A Bullrun Recap From The Friendly Folks At MR. ANGRY

For some of you, the images of the "Project ANGRIER" 1969 Dodge Daytona replica will forever be etched on your subconscious, filed under "badass." Unfortunately, things didn't turn out as planned for the Daytona with the run ending way early due to a busted wheel. After the wheel was replaced with a Ford Fusion, the team pressed on for the eventual finish in Phoenix. A full report of the race is posted over at Cardomain, so go check it out for all the juicy details on just what kind of wheel failure retires a made-to-run rally car. More »

Ashley Van Dyke Is NOT Driving A Corvette ZR1 In The Bullrun

A quick glance at the very graphical press release from Ashley Van Dyke, the motor-loving mistress of the Bullrun TV show, and you'll think perhaps she'll be driving the new $413,000 ($105,000 minus dealer markup) and 638 HP 2009 Chevy ZR1 in this week's Bullrun road rally. It's hard not to. It's right there at the top of the press release. For a moment there we thought maybe Chevy was throwing down the ZR1 for some road rallying hype — like the Z06 before it for the Frankl twins. A quick e-mail to Chevy was enough to tell us they certainly didn't give her one and according to our friends at GTSpirit, we've found out what she is driving. They tell us the lovely lady's driving a Corvette Z06. While the Z06 is a blast to drive, we don't think it's quite the horsepowergasm of the upcoming ZR1. Mostly because it's not so powerful we're simultaneously pissing our pants and giggling like a schoolgirl at the thought of getting behind the wheel. So, while there's no ZR1 on the 'run, self-promotion is still running rampant. Hit the jump to see the press release in its entirety. [Ashley Van Dyke, Bullrun]

Remember That Badass Bullrun Daytona? It's Been Replaced With A Fusion

The flat-black bucket of badass that is the "Project ANGRIER" '69 Dodge Daytona replica, built to dominate this years Bullrun, has managed to throw snake-eyes only two days into the rally. For all the work that went into the car, a wheel failure has forced its retirement. But that hasn't stopped the driver from continuing on in the challenge — in a Ford Fusion rental car. We can't help but imagine the disappointment of going from rip-snorting rally dominator to staid family sedan that returns 25 MPG even while bouncing off the 111 MPH rev limiter. [Cardomain]

CarDomain Doing 2008 Bullrun With "Project ANGRIER," Looks Angry

If you had to pick a car for the Bullrun long-distance rally, a 500-plus-HP, 200-MPH-top-end, 600-mile-range 1969 Dodge Daytona with A/C and cruise control dubbed "ANGRIER" would not be the worst choice in the world. Actually, it would be a pretty damn badass one, and that's just the ride CarDomain's Mike Musto will be piloting during this year's version of the running Bull. Does this make it a raging Bull? In any case, totally sweet choice guys. The 2008 Bullrun will be kicking off in a couple days on June 20th and run for seven days from Calgary to Phoenix. So look for updates in the near future. More »

UPDATE: Bullrun TV Show NOT Cancelled, Countless Dozens NOT Mourning

One of those countless dozens of flower-bearing and red-eyed mourners is none other than Team Polizei's Alex Roy. The man definitely has a point — the Bullrun TV show was totally better than Fox's quickly canceled Drive. So if you're looking for faux rally on TV, you'll have to resort to snagging them off of iTunes or some sites providing torrents of bits. Although good luck finding it at the latter, as even the bay of pirates only comes up with a History Channel documentary on the Civil War. UPDATE:Bullrun folks claim they're still in negotiations with Spike TV on season two. It would appear Team Polizei's sources are as good as one would expect — from pro wrestling web sites. [gumball144.com]

Herr Roy Goes to E-Town

During Alex Roy's long association with Jalopnik, we've come to regard his M5 as something of a piece of folk art; a snot-beat, pricey machine that's likely done more of what it was designed to do than just about any other E39 built. Herr Roy, of course, is a showman, and while his steed of choice is generally considered one of the finest cars of the last three decades, it's still a seven-year-old blue sedan. But somehow with the addition of antennae, stickers and Albanian goat-track dust, it becomes something else. It's almost a parody of the CSL Batmobiles in a way, but just as deadly in its own right. Alex and our pals Jeff Musical, Emil Rensing and Rob Ferretti took the M5 and a few other chips of the Bruce block down to Englishtown for the VW/Audi show at Waterfest over the weekend. It was bad enough that Roy showed up in a Bimmer. Worse? Rensing brought his F430. [Team Polizei]

