great news : maybe at least a F1 at Gumball

[cabrio92]

Hello all !

It's a very cool info ! I just receive Gumball 3000 news and I notice this :

current music god ‘Pharrell
Williams’ putting his McLaren through its paces, its safe to say that this years Gumball will cause a stir.

Yououououh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If it is true, this Gumball will be fantastic with 165 cars at start in Paris on May 5th.

Do you have any information on Pharrell Williams' McLaren ?

Ciao
Phil

[BMW V12]

great news cab ,

but it could be the slr , too , i think , i dunno if he has one , but it's also possible........

would be great to see the f1 in a gumball again....

^_^

[mini magic]

who is Pharrell Williams?

[jcsaleen]

Was there an [color=darkorange]m in the gumball last time?

[jcsaleen]

Was there an Lm in the gumball last time?

[Peloton25]

An LM participated in the European Gumball Rally in 1999, but that is the only time I believe one has participated. Several other times there have been rumors of an F1 participating but none has ever materialized.

Pharrell Williams is a member of the music group N.E.R.D.

>8^)
ER

[mini magic]

damn. i hate N.E.R.D

[BMW V12]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

An LM participated in the European Gumball Rally in 1999, but that is the only time I believe one has participated. Several other times there have been rumors of an F1 participating but none has ever materialized.
>8^)
ER

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul...d.php?t=193734

IIRC the license plate was MI MAC and it wore number 09 in the 2000 gumball


^_^

[TheRedOctober]

Pharrell Williams is also one of the producers known as The Neptunes, along with Chad Hugo they make approx. 9/10 top billboard hip hop song beats.

[maartenvanthek]

pharrel's done a lot of stuff with justin timberlake...

[mini magic]

fascinating. Tell me more about him, forget the F1 he may own, i want to know all about him......



[/sarcasm]

[maartenvanthek]

i think that the F1 certainly is a car a man like pharrell would buy, i can see him in his f1 :P:P:P

[TCC]

Latest announcement from the Gumball crew - Now there are 3(!) McLarens registered for the this year's rally.


- Tom

[MalkaJB]

What's your source for this information?

[Peloton25]

No offense to TCC, but it's probably the same source that said there would be an F1 running last year's trip across the USA, even though the one-way distance of the trip would exceed the yearly mileage allotment given by the DOT's Show&Display guidelines.

I think every year they have tried to hype the event by mentioning that an F1 (or multiple F1s) would be participating. Most here are aware of the LMs participation in the '99 Gumball across Europe. There is also recent evidence that shows an F1 road car participated in at least a portion of the Gumball the following year. Since then, I can recall they have always listed an F1 as an expected participant, but none have ever materialized. We'll have to wait and see if this year's event offers a repeat of the past few. I'm not holding out a lot of hope though.

If one does happen to run I just hope someone documents it and maybe gets a shot of the chassis plaque to aid us in our quest.

>8^)
ER