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Tweets from Chas Booth suggest that the council just voted 9-2 in favour to approve £10k in road closure costs to allow the "Gumball Rally" to visit Edinburgh.
For those unfamiliar with a Gumball Rally a.k.a the Gumball 3,000, it's a 3,000 mile supercar rally for rich persons (entry fee 1 x supercar, £40,000) with too much time on their hands, held on public roads where the organisers tacitly approve of / turn a blind eye to all manner of road traffic infractions.
Sounds like a souped-up Etape Caledonia?
Very soupy! For the most part it's on open roads, so more of an expensive Sportive than an Etape?
With the cars being flown into EDI from New York...
The people taking part in this are talentless privileged idiots who represent everything that is wrong with the world in my opinon. I might go along just to see if I get a chance to rearrange some HT leads.
Ah, Gumball Rally. The rich man's Cannonball Run...
Guess we’ll see in 9 or so years.
The people taking part in this are talentless privileged idiots who represent everything that is wrong with the world
I don't know about talentless, inasmuch as some quite talented drivers and actors have taken part, but it is a bit Monaco and superyachts; "Lifestyles of the Fabulously Rich and Famous", if you will. The charitable aspect isn't trivial in absolute terms - £500k raised last year - but is a little at odds with the participants' resources were it pure philanthropy.
The rich man's Cannonball Run...
If I may be pedantic, participants in the Cannonball were timed overall, so the event was to all intents and purposes a race, albeit a somewhat lighthearted one, but still with a notional winner. The fastest time was usually a combination of good navigation, good (high) average speed and not getting caught speeding. The current Cannonball Run Challenge is very definitely about not getting caught speeding: thermal imaging, laser speed camera jammers, police radio scanners, and anything else that might help.
The Gumball 3000 isn't a race, and there is no timing element beyond getting to each night's accommodation in time to dress for dinner. The Gumball Rally (the film) was a race though, with no rules at all, and it was loosely based on the real world Cannonball events. Likewise, the Cannonball Run films were a fiction but embodied the spirit of the original event, which only ran for eight years in the 1970s.
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