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Gumball 2007 No checkpoint in Berlin

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Bad news for all Gumball fans in Germany. Gumball HQ has just anounced that the Gumballers will not pass through Germany on their way back to London. This means there’s no checkpoint in Berlin anymore and they probably head back to London from Bratislava.
The Gumballers should be resting (or partying) at their hotel […]

Gumball 2007: Team 50 Day 1 & 2

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

We just received an update from Team 50. They are on their way to Athens right now with all the other Gumballers, and get wait to get their car back. They had a great time during the first leg from London to Amsterdam but then the German police spoiled […]

Jalopnik with Team Turkish Taxi

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Almost all the cars are offloaded from the Antanov plane in Athens right now, there’s only two teams driving todays leg: Team Aytac and Team Turkish Taxi. Both teams are from Turkey and didn’t feel like driving to London to fly back to Istanbul to drive to London again. So they rented a car in […]

Gumball 2007: Team 105 back in Belgium

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Gerry Goormans and Cis Henderickx are back in Belgium. They both lost their drivers license on the way to the Amsterdam checkpoint. Gerry was stopped in Belgium after he put his foot down on what he thought was a quiet piece of highway, little did he know that there […]

Gumball 2007: Team 99 back in the UK

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Team Stuff returned to the UK yesterday after an exhausting first leg of the rally. Apparently they only entered the rally for the first bit. We collected some of their highlights of the the rally:
Funny stories:
“As soon as we pulled in we were mobbed by a coach load […]

Team Fuel Gumball Video #1

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Team Fuel just released their first video! Richie, Gerry and the Fuel Girls are on their way to Athens to get united again with their Mansory Bentley Continental GT. In the video Richie takes you to his Fuel store and shows you the Mansory Phantom and tells you […]

Team Fuel Gumball 2007 Update

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

We just received an update from Team Fuel:
GERMANS - SAY NO MORE
Current position: Istanbul
The Gumball went through Germany and nearly every car got caught by the cops. We all paid €450.00 fine. They got 60 cars together so they could pretend they did a good job, […]

Gumball 2007 The Start Video

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

For all of you who didn’t make it down to the start of this year Gumball 3000 in London, we found the best video of the start. There are so many videos out on the web this year that we don’t want to flood the frontpage with all of […]

Gumball 2007: Team 100 back in the UK

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Team Fast Car (car 100) is back in the UK. Glenn Rowswell and Jamie Burr only drove to Hahn Airport. Here’s their full story:
Just to let you guys know that Team Fast Car and the Nissan Skyline Tokyo Highway Pursuit car are back in the UK. We were initially […]

Jay Kay in Bratislava

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Team 2 (Jay Kay (Jamiroquai) & Nigel Cooper) skipped the flight to Istanbul and drove straight from Frankfurt-Hahn to Bratislava. A GTspirit member spotted the Maserati Quattroporte on the highway towards Bratislava. The live tracker revealed that they stayed in Munchen overnight and arrived in Bratislava […]

Tangospeed arrived in Dubrovnik

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

While we are working around the clock to bring the latest Gumball 3000 news, our friends and previous Gumballers Team Tangospeed arrived in Dubrovnik with Carbon Black (a more exclusive event). The past 3 days they drove from Vienna via Budapest and Sofia to Dubrovnik. You can read the latest of their adventures in their […]

Gumballers arrive in Athens

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

The Gumball 3000 plane just landed in Athens, currently taxiing to the gate (17.30 CET). The Gumballers can collect their cars at the airport and then make their way to the Athens Hilton hotel. Tonight some of the Gumball cars will be on display at the Zappio, which is a crazy location in the National […]

Bentley GTC caught by Police Video

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Video of the Bentley Continental GT Convertible (Team 32) being pulled over by the police. The two American Porsche Turbo’s (Team 23 & 84) can continue without a problem. The police was very strict on the way to Dover and at some point slowed down all traffic on the highway by driving with two police […]

Team 13 Gumball 2007 Writeup

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Steve just published his amazing writeup on probably the most unlucky Gumball experience ever. Denied access into France at least 3 times, then travel around the country to find alternative entry points into Continental Europe, in the end decide to go back to London, end-up in Brixton, nearly get […]

Team Polizei driving to Athens

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

We just got a message from Team Polizei, together with Team Aytac and Turkish Taxi are they the only ones on the road to Athens at the moment. The other Gumballers are flying to Athens where their cars are waiting for them. You can follow Team Aytac, Team Polizei […]