Hamilton looses Licence.

[megz]

Yes im a looser for spelling loses wrong. Sorry guys

[NumberTwo]

Whatever reason he has for doing that speed he's a ----wit, F1 driver or not you just can't drive safely at that speed if the road is not designed for it and the other traffic is not doing the same.

Oh, c'mon, Tom. We're all --- wits then. We've all done the ludicrous-speed-on-public-roads thing ourselves. Just because you drive Citroens doesn't mean you can call the rest of us names.

[modbaraban]

Just because you drive Citroens doesn't mean you can call the rest of us names.

[Ray]

120mph on public roads is a little much though, don't you think?

[NumberTwo]

Apparently not....

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/200 ... ense_x.htm

Maybe there's some reason people want to leave France in a hurry. It also means Clapton is faster than Hamilton.

[mx_tifoso]

120mph on public roads is a little much though, don't you think?

IMO, it depends a lot on the road and the vehicle being driven. 120mph on a country back road is a bit much, but then on a larger highway it might not be so bad.

Besides, sports car magazines always applaud many famous mountain routes throughout Europe, so theres no surprise many people are caught speeding in those regions. And its not like Hamilton doesnt have the funds required to pay those fines.

Does anyone recall what Mercedes model he was driving exactly?

[manchild]

120mph on public roads is a little much though, don't you think?

Not in Germany. There's no speed limit there on highways.

[Tom]

In some highways in Germany (parts of the famous Autobahns) there are no speed limits, but everybody (with a grain of sense) is going at an appropriate speed. If you on a road doing 120mph while everyone else is doing 80 then thats unreasonable and phsycotic.

[Ray]

120mph on public roads is a little much though, don't you think?

Not in Germany. There's no speed limit there on highways.

This wasn't in Germany, it was in France, so what relevance does that have?

[jddh1]

My buddy was doing 115mph in a Toyota Tacoma pick up truck in NJ one night coming back from college of the holidays. We saw a cop car turn the lights on so we took the very next exit, made a couple of turns as we turned the headlights off, parked the car on some random house's driveway and walked out to see the cops drive around the neighborhood. We called his sister to pick us up then came the next morning to pick up the car. Apparently the cops were looking for the car for over an hour that night but never found it. Never got caught either, so I hope no policemen read this.

[Ciro Pabón]

Oh, c'mon, Tom. We're all --- wits then. We've all done the ludicrous-speed-on-public-roads thing ourselves. Just because you drive Citroens doesn't mean you can call the rest of us names.

Well, Number Two, you might be right. I can raise and say "My name is Ciro and I have speeded" and you can answer "Hellooo, Ciro!", like in AA meetings.

Anyway, there is a "tradition" here at F1Technical: most of us do not approve speeding on roads, not a little bit. C'mon, Number Two, join us!

Racers do not speed. Hamilton knows he has to apologize. Anyway, the damage to his image is already done: if there is somebody in the world that does not need to break the law is him. FIA has said loudly they are for the WHO campaign to reduce accidents and the main cause is... yes, testosterone, or as the WHO says, "driver related causes".

He was lucky he was caught. I can imagine the headlines if he ran over a pedestrian in France at 100 mph. That could be ground to ban him from racing, or the cause of an injury that'll ruin 2008 for him, if he, I don't know, hit a deer.

[-o< Please, don't race on streets: go to your local race track and learn how much it'll cost you to do a couple of laps in your car, or if you are really stretched for money, go to a kart track and pay for a couple of laps. That could be the beginning of something.

[Ray]

There is no reason whatsoever to do that high a speed on a public road unless you are taking someone dying to a hospital.

[manchild]

There is no reason whatsoever to do that high a speed on a public road unless you are taking someone dying to a hospital.

I know a guy who drove fast to get his father to hospital asap, crashed and his father died on spot.

[NumberTwo]

Oh, c'mon, Tom. We're all --- wits then. We've all done the ludicrous-speed-on-public-roads thing ourselves. Just because you drive Citroens doesn't mean you can call the rest of us names.

Well, Number Two, you might be right. I can raise and say "My name is Ciro and I have speeded" and you can answer "Hellooo, Ciro!", like in AA meetings.

Anyway, there is a "tradition" here at F1Technical: most of us do not approve speeding on roads, not a little bit. C'mon, Number Two, join us!

Racers do not speed. Hamilton knows he has to apologize. Anyway, the damage to his image is already done: if there is somebody in the world that does not need to break the law is him. FIA has said loudly they are for the WHO campaign to reduce accidents and the main cause is... yes, testosterone, or as the WHO says, "driver related causes".

He was lucky he was caught. I can imagine the headlines if he ran over a pedestrian in France at 100 mph. That could be ground to ban him from racing, or the cause of an injury that'll ruin 2008 for him, if he, I don't know, hit a deer.

[-o< Please, don't race on streets: go to your local race track and learn how much it'll cost you to do a couple of laps in your car, or if you are really stretched for money, go to a kart track and pay for a couple of laps. That could be the beginning of something.

Hellooo, Ciro!

Yep, I know how AA meetings work, led more than a few myself.

Now that was a loooong post when you know I was just poking a little fun at Tom. But thanks for the lecture, anyway.

Trust me on this though--I agree with you completely on this issue. I constantly grind my wife for her driving 15-20 mph over the limit just to go to the store. Personally, I've wrecked enough vehicles to learn. I now run the limit, or on the interstates here, 4 mph over. But you have to agree that most of it has to do with age. I drive slow now in fast cars at 39. At 19, I drove fast in what ever I could get my hands on. Survival of the species--if we survive our youth, we gain wisdom to view our own stupidity and to, hopefully, change our behavior.

So Merry Chritmas to all.

Cheers!

[checkered]

I agree with

those saying that Hamilton should apologise. He's a public figure, someone who represents driving the World over. It's not a laughing matter. Those who know me here know also that I have no sympathy for speeding on public roads whatsoever. That is not to say that I, too haven't participated in a few youthful indiscretions myself - I've been a passenger in a car doing well over 120 MPH (won't tell you how much) on a Swiss motorway. It's bad enough that I didn't object to the driver taking the car to its limit. One must not be afraid of speaking against such behaviour; if your friend doesn't listen, then it's time to consider what kind of a friend he is.