The Gumball 3000 Rally has been going for a few weeks now and I thought I would drop some video clips down from Tony Hawk‘s video stream on shred or die. The Gumball 3000 is a rac accross the U.S. With 100 participants this year you can recieve blow by blow action as the drivers utilize twitter to update their followers with tweets. Here is a break down of the who’ and what’s of the race.

This year, over 100 cars and participants have entered the race including David “The Hoff” Hasselhoff to Jackass’s Bam Margera and Ryan Dunn in a custom BMW; next to action sports legends Tony Hawk, Danny Kass, and Dave Mirra in tricked out Jeeps, Chevy Trucks and Porsches; alongside Cypress Hill’s DJ Muggs and famed photographer Estevan Oriol, British indie stars The Enemy, MTV’s Dirty Sanchez, the hilarious Cuban Brothers and the fire-breathing Fuel Girls together with vintage rocker Lemmy from Motörhead and Avenged Sevenfold.

The 2009 Gumball 3000 Rally ends this Friday which is May 8th so stay tuned throughout the week for the final results. In the meantime check out these videos on shred or die to see what Tony has been up to along the way.

Gumball 3000 Video #1 Los Angeles To Las Vegas, Nevada

Gumball 3000 Video #2 Las Vegas To Sedona, Arizona

Gumball 3000 Video #3 Sedona, Arizona To Santa Fe, New Mexico

Gumball 3000 Video #4 Santa Fe, New Mexico to Texas

This video is old news now but is a perfect example of a viral skateboarding video. I believe one of the titles was a simple and called The Skateboarding Dog. It has two of the key elements of a viral video. Those elements are spectacle and emotion. Clearly this video is a spectacle just mainly because you don’t see bulldogs cruising around on skateboards hardly ever and it touches the emotional aspect of a viral video because its cute. Everybody or shall I say almost everybody loves dogs. This dog is very talented and dog lovers love to train their dogs to do new tricks. Like skateboarding which is a pretty hard sport to grasp in the first place, getting a dog on a skateboard is even more amazing. Once again here is the video.