The Clamp Came Down in Georgia: Bullrun Lunch at the Cop Shop

Pal of the Jalop and the first woman ever to be arrested on Bullrun, Annabelle Frankl was taping and riding shotgun when a whole gang of the the ralliers (including their #144 Z06) were pulled over with the drivers taken off in the paddywagon. While Annabelle and Nick aren't paddies (rather Brits of Hungarian extraction), Miss Frankl went and picked up some burgers with all beef patties for the jailhouse rockers. Vomitation was not reported, although we imagine there was a bit of nausea involved. Traffic stop before the jump, aftermath after. – Davey G. Johnson More »

Transcontinental Documentation With Spinelli and Roy

On Tuesday, our resident Empire Stater sat down with everyone's favorite Teutonic village person to chat about the difference between a rally and a transcontinental record attempt. Today FastLane Daily's got part two of their conversations, where Alex talks about the problems with irrefutably proving that one has travelled from New York to Los Angeles faster than anyone else, as well as the impact of accidents like the one on the Gumball 3000 on road rallies in general. More »

Rawlings and Collins on their Transcon Record Attempt

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Lisa Nowak Set to Challenge Rawlings and Collins

Hoping to best her diapered 12-hour 936 mile blast from Houston to Orlando, former astronaut Lisa Nowak is set to break the transcontinental driving record set mere minutes ago by Richard Rawlings and co-pilot Dennis Collins. Quick math indicates that with prodigious use of diapers and by increasing velocity, Nowak should be able to handily set a new record in her specially prepared Kia Rio. – Mike Bumbeck More »

Transcontinental 144: Alex Roy on the Rawlings/Collins Record Attempt

The ever-lovin' Herr Roy knows a thing or two about transcontinental control of incontinence in the service of swaths of ground covered in short amounts of time. He's harbored a friendly rivalry with both Richard Rawlings and the Collins Brothers since his first Gumball back in '03. And as a classic business-giver, Alex has laid down his call for third-party verification of the record (which, according to our conversation with Bullrun organizer Andy Duncan earlier today, there is ample evidence of). While refutations have been flying all morning, there are rumors of Rawlings appearing on Jay Leno tonight (which we heard from Bullrunners, but haven't been able to corroborate with our Tonight Show contact), and Andy insists that they "Definitely, definitely, definitely" went. If it all checks out, even given the distance between Darien, CT and Manhattan it sounds like they well-and-truly broke the Cannonball record from '79. Meanwhile, we're waiting for the exact mileage and a route map to see if there's any possible way that they outdrove the Diem/Turner US Express time from '83. – Davey G. Johnson More »

Did Rawlings and Collins Break the Transcontinental Record?

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Texas Duo Claims to Have Broken 1979 Cannonball NYC To LA Run

Bearded Bullrun impresario Richard Rawlings and co-pilot Dennis Collins claim to have broken the famous 1979 Cannonball Run time from New York City to Los Angeles of 32 hours and 51 minutes. According to a release, the two bet rival Jay Riecke they could beat the time in their 2007 Bullrun entry, a black Ferrari 550 (pictured below the jump), modified with extra fuel cells. The final time is a claimed 31 hours and 59 minutes, which has yet to be independently verified. Rawlings and Collins are now on their way down to Key West where they hope to beat the rest of the Bullrun rally down to the finish. – Ray Wert More »

Bullrun 2007: Mother's Day Morning Running With The Bulls

We made it out of Boston this Mother's Day morning at what seemed like the crack o' dawn. In reality, it was like 9:00 AM. It just felt much earlier due to the pounding headache from the debauchery of the night prior but whatevs, as you can see — by the time the Team #70 Escalade made it to the lineup, we were already 7 or 8 cars in the hole. And don't even get us started on Team Twins. The Frankls must have been up late celebrating Annabelle's come-from-behind best-of-three pool victory of the night before, and didn't make it to the starting line until well after our car had already been released. But never fear, as you can see from the second gallery, they caught up quickly to our lumbering beast of burden and even helped us cock block out the Brabus-tuned Mercedes to give us our first — and only — lead of the day as we rallied our way to Long Island via the New London Ferry. – Ray Wert More »

