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Here's what I saw today, mark 3 (don't quote pictures, 24h ban!)
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ba_barabus wrote: »I'm assuming most people here have seen the original film?
Cannonball? Great movie and stellar line-up. I'd say they had savage craic making it.
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All these cars are heavily sponsored, are they just paid to drive across the country for a Gumball event? That's it? No official course or anything, just get from A to B as fast as possible without getting caught for speeding...I appreciate a big convoy road trip (Do they still have the big parties at checkpoints?) but I feel like I'm missing something...
Must be really boring driving €250,000 sports cars at 120kph
You pay to enter. The sponsors are all from the event organisers themselves and most rallys require you to display them in certain places on your car and reserve a certain percentage of space for them. Gumball for example, about 50% of the car space is for Gumballs sponsors, the rest you can do yourself. Some rallies ban all other sponsors. A good percentage of ralliers treat the events as holidays, and some of them manage to have the whole thing bank rolled by sponsors or their own activities e.g. VLogging.
All the rallies, there is no prize for speed or time between checkpoints as thats considered street racing in most juristions. Likewise, you can't place bets or wagers. The legal loophole however is that you can be given a prize for being the best navigator e.g. You are consistently first (or placed) at each checkpoint. How you do this, depends on your tactics i.e. Fast as possible, or take a different route to avoid cops. So even though they don't tell you to speed, you probably will if you care about such a prize. In my experience, only a small percentage of the group care, the rest just enjoy the ride and stay in convoy.
Cannonball is very, very tame by comparison to the antics that Gumball, Goldrush and Bullrun get or got up to in the States and farther afield. Gumball has calmed down a lot and Goldrush is very much above board to avoid any negative attention. Bullrun, at the last one and the mid 2000s, was nuts. You'd have multiple arrests per day and thousands in fines.
Yes, they have parties at checkpoints. Bullrun and Gumball probably had the best in their heyday. Goldrush would be up there too. Irish Cannonball, I have no idea but given its in Ireland, the question is answered there.
That said, the whole point is the community in my eyes. Amazing people, great stories and good fun. If you ever have the resources to do one, even Modball, I'd strongly suggest it.
(Feel free to AMA about Bullrun or Gumball, I've worked on and with both)0 -
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Remember videos on "extreme channel" from Gumball years ago. The way there were driving was just cool to watch but "don't do it at home". Speeding on hard shoulder, race everyone and everything and now it's more family raod trip than what it was...
But now back to Ireland and Cannonball. I've been there on Thursday. What I found weird this year was that cars with no sticker were sended away and they back after few minutes covered whit that shi*e. Every year I'm saying the same about stickers, They changed a bit for all those years but no matter how much they change I will still moan about them. I hate stickers on cars. Car which is 10/10 without them look like 6 or 7/10 with them for me. Last year on Thursday there was good chance to take a photos of cars without them, this year until 7pm when I was leaving there was 8 cars without them and they were clean only for no more than 5 minutes and after that there was a stickers team putting them on.
Location is great. I love background at Point Village. If you there early enough you can have good photos of cars arriving there but around half 5/6 crowd is becoming really big but then if you miss some cars at Point Village you have another 3 days to catch them somewhere on checkpoint or passing some nice village or nice road.
Cars in race are good too. Not expecting Paganis and Koenigseggs or any other hypercars. Even if most of cars are the same for years there is something new every year. I'm spoiled in supercars. I saw so many of them, so many "normal" Ferrari or Lamborghini that somethimes they just bored to look at but I still think Cannonball have good selection. I probably say something different every year but sometimes I expect more from events and when I go i'm dissapointed like I was last year with Fundracer and this year it was really good for me, same with Cannonball. Think it all depend of what mood I am.
STICKERS are the only thing I can and I will moan about. HATE THEM!!!
Now here are some photos I took yesterday on Thursday between 1pm and 7pm when I was there.
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There was a zonda and koenigsegg there last year, I don't know if they were driven.
Apparently some have issues with yellow plates coming over for it but it's the only way we're going to to see some of the above mentioned cars take part.
I'd love to see them all but I don't know if anyone in Ireland has one? (I know there was a veyron but never heard of any paganI or kegg here)
Seen in an article over 40% of the cars in it were yellow plates (I`d say more in reality) Any of the nicer cars certainly were. The zonda and egg that were here in 2015 were from a dealer who brought them over for it. The cgt mentioned is owned by an Irish chap and was on it a few times (he brought his sv this year and last). In all respects there could be more really nice metal over from the uk or northern Ireland, why there isn't I don`t know but I`d bet you`d see more in the future.
Even though in majority it was the same cars as last I`m not complaining, there is something about the smell of burning unleaded and half-clothed press girls wondering around that makes you forget about it
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Few photos I took below, Still have loads to edit.
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The engine of a Ferrari 456 
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