The Lamborghini Gallardo from the men himself, mister Xzibit, is for sale on Ebay. It is the car #1 in the 2007 Gumball 3000 rally driven by Xzibit. It is a sign of respect to the the terrible accident we posted a few weeks ago.
Xzibit donates 10% to the two victems of the crash, Vladimir & Margarita Chepunjoska. Let’s wait to see what the final bidding will be.
After posting a couple of topics about the terrible accident, it’s sensible to wait for more facts about crash. The Gumball rally is often the subject of wild rumours. We’ll see what the future will bring for the Gumball 3000.
We will give you one of the latest updates from the Gumball 2007 rally. The Gumballers drove from Dubrovnik to Bratislava. There are many videos uploaded the last couple of days and we haven’t post anything about these two checkpoints yet. So therefore we have sorted out the latest videos for you.
The international rally Gumball 3000 claimed the second victim today - Margarita Chepunjoska, the wife of Vladimir, who died two days ago, has passed away today in the Skopje Clinic Center.
Margarita was severely injured in the accident that took place on Wednesday, when a participant of the rally crashed his Porsche into the car driven by her husband.
British citizen Nicholas Morley was speeding in his Porsche at the Struga-Qafasan road, when it collided head-on with Chepunjoski’s Golf.
Yesterday, an investigative judge of Struga Court ordered 30 days of temporary detention to Nicholas Morley. The Police filed a formal accusation against him for “heavy violation of traffic safety” and “failure to provide help to an injured person”.
Macedonian police told today that no charges will be raised against his co-driver, the British citizen Matthew McConville.
View the video of the accident here.
Our thoughts go out to the family and friends!
Update: Another two cars have been crashed, this time in Montenegro. The red Ford GT, because of high speeds and bad weather and another Porsche GT was also wrecked.
24 hours after the Porsche accident, the Gumball 3000 Organisation has decided to cancell the rally for the remaining part. Therefore the rally will end in Bratislava instead of London. Read the official press email below:
Issued by Maximillion Cooper on behalf of The Gumball 3000 Rally - 21.30 / 03 May 2007
Following our earlier release reporting yesterday’s accident - As a sign of respect we have decided that this year’s Gumball 3000 Rally will not travel any further and will end in Bratislava this evening, May 3rd 2007.
As the organisers of the rally we feel that it should be stopped as a mark of respect to Vladimir Cepulyoski who died today after an accident involving one the participating drivers.
We are very saddened by what has happened and feel that it would be wrong to continue. On behalf of Gumball 3000, we once again extend our deepest sympathies to his family and we are doing everything we can for them.
This is the first time anything like this has happened in 9 years of travelling through over 40 countries with 1000’s of drivers and it is with deep regret that I make this announcement.
Maximillion Cooper
Founder & CEO
The Gumball 3000 Group
Team Polizei drivers Alex Roy and Michael Ross has announched the following message on their website:
In view of events of the past day, Alex Roy and Michael Ross of Team Polizei have withdrawn from the 2007 Gumball Rally. They are driving to Bratislava to thank the fans that have traveled from so far. They will make a further statement at 10.00GMT.
This sad news has must something to do with the accident yesterday, we post earlier. We understand this statement from Ales and Michael. Have a save trip back to home guys.