Girls Go Wild Over Bullrun; La Femme Frankl Kicks Wert's Ass In Pool

On top of the fast cars, Bullrun's also known for the fast women — but other than a few like the lovely Annabelle Frankl, they're normally not drivers. Usually, they're just a bunch of ladies with a penchant for wildness — drawn to the fast action and even faster dropping of bills at the bar. Once in a while however those girls are of the professional variety — like those hosting the Bullrun Beantown party last night, where we partied it up with some real Girls Gone Wild. Other than their choice of dress, they were rather tame, so we participated in a touch of the wildness ourselves, ending up playing one of the more liquored-up games of pool we've yet experienced. It's the only reason we're able to come up with for why Ms. Frankl was able to school us yesterday in both driving and billiards. Yeah, well — at least we told ourselves that to help us sleep last night. Judge for yourself while we run with the rest of the bulls this morning. – Ray Wert More »

The Bullrun Is Here! The Bullrun Is Here!

Yup, we're in Boston now. Team Twins have been reunited — everything is all peachy keen. While we decompress a bit after an exciting and exhausting day, we've put together some of the sights and livery of the first day of the Bullrun — or at least the morning of the first day. We'll have the full story up soon to explain things like why there's a #23 Budget Rent-A-Truck, or how the Team Twins Z06 ended up in the pole position of the "starting grid." But for the time being, feast your eyes on the appetizer that is the raw and uncensored galleries below. – Ray Wert More »

Bullrun 2007: The Bullrun Is Coming! The Bullrun Is Coming!

We've got two Frankls coming by land, none by sea — one Frankls gotten to the checkpoint, while another's just trying to avoid a coronary from my inability to capture a picture of a "moose crossing" sign. But fear not, all is now well — as evidenced above, I finally did get the picture. It'll serve as proof that we've now passed into the lovely, picturesque and granitasmic state of New Hampshire on our way to Boston. We've also picked up a team of two Japanese gentlemen behind us in their Porsche 911 who seem to have blown out their passenger side front tire, and are now following, spare on the wheel, as we meander through the scenic byways of the great Northeast on our way to reunite the disparate halves of "Team Twins." – Ray Wert More »

Bullrun 2007: We're In Vermont, Meow!

We've picked up Annabelle in the Escalade — and she's taking the wheel as we head through Vermont to Conway, New Hampshire to meet up with her big (by 20 minutes) brother. We'll have pictures up from earlier at the start of the race shortly. So sit back for a while, meow, and be entertained. – Ray Wert More »

Bullrun 2007: Paris Hilton's A No-Show In Montreal!

We didn't see her last night at the pre-party, and now we're hearing TMZ's reporting that Paris won't be here for the kick-off of the 2007 Bullrun. Apparently that doesn't exclude her from the rest of the stops in the rally, but she won't be here in Montreal today. While we're somewhat ambivalent, we know all of you probably have something you want to add. – Ray Wert More »

Bullrun 2007: What Will Wert Drive?

Ok, we saw what Nicholas and Annabelle's whip'll be — but that's only two seats. How am I going to provide the full width and breadth of pageantry and lifestyle coverage you're expecting? Well — as I've never always said — if you're gonna ride, you've got to ride in playa' style. Because with this bad boy, I'll be covering the Bullrun from one helluva odd place — last place. But whatevs, I'll do it as ostentatiously as humanely possible, because that's what I'll be rolling in, and be the team driver for — the #70 Cadillac Escalade ESV. Riding shotgun for me will be Nathalie Ramirez of Player magazine — you know, to expand upon the ostentatiousness. – Ray Wert More »

Bullrun 2007: Annabelle, Your Big Brother's Comin' To Getcha!

This is Nicholas Frankl. Nicholas Frankl is sad. Why is Nicholas Frankl so sad? Nicholas is sad because his twin sis Annabelle is across the border in the land of the stars n' bars while Nicholas parties it up here in the land o' the red maple leaf. But fear not sweet Annabelle, your big brother (by 20 minutes) is on his way shortly to pick you up in a chariot pulled by 505 horses. That's right — Nicholas is piloting the 2007 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 — one year removed from the 2006 model Davey watched them drive last year. Here's some sneaky spy shots we took of the Team Twin 'vette for you before the opening of the race rally tomorrow morning. – Ray Wert More »

Jalopnik Takes The Bullrun By The Horns

In case you're not doing anything over the weekend — feel free to come join Wert on a little adventure he'll be taking following some friends in a Chevy Corvette Z06 as they have some fun rallying from Montreal to Key West. That's right — our Senior Editor's already up in the tundra of Montreal and starting tomorrow morning at around 9 AM, he'll be kicking it with the "Road Rally Royalty" of Annabelle and Nicholas Frankl, providing live coverage all weekend as they take the bull by the horns. So come and run with Wert this weekend, and keep refreshing your web browser on our special Bullrun tag to catch the sights, the sounds, the parties — and maybe even some of the cars if he gets the time. Or if you're one of the tech-savvy, there's always the RSS feed to keep you up-to-date.

