Automobiles - Gumball 3000, racer dead

The Gumball 3000, an actually illegal "race" in which participants are supposed to race their cars from one destination to another while collecting as many fines as possible, had to face reality after one racer died in a high-speed accident.

The Gumball 3000, being the world´s most famous non-commercial race event, has attracted a lot of attention in the past and also sponsors like adidas or the superstar Xzibit for example.
Even though adidas immediatly announced their retirement from the event after the accident, the event is very unlikely to lose its popularity.

The "goal" of the so called Rallye is that private drivers with rather big wallets take out their rides - we are talking about maybe $200.000 and up - in order to race against others on given routes. Its not necessarily the fastest driver who wins, but rather the one that has collected the most fines. Of course this can only be achieved by reckless driving for which the German Autobahn is exceptionally well suited since Germany does not have any legal speed limits.
OK, watching fast cars drive fast may be fun, actually I have learned that it really is after landing in the middle of a large group of racers in Austria after returning from a weekend trip to Italia. But we must not forget that the Gumball is an event with the sole purpose of disobeying road laws and now we face reality: The event will lead to dead drivers.
Furthermore, we must say that we are actually not talking drivers trained to drive performance cars but rather people that just have the money to burn. If the need arises, those people are not able to keep control over their car and that is what happened in the deadly accident.

So there is only one thing we can do: Pray that the madness will stop.
Come on, if you have a lot of money and want to race, just buy a Ferrari FXX, probably the fastest road legal race car there is. Ferrari will train you to drive it and let you drive it on real racetracks and will also do the setup for you. Having fun with the car is the only thing the FXX buyer has to do.