I’ve been very lucky as I’ve been done for any really high speeds…always been given a bollocking and told to go easy.
Last ticket I got was on a hoon in Wales…where I got spilt up from my hooning companion after a local decided to block my perfectly safe overtake on the Evo Triangle. When I did get past I was not in a good mood for the next car I came to overtake, so tried to calm down a little by sitting behind him at 50mph for a few miles on some twistier parts of the A5 until a good overtaking spot came along. Road opened up, and I could see for about a mile, so indicated, dropped to 3rd and floor it…just as the knob I was overtaking decided to floor his 640D. He gave up before I did, which meant I was at the very top of 3rd at 105mph in a 60 NSL.
About half a mile further up the road, my hooning companion was waiting for me at a junction and moved off as he saw me. So I followed him and as I turned in I saw a police car heading my way quite quickly and just knew it was for me. He turned in about 100m behind me, followed for about half a mile and then flashed his fairy lights. I flashed my hazards to acknowledge but continued for a minute or two to a cut-in so we didn’t block the lane.
Had a quick chat, told me that he’d been set up on a parallel, higher road, and had seen the ‘race’ between me and the other car…but as I’d only hit that speed for a second before dropping straight back down to 70, that he’d be putting 70mph on the ticket
It was also the week before the FPN went up from £60 to £100, so thought I’d got off very lightly.
Other than that, it would have been 145mph in my e34 M5 on the A34 between Abingdon and the M4. I was just heading to the hotel very late one evening at about 80mph, when I saw something approaching quite quickly. It passed me at a decent speed, and I decided to have a bit of fun, so started accelerating hard to catch it up.
I caught up and stayed a few hundred yards behind it on the inside lane, but this thing (Saab 9000) just stayed on the outside lane at the same speeds for at least 10 miles. My junction was approaching, so I eased off a little…and so did the Saab.
Slowed down to below 80 as the exit was quite tight, and started indicating as I coasted down to my exit speed…the Saab did the same, but slowed down even more and was level with me as I went to exit the A34. Down comes the passenger window and I see two fully-uniformed police and a warrant card is flashed at me before the driver booted it off down the A34 again.
None of my high-speed (150mph+) 2am runs from Bristol to Liverpool, suspension testing on the M6 Toll, or playing with 911s on the A14 have ever garneted any police attention.
Bit harder to maintain those speeds with the amount of cameras around.
