The wait is over, today the Gumball 3000 flag drops in San Francisco and sends the teams and their precious supercars on their way. Last night some of the Gumball cars were on display in front of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco and our friends from San Francisco took some pictures of the supercars while the Gumballers enjoyed the kick off party at Club Temple.

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We just received an update from Team 50. They are on their way to Athens right now with all the other Gumballers, and get wait to get their car back. They had a great time during the first leg from London to Amsterdam but then the German police spoiled the party a bit. Here’s their first video from the German highway.

Pictures Day 1:

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This morning the Gumballers arrived at Hahn Airport for their scheduled departure to Istanbul. The German police set up roadblocks along the route towards the airport. The Gumballers driving on the A61/E31 towards Hahn were stopped near Brohl-Lützing, after a couple hours the teams and cars with Gumball stickers (including fans) got a 420 euro fine and were escorted to the airport 100 kilometers away by the police. The Gumballers that entered Germany over the A60/E42 from Belgium and ran into a roadblock near the town of Sankt Vith didn’t get away with a fine and a police escort. They were not allowed to drive any further in Germany and had to find transportation for their cars.

Luckily they were able to find some trucks and around 10 teams that got stopped there also made it to the checkpoint in time. After the Gumballers left on the passenger plane to Istanbul the German authorities however didn’t allow the Antonov planes with all the cars to take off towards Istanbul. The cars are now rerouted to Athens and the Gumballers have another flight from Istanbul to Athens tomorrow.

Team 17 and 103 made it to the checkpoint without any fines or delays by taking some B-roads, respect guys! There are not many who managed to do that. Our reporters PX and Stieben were at the Frankfurt-Hahn airport waiting for the Gumballers to take pictures and find out what was going on.

First set of pictures:

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GTspirit reporters PX and Stieben just uploaded their pictures of the Gumballers arriving at the Channel Tunnel. They took the train from Calais to Dover and waited patiently for the arrival of the first cars. At 17:20 Team Polizei arrived as lead car, shortly followed by xzibit in the Gallardo. The first 30 teams arrived in a pretty short timespan. One of the Porsches already missed a part of his bumper, and Tove Christensen had to run all the way back from the train to the check-in because he left his drivers license. Tove told us that Hayden couldn’t make it to the start of the Gumball 3000 but that he might come over to Istanbul.

Unofficial Arrivals:

1. Team Polizei in the BMW M5
2. Team 1: Xzibit in the Lamborghini Gallardo
3. Team 73: Devil Fish in the Porsche 997 Turbo
4. Team 90: Tiger in the Lamborghini Gallardo Spider
5. Team 42: Team Fire in the Ferrari 360 Modena Spider
6. Team 46: Kill Bill in the Porsche 996 Turbo

Photos from Dover:

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After being stuck at the airport in Istanbul, all gumballers are now leaving to the hotel, Uno Gomes from team 45 reported:

“We are now leaving to the hotel in Istanbul. Tomorrow we will fly straight to Athens where the cars will be there waiting for us”.