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- I'm Josh Cartu.
I'm a Ferrari racing driver and entrepreneur.
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It's quite a logistical challenge.
I mean, you're going from town to town,
staying in a different hotel,
you've got to bring your bags,
you've got to make sure your car is set up properly,
and you've got to make sure
that you and your teammates don't kill each other.
Because you go through a lot of stress,
you don't sleep at all,
one or two hours per night maybe.
You wake up, you get back in the car.
You just wanna check if you've been drinking,
so we've got this breathalyzer in the car
and we check and make sure that there's
no alcohol left, 'cause at night you're partying
and try to stop drinking around 2 a.m.
so that when you get in the car, you're clean.
It's quite a challenge.
Even if you start on time, because sometimes
you may get delayed, there's a traffic accident,
you get pulled over by police,
I mean, there are a million things,
like blowing a tire, that can just ruin the whole day.
So everything's kind of got to come together.
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I think the most important thing,
the most challenging thing about doing a rally like this
is on very minimal sleep and just total exhaustion,
being a good guy.
Really, the hardest thing to do is to continue
being a good person.
I mean, it's really tough.
The smallest thing aggravates you.
I mean, you imagine, three days,
very little sleep, you're driving, driving, driving,
and just, people do things that (beep) you off
and you really have to keep it together
after being totally exhausted, just being a good guy.
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I'm a little strange compared to
the other drivers because I don't let anyone drive
even one kilometer.
I drive the entire 5,000 kilometers myself.
My co-pilot's there to give me emotional support,
be my friend, help me with navigation.
I'm on a radio and so we almost never play music.
So the car is actually completely quiet the whole time.
Very boring inside the car
because we're not doing anything,
listening to music, or partying.
It's just literally driving,
listening to the noise of the engine,
and speaking to my teammates with the radio.
So really, really quiet inside the car most of the time.
We could be driving on the highway
for a straight, long period of time,
and that's super, super boring.
I hate that part.
But I guess if I have to think about it,
the most awesome part about it is arriving
to a crowd of tens of thousands of people
and hearing people shouting
Wolfpack, or shouting your name.
I mean, it's really surreal to be famous for a week
and then go back to being a normal person.
I mean, it's really crazy how many people
know who you are there.
It's super humbling and really quite an emotional feeling.
The power of it, it's super intense.
I mean, you get out of your car
and put your hand in the air
and people are just shouting and screaming.
It's crazy, it feels amazing.
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For me, since I race in the Ferrari Challenge,
the base of the car is a [Ferrari] 488,
so I'm the most competent in a 488.
It's a car that I have the most kilometers in,
I'm the most comfortable in,
and I can drive the fastest and the safest,
and I know the car better than I know any other car.
So that was really the best car to choose for me
just because it matches my style of driving so well.
But if you just have a Ferrari, congratulations.
You're like everyone else in the rally
who also has a Ferrari, or a Lamborghini,
or a Porsche, or a McLaren.
So you need to do really, really interesting stuff
to your car in order for it to be special and stand out.
And there are two ways to do that.
First, you want your car to be as fast as possible,
but also reliable, so you need to modify it
in all kinds of different ways
that suit your driving style.
So for me, I went to Novitec Rosso.
They did a power upgrade to just over 800 horsepower.
In addition to that,
it had a full system Inconel exhaust,
it had wheels which were custom-made actually for the car
from a company called HRE.
Three-piece wheels, super light,
but also that were built specifically for the car.
So, it's not like you buy wheels
and then just stick 'em on the car.
They're made from the ground up to fit the car
and to be as light as possible.
So we did some suspension work as well.
We did springs, we did dampers.
We discussed we were gonna drive over some
really, really rough roads, so we didn't want the car
to be too low, but my co-pilot,
we needed to consider his weight,
so we didn't want the car to be too high either.
So a lot of considerations building a car
around two passengers that are around,
combined, about 200 kilos, right?
We played with the camber a little bit.
We played with the caster,
we played with all of the suspension settings to make the
car as perfect as possible, given all the circumstances.
Tires as well, from Pirelli.
Special tires from them were fitted.
So the car looked really cool, I think,
but it was extremely performance-based.
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I love leaving London.
I think the biggest following of Gumball
in the world is where it was created,
Regent Street, London.
Three million people
over the course of a weekend come to see that.
My hometown in Hungary, arriving to Budapest,
obviously quite emotional for me, pretty heavy.
Lot of people there.
And then of course, the greatest party ever.
Winning the Gumball with my team, Wolfpack,
would be the Nammos party in Mykonos,
which was absolutely crazy.
I think we were there for 24 hours.
Imagine arriving to a party
and partying for 24 hours straight.
That was pretty crazy.
I mean, I'd never been to a party
that good or that much fun.
Everybody was having that good of a time.
I mean, if you looked around, people were just going crazy.
It was nuts, we took over the Nammos completely
and I think it was the biggest party
they ever saw there, ever.
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