sl114 Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 AND the photos begin http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=gumball+3000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ir_fuel Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 bunch of idiots .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sl114 Posted April 30, 2007 Author Share Posted April 30, 2007 bunch of idiots ....No way! If i had £25k to spare, id do this in a heartbeat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedrush Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Think I need to change my pantihose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC350z Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Money to burn and you own a supercar - hell yea I'd do it. Guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choptop Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 One of my customers husbands had a chance of doing it for nothing last year.........yes nothing. The co-driver had pulled out but had paid his money and was happy for someone to fill his space for nothing. Unfortunately, his boss would not give him the time off work to do it. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! My question is how many of us would have said "bye bye job" for a chance to have done it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyC Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 The greatest car experience you're ever likely to have, mad mad parties every night with wall to wall stunning women, great laughs, cracking scenery, wicked roads - hell there's always another job! Yep, I would have been in that seat without even thinking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sl114 Posted April 30, 2007 Author Share Posted April 30, 2007 I was gutted that i could not go with the MTV news crew, i tried telling them they need a technical person to go as they are filming the whole thing, but it didnt work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedrush Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 The greatest car experience you're ever likely to have, mad mad parties every night with wall to wall stunning women, great laughs, cracking scenery, wicked roads - hell there's always another job! Yep, I would have been in that seat without even thinking +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choptop Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 One of my customers husbands had a chance of doing it for nothing last year.........yes nothing. The co-driver had pulled out but had paid his money and was happy for someone to fill his space for nothing. Unfortunately, his boss would not give him the time off work to do it. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! My question is how many of us would have said "bye bye job" for a chance to have done it ? The thing is his wife (my customer) told him to do it and sod the job! Her words were "we can manage for 6 months". What a lady! He still declined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_Quads Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 bunch of idiots ....No way! If i had £25k to spare, id do this in a heartbeat Exactly - to a majority that are doing it they are multi-millionaires and it will cost them nothing in the scale of things. Bit of entertainment for all. Its great to see all the cars when they leave etc. Shame its become soooo corperate sponsored etc - lost of a bit of the spark for me now all the cars are stickered up with exactly the same stuff etc. OK there is some stupid driving but there are been very few serious accidents at all - some smashed up cars but people keep walking away from them all. Quite a cool page for tracking http://www2.rallybird.eu/blog/?page_id=21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickya Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 I was there at the start in London purely by chance, took lots of vids, will post soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiN Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Hmm, doesn't look good the Gumball reputation: http://jalopnik.com/cars/gumball-3000/g ... 257447.php What idiots - firstly causing the accident, and then thinking that their vehicle is subtle enough that even if they left the country, the police would have trouble tracing them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC350z Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Notice in the crash pic all the sponsors logos have been removed. Just to pre-empt any comments that the paint scheme is different in the crash pic to that of the next page in the report (http://jalopnik.com/cars/a-sticky-mess/russian-bmw-reportedly-picked-up-morley-and-mcconville-after-deadly-gumball-3000-hit+and+run-257495.php) there are two nearly identical Porsche’s in the rally but with opposite colour schemes. Red for blue, blue for red. You get the idea. If at fault lock them up I say. Isn't Morley that block from Lock Stock? Guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_Quads Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 So much for my comment. Sods law there would be an accident like this after saying that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beavis Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 Idiots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sl114 Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 Gumball is now cancelled due to the other driver in this crash having a heart attack in hospital. See here http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story ... 30,00.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickya Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 Saw him at the start & got vids he was being followed at speed by another Porsche 997 maybe Turbo in black. Idiots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 should be banned, these kinda races Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyC Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 Utter fools Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ir_fuel Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 The greatest car experience you're ever likely to have, mad mad parties every night with wall to wall stunning women, great laughs, cracking scenery, wicked roads - hell there's always another job! Yep, I would have been in that seat without even thinking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyC Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 Yeah point taken. However I don't have a crystal ball............ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sl114 Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 Its just mad that this is the only death in 9 years, you think they would be prepaired for it really. However i dont want this to ruin the gumball, its only 2 stupid people who messed it up for everyone and now the whole race is at stake! (future) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickya Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 But this was waiting to happen & surprised it had not happened before. Over the years on tv iv seen an F50 come off a rounabout down a street & completely lose it going sidewards towards load of pedestrians on the pavement but somehow miss everyone. A Roller smashed to bits on a dual carrigeway & a Subaru samshing off but into a dirttrack rather than other cars, no other parties involved. A couple of cars in a pile up with a hatchback in France but no casualties as well as a Lambo that almost crashed into a ramshackle house in some village! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choptop Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 The thing is, it is alleged they left the scene of the accident. If they had stayed, called the emergency services/got help, the driver of the other car may still be alive. If the report in the press is correct, they should have had the guts to stay at the accident scene and stand by their actions. The authorities should throw the book at them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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