** Gumball 3000 2005 Acoz (Belgium) **

[The Transporter]

Hello all,

I was there yesterday ...
I arrived at Acoz at 23h30, no cars were arrived, I waited there (in the fucking cold of the belgium) until 00h30~01h00 and I saw the first cars :)
It was really crowded, too much people to take good pictures.
The local police was there too but they were not enough to maintain the order and it was really a mess...

I have taken the best shot I think and I hope you'll all enjoy ;)
My fav cars was the Lambo Murcielago of course ! and the BMW of Roy...I have to say that the Aston Martin was fucking really impressive...
Enjoy the pic and the videos, sorry for the slowlyness, I host it on my computer... if someone want to host pictures and videos for me ... it's welcome :)

Some example pictures:
http://img214.echo.cx/img214/6320/img49024jb.th.jpg (http://img214.echo.cx/my.php?image=img49024jb.jpg)http://img54.echo.cx/img54/5307/img49268yy.th.jpg (http://img54.echo.cx/my.php?image=img49268yy.jpg)http://img245.echo.cx/img245/4439/img49069zf.th.jpg (http://img245.echo.cx/my.php?image=img49069zf.jpg)


http://moi.homeip.net/~pol/spf2/v/engine/cars/exposition/gumball2005/

Enjoyyyyyy

-Pol-

[TT]

Dang, as the others said, it sucked balls :( ok it was night, but nght time isn't a problem when there aren't 20'000 curious around you :(
I thought London would have been the worst place to take the pics this year, but Acoz gets the prize for now :bah:

Still, thanks for the effort!!!!!!!!!!!!

[duko]

Awesome cars, but I totally agree with TT.. Too bad :(
Thanks though :)

[Cigarette1]

It was terrible, sooo many people :cry:
And police couldn't maintain order indeed, I saw a 2 drunk ******** go lay down on the front of a silver F430 !!!!! :twisted:

[adamwich]

Some pretty nice pictures! Thanks!

[The Transporter]

Btw, is it joddie Kidd: http://moi.homeip.net/~pol/spf2/v/engine/cars/exposition/gumball2005/photos/IMG_4928.JPG.html
?

[duko]

Jep, that's Jodie Kidd :D

[The Transporter]

... and it really showed the INCOMPETENCE of the Wallon Police department! Had this been in Flanders it wouldn't have been this bad. They would at least put up barricades so that people wheren't running on the roads all the time.
(you have 2 part in belgium, the dutch one = flanders, french one = wallonie. In Wallonie you can really smell incompetence from time to time)


Big rectification: not 'from time to time', in Wallonie, its: 'All the time'


Not even enough clever to put some 'Barrières Nadar'...Police in wallonie are only good to put flashes on Motorway... that's all... and I really hate them.

[The Transporter]

I wanted to post "all the time" but didn't want to offend you, so understated it a little :p And yes it's ALL the time.

To many fucking children, fat mothers, ugly girls, idiots and others that don't belong near supercars.

You should've seen that rolls, it had fingerprints all over it. People bragging about how they touched the cars and stuff, really :roll:

No problem mate ... we are right when we say 'All the time'...

[Anonymous]

You should've seen that rolls, it had fingerprints all over it. People bragging about how they touched the cars and stuff, really :roll:

Chop the bastard's hands off :roll: no respect, little pricks should have been arrested, but by the sounds of it there was no chance of that.

Still thanks for the effort of taking pics guys, very much appreciated :D

[The Transporter]

42 persons online on MY computer ! wow !

http://img211.echo.cx/img211/8383/capture1161ds.th.jpg (http://img211.echo.cx/my.php?image=capture1161ds.jpg)

http://img233.echo.cx/img233/1957/capture1179gg.th.jpg (http://img233.echo.cx/my.php?image=capture1179gg.jpg)

Look the right vertical bar (called gkrellm) :) juste at the left of HTTP ... it's the number of people going on my server ! :)

Excellent !

[coombsie66]

^^ The atmosphere in London, thankfully was more in appreciation of the gumball rather than ruining it with stupid antics, people just got a little overexcited!
Good effort though lads, if we can get pics of the cars at each check point it would be WIKID!!! :D

[Wutputt]

I went to the Gumbal checkpoint in Acoz last night too. It was total CHAOS. All those gumballers had to go to this tiny little village, but apparently more than 10.000 of visitors showed up. It was so crowded most gumballers even couldn’t reach the checkpoint.

When I arrived, I was able to enter the domain of the castle. Only a small group was allowed in. I was really happy, but that changed quickly. The security told us we had to stand on the grass, cause the roads had to be kept free for the cars to pass. So I searched for a good spot and installed my tripod and camera. But then they let everyone inside, and the security and cops couldn’t handle the crowd. So about 1000 people came standing in front of me on the roads.

This also meant it was almost impossible to take pics: too much people, and there wasn’t enough light. The only good place to take pics was on the square inside the castle, but I wasn’t allowed to enter it, though I asked really friendly. But apparently the Gumball crew didn’t had much to say about who could enter the square besides the contestants of the rally.

To conclude, my pics turned out to be utter crap. But I’ll post a few anyway, just to give you an idea what it was like.


Try to find the Countach in this pic :roll:

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[The Transporter]

Thanks for the photos Wutputt :)

And the only word I remember from that night is 'Chaos' ! :)

cya

[stmoritzer]

Thanks Wutputt and The Transporter for the report/pictures about this "crazy" - chaotic event :shock: :lol: :wink:

[Mopsdrops]

damn, I see I missed all the fun again :( How did u guys exactly know that they are going to be there ? Nice cars btw, seen it on telefacts. The gouverment here are idiots, you must have seen that episode. they try to do as much as they can to make them pay and don't race here. it's a shame :cry:

[Wutputt]

damn, I see I missed all the fun again :( How did u guys exactly know that they are going to be there ?
It was posted here on JW and on the Gumball site ;)

[Mopsdrops]

damn, I see I missed all the fun again :( How did u guys exactly know that they are going to be there ?
It was posted here on JW and on the Gumball site ;)
Ah, I see, I didn't watched those whole topics. interesting, but to much to read, especially since I have much work for school.