The Gumball is over for another year

qz

Oh to be loaded.

Gumball 2006 took place from the 29th of April until the 7th of May.
1-2nd May - Europe leg
3-5th May - Asian leg
6-7th May - US leg

The overall winners were:
Team Polizei (#44) - Bentley Continental GT
Team Torquenstein (#48) - Ford GT

No Veyrons unfortunately , but there were a handful of SLR's, a Phantom, an F40, F50, two M5's, some CL's and CLS's, and a shower of Bentleys and Lambos.

Here are the Irish participants. There was another Irish person in green Gallardo, but I'm not sure if it's an Irish car.

Ferrari 360 Spyder


BMW 630 - Driver is actually in a wheelchair, there was a piece in the Irish Times Motors section on him.

rabbitinlights

Cant see any of those photos.

qz

rabbitinlights wrote:

Cant see any of those photos.

Are you using IE? They work fine for me on FF.

zuma

They also dont work for me.

Try another like imageshack

Alun

Don't work for me in either Firefox or IE ... just get a kind of upload screen for Imagevenue rather than the images themselves.

qz

Sorry about that, I've saved them to my PC and uploaded them, so there you are.

ciarsd

qz, pics aint working - you could be seeing them as they are cached on your own pc?

wonder how long before this is shown on digital

Omnipresence

Alun wrote:

Don't work for me in either Firefox or IE ... just get a kind of upload screen for Imagevenue rather than the images themselves.

Same

rabbitinlights

I can see them now!

smarty

I can see them fine.

AJ!

qz wrote:

Here are the Irish participants. There was another Irish person in green Gallardo, but I'm not sure if it's an Irish car.

Ferrari 360 Spyder


BMW 630 - Driver is actually in a wheelchair, there was a piece in the Irish Times Motors section on him.

I didn't know there was an Irish Ferrari in it. Does anyone know who it is? I wonder if they done the whole trip from Europe to Asia to the America? I knew about the Irish BMW but they finished in Europe.

DOLEMAN

I know a young lad (25 or so) who owns one of those scummy premium rate phone line companies lives in Glenageary, Dublin and has a black Ferrari.

Could be him...

drdre

very interesting.i would love to do the gumball as its a once in a lofetime trip.also how much did it cost this year?

and who are the guys that went from dublin?

i was watching the days events on the videos online.(www.gumball3000.com)

AlanD

From the Gumball website:

74 Gavin McConnon Irish 2003 Ferrari 360 Spider
74 Colin Dalton Irish 2003 Ferrari 360 Spider

105 Graham Bolger Irish 2000 BMW 316i Se
105 Paul Brown Irish 2000 BMW 316i Se

118 Joseph O'Sullivan Irish 2006 Lamborghini Gallardo SE

aw

There's a student one this year....

Tipsy Mac

I spotted that BMW in Blackrock on the Rock Road yesterday morning, he was heading towards the City Centre.

AlanD

Tipsy Mac wrote:

I spotted that BMW in Blackrock on the Rock Road yesterday morning, he was heading towards the City Centre.

and she's only the 630

Kersh

Afaik it cost £60000 stg for this year.............

Tenshot

AlanD wrote:

From the Gumball website:
74 Gavin McConnon Irish 2003 Ferrari 360 Spider
74 Colin Dalton Irish 2003 Ferrari 360 Spider

105 Graham Bolger Irish 2000 BMW 316i Se
105 Paul Brown Irish 2000 BMW 316i Se

http://www.car74.com/ has Gavin & Colin's trip report.

And http://www.spokeout.com/diary.php has Graham's diary, with pictures here.

AJ!

I can't imagine what they're going to do next year. How do you top going all over the world?

drdre

Kersh wrote:

Afaik it cost £60000 stg for this year.............

if thats true then its a rip off.i would pay 15-20k for it as everything is included except petrol and fines:D . but 60k sounds steep.

AJ!

drdre wrote:

if thats true then its a rip off.i would pay 15-20k for it as everything is included except petrol and fines:D . but 60k sounds steep.

I think it was £15-20k last year. This year the cars and participants had to be flown from Europe to Asia and then to America and that's not cheap.

zuutroy

drdre wrote:

if thats true then its a rip off.i would pay 15-20k for it as everything is included except petrol and fines:D . but 60k sounds steep.

In fairness, value for money isn't really the spirit of the gumball!

Even more accidents this year. I wonder when the first gumball fatality will be.

Surely that would be the end of it.

qz

ronoc wrote:

Even more accidents this year. I wonder when the first gumball fatality will be.

Surely that would be the end of it.

