Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors

date posted 1st June 2003 15:05

There are a couple,

The big one is the Gumball ralley, last one was in June cost £8000 to enter,
we anted to do it but thought it was a bit steep (from San Francisco to
Miami).

Cannonball run was a bit cheaper at £2500, went from Guildford Surrey (4pm
Sunday), Calais (9pm Sunday), St Raphael (S.France), 9am (Monday),
Imola Italy (9pm Monday), Imola F1 track Tuesday, left Imola at 10am on
Wednesday, Wednesday 2pm Verduz Lichtenstein, Wednesday 9pm Koln Germany,
Thursday, left Koln at 10am (after being harassed by the police), arrived at
Calais at about 6pm after being fined for being English in Germany
(miserable fuckers) and being part of an illegal car race, arrived back near
Caterham at about 7:30pm. All in total about 3000 miles and very enduring,
seems like a bit of a laugh but the noise gets to you after driving a
converible for 3000 miles!!!! Would recommend it at least once.....

Best Regards

John Kyle (Planning to do one of the Gumball ralleys at least once in my
life, back to the white slave trade then.......)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Deborah Causton" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors


> I've seen a docu' about that car race, would love to participate one
> year. Although am somewhat short of the entrance fee (donations
> gratefully accepted!!) I believe it's in the region of =A38000, could be
> wrong though.
>
> Is it the same one, the guy who runs it, started it up so he could
> manage a formula 1 team??
>
> Deborah
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On
> Behalf Of John Kyle
> Sent: 01 June 2003 15:40
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Speed cameras and speed camera detectors
>
> The biggest fines I came across was when travelling through Switzerland
> (was
> doing the Cannonball Europe car race). I guy in a Ferrari 360 Modena was
> caught doing 185mph through the San Bernadino pass tunnel - fined 3500
> euros, also another guy in a Saab was caught doing a U-turn and got
> caught -
> fine 2500 euros - not quite sure where there priorities were. But those
> caught were told that we wern't in Italy anymore (as thats where we had
> come
> from). Ah Italy, the land of 3 foot tail gating at 130mph - I did see a
> Smart car doing 125mpg - nearly tipped over on a corner, even more
> amusing
> was an old granny with her grankids doing 130 in a Renault Espace -
> never
> thought a minibus could go so fast.
>
> If you get caught in Switzerland the fines go off your social status, so
> everybody had 5 kids, was unemployed and no it wasn't their car, only
> borrowed for the occasion. Mind you we think that the roadblock that the
> Swiss police set up to stop us all may have been after myself (M
> Roadster) a
> Subaru STi, Evo IV went roaring up the old mountain pass at 90mph,
> another
> Ferrari missed a bend on the pass and went off down the side of the
> mountain
> and a guy in a Mazda RX7 span the car in a circle outside the doors of
> the
> police station before he went off to the toilet.
>
> Coppers, no sense of fucking humour, even throughout Europe
>
> Best Regards
>
> John Kyle (All allegedly of course)
>
>
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