Getting a ticket for 5 over is in the realm of revenue collection. 100 over on a public road? Well...not so much.

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I agree 100% I just wanted to point out that only a moron would think they could get away with speeding (at such a high rate) in high profile car in this situation. One would have to expect the Police to be out in force (as they should have been).

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Have you been out west before? I did 125mph for about 1.5 hours straight and passed like ONE person. And I slowed down to do so. Point is, going at high speeds out west is NOT like the dick going 20 over in heavy traffic, weaving back and forth. I'd feel much safer at 170 in a veyron than I would in Chicago commute traffic, for example.

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I found the Bugatti owner's youtube account:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ladmadrad

He has a few videos of him driving his Bugatti.

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If the police know the route, about when the cars would be coming through, and that they would be traveling at 100+ mph (as they usually do), you'd think they'd offer to close down the roads both as a show of good faith and as a safety precaution. Instead, they use it as an opportunity to show how reckless participants are and keep the public in danger of idiots going that fast on open public roads. So I place blame both on officers not interested in prevention and the idiots who think it's fine to do 170 with other drivers on the road.

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"I agree 100% I just wanted to point out that only a moron would think they could get away with speeding (at such a high rate) in high profile car in this situation."

Well if you had Morph Mode, Pursuit Mode and were Michael Knight you could get away with it! ;-)

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These cops are pure garbage 1) they should have closed down the roads if they had known that gumballers were passing through. 2) The route took place through roads which no one uses.

This is just them making some money...moronic though is that why would Gumball would want to do a race in US...the official country of backstabbers.

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After innocent by-standers where killed in the European version, I thought these idiotic stunts by the uber-rich would halt.

I say make the fines REALLY HURT.

Racing on public streets is so way beyond stupid.

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Good ! Some jerks born into pointless priviledge doing that kind of speed while I am driving my family (i.e. children) in my minivan.

Lock 'em up. Here in Ontario, such cars are crushed when impounded.

Yeah, yeah, everyone will boo me for this...I care...

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They aren't racing. Racing in my opinion is when someone is weaving through traffic, putting others lives at risk while in competition. These guys are just cruising down the road in a car that is more than capable of handling those speeds. Roads out in New Mexico/ Texas are straight lines where the only thing you can possibly hit is the cow pasture next to the road. There is no reason to have speed limits out there, where visibility is more than ample and not driving ability is required to go those speeds.

It really isn't a public risk at all, give me a freaking break.

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It's not up to the cops to close down the roads. The Police are doing there jobs: Enforcing the law and Protecting to public from reckless idiots.

To close down a huge stretch of road is the responsibility of the Gumball Rally organizers to file the proper paper work with the city counsel of which the road belongs to. Since the route stretches for THOUSANDS of miles, that would be a pain in the butt. So I am sure the Rally Organizers just said "Follow the route and drive safe".

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@ Noirdor

Bullcrap.

I help manage 'real' performance rallies in the U.S. and I can assure you that securing road closure permits is 100% the responsibility of the event organizers.

In fact, Gumball is a joke which does nothing but make our public image worse.

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ROB:

At 170 MPH you have little to no chance to brake or make a correction. If the douches in these cars think it's cool to drive that quickly on a public road, I just hope they eat it so they know how "safe" it is. Hopefully they'll take out another douche like them along the way.

GO TO THE F*CKING TRACK you morons.

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to me it looked like they were doing 100+mph in traffic (look at how many cars there are)

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You can see right in his youtube video why they got caught. Hes using some bell radar detector instead of a V1. What a noob!

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170 might not be challenging the Veyron too much, but please... 170 is still safe with a trust fund baby, hopped up on pissing-contest-fueled testosterone, with zero-to-moderate race experience behind the wheel?

If you've got enough cash laying around to buy a Veyron, and then spend a few months off plastering it with pretty stickers and organizing a competition without worrying about a day job, you can damn well afford *track time*.

Oh, sorry, that wouldn't let you flaunt that you're a douche who thinks ordinary lives are worth less than yours, and that your money makes you above the law.

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@PJ, it's been said before, they go to the track, last moment I spent with them this year was at the track.

The fastest I've gone on public roads was a speedo indicated 160, on the 90, in WA, with no cars for miles. I won't be doing it again. I can imagine, though, how easy it would be for this veyron driver to hit 170, or 200, or 220 in a car that is so effortless and has so much power. Hitting 170 in the veyron is like hitting 90 in an audi or a bmw. It doesn't excuse his speeding, I'm just saying it's not hard to see how he got carried away during an open stint of highway.

Thankfully, none of us have ever exceeded 100mph on the open road, so we can all toss stones.

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And if you can afford a Veyron, you can also afford a racing career. Spend a bunch of money sponsoring an ALMS privateer in exchange for a seat. I know a few teams that could use the help...

I wish I was rich.

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