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Gumball 2005

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

The 2005 edition of the Gumball 3000 rally was one of the best covered Gumballs ever. There were thousands of people watching the Gumball 3000 arrive in Accoz and Vienna. Fansites and sites of Gumballers popped up like never before…
I made a selection of the must see things of the Gumball 2005:
Overview of […]

M5 vs RS4 on the Moscow ringroad

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

This is one of the maddest streetrace videos online. The video is filmed from inside a E39 BMW M5 on the Moscow ringroad. Traffic is massive but he manages to keep the blue Audi RS4 insight…
Must see!
Story by the M5 driver in the video:
So, I am on my way to work from a BMW […]

Skilled rally driver

Friday, November 4th, 2005

This guy got some talent! Gigi Galli is driver for Mitsubishi in the World Rally Championship.

Getaway in Athens

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

This video shows a driver racing in Athens at night. The car used is a BMW M3. This video might be even better then the Getaway in Stockholm series. It shows high speeds, quite some other traffic, great powerslides, small streets and bad road quality.
Video duration: 29+ minutes
Video size: 350mb
Download the video
If you don’t […]

The cars for the new rally season have arrived!

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

My new cars for the 2006 rally season finally arrived!!
Here are some pictures:

… in my dreams…

Ghost Rider 4 - Ghost Rider goes undercover

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

The new Ghost Rider video is released! His new video is more action packed then his previous videos. This time Ghost Rider goes undercover as a cop!
Ghost Rider got some biking skills! This DVD shows GR being chased by the police, GR chasing another biker as a cop, GR chasing another streetracer in a […]

Gumball cars for Sale

Monday, November 7th, 2005

Just found this on the UR forum, well worth mentioning:
First up for sale is the Ferrari 550 LeMans. This car belonged to the organiser of the 2005 Gumball 3000, Maximillion Cooper, and did the Gumball 3000 with start number 1.
Something about the car:

5.5 litre V12

537 BHP

0 - 100 km/h in 3,9 sec

Topspeed 330 […]

Gumball 3000 6 Days in May movie

Monday, November 7th, 2005

The 2005 ‘6 Days in May’ movie shows what happened during the Gumball 3000 rally 2004. The 2004 edition took the gumball pack with their supercars from Paris to Morocco and back to Cannes. Among the cars were two Ferrari Enzo’s, a Ford Escort Cosworth, a bunch of Lamborghini’s, Bentleys, Porsches and a 2CV with […]

Top Gear is back! Season 7 started…

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Yesterday a new season of Top Gear started at the English television station BBC.
For all those who missed it:

Download the first episode!

And keep your eye on this page, every monday morning the new topgear online!

The first episode of the new season 7 featured this items:

Aston Martin V8 Vantage versus BMW M6 versus Porsche […]

New layout for Gumball-3000.com

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Today we decided it was time for a new layout. Main reason was the quite boring layout of the old site and the limited options for posting articles.
The new site offers some nice new features like the ability to add external pages with pictures etc.
It’s also possible to add new authors to the […]

Gumball 3000 Database

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Scul, member at the ultimate rally board, created an interactive database full of Gumball 3000 stuff.
It contains the routes from 1999 to 2005 with maps. Some text about the history. Most info is about the 2005 rally, including awards and a full database with all the drivers, and pics of the cars (and of […]

BMW X5 with 700BHP

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

This car is incredible… It’s still an SUV, but it’s amazingly fast!

That’s the X5 LeMans V12. It tore up the Nurburgring in 7:49!! Thats not only insane for an SUV but also insane for any car. It was faster around the track than a M3 CSL, Porsche GT3, Lamborghini Murcielago, and Ferrari 360 Challenge […]

Deauville Rally becomes BladeRun

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

The Deauville Rally will be the Blade Run in 2006! Check out this page for the full program and costs.
Blade Run, formerly known as the Deauville Rally, is an annual powerboat rally between England and France in the spirit of Gumball. Blade Run is open to all classes of powerboat, as long as they are […]

The Gumball-3000.com Team expands!

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

We are glad to announce that two new members joined the Gumball-3000.com team!
Anov and Swearbear joined us to make this website even better and together we will bring you the best Gumball 3000 coverage you’ve ever seen!
Stay tuned for their first articles and more!

New Mercedes-Benz S class crash video

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

As some of you might have seen on last sundays Top Gear episode, a reporter of the german magazine Autobild crashed a Mercedes-Benz S class which wasn’t supposed to crash.
Stern, a german tv show, filmed a test of the Brake Assist Plus system which is applied in the new Mercedes S class. Brake Assist […]