We just received news Gumball Team 12 broke down near Calais after leaving the channel tunnel on their way to the checkpoint in Belgium. Support crew arrived and tried to fix the problem with their Mercedes SL 55 AMG.
Team 12:
Justin Werb, British
Christopher Allen, British
2003 Mercedes SL 55 AMG
News from Pete:
Reports of a gumballer in prison. We are with the prince who is on the phone trying to help. Caught at 170 mph
In this thread on our forum you can find lots of pictures of the gumballers leaving the garage to go to the grid.
In this thread on our forum you can find lots of pictures of the 2006 rally grid.
Follow this link to see a Gumball-3000.com report of the Gumball checkpoint in Beloeil, the report contains lots of pictures, and will contain a video soon!
First three cars to arrive in Vienna:
1st: Team Polizei (Bentley Continental GT Polizei)
2nd: Team NSX (Honda NSX)
3rd: Pete (BMW 3-series D2)
Hoowdy
Havin a bit of a mare at the mo, Leathered it through Belgium and were
3rd out of Vienna but now cant get over 70 miles an hour! Police
everywhere, been pulled 7 times and taken to the police station twice!
Doing my head in. Cant even get any kip as the bastards keep waking me
up! Hey […]
Sent May 1, 9:55 am from Pete
Raining like fuck vis is almost zero still flat out
Sent May 1, 9:43 am from Pete
Have just overtaken alex roy on way to budapest we are currently in first place
Sent May 1, 8:58 am from Pete
Final leg of stage one alex roy ahead by about 15 mins we are […]
The first Gumballers arrived in Budapest moments ago arround 12:00 CET. So the first leg took around 20 hours as predicted.
1st: Team Polizei (Bentley Continental GT Polizei)
2nd: Team NSX (Honda NSX)
3rd: Pete (BMW 3-series D2)
Updates from Team Tangospeed and their support crew:
01.05.06 06:12
30 minutes later
The first ticket, 135 @ 100, Austrian F****ERS !!
01.05.06 05:32
Wien
Team Tangospeed.com is about to arrive in Wien, only 150km to go.. No fines, at least not yet :)
01.05.06 02:05
First crash !!
Red Dodge Viper lost it at autobahn. Both drivers are […]
The Bavarian police arrested four participants of the Gumball running in Lower Franconia, because of speeding. Their cars were impounded. All together a total of 44 speeding drivers had been warned and some of them ticketed.
Here are the pics from the Gumballers arriving in Vienna this morning!
Short video of the Absolute Poker Ferrari F430 revving the car in the Gumball garage!
Just got report from Tangospeed.com:
After endless driving through the whole night we finally reached Wien as number 10 in the morning. Again crowds of fan but we soon headed off to Budapest. After some highway highspeed chasing with Tango, Hungarian police stopped us. Fine was a bit lower then expected, costed nothing! After check of […]
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