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Bentley Driver Goes 202 mph (325 km/h) in Switzerland
Bentley Driver Goes 202 mph (325 km/h) in Switzerland

7 Oct 2011, 12:52 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / A 28-year-old German decided to take a Bentley Continental GT up to 202 mph (325 km/h), with the driver using the Autobahn for this. So, what’s the big deal? Well, the speed was not achieved o...

 
Ferrari Crash Kills Passenger on Pacific Coast Highway
Ferrari Crash Kills Passenger on Pacific Coast Highway

20 Sep 2011, 17:36 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / This weekend we were faced with another horrific supercar accident, in which a Ferrari 360 Modena was disintegrated after an impact with a utility pole on the Pacific Coast highway, with the impact ...

 
Texas Raises Speed Limit to 85 mph, Drops Nighttime Limit
Texas Raises Speed Limit to 85 mph, Drops Nighttime Limit

5 Sep 2011, 06:49 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Speed limits have always been an issue. Allow people to go too fast and there will be blood. Impose a very strict limit and you’ll make the automobile useless. Really, it’s hard to keep ...

 
David Guetta Banned from Driving for Life Due to Speeding
David Guetta Banned from Driving for Life Due to Speeding

1 Sep 2011, 09:09 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / David Guetta is one of the most important names in electronic music, but even though most of his fans see him as a god of sound, we have to remember that, first of all, he is human. As a human, he h...

 
Did Lexus Put Kyle Busch Up to Speeding?
Did Lexus Put Kyle Busch Up to Speeding?

26 May 2011, 09:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On Tuesday, Joe Gibbs Racing driver Kyle Busch took his driving skills off the oval and right into the streets, trying to see how a Lexus LFA would perform at 128 mph in a 45 mph zone near Charlotte...

 
France! Liberté, égalité and a whole lot of communism
France! Liberté, égalité and a whole lot of communism

16 May 2011, 12:29 UTC · By: Charles Darveight / I never was what you would call a “fan” of the French. They’re simply annoying. They’ve got this unbelievable tendency of being backwards compared to the rest of the world, t...

 
Frank Lampard Clocked at 93mph in 50mph Zone
Frank Lampard Clocked at 93mph in 50mph Zone

25 Feb 2011, 12:34 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / It's a well-known fact that footballers have enough money to buy anything they want and when we say anything, we also think of fast cars we only dream about. This is also the case of Chelsea�...

 
No More Bus Races! Shanghai to Install GPS to Prevent Speeding
No More Bus Races! Shanghai to Install GPS to Prevent Speeding

17 Feb 2011, 10:14 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / There are some people out there who have to show their special affinity for speed regardless if they're driving a race car, a street-legal vehicle, a tractor or a... bus... And it appears that ...

 
Drivers More Afraid of Fines Rather Than Death
Drivers More Afraid of Fines Rather Than Death

16 Dec 2010, 15:43 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Deliberately breaking the speed limits is not quite the smartest thing to do when jumping behind the wheel of the car but even so, most drivers do it. But what are drivers actually thinking while sp...

 
Schumacher Appeals Speeding Fine in Germany
Schumacher Appeals Speeding Fine in Germany

26 Jul 2010, 10:21 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Michael Schumacher seems to have picked a bad habit of collecting speeding tickets lately, as he has been a “victim” of two such charges in recent weeks. The 41-year old driver was caugh...

 
Massa Handed 20-Second Penalty in Canadian Grand Prix
Massa Handed 20-Second Penalty in Canadian Grand Prix

14 Jun 2010, 06:22 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Felipe Massa had a race to forget last weekend, as he struggled throughout the Canadian Grand Prix to eventually finish on a disappointing 15th place. And as if that weren't enough, the Brazili...

 
Arizona Speed Cameras May be Banished
Arizona Speed Cameras May be Banished

9 Jan 2010, 12:04 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Speed cameras, these automotive executioners hated by motorists all around the world, may be on the point of losing a battle on U.S. territory. The state of Arizona, the U.S. pioneer when it com...

 
Bikers, Beware! SPECS3 Speed Cameras Approved
Bikers, Beware! SPECS3 Speed Cameras Approved

22 Dec 2009, 10:01 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / First there was the single Gatso emitting radar beams to measure the speed of the vehicle, then the speed cameras were installed in pairs to catch a vehicle’s average speed, and now a new syst...

 
Moto Guzzi Rider Clocked at 383 MPH
Moto Guzzi Rider Clocked at 383 MPH

9 Nov 2009, 14:13 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / An Italian rider had just been left without his driving license after local speed cameras clocked him riding at an impossible 383 mph (616 km/h). Motorcycles can go fast, but not that fast. In fact,...

 
Coulthard Gets Fined for Speeding in India
Coulthard Gets Fined for Speeding in India

13 Oct 2009, 16:07 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Scottish racing driver David Coulthard found himself in a bit awkward position the past weekend, after he had driven along the RajiV Gandhi Sea Link during a Red Bull F1 demonstration run. Nothing s...

 
Motorists Revenge: Speed Cameras Get Torched in UK
Motorists Revenge: Speed Cameras Get Torched in UK

18 Aug 2009, 16:39 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Any motorist who has been fined at least once for being caught speeding by a speed camera has been avenged, as two of them have been torched on consecutive weekends and four other have been vandaliz...

 
Jermain Defoe Pulled Over on Burglary Suspicion
Jermain Defoe Pulled Over on Burglary Suspicion

18 Aug 2009, 16:23 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / England and Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe was pulled over a few days ago by the Essex police as he was driving his black £150,000 Ferrari, following the Spurs’ 2-1 win over Liverpool. ...

 
Woman Driving at Over 125 Mph with Children to Face DUI Charges
Woman Driving at Over 125 Mph with Children to Face DUI Charges

10 Aug 2009, 14:06 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Romanian police officers have recently arrested a woman that was caught by speed cameras driving at over 125 mph (200 km/h) on the A2 highway. The woman not only ignored their stop sign but also pr...

 
Brawn May Lose Driving License Due to Speeding
Brawn May Lose Driving License Due to Speeding

4 Aug 2009, 10:40 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / We know most of us are used to seeing young racing drivers being caught by the police speeding while outside their usual Formula One perimeter (read that racing track). However, the latest news comi...

 
Ironic: Speed Camera Boss Fined for Speeding
Ironic: Speed Camera Boss Fined for Speeding

7 May 2009, 10:18 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Tom Riall, the boss of a speed camera company in UK, admitted speeding and was banned from driving for sex months. Riall, who is the chief executive of Serco Civil Government was driving with more ...