Gumball 3000 Rally 2018: PH Gallery
That most infamous of road rallies kicks off for its 20th instalment; PH waved them off...
The Gumball 3000 Rally returned to London last weekend for its 20th instalment. Celebrities such as Usher, Afrojack and David Hasselhoff joined hundreds of other 'Gumballers' at Covent Garden with over 150 supercars and performance cars participating in the rally.
Star cars of the rally included at least six of the new Ferrari 812 Superfast, a handful of Lamborghini Huracan Performantes, McLaren P1 and Porsche 918 hypercars, K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider, the very cool Lamborghini Murcielago SV, a Pagani Huayra, and a Dodge Challenger SRT Demon. The real head turners, however, included a yellow Ferrari 288 GTO from Australia, a very nice Mercedes Benz AMG GT R that paid homage to the 'Red Pig', two Lexus LF As (one of which was a 1/50 Nurburgring edition), the E.C Only One P8 which is a V8 1,200kg Italian prototype, and a Mercedes Benz 300SL.
The 300SL in question was one of the 11 retro-modded by AMG (believed to have been commissioned by the Sultan of Brunei) which features modern running gear, engine and interior, but with an original 300SL body.
This year's rally started in London, and at the time we are writing this, heads on through Europe to Milan. The cars then all fly to Japan where the tour continues to the finish line in Tokyo. The Gumball 3000 rally has become infamous for partying and reckless driving; however, there is no ignoring the near £500,000 that was raised for charity by the teams this year before the rally even began. Which of these would you take on the Gumball?
These days though it seems like the whole world knows it's coming and the whole route is monitored by very strict speed controls by all the various countries Police forces...
The days of Kimble, Ant (BMW330d), Lonman (GT2), Alex Roy and others are long gone...
ETA...some very nice machines there though.
Lots of Police patrol cars etc.
We made a fuel stop in northern France and saw two cars being 'guided' in to the service area.
There was a lot of head in hands and head shaking going on. Confiscations?
Low-loaders arrived just before we left.
Didn't look worth the hassle to me.
Or keep the attention to a minimum and it's not an event.
Zero sum game
It's almost certainly not narcissism...
ETA - do we think charities really want to be associated with the kind of f*ckwittery that goes on?
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