Today we found a video of Team Polizei of the start at London (yes: yet another one… ). Alex Roy (co-pilot and Gumball legand), prepares himself for the start and doing some last checks for his Bentley GT “Interceptor”. At the same time he was giving an interview for Channel 4. You don’t need to watch Channel 4 to see the whole interview, just watch this video on Gumball3000blog.com !
A very enthusiastic Torquentein fan followed and filmed Tork during the staging and start of the 2006 Gumball 3000 rally. These clips are all in MP4 format. You will need an mp4 player like Quicktime to view the these HD (Hi Def) movie files.
We just uploaded a nice video of the 2005 Gumball 3000 rally. The rally went from London to Monaco with some checkpoints in Vienna and Italy. This video shows you a mix between the Gumball cars and the “normal” cars in Monaco.
These 1 dollar bills where throw out of the window by team 90 at the last Gumball rally. This was the same team who sells the Ferrari 360 Modena on ebay. Click on the picture above to see the pictures in full size.
So how’d it go? Give us the Maximillion overview.
Maximillion Cooper: The police estimated half a million people attended the start in London, and over a million people attended the check-point in Belgrade, which was the biggest that we’d ever had. That’s ten times more people than attend to the Super Bowl!
So how did the rally go? No major accidents?
Maximillion Cooper: Two cars had accidents, but nobody got hurt and they all carried on in the rally, so that was great. The first one was an accident in Serbia with the Rolls Royce. It hit a barrier and slid a few hundred meters, but they didn’t even spill their cup of coffee. Of course, when you consider it’s a half-million dollar car, it’s a bit sad, but we’re very happy no one got hurt. The other crash involved a Lamborghini Gallardo roadster in Thailand. They were on these windy roads through the rainforest, and they took off on one of the humpback bridges and ended up driving off the road and chopping down a little tree. But again, they were very lucky and walked away with no injuries.
We are still waiting for some good Gumball 2006 video footage from the drivers to show you. In the meantime we found this short video from Ant and Pete. This footage was taken during the Gumball 2004 in Marocco. It was taken during the way from Ricks Cafe to Marrakech. Lonman was passing by at 180 mph (290 kph). Other Gumballers followed…
