Doing a few burnouts at the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed is one thing. Doing them in Victoria’s nanny state during Grand Prix week is a different proposition altogether. Just ask 2008 F1 World Champ Lewis Hamilton who was busted fishtailing his Mercedes road car yesterday evening on Fitzroy Street in St Kilda.
Senior police constable Scott Woodford said the 25-year-old’s car had “accelerated heavily and lost traction to the rear wheels.”
Woodford continued, “It’s fair to say that he was disappointed with the whole incident but I must say he was extremely cooperative throughout.”
Hamilton will be charged with improper use of a motor vehicle and the car will be impounded for 48 hours.
A statement released by McLaren quotes Hamilton as saying, “This evening, I was driving in an over-exuberant manner and, as a result, was stopped by the police. What I did was silly, and I want to apologise for it.”
[Source: ABC | Thanks to Mick for the tip]
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Good on ya!
Brilliant! Hopefully the race is good enough that this doesn’t end up being the most interesting part of the weekend.
Well sorry guys but this is just ridiculous on the behalf of the police there. So what? The guy can handle a Formula 1 car, while they charge him for doing burnouts in the Albert Park circuit, driving a road car?
Come on, the fans loved it, he is a professional racing driver. There really wasn’t any need to do this in his case.
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The image with this article at the top of the page was taken on a closed circuit at the 2009 Goodwood FoS. The incident with Hamilton in Melbourne yesterday happened on a public road as he was leaving the Grand Prix track and driving back to his hotel. Apologies if the image was misleading.
The actual streets are named, but the omission is in fact that the street he left is one the exits from the F1 precinct. Surely most of us would light them up for the crowd if we were in the same place.
A prominent Melbournian died that morning in a motorcycle crash 100m from there. You can appreciate the sensitivity by the police I suppose.
Do a skid.
Also, 11th
It’s still the “Nanny country” in any case. haha
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