Tagged: 'Challenge Teams'

The Challenge 2006 highlights

With the Challenge 2006 slowly fading away in our short term memory it’s time to show you some of the highlights of this years Challenge rally caught on camera by Herbert van Kuik.
Willem-Alexander & Maxima arriving in Vilnius:

Favorite Team of The Challenge 2006

The visitors of GT spirit have chosen Team Miami Vice as their favorite team of the Challenge 2006! With 16% of the votes they are 8 votes ahead of runner up Team Pussywagon. Followed by a good third, Team Leo de Vries with 13% of the votes.
Final Results:
1. Miami Vice (Lambo): 16% (146)
2. Pussywagon [...]

Poll: Favorite Team of the Challenge 2006

Today is your last chance to vote for your favorite team of the Challenge 2006. With almost 900 votes it’s one of the most popular polls ever on GT spirit.
Current Top 10:
1. Miami Vice (Lambo): 16% (142)
2. Pussywagon (H2): 15% (136)
3. Leo de Vries (S4): 13% (114)
4. Ferrari Racing (F430): 8% (68)
5. Call TV [...]

Teams back in Amsterdam

Quote reports that Team Spyker Squadron and Team The Matrix returned to Amsterdam after 7 days of driving and partying. In seven days they driven through nine countries and partied in cities like Dresden, Tallinn, St Petersburg and Copenhagen!
Quote also published a video of the start in Dresden including some footage of the first leg [...]

The Challenge 2006 Trophy Winners

Team Indianen in their Porsche GT3 RS won this years Challenge trophy for their great outfit and car. They were one of only a handful teams that wore the outfits the whole week. Congratulations!
Saskia of Team Batmobile won a bottle of champagne for being the most sexy challenger. Team Politbureau won a bottle for hiring [...]

Challengers finished!

The Challengers finished in Copenhagen this afternoon. Team 16 was amazed when they arrived first in Copenhagen. They were closely followed by team 11 in their BMW 530D. Team Ferrari Racing was pulled over just kilometers outside Copenhagen but were free to go after a chat. The playmates hitched hiked their way from St Petersburg [...]

Challenge 2006 Poll Update

With one more day to go for the Challengers there are three teams far ahead of the others in the poll. Team Leo de Vries is currently in the lead but Team Pussywagon and Team Miami Vice are just 1 and 5 votes behind. Can they catch up? We will announce the final winners of [...]

Challenge 2006 Helsinki Update

Herbert van Kuik of Team The Matrix just reported that all teams arrived at the ferry in Helsinki. The cars got a police escort from the Russian / Finnish border to ensure a safe travel to Helsinki. Tonight there will only be a small party on the ferry and tomorrow morning the [...]

Team Bert & Ernie Update

Bert & Ernie reporting from St Petersburg
The arrival of the Challengers in St Petersburg yesterday was one big party. A lot of newspapers and tv stations were present to announce the arrival of the Challengers to the Russian public. After the great entry the challengers had at the Grand Europe hotel it was time for [...]

Team Bert & Ernie Update

Yesterday we received news from Team Bert & Ernie , that they returned to Riga because they were not allowed to enter Estonia with a copy of their license registration document. Today they called us from the airport and told us that they flew from Riga to St Petersburg because the original registration document [...]