Our God is an Unfair God: Paris Hilton to Drive a Spyker C8 Spyder in Bullrun

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Polizei: Team Polizei Not Really Actual Polizei

In German law enforcement, there is no room for imprecision. Our pal Alex Roy is one highly precise man. Some would say precise to the point of obsession. Anyway, last night he kicked down an e-mail from German law enforcement (in Comic Sans, no less, which we feel is not precise enough for German police), which we've reprinted after the jump. We thought was rather amusing, and we can imagine Herr Roy giggling his ass off when he received it. As we have no interest in the Bundespolizei knocking at our door in the middle of the night, especially the feared Grenzschutzgruppe Eins Vier Vier, we have redacted the officer's name. More »

Goldberg to Host Bullrun TV Show

Former pro wrestler Bill Goldberg, who did time playing for the Sacramento Surge when we were in high school, has signed up to host the new Bullrun reality show on Spike. We know Goldberg's a car freak, but given our experience on the rally, he seems like he would sort of stick out like a sore thumb among the reedy Brits, crazy Southerners and Cali dorks that made up the majority of the people we met on the rally. More »

Take I-94 And Head West, Young Man! Bullrun 2006 Video From Detroit

See, and we thought only our West coast and East coast editors were able to get in on the Bullrun action. Turns out, the fun never stops out here on the MidWest Coast. For instance, did you know that Michigan has more miles of coastline than any state in the union with the exception of Alaska? Now you do. And the boys and girls on the Bullrun could have found that out themselves if they'd stopped for longer than...like five minutes on the cross-country race. Check out the Corvette Z06 chasing a Ford GT, a Lamborghini Gallardo and Murcielago and various other members of the Bullrun crew as they head West along I-94, past the blue bridges over Telegraph — and go a-heading for that Indiana-Michigan county line. More »

You're Living in Your Own Public Bullrun: Get On the Televizzle

The Bullrun guys have possed-up with Spike TV to launch a new reality show based on a rally from Vancouver to Los Angeles over 7 days in October (the filming will require roughly a 10-day commitment). Instead of ponying up around fifteen large to participate, putting the event out of the range of all but the wealthy and connected, Spike wants to include their demo — essentially, Joes Average from 21 to 40, although they'd love to have female teams included in the group of 13. They're looking for vehicles from hot rods to exotics, but the main deal is personality. So if you've got a hot car and the desire to rock it like Richie Blackmore and be a highway star, click the link below sooner than later, as they want to have the slots filled by early September. Be prepared to send a video. [Photo of Darkcyd Navigator hoon Jason Garber and AMG Doll Ashley Van Dyke by Haller.] More »

It's Over! Bullrun '06 Wrap-Up

So while some of you have expressed displeasure with our extensive Bullrun coverage, some of y'all have enjoyed it and some have reacted with indifference, we have to say that our own abbreviated sojurn as a mini Sal Paradise to the distaff Dean Moriartys of Keri Rensing and Jennifer Nicole was an experience we'll never forget as long as we live. You can call the celebrities B-grade. You can laugh at some of the posturing, but at the end of it all, it was an incredible gathering of car guys and gals all blowing across the country together and often helping each other out. And while yes, certain things were overwrought, we had a wonderful time on our two days on the rally. Click through for some of our favorite participants' recollections. More »

Bullrun '06: Party With Me Punker: Final Party Edition

Sadly, Jalopnik's Bullrun '06 coverage is grinding to a slow halt. Well, sadly for us at least, as we loved being on the rally, made some great new friends in the process and saw some amazing sights. We'll have a roundup tomorrow with memories from some of our favorite participants in the event. Here then, is a gallery of pics from the final party at Social in WeHo, detailing the awards handed out. More »

Bullrun '06: Fontucky to Beverly Hills

The rally was originally supposed to end at The Grove, one of the tonier open-air shopping areas in Los Angeles. However, at the last minute, mall authorities reneged on the deal, as they'd been doing some research on the Internets and decided that the Bullrun wasn't a "family-friendly" event. During the drivers' meeting at Fontana, David Green informed us that our final destination would actually be the Beverly Hilton, our hotel for the evening. More »

