Costly speed

A Belgian driver was filmed by a friend as he drove his 3677 Aston Martin at speeds of up to 292km/h (182mph) along the highway. The video was uploaded onto the Internet and was soon discovered by the police, who wasted little time in tracking the offender. The Belgian authorities were less than impressed and the driver received the maximum sentence. As the offending driver was able to afford an expensive performance car he would have easily been able to afford to pay for a track day at a nearby race track. Or instead he could have made the relatively short journey over the border to Germany, where he could have driven as fast as he liked, and quite legally, along an unrestricted section of the autobahn network. Instead he chose to save money and time and try the car out on a public highway and was banned as a result. The 32 month driving ban and €4,400 fine might well remind him of the false economy of this thinking.