Gumball flag off in London

[peppernick]

What an afternoon. The crowd was insane!!

Pall Mall turned into a drag strip. Virtually every passer-by with a slightly performance orientated car gunned it down the dual carraige way. Plenty of police around, pulled a few over but in the end, gave up. The Gumball effect was overpowering.

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So difficult to get a clean shot of the cars, too many people around. These are some of my snaps :cool:

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Star of the crowd. CLK DTM from Monanco.

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One sweet F-430 from Italy

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550 LM

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Camper Van! :eek: :eek: (There's also an Ice Cream Van doing the Gumball!!!)

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Car No.1...Johnny Knoxville's ride

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Evil Rolls

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The girl who beat Jay Kay around the track

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[Ali]

It was a cool afternoon... my two favouties must be the 550LM and the CLK GTR...

Plus the Gallardo in Italian police stripes was pretty pimping too! [jam

[Stock323iSaloon]

*spurt*x100 [cool

[uberbmw]

that F430 is damn sexy!!

[benny boy]

so many nice cars [writesmil

[mattj]

quality afternoon, awesome cars. personal favorite was the clk dtm, great pics nick-much better than i got lol!

roll on the cannonball.....

[Tin]

nice selection of motors... love to see how the cars look after the rally :D chipstones galore! :D but thats minor.. experience will be awesome... tank and campervan.. hahaha

[mysticm3]

My personal favourite of the day's gotta be Jodie Kidd...errr...her Lambo :p If Kate Moss were there I'd definitely have given her my best man hug!!! :eek: Talked to Jodie very briefly, really friendly and nice girl, wanted to take a quick snap of she and me together but couldn't find Nick when I needed him most :mad: :mad: :mad:

Some of my crappy shots using my mobile, can't believe I forgot to bring my camera :mad: Anyway I was more focused on something else as usual...lol
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[Har5ha]

you guys aint seen nutin yet!!

oh man..the drive to Dover was just awesome...!

made some friends with gumballers....!! They were cool..was cruising around 120/130..didnt dare go faster that that...was crusing with a 430 and the yellow 360 stradele for a nice strech...

gonna sort out my photos and video now!! what an evening...!!! got cheered on by so many people with my one gumball sticker!! lol!

[BigFas]

Wicked pics! Sorry I missed it, looks like you guys had fun.

Teddy, I know you're full of shit when you say you were looking at the ladies and the cars. We ALL know you were drooling at the decals :D

[mysticm3]

Got lucky and stook at a point where most cars had to drive past Lots of videos taken with my camera, you need Real Player to view them:

http://www.btinternet.com/~teddyhsu0211/Movie/video-0008.3gp
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[mysticm3]

ahem, can anyone tell me why I took this picture? ;) Nick where the FOOOOOOOOoooooooooooCK were you :confused:

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[RDG 40]

how much do i wish i was doing the gumball, we need evotechnik represention! awesome day shame i missed it

[lee330sport]

Damn, ill be pissed if i dont get in next year, thers a 2cv and a golf gti in this year :rolleyes: . Maybe Jodie Kidd will ride with me :p

[Raj]

Dyam. There are soooo many cool rides. Really wished I had been able to make the trek down. Maybe next year (but that is just such a long, long way away :( ). Sweet pics Nick (as usual ;) ).

[Chaos]

Teddy, I know you're full of shit when you say you were looking at the ladies and the cars. We ALL know you were drooling at the decals :D
LMAO, I think he has you there bro lol :D

Can't believe I missed this, oh well, always next year I guess :(

[peppernick]

ahem, can anyone tell me why I took this picture? ;) Nick where the FOOOOOOOOoooooooooooCK were you :confused:

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Kate Moss seems very excited to meet you ;) ......or was it the shaggy haired bad boy she was after? [hmm

[RDG 40]

il ride with someone if they do it, bloody expensive tho.

