Well i went to watch the Gumball 3000 rally start in central London yesterday. What a brilliant day.

Got there about midday and they had shut off Pall Mall and Staint James's Street for the day for the event - you know it was going to be big!

The cars started arriving in procession from 1pm and lined up on the start grid up and down the Mall. The public were arriving in their thousands and everyone (including me) was drooling over the sight of over $20 million worth of machinary about to have the living daylights thrashed out of it over the next 8 days and 3000 miles.

At just after 4pm Jodie Kidd dropped the chequered flag and the cars started one by one. I bagged a brilliant position just around the corner from the start where the press were stood so i thought i would video it...

I don't profess to be an expert but the wonders of Windows Video Editor allowed me to create an 8 1/2 minute video - I have studied all the Gumball forums and i've not found another start video yet so mine could well be the first - who knows (or cares!). Enjoy this list of beauties which was only a fraction of the 120 taking part.....:

Ferrari 612 - Maximillion Cooper the organiser

Maserati MC12

Rolls Royce with dixie horn

Bently Continental GT - Team Polizei!

Rolls Royce Phantom in camouflage wrap

Range Rover - Martine McCutcheon

Mini Hummer!

VW Camper/Bob Marley disco van

Ferrari F50

Porsche GT3

Nissan 200SX - Fuel car (nutters!)

Lambo Murcielago

Dodge Viper

Ferrari F50

Lambo Murcielago

Ford GT40 - Team Torquenstien

Bently Turbo - Team Satan

Ferrari F40

Lambo Murcielago

Ford Mustang GT (supercharged!)

Lambo Murcielago with a massive wing!

Ferrari F40 and some classics

Westwood - holla at your boy!

Bedford Rascal - Goldie Lookin Chain with Maggot driving

Porsche Carrera S

Lambo LM002 (wierd very rare V12 off roader thing)

Porsche Cerrara GT, cool guy revs it loads then tries to burn out and stalls it (twice!)

Farboud GT (stunning)

Porsche Cayenne Turbo - sounds + looks evil!

Mercedes Mclaren SLR - flaps its doors how cool is this car?

Ferrari Enzo - lights up the tyres right in front of me

They are all amazing but how amazing are the last 6?

Here is the link - i made 2 versions, a 320 x 200 32mb one and a 640 x 400 130mb one (same vid just higher quality)

Low Quality:

http://www.bigturbo.net/files/Gumball%203000%202006%20-%20The%20Start%20LQ.wmv

High Quality:

http://www.bigturbo.net/files/Gumball%203000%202006%20-%20The%20Start%20HQ.wmv

Enjoy

Very NICE, take it you had a good time then...

Great vid:thumbup:

Great video! That Carrera GT sounded awesome! You got a good spot!

We were at the start line and could hear all the cars burning up that street! Kind of made us regret getting a spot at the start line, we should have gone further up! Oh well. Glad you also had a great time!

Awesome! You probably want to create a torrent before that ~120MB video breaks Bigturbo.net though.

Awesome. Totally awesome!

Range Rover - Martine McCutcheon

Man, what i'd give to be in that car for that trip!

Just downloading it now.

I echo the comment about making a torrent for the vid.

Oh, and Ross... Glad to see another Martine fan on here! mmmmm

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Oi shes mine, not having the likes of you perverting her innocence

Wow - geat vid and some very nice cars.

Off to buy a lottery ticket now!