What is Gumball?

Zip · 1 Apr 2006 at 14:52

After hearing about Gumball a lot and watching a few videos of it the other day which was just :eek:

, i want to know what it actually is.
So whats Gumball and is it my imagination or are they aloud to go as fast as they want on public roads?

Enfield · 1 Apr 2006 at 14:54

I swear you asked that question the other day. No they can't break the law on public roads, why would they be allowed? :confused:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumball_3000

Zip · 1 Apr 2006 at 14:55

Enfield said:
I swear you asked that question the other day. No they can't break the law on public roads, why would they be allowed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumball_3000

I dont know why it would be allowed but on the videos i saw they dont drive slow on the motor ways :eek:

Enfield · 1 Apr 2006 at 14:56

They're rich, they don't care.

PardonTheWait · 1 Apr 2006 at 15:00

A load of rich pillocks drive like ******* for a while and they make a boring TV show about it.

No swearing. Read the FAQs

Stellios · 1 Apr 2006 at 15:06

Technically its just supposed to be a long drive that gets loads of publicity, but with peopel being in Ferraris and Porshes etc you sersiouly cant expect them to respect the speed limits

Last year IIRC about £500,000 worth of cars was totalled/impounded and about 6 people lost their licenses, along with a good few grand of fines given out.

Zip · 1 Apr 2006 at 15:06

Is there any point to it?
What parts do they get timed on :confused:

Stellios · 1 Apr 2006 at 15:07

You dont get timed, you just have to make sure you dont miss any ferries etc that you need to get across countries.

Memphis · 1 Apr 2006 at 15:08

Zip said:
Is there any point to it?
What parts do they get timed on

Money goes to charity (charities?), 'bout it really. The speeding is highly illegal, but most can pay their way out of it anyway so they don't really care.

Muncher · 1 Apr 2006 at 15:24

It is run by a total pleb too, the entrance fees this year are enormous, something like £40,000 per car. Really is a more money than sense event now.

panthro · 1 Apr 2006 at 15:44

I just used to watch the programme because Kim Schmitz made me laugh so much. How fat he was, his stupid German accent, etc. Just reading his profile on wikipedia shows how much of a loser he is.

Enfield · 1 Apr 2006 at 15:45

Zip, search Google Videos for Team Polizei

SDK^ · 1 Apr 2006 at 15:51

Zip said:
Is there any point to it?

It's all about a fun couple of weeks. The people are rich, the cars are exotic, the locations are stunning and the girls are awesome.

If you have few million in the bank would you not try it at least once

Ev0 · 1 Apr 2006 at 16:23

40k this year due to the fact it's spread over 3 continents, flying all the cars around isn't too cheap lol.

At 10k it wa sa possibility and would be a laugh, but 40k is just a bit much