Perhaps I am missing the point - someone help !!

[autofocus]

Hi there,

I don't have the money to buy a Lamborghini or a Ferrari, perhaps if I did I would understand why it is that people think it is good fun to drive £150,000 cars as fast as possible across various countries of the world in a bid to be the first to the finish line. These people seem to think nothing of crashing their cars as spectacularly as possible and walking away, only to step into a replacement and carry on.

The latest person to prove they have more money then sense is the driver of the Purple Murcielago roadster that has crashed on the Gumball.

www.gumball3000blog.com/2006/05/04/first-picture-from-the-crashed-lamborghini/



What point do these people have to prove ??

Can someone please explain it to me as I am really struggling to understand.

Regards

Tim

[peterh2]

I assume they don’t have enough skill to enter either WRC or F1 so this will have to do

[chris_crossley]

Why bother climbing everest.
The fact that some muppets can't actually climb dosn't stop them. They still attempt to climb and then die.

Life's short so have some fun. Sitting in you house and never leaving it. Till you drop dead is not living!.

Thus ends the lesson.

[crikeymikey]

Have to agree with Chris. Better to do it than not.

I do think, however, that there are better places to exercise your ego than on public roads,in a foreign (possibly 3rd world) country with a peasant and his family stolling across, minding their own business. That's what race tracks were invented for. How nobody's been killed yet I'll never know.

See you Sunday, Chris. We should have about 15 Lambos for you. Keep it to yourself. Shhhhh!

[I HATE GATSO]

What a wates of such an awesome car, tit

[David A]

I HATE GATSO said:

What a wates of such an awesome car, tit

I'm sure he didn't do it on purpose. Now a true waste of an awesome car is leaving it in the garage all its life. e.g. my maser covered more in teh first two months with me than in the first two years of its life !! Tis a waste!

Dave

[steve f]

Each to there own they have earned it so they can spend it

[chrisx666]

I agree with Steve, it's their money and what's considered expensive is all relative. The Murci is hardly an irreplaceable piece of history - they are still making them so the guy can just go buy another.

Obviously driving like a tit on a public road cannot be condoned regardless of what the car cost.

[crikeymikey]

chrisx666 said:

I agree with Steve, it's their money and what's considered expensive is all relative. The Murci is hardly an irreplaceable piece of history - they are still making them so the guy can just go buy another. Obviously driving like a tit on a public road cannot be condoned regardless of what the car cost.

Spot on Chris. Although I suspect that half the guys out there don't actually own the cars they're in. A lot are "loaners" or are on finance.

I still have to question the sense in trying to race (lets not fall for this "rally" nonsense, it's a thinly veiled road race) with amateurs, on public roads, though.

But for those who are just genuinely enjoying the experience, I have a great deal of respect. You're always going to get a few bad apples, after all.

[dmaci38293]

Hey..

Only thing I will add is that some of the guys doing it are friends of ours. You do get some people on it with no respect, but I guess they are entitled to do what they want as they have earnt their money fair and square, but these guys are far and few! Sometimes accidents do happen and its not their fault - I beleive the lambo hit a bump in the road and literally took off. I am not sure what speed it was doing but that can happen to anyone. We have all had accidents (i guess!) and we all know that they do happen for the most annoying reasons etc!

I see where everyone comes from, but please dont slag everyone off without knowing the full story - as I said accidents do happen. If it was due to high speeds in bad conditions etc then thats their fault and I guess they will pay for it, but sometimes things happen just because they do!

[anonymous-user]

dmaci38293 said:

Hey.. Only thing I will add is that some of the guys doing it are friends of ours. You do get some people on it with no respect, but I guess they are entitled to do what they want as they have earnt their money fair and square, but these guys are far and few! Sometimes accidents do happen and its not their fault - I beleive the lambo hit a bump in the road and literally took off. I am not sure what speed it was doing but that can happen to anyone. We have all had accidents (i guess!) and we all know that they do happen for the most annoying reasons etc! I see where everyone comes from, but please dont slag everyone off without knowing the full story - as I said accidents do happen. If it was due to high speeds in bad conditions etc then thats their fault and I guess they will pay for it, but sometimes things happen just because they do!

Apparently 130MPH according to the website!!!

[stig]

Take solice in the fact that after they've laughed it off in front of their fellow Chumpball 'stars', they'll go home for a little cry and try to work out how they can recover the £170k that they've lost now that the insurance won't pay out.

[gt]

stig said:

Take solice in the fact that after they've laughed it off in front of their fellow Chumpball 'stars', they'll go home for a little cry and try to work out how they can recover the £170k that they've lost now that the insurance won't pay out.

considering he sold his business last year for an 8 figure sum, i doubt he'll be doing that.

[bund]

stig said:

Take solice in the fact that after they've laughed it off in front of their fellow Chumpball 'stars', they'll go home for a little cry and try to work out how they can recover the £170k that they've lost now that the insurance won't pay out.

These guys must be covered for accidents of this type.

Driver to Insurance: I wasnt racing the other lambo and no i wasnt in the rally i just bumped into some other drivers.
Passenger for witness: I just dont know how all these stickers got on our car.

[dealmaker]

gt said:

stig said: Take solice in the fact that after they've laughed it off in front of their fellow Chumpball 'stars', they'll go home for a little cry and try to work out how they can recover the £170k that they've lost now that the insurance won't pay out. considering he sold his business last year for an 8 figure sum, i doubt he'll be doing that.

Wha business was that then?

[gt]

dealmaker said:

gt said: stig said: Take solice in the fact that after they've laughed it off in front of their fellow Chumpball 'stars', they'll go home for a little cry and try to work out how they can recover the £170k that they've lost now that the insurance won't pay out. considering he sold his business last year for an 8 figure sum, i doubt he'll be doing that. Wha business was that then?

HFS group, sold to capital one for IIRC £65m

[bund]

gt said:

dealmaker said: gt said: stig said: Take solice in the fact that after they've laughed it off in front of their fellow Chumpball 'stars', they'll go home for a little cry and try to work out how they can recover the £170k that they've lost now that the insurance won't pay out. considering he sold his business last year for an 8 figure sum, i doubt he'll be doing that. Wha business was that then? HFS group, sold to capital one for IIRC £65m

Sod it, i wouldnt even bother getting the lambo picked up. I'd just give it to the closest poorest person.

[Jonny5]

He didn't own the business, so it's unlikely he got 65 million

[gt]

Jonny5 said:

He didn't own the business, so it's unlikely he got 65 million

it was MBO'd the year before, so i am assuming he got at least a decent chunk of it.

[Jonny5]

gt said:

Jonny5 said: He didn't own the business, so it's unlikely he got 65 million it was MBO'd the year before, so i am assuming he got at least a decent chunk of it.

24%, so enough money to say, "get by"