"Bull Run" Exotic Rally

I was unable to find any information about this event, but it came through New Orleans tonight and there were quite a few nice cars in the garage at the Ritz Carlton! My friend is a valet and tipped me off earlier today about it.

I took my video camera down and got some video of the cars. Pretty dissapointing turn out compared to some of the other rallies (maybe 30 cars in the garage), but exotics are exotics so I won't complain.

I spoke with the event coordinators for a while. Apparently there was a CGT as well as a McClaren-Mercedes earlier on the rally, but they dropped out yesterday.

In the garage were:

-3 or 4 Porsche 996TT
-Porsche 996 C2 Cab
-3 or 4 Ferrari 360M
-Ferrari 355 Spider
-2 Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale
-Ferrari 550 Maranello
-2 Bentley Continentals
-BMW Z4
-BMW M3 Convertible
-2 Lamborghini Murcielago
-Merc CL600 German "police" car
-Merc SL500
-2 Ford Mustang Cobras
-2 Dodge Viper SRT-10
-Aston DB7 Vantage

Almost all of the cars except 3 or 4 were European.

I made some video of the cars and also a Murcielago starting up; I am making more video tomorrow of these cars as they leave the hotel, and I might follow them for a while on the highway. I will post up the video tomorrow afternoon regardless.

Cheers,
Richard

 

I met and talked to the director of the video they were filming on the run. He is the brother of the organizer of the Gumball Rally. He owns or operates a film studio in UK called "Giant Film". Almost every car on the Bull Run was European (based on the front and rear plates). And literally ever person I talked to about the even and the kind of fun they were having was British or Scottish.

I still haven't had time to edit and upload that video I made of the Murcielago in the parking garage, it sounds really mean!!! I'll see if I can do it tomorrow evening.

EDIT: In summation, I believe the Bull Run is now the American version of the Gumball. I think it is almost all of the Gumballers and that they have renamed the rally for the US to alleviate confusion or something...for now, it seems, they may have inadvertently caused confusion with the naming of the run and its low publicity. Again, from speaking to the director of the video I think the lack of publicity was intentional, almost as if this year is a test run.