Alex Roy’s Official Team Polizei HQ Blog: Covering Cars, Driving, Races, Rallies, Technology & All Things Automotive. Facts & Figures? Go Somewhere Else.
“First has a quality all its own,” at least according to Polizei Master Pilot Michael Ross.
Recognize that image? How about the map? Yes, the infamous Gumball ALK CoPilot live GPS track which inspired Polizei 144 uber-kreator Josh Vietze to create our first new shirt design in two years. (Hint: Here’s the back-story.)
In production and weeks away, now you too can pre-order the commemorative Athens-Tirana GeoTrack T-Shirt by clicking through to the Polizei 144 store…
Part 2 of the official Garage 419 Invitational video went up this weekend, featuring lots of Farah gleefully spilling water on the track, which I think should be mandatory for all go-karting events. In the absence of any Finnish WRC veterans, it was no surprise to me that new Polizei recruits Skolnick & Vagios - karting experts of the highest order - took the day. Here’s the original story, Team Polizei’s video and the official video Part 1. If their fancy embedded flash player doesn’t work for you, check out Parts 1 or 2 in YouTube’s High Quality mode, because the Garage guys really did a great job making sure these look good even once having passed through YT’s (usually) crappy codec.
Thanks again to Team Polizei’s co-drivers Montana, Johnson & Russo, and to sponsors Piloti and Gudfud.
If you haven’t already donated to the Children’s Tumor Foundation - which was the point of all this, of course - here’s the link to donate online.
Matt Farah's Aston Martin Vanquish Gets Towed After He Breaks It Doing Donuts...
Expanding and extrapolating upon our low-budget Polizeisploitation flick, the minds at Garage 419 offer up their own expanded multicamera version of events, including characters like Farnbacher Loles‘ Roger Garbow, Jalopnik’s Ray Wert and Derek D. of Fast Lane Daily. Of course, by singling them out, we’re failing to mention a whole host of other people who lost. In all seriousness, it’s the most well-produced thing the 419 crew has put together so far. Roy makes reference to medieval warfare and lovemaking. Johnson regrettably reprises his “Iron Fist of Victory” schtick. Not shown, however, is the Aston Vanquish with the kaput power steering — a result of host Matt Farah’s early-morning donut antics. We did, however, get a picture of it being loaded onto the flatbed. Remember, schadenfreude wasn’t invented by Team Polizei.
A gripping Teutonic cop drama the likes of which you’ve never seen, involving Alex Roy, fundraising kingpin Bill “Wilhelm Deutschmark” Montana, Davey G. Johnson, Vinny Russo and the winning duo of Vagios & Skolnick. (ALEX WRITES: That’s nascent karting champion Zack Skolnick to you.) Strategy is employed. German accents are deployed. And victory’s mailed fist comes down upon the hordes, leaving a Polizei-shaped bruise in bold bas relief.
Left: Piloti President Kevin Beard, pensive. Right: The Piloti Ingels
Piloti. Kevin Beard. Vagios. Skolnik. Montana.
Five names that shall live in Polizei infamy, for were it not for last minute Polizei Draftee KartPiloten James Vagios & Zach Skolnick - whom I inducted onto Team Polizei and christened Polizei 6 mere minutes before the start of the Garage419 Invitational - my own performance would not have been nearly enough to claim anywhere close to 1st place, even with the help of the my brand-new Piloti-supplied “Ingel” racing shoes (above right), personally gifted to me by designer and company president Kevin Beard (above left) only days earlier.
The greatest victory belonged to Polizei 1 co-driver Bill Montana, however, who - as of this post - raised $7000+ on behalf of the Children’s Tumor Foundation and demonstrated driving skills superior to my own.
Bill, Kevin, Zack and James…thanks. As for organizers J.F. Musial and Matt Farah, great job. We’ll get to the others in my event follow-up post.
As for Polizei 2, piloted by the so-popular-he-must-have-a-secret Vinny Russo and the automotive world’s Hunter S. Thompson (a.k.a. Davey Johnson), your crimes - well-documented and to be revealed in time - will never be forgotten by those present at GPNY.
Much more - including pics and some hilarious video - will go up later today…
Neue Polizei KartPiloten Bill Montana Im LuftPolizei PrakticeTeam Polizei is proud to announce a new addition to our vaunted list of Piloten: Bill Montana. Master of knowledge real-estaten, Garage 419 fan and - like J.F. Musial - a Polizei fan who jumped the fence to join the radical fringe of Germany’s finest, Herr Montana adds critical skills at a critical time:
Team Polizei’s entry in the Garage419 Invitational in support of the Children’s Tumor Foundation. More importantly, Herr Montana will join me as co-driver of Polizei 1, the fourth among our entry, Polizei 2 comprised of the vaunted David Johnson and the much feared Vinny Russo.
Read Montana’s personal introduction - entitled “I like to drive s**t fast” - after the jump…
While thunder, lighting and rain strafe New York in a manner that’d put the grand mal in Lewis Hamiltion’s seizures, Team Polizei isn’t worried. Why? Because we’re racing indoors. Thanks to the good graces of Team Polizei co-conspiritor/master logician J.F. Musial, we’ve been invited to participate in the Garage 419 Invitational at Grand Prix New York, a charity kart enduro benefitting research into neurofibromatosis treatment. Alex is racing with Garage 419 fan and real estate professional Bill Montana as Polizei Team 1, while Davey and Spyker North America Dealer Relations manager Vinny Russo (above, in yellow) comprise Polizei Team 2. We’ll be filming video, selling schwag (with proceeds benefitting charity) and generally carrying on when we’re not behind the wheel of the karts, so come on up and say hi. We’ve also got special prizes for our highest donor, as well as for the biggest donor overall. Click here to donate and use the pulldown menu to choose Bill and Alex, no matter which one of the four of us you’re actually rooting for. The most important thing, of course, is that the money gets to those who need it.
Sorry for the inconvenience…but our blog’s migration from gumball144.com to this here teampolizeihq.com domain requires anyone who subscribed to our old RSS feed to ditch that one and re-subscribe to our new one.
How? Just click on here or on the orange RSS reader graphic on the top left of this page. Thanks for your patience as we work out the final pieces of our migration.
Michael Hollander - witness to the U.S. Express, automotive journalist extraordinaire, friend to (and cameo talking head in) the 32:07 project, and general mensch and mentor to eccentrics like myself - has passed away. Tributes and more over at Cory Welles’ blog…
Despite this week’s stress, I took the time to try to enjoy myself…and I couldn’t help but notice who’s back, once again driving one of my favorite cars. It’s well known that I have a soft spot for the original Transporter film, and of course for Jason Statham, who, in an ideal world - despite having sold out once or twice - would play yours truly in a film version of The Driver. Trailer Addict was kind enough to post the trailer for the third installment. It can’t be worse than the second. Maybe Staham’s CoEfficient of Cool (Ceoc) can now be restored…
Recent Comments