[paulm3]

it was great day.. bout 50 yards away from peppernicks car (lookinsweet) but never saw them!!!! lol..
loadsa ppl.. did u see my zonda??? :):):)lol .. great day.. popped to ace cafe after at about 7 and there was only about 6 bm's there so went home tired :(:(

[RDG 40]

is no one doing the cannonball run this year?

[Nickleback]

Great pics Nick, it's just gotta be the Zonda that does it for me - Awesome sound too when you hear it on the vid on my post!

[banana [banana [banana

[lee330sport]

is no one doing the cannonball run this year?

Think MattJ is doing it in his M3

[AlpinaAl]

I want to do the Gumball next year and Im gona try my HARDEST to get in.

Not to bothered about the entry fee, just the experiance of doing the Gumball well worth it....

Who else would be up for it...

[lee330sport]

I want to do the Gumball next year and Im gona try my HARDEST to get in.

Not to bothered about the entry fee, just the experiance of doing the Gumball well worth it....

Who else would be up for it...

Me me me [hiya

[peppernick]

Was just thinking about it. We can always gate crash :D :D afterall it's an open rally on public roads.

All we need to do is follow the pack. We may not be able to chill out full time with them but I'm sure we can wrangle a few arms along the way.

Hotels, we can either stay in the same hotel or different one but in the same town.

If we can get some info of their itenary, we can have our own little gumball.

Cheapskate but what the hell ;)

Anyone? [hiya

[mattj]

Think MattJ is doing it in his M3


yep im doing the cannonball this year in my m3, did it last year in a carlsson clk merc

so want to do the gumball!


last years entry:

[lee330sport]

Good idea Nick, we'll just follow everyone.lol Im sure we can find out the checkpoints before the race starts?

[peppernick]

Our BM hero Ant and Pete crashed into bambi :eek:


The last few days have been very hectic since the start in London. Where we were greeted by thousands of people lining the street’s to wave us off. From leaving London a few things have hampered our ability to send you live updates the mobile web seems to work only when it wants to and when it does its not for very long so we decided to update you From the M5 Forum and Kimble is linking the updates from his site also.

The main events of the last few days as follows:



The drive to Folkestone saw several cars stopped for speeding the few that we have details of are 2 cars caught together one at 124mph and the other at 123mph we believe these were European cars.

Another car was chased by Kent traffic police; Quote the cop ‘I was doing 141mph and you were pulling away from me’ the driver was given a caution and sent on his way. We arrived at the Euro tunnel in time for the earlier train than Gumball had booked however by the time we had got a burger king they had just closed the barrier. 10 cars made this first train so when we hit France we had some catching up to do which was quite difficult as we had been told Belgium police would be ready and waiting for us with a Zero tolerance and high speed would see your car impounded and sold. So on that note we took it easy through Belgium but were still able to get to the first checkpoint 3rd. All the surrounding roads were closed which made it difficult to get in due to the massive amount of fans waiting for us (Police estimate 15000 people). Some Gumballers must have got word of the massive crowds and decided to miss this checkpoint. We left with the 3 cars we arrived with but 20 miles down the road we pulled in for fuel to find the station full of Gumballers (the ones that skipped the checkpoint). This meant we were way down the field.

So get out of Belgium then floor it, if only it was that easy we had about 20 miles till Germany when Bamby decides that the grass is greener on the other side of the road and a fully-grown deer runs across the carriageway and into our path (pictures to follow) only minor damage but we did loose a head light so roadside repairs were required so we could continue as our support vehicle was in Prague, it took about an hour to repair the head light so we could continue. We have new parts being shipped in for the morning so should be repaired and on our way. This was the point where things were made a little difficult for live update’s as we had a lot of hardware on the back seat, when you break hard things don’t stay still and unfortunately one laptop and my new digital SLR hit the back of the drivers seat and now neither work.

We are now currently in Prague the 2nd checkpoint and after all the problems still arrived in around 20th.

In the morning we will repair the car so will be slightly behind the pack but will catch up by the end of the day then front running again on Tuesday.