Yeah, I've seen a wrecked Phantom and Murcielago from this year. Ever see the Torquenstein crash in the Viper a few years back? Mother of God, can't believe he survived!

drdre

AJ! wrote:

I think it was £15-20k last year. This year the cars and participants had to be flown from Europe to Asia and then to America and that's not cheap.

yeah i think thats why its expensive this year.

any pics of wreck this year eg phantom and other cars.thanks

qz

qz wrote:

Yeah, I've seen a wrecked Phantom and Murcielago from this year. Ever see the Torquenstein crash in the Viper a few years back? Mother of God, can't believe he survived!

There was another bad one that year.
A highly tuned Cossie spun out after hitting a gravel patch trying to overtake, on the hard shoulder....
ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD.

The car was totally trashed. The roll cage saved both of them who walked away. However one of them infact broke a few bones including one in his back.

You don't hear about that side of the gumball much!

Edit: Lots of Gumball crashes in this video:
http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer?app=vss&contentid=21a3897b1e8aa89&second=5&itag=w320&urlcreated=1147334784&sigh=l-zNuGTppXdz4rML8tpp-Cp8MiY

The other videos:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=extreme+tv+gumball

ciarsd

ronoc wrote:

There was another bad one that year.
A highly tuned Cossie spun out after hitting a gravel patch trying to overtake, on the hard shoulder....
ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD.

That'd be the Reyland Cosworth.. being led in convoy by the Mayor of Marrakesh.

Fastest recorded Cossie @ 194.7mph. Also held/holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest caravan tow at 128.8mph (not sure if the Norris Designs Evo surpased that though)

Before


After

Kersh

Sorry, it was 60k euro, or 40k sterling, my mistake - from gumballers.net -

As we have done in past years, as loyal past Gumballers you will recieve a discount of 20% with the total entry fee being £30,000 to you (based on 2 persons per car); and £40,000 to new participants.

drdre

wow that cosworth looks in bits:D

thank god the people walked away safely.

ciarsd

drdre wrote:

wow that cosworth looks in bits:D

thank god the people walked away safely.

The reg plate for the trip was L700NY

gkbolger

I was driving the BMW and you're correct "she was only a 630" and whats more I borrowed the car for the gumball as i drive a stock 3 series and thats not verry gumball at all. I had personal reasons for doing the gumball as i broke my back in a motorcycle accident in dec 04 and the Gumball finished in the playboy mansion one year to the day that i finally got out of hospal, I figured the gumball would be a cool way to prove to my self that being in a wheelchair is a minor setback and that life goes on, for those curious I borrowed the car and pulled every string i could to do it on the cheap because there is no way on earth I could afford to drop £40,000 for an 8 day holiday. Anyway allthough I only drove the european leg (as did over 20 teams) I did "put the foot down" and drop the car back to dublin and then flew to the US to catch up with my fellow gumballers and enjoy the rest of the rally as a passenger in various cars, the best of both worlds...these boys know how to party.

themessiah

Hi gkbolger , I am thinking about going on the Gumball next year , just got off the phone with Gumball HQ who are forwarding some more detailed info . It looks like its to Dubai next year and won't be as expensive as last year.

My question is re your support vehicle , did you have one and what was the cost . they couldnt really give me a defo answer on costing for next year but it does look like you are allowed to bring a support vehicle.

I just wondering if I could legitmately bring an Range Rover Sport as my "support" vehicle and carry a spare a tyre and petrol can for my amg . I am thinking that way I can get a few mates along aswell and divide the cost as I am sure the Range Rover Sport can keep up with the amg and it will have all the gumball livery on it so it would be default in the gumball race. Do you know if the support driver gets accommodation ferries etc and entry into the parties .

Cheers for the help.

gkbolger

Luckily by driving the BMW I was in good shape re support. (two of the SLRs gave trouble on the first day.) I would say the best thing to do woulld be decide do you really really need a support vehicle, is there any way you could share a support with someone else? etc.... As for having more people on the road with you, the Gumball HQ will let you know how much per head. I got a call from them a few days ago so I know the proposed route and cost, (it's not cheap). Also you should be aware that there are additional costs involved, but as someone already stated here if you have to think about the cost then you probably wouldn't be thinking about entering. If you really are serious then drop me a line.

Graham.

drdre

gkbolger wrote:

I was driving the BMW and you're correct "she was only a 630" and whats more I borrowed the car for the gumball as i drive a stock 3 series and thats not verry gumball at all. I had personal reasons for doing the gumball as i broke my back in a motorcycle accident in dec 04 and the Gumball finished in the playboy mansion one year to the day that i finally got out of hospal, I figured the gumball would be a cool way to prove to my self that being in a wheelchair is a minor setback and that life goes on, for those curious I borrowed the car and pulled every string i could to do it on the cheap because there is no way on earth I could afford to drop £40,000 for an 8 day holiday. Anyway allthough I only drove the european leg (as did over 20 teams) I did "put the foot down" and drop the car back to dublin and then flew to the US to catch up with my fellow gumballers and enjoy the rest of the rally as a passenger in various cars, the best of both worlds...these boys know how to party.

how much did it cost you for the trip,

Alkers

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