Since this is a gumball type rally, I assume you will be speeding/racing?
It not a race, its a rally. I think thats something we should all remember when were doing the event. Im not going to say were going to stick by every single speed limit im place but by the same token if we do break them it will be by a few mph. Unlike the people who participate in the Gumball rally we don't have oodles of cash to pay off fines here, there and everywhere.
Ive always been one to say that the journey is more important than the destination and if going a few mph slower than we want achieves that then thats what we will be doing. Also our route will travel through Germany and we can pretty much as fast as we want on the autobahn and going that fast for song long kinda isnt fun.
There is no prize for getting to the destinations first so racing to get there is irrelevant, im sure we will smoke a few people off the lights in our surprisingly fast choice of car, and have a little bit of fun leaving the slower cars for dust now and then but we got to keep a cool head so we do get to finish the rally in our own car!
Remember we are, hopefully, going to be doing this rally in a Mercedes with a 5 or 5.5 liter v8 engine (depends if we get 500SEL or 560SEL) and although they are not supercars we hope to surprise a few people especially while we are in our tweed suits with flatcaps while smoking old man style pipes.
Anyway in short, no were not racing and ok im sure we might break the speed limit now and then but with the threat of huge fines from the police on the continent it should keep those rampant horses under the bonnet under a tight reign
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