To sum up: Unfortunately the live email updates we will have to miss this year as we only have 1 lap top that is recording the footage.



We will post daily on the Ultimate Rally forum and the M5 forums both have links on our site.



We are trying to set up an MSN account to do a live chat forum which we will do at each check point (if anyone can advise on this we need an account that has an open amount of people that can chat and see the other people chatting all advice welcome (kim any ideas can you set an open chat room on your forum??))



We were held at the border into the chech republic as they investigated the damage to the car and then more roadside repairs before they would let us into the country, Tomorrow we have to repair the damage as we have been informed we will be turned away at the next border crossing.



There have been a few other small incidents with other cars but will report on these as we hear more.



Keep watching this space for all the latest 2005 Gumball 3000





antandpete

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[peppernick]

Drift the Gumball way.....General Lee/Johnny Knoxville :eek: :eek: :eek:

http://videos.onestopwebhosting.com/Videos/GeneralLee.mpeg

[Stock323iSaloon]

Track Gumballers live via GPS technology!

http://live.gumball3000.alk.com/LiveDesktop.aspx?IsTrackingUser=

[BigFas]

who the hell is this Ant and Pete?

[Stock323iSaloon]

who the hell is this Ant and Pete?
i think someone may have said they were the ones who raced against Teddy in a 330 diesel and that they came 2nd last year in this event. are they comedians with a name like that?

[peppernick]

Yep they raced Teddy at Bunthingthorpe. They drive the D3, a 305 BHP 330d.

www.antandpete.co.uk

[mysticm3]

Kate Moss seems very excited to meet you ;) ......or was it the shaggy haired bad boy she was after? [hmm
Nooooooooooo dude check this:
http://usera.imagecave.com/mysticm3/Gumball3000/gumball71.jpg
I am a perv I know...:p

[peppernick]

Damn!!!! I thought you only go as far as man hugs........that's a bloke!!

[mysticm3]

we can have our own Evotechnik Gumball Rally, set our own checkpoints etc ;) Ultimate prize is a proper manhug from me

[Har5ha]

this might be of interest to you guys..

Kimble's rally (the guy who won gumball 2004)

http://www.ultimaterally.com/application.html

Think this is where Ant and Pete are headed next as they seem to have some serious links with him.

[M5 SC]

liked the CLK but loved the aston martin!!! gotta soft spot for them!!!
if i could afford one then it'd be DB9 over any BMW, there sooooo nice

[peppernick]

this might be of interest to you guys..

Kimble's rally (the guy who won gumball 2004)

http://www.ultimaterally.com/application.html

Think this is where Ant and Pete are headed next as they seem to have some serious links with him.
Check out Kim Schmit's site. He's the larger than life German who drove the CL3000. Quite a character and at 27 years old, couldn't have done better with 200 million!

http://www.kimble.org/

[lee330sport]

Watched the '6days in May' film yesterday. Its not as good as the 2003 film. Production seems far cheaper and the content isnt all that good. But damn there are some crazi mofo's. That Lonman is a nutter, undertaking people on the footpath.lmao.

[peppernick]

Lonman is the guy driving the GT2 with reg 1 CPU?

He is MAD!!!

BTW the ultimate Gumball trophy :D

http://videos.onestopwebhosting.com/Videos/PhotoLounge/2004GumballPhotos/f4.jpg

[lee330sport]

Lonman is the guy driving the GT2 with reg 1 CPU?

He is MAD!!!

BTW the ultimate Gumball trophy :D

http://videos.onestopwebhosting.com/Videos/PhotoLounge/2004GumballPhotos/f4.jpg

Yeah thats the guy.

Lmao at that trophy.

[Har5ha]

he was the guy going nuts on the hard shoulder at the beginning of the movie!

Kimble is the one who went on the pavement in cannes...they didn't show that in the movie though..!!

[lee330sport]

That was the pavment Lonman was on at the beggining, just wasnt a tarmac one. ;) Bit dangerous with the pedestrians walking down an all.