Bullrun '06: San Diego to Fontucky

Skiny maneuvers the A6 Avant into proper takeoff position in San Diego. More »

Bullrun '06: Party With Me Punker: San Diego Edition

If you want to blast across the country, you can do it for as little as the cost of gasoline, accomodations, coffee and any incidental repairs and speeding tickets you may incur. If you wanna do it on the Bullrun, you've gotta pony up 14k. As an embedded journalist, we were provided with two nights of accomodations, at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas and at the W Hotel in San Diego, which, in the interest of full disclosure, Los Jalopniks must admit to you. They also provided us with meals in Las Vegas, snacks in Lake Havasu, more meals in San Diego, a taco truck in Fontucky and a last supper in Los Angeles. With that out of the way, click through for an abbreviated Jalopnik-style Team Party Crash. More »

Bullrun Oddness: Carl Lewis v. Mosler MT900S

We spent some time with Warren Mosler's son, Jacob, during the Bullrun, and we've gotta say, we like the guy a whole lot. What's more, Mosler sent an MT900S on the Rally, which, due to the unfortunate attitude of the driver, we didn't get a chance to ride in. But while one can front on a blogger, one cannot front on Carl Lewis, and even though the supercar naturally made it to the big end of the track in Great Bend, KS far faster than the nine-time gold medalist, we're pretty damn sure that Carl nailed him off the line. More »

Bullrun '06: Lake Havasu to San Diego

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Bullrun '06: Las Vegas to Lake Havasu

On an absolutely sweltering, uncharacteristically humid Nevada morning, after a blast to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway with Noah Lehman-Haupt in the SuperSpeeders/Gotham Dream Cars Ford GT, we hopped in the back seat of the Rensing/Nicole Audi A8L, did a quick lap of the Shelby proving ground, and shot off for lunch in Lake Havasu. Click through for the tale. More »

The Ballad of the Ridiculous 'Vette

Pretty much anyone into late-model GM performance cars knows who Chuck Mallett is. Those people also know that Chuck builds random and radical development models to push technology as far as it can go. And then he pushes beyond that, with occasionally humorous results. This C6 was no different. Having had no problems with the stock 'Vette fuel tanks, Chuck utilized them in his massively-turboed, 400-inch Corvette. 900hp? No probalo, right? Click through for the probalos. More »

Why Carl Lewis Rules

Nine Olympic gold medals should be reason enough for anyone to be considered a badass. But here's the thing: we don't consider Carl a badass because of that, although he was a childhood hero to us. We consider Carl a badass because in the world of sporting/celebrity culture, he's earned the right to be a total dick, yet the night the Bullrun ended, once the party in Haller's room got shut down by the Beverly Hilton's Gestapo, Nick Frankl chewed out the security guards and immediately got on the horn to Carl. Lewis invited us up to contiue the festivities. When we told him we didn't have a hotel room or a ride back to Pedro, he let us crash on his couch. What's more, the man even got us a blanket. That, friends, is class. We've met a number of our childhood and teenage heroes, and Carl's right up there with Joe Strummer in terms of fulfilling our expectations. Trust us, that's rare. Plus, the dude's funny as fuck. More »

Polizei On My Back: Bullrun Finale Party Verit

Generally, one does not fuck with the Polizei. In this case, we are making an exception. Even German precision can be fouled, as was proven with the ailing front differential in the Los Matadors' Lamborghini Gallardo SE. It can be argued that without an infusion of German precision, the Lambo would never have made the 4,000-plus-mile trek. It can also be blamed on shoddy Italian workmanship. It might also be blamed on the lead feet of Emil and Rory Matador. However, the lack of precision in this photograph of Alex Roy and his film partner Corey could only be blamed on the slow response of Los Jalopnik's shoddy, imprecise Japanese camera's shutter and some yahoo with a couple of fingers to spare. Thanks, Alex, for showing up in LA for the soiree. Respect das Law! More »

You Gotta Know When to Hold 'Em, Know When to Fold 'Em, Know When to Walk Away, On the Bullrun

We thought this girl was very pretty. We also thought that her co-driver (not pictured) was a very large man who looked easily capable of turning us into some form of mulch. We don't relish being mulch before our time. And as we all know, very large man + multiple long-ass days in a tiny Lotus Elise = very large unhappy man with adrenaline pumping. We made with the salutations, took a photograph, as it is purported to last longer, and went on our merry, non-mulched way. (By the way, that's Haller doing the Running Man in the upper right.) More »