RE: Gumball 3000 Rally 2018: PH Gallery

[Lordbenny]

Believe me, driving 1000 miles across 7 countries in one night with refuelling etc and trying to achieve an average on 61mph is not easy and is impossible to do within the national speed limit of every European country including Germany!

[RacerMike]

I'm amazed it's still going really. It couldn't feel less relevant to modern car culture/society now.

Edited by RacerMike on Thursday 9th August 11:36

[CheckmateBlue]

Accorrding to L'est-Eclair (a French rag) a number were caught speeding...Four competitors were flashed by fixed radar and a Chevrolet Corvette was seized: it was bombing at 221 km / h! His driver is summoned to the Criminal Court in January 2019.

The slowest offender was still moving at a speed of 166 km / h, and the fastest at 249 km / h ...

The least we can say is that wherever they go, the cars are noticeable. Sunday, in the North, fifteen vehicles were intercepted for the same reasons.

Sounds to me some of them ended on day one.

[I 8 a 4RE]

C70R said:

7795 said:

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...

This is because it's not an event about cars; it's an event about relentless attention wes who happen to be driving cars.

Amen brother.

[arkenphel]

Lovely cars! I'd love to do it if I had the money. If I have made it in life to be able to sticker up a £200k car and be able to laugh off the car being confiscated, why the heck not? As long as I don't kill/ hurt anyone else.

You brits are so weird, not celebrating success. Either that or not wanting to see someone else succeed.

[Dan_M5]

I'd be pissed if i paid to do it and then they forgot to send my car over to Japan....

14 cars left behind by accident!

[MDL111]

Dan_M5 said:

I'd be pissed if i paid to do it and then they forgot to send my car over to Japan....

14 cars left behind by accident!

Seriously? Yeah, I’d not be amused

[robinh73]

arkenphel said:

Lovely cars! I'd love to do it if I had the money. If I have made it in life to be able to sticker up a £200k car and be able to laugh off the car being confiscated, why the heck not? As long as I don't kill/ hurt anyone else.

You brits are so weird, not celebrating success. Either that or not wanting to see someone else succeed.

It is nothing to do with being a Brit or a lack of celebrating success to me (and from what I read here, I am not alone), but it has everything to do with a load of "celebrities" or wannabe celebrities wanting to be seen and make as much of a spectacle as possible. Gone are the early days of being a rather cool and exclusive event with some interesting characters (Arthur Chirkinian and his Koenigsegg, Lonman and his GT2). It is typical of sadly what a supercar owner does now, rather than get out there, find an empty stretch of road and use the car, they instead like to make as much noise as possible while having a million images of themselves taken to for an ego massage on social media. Maybe I am missing the point of it all, but to me, this isn't driving.

[donkmeister]

Does anyone know who is driving the green Ferrari on Canadian plates? I wondered if it might be a certain Canadian engineering recluse due to the personal plate.

Eta it's not AvE, it's some tart who does music festivals. Pah.

Edited by donkmeister on Thursday 9th August 13:06

[Prizam]

arkenphel said:

You brits are so weird, not celebrating success. Either that or not wanting to see someone else succeed.

Its a strange sense of self-entitlement and hatred for the "elite", that means success is seen as something to despise unless it's yourself that's successful.

It is now fashionable to be a "victim", rather than successful and self-serving.

[rampageturke]

donkmeister said:

Does anyone know who is driving the green Ferrari on Canadian plates? I wondered if it might be a certain Canadian engineering recluse due to the personal plate.

Eta it's not AvE, it's some tart who does music festivals. Pah.

Edited by donkmeister on Thursday 9th August 13:06

AvE has a ferrari?

[Dan_M5]

MDL111 said:

Dan_M5 said:

I'd be pissed if i paid to do it and then they forgot to send my car over to Japan....

14 cars left behind by accident!

Seriously? Yeah, I’d not be amused

Yea its all over Instagram.

[Europa1]

Prizam said:

arkenphel said:

You brits are so weird, not celebrating success. Either that or not wanting to see someone else succeed.

Its a strange sense of self-entitlement and hatred for the "elite", that means success is seen as something to despise unless it's yourself that's successful.

It is now fashionable to be a "victim", rather than successful and self-serving.

I disagree; it's more to do with how people conduct themselves and treat other people.

I recall years ago Ruby Wax went on the Gumball and did a documentary. Yes, it was for TV so was edited, but many of the participants came over as complete strokers.

[drjdog]

Smashy and Nicey flew their helicopters around the M25 for 5 hours and raised over £2000 for charity. Is this the new version of that?

[Rawwr]

Prizam said:

Its a strange sense of self-entitlement and hatred for the "elite", that means success is seen as something to despise unless it's yourself that's successful.

It is now fashionable to be a "victim", rather than successful and self-serving.

Absolutely not. There are many incredibly successful people who post on Pistonheads who manage to be both incredibly wealthy and incredibly nice. Money tends to act as a personality amplifier and if someone was a frightful oik with no money, they're going to be an intolerable flapping anus when they have lots of it.

[Paddy78]

Lordbenny said:

Rawwr said:

That's ok then.

Eh?

I think it was a sarcastic shot at your pedantry, where you seemed more concerned by details of the deaths, rather than the fact that people were killed by these morons (Or ones like them - to be factual).

[anonymous-user]

Before opening this thread I had a mental image of who goes on these things. Nailed it.

[jfire]

arkenphel said:

Lovely cars! I'd love to do it if I had the money. If I have made it in life to be able to sticker up a £200k car and be able to laugh off the car being confiscated, why the heck not? As long as I don't kill/ hurt anyone else.

You brits are so weird, not celebrating success. Either that or not wanting to see someone else succeed.

This isn't really the sort of thing your Elon Musk takes time off to participate in. It's for people born with money whose only mark of success is media coverage. It's funny, as a Brit, we have a load of well known socialites. Google any one of them followed by Gumball and they have taken part.

[Cold]

jfire said:

This isn't really the sort of thing your Elon Musk takes time off to participate in.

Not enough pedos taking part for him to be interested.

[XB70]

We got passed by some of these morons not far from the Eurotunnel.

As someone said above, take it to the track.

The utter clown in the Mclaren weaving in and out, undertaking and nearly clipping a car in the outside lane as he swerved across in front of me in lane two - if you are on here you muppet I hope they take their car from you before you kill someone.

As for the plonkers in the yellow and blue Hurancans doing Mach 1. Idiots.