Gumball report on the official website... (GUMBALL THREAD?)
20-05-2005, 12:16 AM
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Gumball report on the official website... (GUMBALL THREAD?)
The 2005 Gumball Rally brought London to a standstill on Saturday as 250,000 
people came to see the Gumballers depart from Waterloo Place. After a star-studded premiere of the new Gumball movie "6 Days in May" the night before, British F1 Driiver Jenson Button started the 7th annual Gumball from London to Monaco.
Crowds of thousands have greeted the drivers in Brussels, Vienna, Budapest and Dubrovnik so far with many more expected in Florence, Rome and Monaco on Friday.
After a stunning first stop in Belgium, where the streets were filled between 11 pm and 2 am with Gumball fans, 10, 000 people turned out in Vienna on Monday to see drivers including Daryl Hannah, Jodie Kidd, Caprice and Gumball founder Maximillion Cooper display all 120 Gumball cars at the Hofberg. This was followed by an extraordinary parade out of Dubrovnik yesterday, led by Maximillion and the Deputy Mayor of the city.
anyone else got any other news vids or piccies?
people came to see the Gumballers depart from Waterloo Place. After a star-studded premiere of the new Gumball movie "6 Days in May" the night before, British F1 Driiver Jenson Button started the 7th annual Gumball from London to Monaco.Crowds of thousands have greeted the drivers in Brussels, Vienna, Budapest and Dubrovnik so far with many more expected in Florence, Rome and Monaco on Friday.
After a stunning first stop in Belgium, where the streets were filled between 11 pm and 2 am with Gumball fans, 10, 000 people turned out in Vienna on Monday to see drivers including Daryl Hannah, Jodie Kidd, Caprice and Gumball founder Maximillion Cooper display all 120 Gumball cars at the Hofberg. This was followed by an extraordinary parade out of Dubrovnik yesterday, led by Maximillion and the Deputy Mayor of the city.
anyone else got any other news vids or piccies?
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They've arrived in Monaco now,
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Sicily to Rome; Supercars tested to destruction
Yesterday's drive from Sicily to Rome was absolute chaos, and like day
five of last year's rally (Morocco) there were crashes right, left and
centre. The Buick is completely out of the rally, the driver said he
was going fairly slowly when it span out and for his insurance's sake
we'll run with that.
A Ferrari 355 was also written off between Naples and Rome, and the
silver Porsche GT drifted 300 metres down the Autostrada bouncing both
nose and tail off the barriers. That's been gaffer taped up and is
still on the rally, but the Lamborghini Murcielago isn't so lucky...
The Lambo got impounded in Belgium within hours of being on the rally,
so it's driver called up for his Maclaren F1 to be delivered to him
immediately.taken ou His F1 was t of the rally between Budapest and
Dubrovnik (not sure whether it was impounded or crashed) so the
relentless Gumballer paid Ł6000 to have his Lamborghini released, and
another Ł6000 to have it driven to Bari (how many of you would have
done that for free?!).
Then disaster struck a final blow when his freshly delivered
Lamborghini was written off between Sicily and Naples. He only bought
it on the Thursday before the rally, so drove it for a total of 8
hours before it was destroyed!
In other Lamborghini news, Jodie Kidd rinsed the clutch on her's, so
her and fiancee Ben are having to take it easy for the rest of the
rally.
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.
Yesterday's drive from Sicily to Rome was absolute chaos, and like day
five of last year's rally (Morocco) there were crashes right, left and
centre. The Buick is completely out of the rally, the driver said he
was going fairly slowly when it span out and for his insurance's sake
we'll run with that.
A Ferrari 355 was also written off between Naples and Rome, and the
silver Porsche GT drifted 300 metres down the Autostrada bouncing both
nose and tail off the barriers. That's been gaffer taped up and is
still on the rally, but the Lamborghini Murcielago isn't so lucky...
The Lambo got impounded in Belgium within hours of being on the rally,
so it's driver called up for his Maclaren F1 to be delivered to him
immediately.taken ou His F1 was t of the rally between Budapest and
Dubrovnik (not sure whether it was impounded or crashed) so the
relentless Gumballer paid Ł6000 to have his Lamborghini released, and
another Ł6000 to have it driven to Bari (how many of you would have
done that for free?!).
Then disaster struck a final blow when his freshly delivered
Lamborghini was written off between Sicily and Naples. He only bought
it on the Thursday before the rally, so drove it for a total of 8
hours before it was destroyed!
In other Lamborghini news, Jodie Kidd rinsed the clutch on her's, so
her and fiancee Ben are having to take it easy for the rest of the
rally.
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.
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