Team #96
Nick Morley – driver
Mat Kelshaw – co-driver / misinformation centre
Car – Porsche 997 Carrera S. 400 Bhp.
From Manchester, Uk

Day 1 – London Starting Grid

The anticipation built throughout the day as the crowd assembled to wish us all bon voyage and to catch a glimpse of the ever more colourful characters and machinery that the Gumball manages to attract and display each year to join the incredible party.
It is a scene of superlatives as each car is ever more shocking and exhilarating to witness than the last. Walking down the grid is akin to floating along in a dream of the worlds most exotic and glamorous vehicles (and women!).
Having received our pre-rally briefing from Maximillion, and then the London police, we were all in a festive and boisterous mood to charge down to the Eurotunnel and be the first to board the train for France…

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Stage One: Europe

As many of you are aware I made some notes last year, which, I hope gave you a little insight into the life of a Gumballer for those manic few days in May. At no stage throughout the rally had I any intention to do the same this year. However, I have now been back in the UK for some 12 hours now and, as a result, and the fact I cannot sleep, am now having the time to reflect on the last week or so’s experience’s.

We left Manchester for London around 2pm on Friday 28th April in the F50, this was to be a show car and we were to meet the FLA5H Gumball Lambo once there, having sorted out the transmission problems and the very distinctive wrap. On the way we arrarnged to meet T4NGO and antandpete.co.uk at Keele services on the M6. This we did and proceeded on our jouney south. However, due to poor weekend traffic and the fact a 40ft trailer was on fire we met with 15 miles of traffic. Well, being veteran gumballers, we put our famous lane to use and made steady progress! Ant even blagged an officer to let him use the police layby for a call of nature. Good work fella!

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Polizei 144 Overcome Sabotage, Treachery, Win 2006 Gumball! 1st Place on Euro & US Legs; Opponents’ Hopes Dealt Annihilatory Death Blow.

Alex Roy, Team Polizei’s Founder and Primary Driver, is the most Notorious & Decorated Extreme Rally Driver in the World. His Numerous Victories and Escapes from the Police have made him the Leading Spokesperson for Extreme Motorsport – the Nexus of Auto Racing and Extreme Sports.

“First Has A Quality All Its Own”

Team Polizei Master Pilot Michael Ross put it succinctly as he and Team Captain Alex Roy crossed the finish line to win the 2006 Gumball on Sunday, May 7th, at 2:46 PM PST, having overcome the sabotage and treachery of their foes, and smiling with delight as their opponents’ hopes were dashed along with the residual value of the competing cars.

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Deepak wrote:

It’s over… and people still don’t believe what we’ve done.

I mean really. Even LA people that are used to make believe…

I’m not recovering. I’m still partying. I have lots of pictures, including some that will get me thrown in jail in one or more countries.

More soon.

Obviously, a Gumballers’ party:

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With the event over and the Gumballers going in their own direction again more and more photos hit the web. Tangospeed.com has over 2000 photos made during the event. Latest galleries added are Vegas to LA and the final party. Watch them all here!

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