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Here is the video from the Horrific Macedonian head on collision between the Techart Porsche 911 Turbo and Volkswagen Golf.

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It took more than 24 hours, a botched cover up and massive negative worldwide publicity for Maximillion Cooper to finally announce the cancellation of this years Gumball 3000 rally.

The delayed reaction, press release and ultimate cancellation of the Gumball 3000 has caused a lot of disbelief and anger among the victims families, locals, fans and drivers. This has resulted in a quick exit of all sponsors and created an anti-Gumball campaign.

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The 911 Porsche that crashed into the Volkswagen killing the driver and putting the passenger in critical condition was apparently the car of Nick Morley and Matthew McConville. As you can see by the banner I have included in this post, The Official Gumball 3000 website has shut down the forum and stopped answering all questions.

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It is with much sadness that I have to report that the 2007 Gumball 3000 has encountered its first fatality. A white Porsche crashed in Macedonia, near the city of Struga close to the Albanian border. Some locals were injured in the crash. The driver of the Red Volkswagen in the picture died on the way to the hospital and his wife is in intensive care, in critical condition suffering from broken ribs and fluid in her lungs.

This is extremely unfortunate for the Gumball 3000 as well as other ‘rallies’ of this type around the world. This accident will definitely serve as a precedent and example for putting more limitations and possibly shutting down or banning these annual events in some if not all countries.

[Source: GTspirit.com]

2007 Gumball 3000 in Calais

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Metacafe opened their Gumball 3000 video channel a couple days ago. This channel is part of the partnership between Gumball 3000, Adidas and Metacafe. It enables the fans, drivers and Gumball 3000 crew to upload their videos and creations to Metacafe. Of course it’s not just another Youtube because by uploading videos to the channel at metacafe you can win Gumball 3000 prizes.

The first 50 entries every day score official Gumball 3000 wristbands. The overall top 3 videos win official Gumball 3000 merchandise and tickets to next year’s Gumball 3000 launch party!

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Here are the best videos I could find so far covering the 2007 Gumball 3000!!

Team Fuel just released their first video! Richie, Gerry and the Fuel Girls are on their way to Athens to get united again with their Mansory Bentley Continental GT. In the video Richie takes you to his Fuel store and shows you the Mansory Phantom and tells you about the rest of the cars, new girl Zara interviews Maximillion and a lot of random clips from the start:

To take the film coverage to a new level, Gumball 3000 Films hired a Helicopter Team called Air Gumball. Team Air Gumball will follow the rally from Istanbul to Berlin. Here is the trailer Team Air Gumball made for this years Gumball 3000 including a Maserati 3200 GT, two Porsche Turbo’s, a Porsche Carrera GT3 and a Porsche 997

[Source: Youtube.com, Metacafe.com, GTspirit.com]

Only 3 days into the Gumball 3000 and already a minor headache from guess who?!? It appears that when the Gumballer’s ripped through Germany, they found themselves warmly welcomed by the Auto-Nazi’s in Germany. The German police had setup a series of roadblocks complete with floodlights and helicopters then handed out legal documents informing the Gumballer’s that their race was illegal and impounded the cars overnight. I wonder if the Gumballer’s thought they were then destined for the AGA??

“The Germans basically agreed to allow us to race on their roads, and now appear to have rescinded on that agreement,” a frustrated Michael Ross explains. “We were due to be flown out with our vehicles to Istanbul today and continue the race there, but the police have impounded our cars and won’t release them. Apparently, they’re now trying to persuade the police in Istanbul to not allow us to race there either.”

Why can’t we all just get along? Why can’t we end this childish game of ‘lets make the news’ by pissing on Maximillion Cooper’s Gumball 3000 guests? I guess this is simply Germany’s Police trying to re-assert themselves and remind the world of their oh so colorful past of being in charge and ‘trying’ to dominate the world. Just for this, I think we should all boycott Oktoberfest this year.

Apparently a free ten-police-cars-per-Gumballer escort down the autobahn to the airport was provided this morning to insure the racers made it out of Germany and onto Istanbul.

[Source: news.independent.co.uk, Jalopnik.com]

In celebration of tomorrow’s DAY 1 of the 2007 Gumball 3000 rally (ahem race), here is a video from April 30th, 2006 in London. These exotics are SICK, and I love how people have absolutely no problem painting them up with graphics and logos! (I can’t wait to do this to my exotic) I also want to re-iterate how SIMPLY AWESOME this race is and how I cant wait to have a Madwhips / Carzi sponsored car in the next ~3 years!

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