Lewis Hamilton has had his Mercedes road car impounded for 48 hours after being pulled over by Melbourne police for 'anti-social' driving on Thursday evening.
The 2008 world champion was spotted by a local Victoria police van doing a 'burn-out and a fish-tail. The car was impounded for 48 hours and Hamilton was spoken to by police at the scene of the incident before being returned to his hotel. He is now expected to be given a summons for improper use of a vehicle.
"I was driving in an over-exuberant manner and, as a result, was stopped by the police.," said Hamilton. "What I did was silly, and I want to apologise for it."
"Given that Melbourne's on the world stage with a lot of interstate and international visitors, we would expect drivers to observe road rules," Police constable Scott Woodford told the BBC.
The news broke a matter of hours after Hamilton postest the fastest time on track in the second of Friday's practise sessions, ahead of Sunday's Australian GP.
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