Gumball 3000 is a rally. It is actually an international rally. It is not like a car race that takes place on tracks. The Gumball 3000 takes places on the public roads. For the same reason, you may see both participants and non participants driving along at the same time on the same road. You will have to drive 3000 miles to win the rally. Unlike car races, prize is not for getting at the checkpoints first. So, it is no way like the usual car races that we have seen and heard of. First of all we must learn the rules of the Gumball 3000, before participating. Otherwise we would be surely fined. Well, participants are fined if they do any type of offense during the race.

There may be people driving their cars who are not participants - we should not do any offense to them. Doing so, we will get fined. Also, there is no need of going at top speeds. Participants have been fined earlier for increasing the speeds as well. So, we should just drive the way we usually drive. This is not a race. This is just a rally. All you have to do is - just drive without increasing the speed more than a certain level and without doing type of harm to other participants and non participants. And if you are able to drive in such a manner and get out of the rally, then you would a winner for sure. In the rally, you will have to drive across countries, and sometimes you might get caught by the police if you do any harms to the public or to other people who are driving along with you on the road. So, just concentrate on your driving and try to get out of the rally the best possible manner you can.

The people behind the rally try to control everything and always emphasize that it is a rally and not a race. But some people don’t care about such things and they  just take it as a street race.