Apparently, it is true! Several Gumballers - ‘06 Team #77/Ferrari F360 & ‘07 Team #25/Porsche Carrera GT) allegedly transported - over and over - suitcases full of cash from Venezuela into Argentina as part of an election-rigging scheme in support of…who cares?
Argentinian President Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner is hot, Gumballers are involved, the US State Department is pissed off…the whole thing is utterly fantastic! Who owns the film rights to this?
Read the Associated Press piece for yourselves!
(Thanks to Des @ GTSpirit for maintaining the most comprehensive Gumball 3000 driver/team archive I know of.)
amazing.. you couldn’t make something up like that if you tried.
Wonderfully entertaining story!
Damn! Well, should they ever make a film for that movie, Giorgio Moroder has the perfect soundtrack in mind just for this sort of thing.
Nice story!!!:-D