The fifth Gumball 300 rally was held in May 2003, with more than 100 cars beginning in San Francisco, California with a finish line in Miami, Florida. The rally passed through Reno, Nevada; Las Vegas; Tucson, Arizona; White Sands, New Mexico; San Antonio, Texas; Houston, Texas; and New Orleans, Louisiana. Featured entrants included Jackass’ Ryan Dunn racing a rental car alongside skateboard legends Tony Hawk and Bam Margera in a Dodge Viper, Bucky Lasek, Motocross World champions Travis Pastrana and Carey Hart, and supermodel Jodie Kidd. Cars included a mix of Ferrari F50s and 360s, Lamborghini Murcielagos, a Koenigsegg CC and Jesse James’ customized VW Eurovan. Alex Roy and Dave Maher won the Gumball Spirit Trophy in his Team Polizei BMW M5, outfitted with German Police equipment. Top Gear reported that the Koenigsegg CC8S holds the fastest speeding ticket in the world, which allegedly occurred in May 2003 in Texas. It was supposedly 242 mph (389 km/h) in a 75-mph (120 km/h) zone. The “Fastest Wheels” award was presented to Rob “Lonman” Kenworthy in a Porsche GT2, with the “Special Award” presented to Richard and Sue Rawlings, owners of a heavily modified Chevy Avalanche.

This drifting competition was during the fast car event at circuit Zandvoort.

Flame and Thunder is held at Santa Pod Raceway (Northamptonshire) on Saturday 30th October 2010. At this event you can see a Top Fuel Dragster, Nitro Funny Car, Drag Racing demos from throughout all car and bike classes, fireworks, bonfire, record breaking jet cars, monster trucks, freestlye motocross, terry grant stunt driver, Jason Smyth on his stunt quad bike, fun fair, live entertainment and there will be a special celebrity guest in the form of James Sutton better known as Ryan from Emmerdale. This clip is just a taster of what you will see on the day. For tickets and more information please visit www.santapod.com or call 01234 782828