Rental car rally

The Rental Car Rally is a 36 hour point-to-point competitive road trip taking place over a single weekend, [cite web
url=http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/7/9/102338/7978/travel/Your+Very+Own+Cannonball+Run
title=Your Very Own Cannonball Run
publisher=Jaunted.com] on public roads. The Rental Car Rally is designed to appeal to those who have a Cannonball Runish itch to scratch but, who typically don't have the means or time to join a road rally such as the Gumball 3000. [cite web
url=http://www.complex.com/blogs/2008/08/15/cars-chicks-and-money-gumball-3000-vs-rental-car-rally/
title=The Great Debate: Gumball 3000 vs. Rental Car Rally
publisher=Complex.com] The only qualifications to participate in the rally are a free weekend and the ability to rent a car (or willingness to use ones own). Although set up as a rally, the event has no official timing, or prizes for reaching check points first. Winners are graded on a combination of checkpoints crossed, team/car style and shenanigans/trouble caused during the rally. Although the organizers are careful to emphasize that it is a rally and not a race, it is often referred to as a race on public roads.

History

Drawing inspiration from the Cannonball Run films, Smokey and the Bandit, the Wacky Races Cartoons as well as the Gumball 3000, the Rental Car Rally was born as a more reasonable alternative to for those wanting to participate in a rally but who may not have the time and money required to complete in events such as the Bullrun and the Gumball 3000.

The first Rental Car Rally took place on August 15-17, 2008. [cite web
url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10020275-36.html?hhTest=1
title=New York to Montreal overnight--with no GPS?
publisher=CNET.com] The route required that participants drive from New York to Montreal, attend a party and drive back to NYC.

Rally

2008 NYC to Montreal

The inaugural rally featured 74 cars and 189 participants, and traveled from Long Island City, Queens to Montreal, Canada. Drivers were required to stop at 5 checkpoints along the route (which necessitated that mostly local roads were used) and collect evidence of their passing through them. 3 cars never made it to Montreal due to mechanical problems and 1 car did not make it back from Montreal due to an accident in which no one was injured. The winner drove a van converted to resemble an emergency blood delivery vehicle.

Winners

2008 NY to Montreal
*Overall Winner - Team Vampire
*Best Style - Team Knot

Founders of Rental Car Rally

[http://www.rentalcarrally.com Rental Car Rally] was founded in 2008 by Franz Aliquo' (aka Supreme Commander), mastermind behind the international water gun assassination tournament StreetWars [cite web
url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/19/SQUIRT.TMP
title=Have gun, will squirt
publisher=San Francisco Chronicle] and [http://www.flavortripping.con Flavor Tripping Miracle Fruit parties] [cite web
url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/28flavor.html
title=A Tiny Fruit That Tricks the Tongue
publisher=The New York Times] and Steve Bryant (aka Steve), founder of [http://www.wiimbledon.net Wiimbledon] . [cite web
url=http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3310660&page=1
title=Bear Guys Falls Short at 'Wiimbledon'
publisher=ABC News] [cite web
url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25011992/
title=Wiimbledon crowns top 'tennis' champs
publisher=MSNBC.com] [cite web
url=http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/06/countdown-to-wi.html
title=Countdown to Wiimbledon!
publisher=Wired.com]

References

External links

* [http://www.rentalcarrally.com/ Official website]