Thanks to Twitter user Fotograf I discovered that the Gumball 3000 will arrive in Beijing tomorrow 19:30 - 20:30 at the Westin Hotel (1-3 Xin Yuan Nan Road, Chaoyang District).

I hadn’t heard of it before, but is sounded interesting. Wikipedia has some details on the Gumball Rally 3000. If you aren’t attending any Olympic events it could be worth checking out.

The entry fee is £60,000 ($120,000US). The start line will be San Francisco, proceed through checkpoints in Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, flight to Nanjing (Drivers stopping over in Pyongyang), Shanghai, and finally finishing in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games. Celebrities officially confirmed this year include:

David Hasselhoff - former star of Baywatch and Knight Rider
Rob Dyrdek - skater and star of MTV’s Rob & Big
Alfonso Ribeiro - Actor best known as Carlton Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Tyson Beckford - Actor and model
Joel McHale - Presenter of The Soup on E Channel
Pete Wentz - Musician with band Fall Out Boy
Jermaine Dupree - Rapper / Producer
Loomis Fall - Drummer from punk band Wax, contributor to MTV’s Jackass, and drummer for Scream for Me
Chris Pontius - star of MTV’s Jackass and Wildboyz
Bam Margera - skater and star of MTV’s Jackass, Viva La Bam, and Bam’s Unholy Union
Bucky Lasek - vert skater and multiple X-Games gold medal winner
Cory Nastazio - BMX rider
Mike ‘Rooftop’ Escamilla - BMX rider
Willy Santos - skater
Paul Gray - Musician for the band Slipknot
Tony Hawk - skater
Antonio Esfandiari - Poker Player
John Mayer - Singer / Songwriter / Guitarist