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Right now the 2012 Gumball 3000 cars are lining up in New York Times Square to begin the first leg of their run to Toronto! The entrance fee is $40,000 USD per car and limited to 120 pre-screened cars (93 registered this year) to ensure they are “interesting” teams 🙂 They arrive in Toronto sometime tonight and I will be there to take some photos! Don’t forget to checkout the cars from the 2011 Gumball 3000 and 2010 GUMBALL 3000 when they were last in Toronto! There is even a techno colored Team Toronto (Team #12) driving a Mercedes Benz SLS AMG!

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With the 2010 GUMBALL 3000 coming to the end of it’s journey (London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Montreal, Toronto, New York), the cars are due to arrive in Yorkville, Toronto this evening around 6pm and will be staying at the Hyatt. I will be on location to check out their 2nd last stop of the tour and snap some pics. Stay tuned for pictures coming to a MadWhips.com near you from Josh McRae who partied with the Gumballers last night in Quebec at Chez DegoBar and it looks just as crazy as I remember when I was last there 10 years ago 🙂

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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.

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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

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