[Richie in Dublin]

That is one savage selection of cars!! The McMerc looks the business. No CSL's making the trip??

[Har5ha]

no csls that i saw...

in bmw..there was the police m5...ant and pete 330d..a standard m3..and another one with acs front lip and type 3 racing..

[peppernick]

and another one with acs front lip and type 3 racing

That is the FUK 1T car :D .....saw it parked on Pall Mall as he arrived late. All of his Type 3 Racing have been kerbed badly :o

[Har5ha]

yea that the one..i was driving on st james st and they were next to me...i wished them luck..and they were so checking out my car...!!

Have to say...all the evo cars look way way better than their 'modifed m3'

I really wish u guys had driven with us! Was soo much fun!!

[mysticm3]

damn I though there was blood all over his shirt lol

[Afif]

anyone get my a copy of the gumball dvd? Mine ermm broke before i got to watch it ;).

[Har5ha]

how did u break urs before u watched it???

i have a copy...

[Afif]

[crackmeup nevermind. Cool bring it to the next meet or something im not really in a rush :cool:.

[Har5ha]

well am going away this weekend...so not coming to santa pod..

but durgesh nick teddy fas etc...have copies..so maybe u can ask one of them!

[peppernick]

Some amazing 200+MPH video clips from a GT3

GT3 Vs Enzo (http://www.team19.net/media/video/vsenzo1mbit.wmv)

GT3 Vs 360 Spyder (http://www.team19.net/media/video/vsmodena2mbit.wmv)

[Nickleback]

Some amazing 200+MPH video clips from a GT3

GT3 Vs Enzo (http://www.team19.net/media/video/vsenzo1mbit.wmv)

GT3 Vs 360 Spyder (http://www.team19.net/media/video/vsmodena2mbit.wmv)


Nick, just stonkin ! Were do u find them? [cool [cool [cool

[peppernick]

This video from last year is my all time favourite!

http://videos.onestopwebhosting.com/Videos/RicksCafetoMarrakech.wmv

[bmsingh]

This video from last year is my all time favourite!

http://videos.onestopwebhosting.com/Videos/RicksCafetoMarrakech.wmv

Diesel power baby.... coool vid :cool: sum serious overtaking [bang

[lee330sport]

Just to let you know Alex Roy in the Polizei M5 came 1st into Monaco, was racing an SLR to the finish but the SLR engine blew :D Go BMW. [jam

Just found this too, this guy is crazy [crackmeup [crackmeup


Alex Roy proved his legendary status once again yesterday by getting
to the Sicilian ferry port by 8:25am and cordoning it off with police
tape. He then sailed alone on a ferry to mainland Italy and "cruised
at 8/10ths" (140mph in torrential rain) towards Rome, sirens and
lights on continuously.

The M5 cop car is permanently online and get updates on the positions
of other Gumballers, so it didn't come as a suprise when it's lead was
threatened by a blue Porsche Turbo being driven brilliantly by Spencer
Bourne.

A 90 minute battle ensued taking the cars all the way into Rome, with
the Porsche overtaking on clear roads and Alex using his sirens to
take the lead when traffic built up. Eventually the Porsche slipped
back due to Spencer's "poor toll booth strategy" and "poor GPS
strategy" (wrong turn) leaving the delighted cops claiming another
victory.

[Nickleback]

So BMW beats Porsche & Mercedes to take Gumball 05 title
Now there's a thought !

[crackmeup [crackmeup [crackmeup

[Tin]

yeah baby yeah!!! Polizei M5 rocks!!! [jam
damn that supercharger package looks mighty tasty...gumball 06... hmm.. think a re-mortgage is in order now.. :eek:

[peppernick]

Alex Roy he's a Gumball veteran. You'll not find a more Gumballed car than his M5...

[Afif]

i heard one guy had his lambo impounded in belgium so got his maclaren delivered to him .... wrote that off :eek:. Then paid £6000 to have his lambo taken out of the pound and another £6000 to have it delivered to him. He then proceeded to write that off [crackmeup.