Archive for February, 2007

Mansory Bentley Continental GT for Team Fuel

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

 

We present to you; the new car of Richie Warren’s Fuel Team for the Gumball 2007, a Bentley Continental GT tuned by Mansory! This car was showed at the Paris Tuning Show 2007. As you can see this car is specially made for Team Fuel. You can see the “Fuel” logo inside the car on the seats and on the rims.  

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Gumball 2004 documentairy by Norway TV2

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

During the 2004 Gumball 3000 a reporter from the Norwegian TV2 station followed the Norwegian teams in the Gumball Rally. The result is a 50 minutes documentairy with nice segments of Torquenstein, Alex Roy, Kim “Kimble” Schmitz, Lonman, plus many many more… . Includes the entire rally from Paris to Spain, to Morocco and back to Cannes France. This piece also has scenes from the various crashes in Morocco, including the Escort Cosworth, the Fearrari 360 spyder, the Dodge Viper crash of Torquenstein plus much more.

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Gumball 2007: route update #6

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

 

New route, new update (included the official route-video):

Gumball 2007 Route:

28th April: Launch party at the Trocadero. The street in front is closed, red carpet, supercars on display etc. This is pretty close to Leicester square, so there should be a lot of people.

29th April: 12 Midday all cars in position on Pall Mall for car display, 4pm rally start! Big Gantry on Pall Mall, similar position as last year but much bigger and better! Onto France via Eurotunnel, Belgium, and Amsterdam! Where the cars park up at the ‘Waterlooplein’ in the centre of Amsterdam, and as you may already know it is Queens day, so a lot of people partying in the streets! Amsterdam is a checkpoint, so the teams park up, pick up their next route card, drink and back on their way.

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New video online from Team Polizei

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

 

Back to 2005, Team Polizei’s Alex Roy, in convoy on th way to Taormina. He nearly hits one of the Subaru WRX STI’s from skater Rob Dyrdek. Then they passed many cars, but finished that day not first but 6th. God, bless Team 144 is still alive!

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Polish Adam on Belgium highway: trip speed 219mph / 352 kph !!

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

The famous Polish guy Adam visited Luxembourg with his brand new Lamborghini LP640 for a party. His new toy also got the incredible capristo exhaust. After the party in Luxembourg, Adam drove back to The EuroTunnel at Calais.  

The new LP640 has a mindblowing sound and the result? a trip speed of 219 mph / 352 km/u. That’s fast, very very fast. Off course it was filmed at night, but the fact it’s very fast. Video inside!

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