Bugatti driver fined after street racing
June 5, 2008 by Karl Peskett
It’s just another leisurely Tuesday, when the police rudely interrupt the street race you’re having with a Ferrari 599 GTB.
Well that’s the situation this Veyron driver had to contend with, after being clocked doing 97mph in a 50mph roadworks zone. Witnesses say that speeds of up to 140mph were reached, and even though the Bug was pulled over, the Fezza got away.
How? Well you might notice the missing rear plate. The driver of the Bugatti was fined a measly £60 ($123) and allowed to go, we wonder how Australian police would have dealt with this issue given our draconian traffic laws!
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If that was here, naturally the police would want to confiscate that Bugatti. Probably send the entire police force and every available helicopter after the Ferrari and sell it…. really really cheaply to some cop with the $1000 raised from the sale of the two vehicles going to “improving” our roads.
Come to think about it, if you had a veyron, why would you need to prove your car is the fastest by racing it?
if that happened in Oz, and the cops decide to confiscate the cars, If I was the driver, I might as well shoot at the cops, because Im not gonna lose my supercar for a first offense like that.
I do not condone street racing at all, but when you hear how strict and ridiculous the road rules in Oz are compared to other countries… you just want to punch the person who makes the rules.
Giving a car like this a quick squirt is hardly street racing and I dont think the people who own cars like these would consider themselves street racers.
Still, they would of probably suffered far worse punishment here in Oz thats for sure.
They didn’t catch him going very far over the limit. Hence they had no recorded documentation enough to hand out a harsh fine.
Would not surprise me if it was confiscated and end up “in” a cops garage at the moment lol
in OZ he would have lost his license for sure, unless of course he was a copper, a TV celebrity, a sports person, a politician….. yeah aint our road laws a great thing!
Nice work, street racing through roadworks.
Police here would have just rubbed their hands and bent the driver over the bonnet and started writing fines.
Then the cars would have been crushed, the driver loose their licence for 20years and then have to have an interlock device fitted to a car that they buy after getting their licence back.
Doesn’t surprise me.
If it was here, the driver would lose his liscence and his car. But it doesn’t matter, if you can afford a Veyron, you can afford a chauffeur to drive you around.
The Veyron would become a police pursuit car…lol
I’m sure he can afford it!!!!!
Why didn’t he just try and outrun them?? There’s no way cops could have kept up with that.
There would be no point in out-running the cops. With a fine of only £60 ($123) might as well cop it on the chin rather than risk more heavty penalties that would occur if the driver didn’t pull over.
The only reason why the Ferrari took off was because it didn’t have a rear number plate.
if i was the drive of the bugatti, i would have offered to pay in cash on the spot.
Too funny! After see what a veyron can do on Top Gear about 4 months ago, and to think the Ferrari got away, who was driving the Veyron, an 80 year old person with a heart condition??
there is no point in running when they have already seen your plates
The cost of the petrol used during the “race” would’ve exceeded the cost of the fine! :D
I just checked the original Sun article and I think that they are French plates on the Bugatti. That means the drivers chances of being forced to pay the measly £60 are pretty tiny.
Apperently the driver was some Earl or Vicount. Guess the cops were more intersted in the Bug than nabbing the driver. Stating he was done for only 97mph meant he could issue a fixed penaltl rather than having to go thro’ a court appearance and getting a automatic ban.
well if it was in aus, wait.. it couldnt have been, because the veyron is not registerable in aus…
itd be cool if it could be :P
Over here… im guessing whoever owns one of these cars (unregisterable) and drives it here would probably be in bed with the cops anyway…
If somebody owned a Bugatti (other than they would be very, very lucky person), should there be a speed limiter like up to 300km in Europe on it to stop the excess speed limit to 407km/h?