Rich white people take fast cars to Korea
J.Brunhoff | August 15, 2008
Anyone who follows auto news looks forward to the annual assault of info on the Gumball 3000 rally. The Gumball 3000 Rally is the brain child of British playboy Maximillion Cooper who in 1999 invited 50 of his closest celebrity friends to have a 6 day rally driving party around Europe. That is how the Gumball Rally was born and it has been growing ever since.
The Rally is about high profile people in high dollar cars having a lot of fuck you fun. Don’t get me wrong I am fully planning on joining the Gumball ranks one day but it is equal parts cool and douche. On one hand the Gumball is a celbration of hot cars, it involves big parties and beautiful women, and it is a special kind of a "fuck you" to the law and the up-tightness of most of society. On the other hand the Gumball Rally is a vulgar display of wealth and superiority, and it is generally populated by total attention whores.
This years Gumball started in San Francisco on August 9th and is going from SF to LA, LA to Vegas, and from Vegas all the cars and Ralliers to party with Kim Jung il in North Korea, before ending their 6 day driving party in Beijing before the end of the Olympics. You can follow along with all the debachereous fun by visiting the official Gumball 300 site here , or read the blog here .
