{"id":541,"date":"2006-05-05T21:25:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T20:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/2006\/05\/05\/team-79-update-3\/"},"modified":"2006-05-05T21:25:37","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T20:25:37","slug":"team-79-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2006\/05\/05\/team-79-update-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Team 79 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The rumors by the time you get to the back of the flight are vastly different at the front of the flight.<\/p>\n

Since they made the flight, I was obliged to return Max\u2019s camera to Julie. There may be some, questionable, imagery on there now that wasn\u2019t there before. <\/p>\n

I guess we\u2019ll have to harass others in SLC<\/p>\n

This circumnavigating the globe in 8 days is really a crazy thing. I\u2019m really glad to be a part of it.<\/p>\n

We lost our escort to the airport in Bangkok. We did a high speed tour through the city with 2 murcielagos, 1 porsche turbo, a cl 600, and a bentley GT. We tried to pay a local to take us to the airport, who refused but later helped for free. We even kidnapped a Thai airport official to navigate the airport. Problem solving at its best. We were the last to arrive on the tarmac at Bangkok International. Did I mention we were almost out of fuel again?? (Because we can\u2019t ship the cars with much fuel)<\/p>\n

Some stuff from Dustin\u2019s notes:<\/p>\n

Bam\u2019s Gallardo looks like some tried to do donuts in it (it\u2019s all wheel drive, so you can\u2019t) There is a scuff on the rim and dirt on the side that wasn\u2019t there before. They have to start it in third, there is no reverse gear either.<\/p>\n

Jeff\u2019s F430 lost a tire driving high speed over an unmarked part of the highway in Thailand that turned to gravel. Ferrari of Bangkok got them new rubber and a tow in abouit 6 hrs. They arrived about that far behind us at the hotel.<\/p>\n

Christain\u2019s GT2 did a 720 in the rain in Thailand at about 130 mph. Went off road and plowed about 140 ft of 4 wheel ruts in the grass. He need a quick tow hook tow from a passing 18 wheeler and he was back in business with just a few scratches.<\/p>\n

The VW bus with the Porsche engine and NO2 broke down but made the hotel. We don\u2019t know what happened. The 996 twin turbo cabriolet (white) threw a fan belt. It made the hotel too. We don\u2019t know if they were tows or repaired.<\/p>\n

(You can tell there is a long flight here.)<\/p>\n

Henry from Miami offered a very expensive watch to sit in 1st class instead of coach on our private jet. Managed to get a seat without having to give up the watch.<\/p>\n

The \/real\/ count from Serbia was 500,000 people came out to see us. At least according to Serbian officials, but I was there and believe it. Easily Serbia has given us the warmest reception we\u2019ve seen yet.<\/p>\n

And there are rumors of shirts that euphemistically say, \u201cI shagged a Gumballer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The rumors by the time you get to the back of the flight are vastly different at the front of the flight. Since they made the flight, I was obliged to return Max\u2019s camera to Julie. There may be some, questionable, imagery on there now that wasn\u2019t there before. I guess we\u2019ll have to harass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}