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Old 29th July 2008, 22:22   #1
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Gumball at Buttonwillow!!!

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GUMBALL 3000 COMING TO SPEED VENTURES
Speed Ventures participants and spectators shall suffer (in a good way) the slings and arrows of other people's outrageous good fortune on August 9th at Buttonwillow Raceway Park as we play host to the first high-speed rallye (that's the British way of spelling it) checkpointe (that's the French way) of the celebrity and billionaire-studded extravaganza known as Gumball 3000. In a nutshell, Gumball 3000 provides an unprecedented opportunity for high net-worth individuals to galivant across the globe in pimped out supercars at whatever speed the local authorities will allow by day, and to party like rockstars (well, some of them ARE rockstars actually) at night. Because local authorities can be somewhat reluctant to let people drive 200mph, Gumball 3000 organizers have decided to schedule a couple pit stops at two of the world's premier racetracks (the Chinese Formula 1 circuit (a fantastic F1 track) and Buttonwillow Raceway Park (an equally fantastic and increasingly famous club racing track). After visiting Speed Ventures at Buttonwillow Raceway and eating 350 hotdogs, the caravan of 100+ participants and 250 TV/media and crew will make it's way to Los Angeles where they will go to the kind of parties Aaron Bitterman doesn't get invited to. From there they will go straight to Las Vegas just to make sure they've covered all their bases and aren't unwisely assuming Hollywood has the most to offer in the way of extravagance and debauchery. Next they'll make the obvious move of loading all 100 supercars on to air transport straight for Pyongyang, North Korea (yes, North) because they couldn't think of a better way to show all of us just how truly rich and crazy they really are.
-Guys, we HAVE to go see this! Or maybe even do the HPDE that day and stay to watch. Who's interested?

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Old 30th July 2008, 07:52   #2
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-Guys, we HAVE to go see this! Or maybe even do the HPDE that day and stay to watch. Who's interested?

To watch
1) Palantirion
2) IMZ4N
3)

To drive
1) Palantirion (if others sign up too)
2)
I will be racing up there that wknd with the Lotus Challenge Series....sweet that the Gumball event is there too!

1. Palantirion
2. plastique999
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Old 31st July 2008, 06:16   #3
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LOL everybody is banking on Gumball rally to attract attendies to their events...just go to Hollywood and Highland on Saturday 5 pm -12 mn, they will definitely be there to show their cars...
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Old 31st July 2008, 09:30   #4
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LOL everybody is banking on Gumball rally to attract attendies to their events...just go to Hollywood and Highland on Saturday 5 pm -12 mn, they will definitely be there to show their cars...
-You are totally missing the point. I don't care about seeing the exotics, I can do that any Saturday at C&C. I want to see rich, inexperienced owners DRIVING the cars around Buttonwillow Raceway! It's gonna be a riot
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LOL i got your point Earl...trust me alot of these guys knows how to drive...don't forget to post pics of their drive by



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-You are totally missing the point. I don't care about seeing the exotics, I can do that any Saturday at C&C. I want to see rich, inexperienced owners DRIVING the cars around Buttonwillow Raceway! It's gonna be a riot
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I am thinking about it. I would love too see the spins out.
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Would love to go, but Jennie's sister is flying in that day & we are going to SoCal Euro on Sunday, so gotta get up early & trailer either the coupe (if it's ready) or the vert down with the X5 with little Emma to boot.
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Would love to go, but Jennie's sister is flying in that day & we are going to SoCal Euro on Sunday, so gotta get up early & trailer either the coupe (if it's ready) or the vert down with the X5 with little Emma to boot.
-Take lots of pictures!
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