This year's Gumball starts this Sunday from London... Looks like they are going all around the world this year... Europe, Asia, USA! :eek:

I'm off to London for the start, anyone else planning to go have a nosey? Should be a fair amount of exotics there! Apparently the Pall Mall is being turned into a car park for the day. Could be quite spectacular seeing all that machinery in one place. I'll be taking pics for sure.

would love too have seen the last few on T.V and would give my left arm to have a go i mean cruising all over the world in exotic cars who wouldnt want to.

But unfortunatly i wont be there as i am too far away just to watch them all drive away i shall wait for the tv show

any ideas on whos driving it this year

Not entirely sure who's going to be doing it this year, but I do believe Alex Roy (Team Polizei 144) and Ant and Pete (Team 97) are definitely running. I think The guys from Dirty Sanchez are too.

Team Polizei are my heros

gotta love gumball, if i ever win the lotto then ill be there.

if anyone does go and gets snaps get them up sharpish :thumb:

Team Polizei aren't running apparently this year :( but Alex is running in a Bently with someone else or something. I think i might go and watch the start this year!

The starting grid has been announced here.

Yep, I'd love to give it a go too one day, but will need to be funded by me winning the lottery first!

Team Polizei are running this year according to http://www.gumball-3000.com/rally/2006/04/28/team-polizei-update/

They're doing it in a Bentley Continental GT this year, but yeah, I don't think its Alex's Bentley as it has UK plates.

I'll be taking loads of pic hopefully, so I'll post them up as soon as I can.

So given the chance which car would you choose to do the Gumball in??

I can't decide between;

Aston Martin DB9

or

McLaren Mercedes SLR

And I don't envy these guys at all... just think of all the refuelling stops...

Team 48:

Eric Ward, American

Jerry Reynolds, American

2004 Ford GT

Well i dont think the VW Sharon TDi would be the top of my list......... except for Team no: 59...............:thumbdwn:

Well... It was a good day! Managed to get into the hotel garage before they came out, so took a few pics! Got to meet a few of the gumballers too

I will sort the pics out tomorrow and upload them for you!

One of my work colleagues wives (he's only got one BTW) works with one of the drivers of the F40.

there, thats my claim to fame

brave guys in the 1975 vw camper!

good to see one of my heroes carey hart in there again.

did i see martine mccutcheon's name mentioned?

someones crashed already :(

Whoops, any idea how they managed that?

My Gumball car would be a Range Rover Sport with Overfinch conversion, XBox 360 for when i'm not driving, fridge and so on.

Whoops' date=' any idea how they managed that?

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all i know is it tried to go round a corner and well didnt :( driver and passenger were ok though

:( Gutted.

Least no one was hurt and its not like none of them can afford to repair the damage is it now

What a wicked day that was. I made a video up of the start. See here: http://www.briskoda.net/forums/general-car-chat/gumball-rally-start-video-supercars-galore/52980/

I've finally uploaded my pics...

Most of the pics were taken in the garage before the start. Thats where I got to speak to Carey Hart, Tony Hawk, Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, and Miguel Escamilla!

We did manage to get an awesome spot on the start line, but when the Gumball started, all these poncy morons with passes decided to stand right in front of us!! :mad: So I didn't get any good photos or videos of the start...

Here are some of the best: The rest can be found here.

Enjoy

PS If a mod reads this, could you please edit the title to include pics? Cheers

Just put together a short video of the garage and a bit of the start.

http://www.zen37433.zen.co.uk/pics/Gumball%202006/Gumball2006.wmv

(You can tell I'm no pro with the camera! )

Good pics mate but....

Only one partial of Martine, poor show

Someones stuffed their Phantom into a barrier too.

http://img148.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc277ℑ=84981_Gumball03.jpg

Good pics mate but....

Only one partial of Martine' date=' poor show [/quote']

Sorry dude! :P Though that actually wasn't her! She only made an appearance at the start. Even then, the press was in front of her so couldn't get any pics.

Someones stuffed their Phantom into a barrier too.

http://img148.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc277ℑ=84981_Gumball03.jpg

Such a shame! Though, I guess he'll probably just buy a new one. :insane: A Dodge Viper has stacked it too.