Bugatti vs. F599

[W111AAM]

Sorry if this is a repost.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1...

[johnnyboy101]

£60 and 3 points! Sounds like he/she got off lightly to me doesn't speeds of over 100mph usually warrant a ban?

[jleroux]

typical shocking journalism. if the police have had them for 97mph (hence only 3 points/£60) and these clowns were able to get such a decent close-up photo from their Audi then there's absolutely no proof that they were doing 130mph at all.

all journo's should be shot - lying, propaganda spinning scum.

[dh1]

its interesting they stopped the bug....surely they had his plate so they could get him later....the bigger law breaker is the 599 without the plate .....thats who i would have gone for

[Murcielago_Boy]

jleroux said:

typical shocking journalism. if the police have had them for 97mph (hence only 3 points/£60) and these clowns were able to get such a decent close-up photo from their Audi then there's absolutely no proof that they were doing 130mph at all.

all journo's should be shot - lying, propaganda spinning scum.

[vxsi]

Does anyone hate that the bugatti and 599 were mearly cruising at 130mph apparentlly! At what point is that a race

[stephen300o]

The do-gooders think anything over 100mph is irresponsibly fast, but is just a boring cruise on a clear road.

[ph123]

jleroux said:

typical shocking journalism. if the police have had them for 97mph (hence only 3 points/£60) and these clowns were able to get such a decent close-up photo from their Audi then there's absolutely no proof that they were doing 130mph at all.

all journo's should be shot - lying, propaganda spinning scum.

... newspaper sellers at best.

[Volante]

I like how "Police said the Bugatti was officially clocked at 97mph." is left until the very end but 130mph is in the headline... planks

[tom617]

but surely if it was on french plates they won't be able to give him point's just a ticket.

[thehappyotter]

tom617 said:

but surely if it was on french plates they won't be able to give him point's just a ticket.

The points go to the driver, not the car.

If the driver has a French licence then a 'skeleton' british licence with the points on it will be created on the computer.

[Norbury90]

I'm afraid that looks like a load of rubbish. I doubt that a car doing 70mph more than the camera civilian car would be able to take such a photo, the Bug would not have had time to get into the lane in front. Those cars aren't doing above 70 in the photo.

They see 2 cars cruising along the motorway, see their opportunity, and sell their story to the paper.

[zippy144]

Hi

I asume that must of been Sunday either before or after Goodwood??? As there was a Veyron there with French plates??

Regards

Tom aka Zippy

[Worzel]

The 599 was at the breakfast club, noticed it didn't have a rear plate on when it arrived.... Sounds like journalistic license to me....

Jon

Edited by Worzel on Thursday 5th June 22:13

[evil_dr_fish]

By "Journalisitic License" I presume you mean "Slanderous, total fabrication"?!

Chip paper and all that!

[W111AAM]

Is it the same car that was at Prescott a few weeks ago?

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...

[G Brooks]

vxsi said:

Does anyone hate that the bugatti and 599 were mearly cruising at 130mph apparentlly! At what point is that a race

Ye lol a race at 130mph i don't think so perhaps 180mph would be the start of the race lol

[evil_dr_fish]

The creative-press do like to bandy the word 'race' about willy-nilly. It conjurs all the right images they wish, in order to summon forth the splenetic juices of the outraged reader.

I am sure they were doing absolutely nothing more than what many people here would describe as playing or hooning.

If there's any truth in it, doing 130+ through traffic is a bit dumb to say the least - any one of those unaware, joe-plebs could have pulled out and caused a very nasty mess!

[ph123]

This was 07.45 on a Sunday morning.
97 was what they were clocked at.
Dawdling.