Archive for May, 2007
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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