When you combine a collection of wealthy individuals who have a penchant for speed and exotic sports cars, you get what is known in some circles as Gumball 3000. For a decade participants have driven across 40 different countries on public roads, often at high speed and in most cases loving every minute of it. Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s events are typically 6 days and cover some 3,000 miles but like any kind of high speed antics on public road ways, the odd competitor comes unstuck and often with spectacular results.<\/p>\n
The concept is actually not a new one and modern Gumball rallies have their origins in the exploits of motorcycle racer \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cannonball\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Baker, who traversed the USA coast to coast in around 54 hours in the 1930\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. According to website (www.gumball3000.net\/), similar events began in the 1970\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s…\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When you combine a collection of wealthy individuals who have a penchant for speed and exotic sports cars, you get what is known in some circles as Gumball 3000. For a decade participants have driven across 40 different countries on public roads, often at high speed and in most cases loving every minute of it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68029,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16234\/revisions\/68029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}