CWay27

Maximillion Cooper started it back 99 or 00. One of the first was across the united states. Year after year the rally becomes bigger and bigger and travel the planet. The fee includes all hotels special events throughout the rally, air transportation for the car and occupants etc. If I remember correctly, they had a party at the playboy mansion during one of the rally.

At first anybody with cash could attend the rally but now it's more of who knows who and what kind of car you're driving. Either you have the most expensive impossible exotic car or camo 360 spyder.

Robin 993DX

Actually I saw plenty of beater Porsches at the event last night, there was one 996 rally car that looked exactly like my beater 996 same color combo and everything. There were also lots of "cheaper" cars.

I heard that the next year's rally would start from the Playboy mansion....

Robin 993DX

I am sure there are quit of few of trust fund babies in the rally, but there are also many self made individual who just wants to have some fun. At every stop of the rally, there usually is a track reserved for everyone to track their car on the track.

ArneeA

Pretty much. Or they're probably related to the guy who had his Lambo shipped to another country for an oil change.

Lots of money, very little brains.

marlinspike

Oh, Max Cooper, so you know it's for people of high moral constitutions. Isn't that the same oxygen thief who claims to spread computer viruses and does in fact spam mail people''s private message boxes on car forums?

ivangene

<saw> 1/2 price version start up... can we get the fee a BIT lower?

I am IN !!
<no nose picking though...too hard to drive that way>
As for the poor people who died, I am sorry....however people die in car related accidents with or without this race..
I feel sorry for them, I am not heartless, its just a fact.
Ed

Eharrison

I heard he made his $$$ selling vests.......

Nicolaasdb

why all that bitching about billionairs spending money..remember for them 100K is the same as for us 100 bucks....think outside the box for once! I wish I got the cash I would join....besides a couple of ******** (and you don't need to be rich to be an *******!!) most of them must be so much fun..I have seen clips of the race on tv...and they are having a blast!! Must be nice to be rich!!!

DanJK

"As for the poor people who died, I am sorry....however people die in car related accidents with or without this race..
I feel sorry for them, I am not heartless, its just a fact.
Ed"

Serious? You my friend are an idiot.

Thundertub

I just happen to currently be reading The Driver, by Alexander Roy (on the bookshelves at Barnes & Noble). He chronicals the life of the regular rally folks who attend these events over and over, as he seeks to find the mastermind and creator of original outlaw high speed run filmed in the short Rendezvous. Fun reading, actually. Lots of fun stuff about the Gumball Rallies through 2006, and then history of the legends of this "sport" going back to the first Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash created in the early 70's by Brock Yates.

ArneeA

I don't know what you're talking about!

Hi Ed!

Eharrison

I thought you'd like that one.

ivangene

Awe man !
<puts on the IDIOT HAT and sits in the corner>


Ed (aka the idiot)

Zoolander

DanJk- You speak the truth. My father and I seriously considered running in one. After meeting some of the participants and the organizers and realizing their level of responsibility we decided not to. The event should have been banned after the recent deaths.

http://www.gumball3000blog.com/2007/...-jet/#more-341

Vifa

The year they did Europe they went by our holiday spot in spain, unfortunately we weren't there at the moment, could have been a lot of fun to see the acutal rally. But Robin, it most have been a really great day.