Polizei has retrofitted ALL of our gear from the Polizei M5, PLUS several huge upgrades:

3 Garmin GPS Systems, a Custom Intel Navigation Server, a Broadband International Communications System, Live Audio/ Video to http://live.gumball3000.com and a Top Secret & Experimental Counter-Law Enforcement Suite to be revealed at the end of the Gumball!

You may follow Team Polizei’s progress online daily starting April 30th from the London Gumball Start, on through Eastern Europe and Thailand, and ending in Los Angeles on May 7th!

Here it is, the official 2006 Gumball 3000 start grid:

(thanks to PX from Gumball-3000.com !)

Team 1:
Miguel Escamilla, Mexican, American
Mike Vallely, American
Rich Van Every, American
Anthony Hawk, American
2006 Jeep Cherokee STR8

Team 2:
Brandon ‘Bam’ Margera, American
Ryan Dunn, American
2004 Lamborghini Gallardo

Team 3:
JB Girling, British
Jared Prindle, American
Patrick Fischer, German
Ryan Zachary Young, American
2005 RangeRover Vogue 4.2 V8 Supercharged

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If you gonna take some photos or videos of the Gumball 3000 rally and you don’t have a website or server to share it, we are offering you free hosting with unlimited bandwith !!

If you have gumball pictures or videos you would like to share on the internet, just send us an email to media @ gumball3000blog.com with your pictures attached or a link to a picture folder you would like to have mirrored.

Thanks to Wackyraces for this free service!

The Gumball 3000 blog crew

Gumball veteran Alex Roy made some preperations for his BMW E39 M5. We see a lot of high-tech programs installed in his car. We hope to see a lot more videos from Team Polizei then last years.

Update: Ales Roy will be doing the Gumball 3000 rally in a Bentley Continental GT from co-pilot Michael Ross. More info will be updated soon.

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We received the official Team Torq press release. The picture above is taken from inside the Ford “Torq” GT.

It is 5:am, April 28th 2006 and the big race is only hours away. We have prepared the car, installed some new hardware, tested out equipment and we are race ready!

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Team 2 Dodgy is doing the 2006 Gumball 3000 rally with a Noble M400 (see picture inside). We’ve asked some questions to Team 2 Dodgy and you can read the whole interview below. Jessica (a famous cyber Playboy girl) is his co-driver. Jessica was going to be just wearing bikinis for this race as there is no luggage room in the Noble. She has now agreed to be naked when she is in the car. We can’t wait to see the pictures!

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