[Sussex] 200 mph on Sussex road

[zefarelly]

As this is the defacto transportation thread.

I'd like to show you what someone drinking and cycling looks like:-

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Is that Lance Armstrong? Back on the pills again.

 

[Stat Brother]

Is that Lance Armstrong? Back on the pills again.

It would have nearly been forgivable if it was just pills.

 

[carlzeiss]

James Hollett denies stealing Audi and speeding at 200mph on M23

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19490301.james-hollett-denies-stealing-audi-speeding-200mph-m23/

 

[Gazwag]

Looks like the Birmingham to Manchester road, I'm sure I spotted an Alice band and mini shin pads in the clip

 

[wellquickwoody]

Ignore

 

[marcos3263]

OK, 200mph is way OTT - quite rightly too - but, leaving aside any virtue signalling on the lines of 'I've never exceeded a speed limit in my life and I detest and condemn anyone who ever has' (aka liars)......how many NSCers, on buying anew car (or new to them anyway) have gone out and sought an empty, safe piece of road to see how fast it would go?

Honest yes or no answers (not to be used in evidenced............................)

From my first car (a Renault 750 - 750cc with one cylinder defunct - that I cranked up to 50mph) to most of the rest I've usually tried it. At a quiet time on a dual carriageway with no traffic around - and no, I've certainly never had anything remotely capable of 200mph (and wouldn't have tried it anyway) but a 12 year old 998cc Nissan Micra with 120K on the dial did actually manage the ton once.

So, totally honesty here - who has and who has not, bought a car and then taken it out somewhere safe to see 'what it would do'?

I used to have a TVR Griffith. the day I bought it I 'tested it' on the journey back on the anti clockwise around the M25. The road cleared, the sun was out and it was a sign to give it some welly.

I got up to 120 before realising I would die going any faster. the TVRs are all raw power but no airbags, ABS etc.

after that I never really pushed it, the engine note at 20-30mph was as impressive as 60-70mph so why bother - also it got too much attention as it was hardly a wallflower.

 

[wellquickwoody]

I used to have a TVR Griffith. the day I bought it I 'tested it' on the journey back on the anti clockwise around the M25. The road cleared, the sun was out and it was a sign to give it some welly.

I got up to 120 before realising I would die going any faster. the TVRs are all raw power but no airbags, ABS etc.

after that I never really pushed it, the engine note at 20-30mph was as impressive as 60-70mph so why bother - also it got too much attention as it was hardly a wallflower.

Anything above 80mph would have had bits falling off!

 

[Weststander]

Playing devil's advocate, how can they arrest anyone when they have no proof (in that video at least) of who was driving? Let alone 2 people?

I guess they must have clear evidence or even confession and it seems the car wasn't even the driver's.

Once found, a bunch of circumstantial evidence all pointing in the same direction is sufficient in criminal law. Who’s insured to drive it, who uploaded the video, cctv showing him/her as the driver nearby at the time, mobile phone records. “No comment” can be interpreted as not wanting to clear their name.

If he/she chooses to lie in interview at all and/or they’ve taken steps since to hide the truth, prison and a criminal record awaits for perverting the course of justice. This seems fairly common with driving offences, something minor turns into a life prospects changed.

 

[B-right-on]

40 years old. Expected a yoof.

And nicked it.

 

[The aloof gatekeeper]

James Hollett denies stealing Audi and speeding at 200mph on M23

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19490301.james-hollett-denies-stealing-audi-speeding-200mph-m23/

The Shaggy defence. Worth a try.

 

[GT49er]

I used to have a TVR Griffith. the day I bought it I 'tested it' on the journey back on the anti clockwise around the M25. The road cleared, the sun was out and it was a sign to give it some welly.

I got up to 120 before realising I would die going any faster. the TVRs are all raw power but no airbags, ABS etc.

after that I never really pushed it, the engine note at 20-30mph was as impressive as 60-70mph so why bother - also it got too much attention as it was hardly a wallflower.

It's also a matter of 'when' as well, isn't it. Apart from a few idiots like the 200mph pr@t currently being prosecuted, people are generally driving much slower than they used to - after all, when the motorways were first introduced there was no speed limit on them. I can remember one evening, probably in the mid 90s, driving eastwards along the M27 towards Portsmouth - I was cruising along at 85mph in the left hand lane without overtaking anything for miles, while both the other lanes were full of vehicles whizzing past. Wouldn't happen these days.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

I like the quote "Police believe it was taken somewhere in Sussex. There's clearly blue motorway signs, so that narrows it down to about 6 miles of road doesn't it?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Pleaded 'not guilty'.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19566614.man-accused-driving-almost-200mph-m23-audi-faces-trial/

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Pleaded 'not guilty'.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/19566614.man-accused-driving-almost-200mph-m23-audi-faces-trial/

Wasn’t Pritchard then?

 

[Official Old Man]

Two speed tests.
Brand new Citroen AX in 1989. On the motorway home I overtook a Porsche. I was on the back of a low loader!
In 2004 opened up my Vauxhall Astra Convertible on the M6 toll. Touched 100 before the Wife told me to slow down. She was hanging off the back at the time!

 

[Soul Finger]

In my yoof, driving back from the Stuart Munday/Jimmy Case "wot" Leicester game I drove down that stretch, at speed, refusing to turn the steering wheel, unless I really had too.



Happy dayz.

Great night out that was. Munday's goal was amazing.

We went the wrong way around the M25 and then somehow ended up in Croydon before eventually heading back to the Motherland.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Two extra years for beige trousers !

 

[Gabbafella]

I used to have a TVR Griffith. the day I bought it I 'tested it' on the journey back on the anti clockwise around the M25. The road cleared, the sun was out and it was a sign to give it some welly.

I got up to 120 before realising I would die going any faster. the TVRs are all raw power but no airbags, ABS etc.

after that I never really pushed it, the engine note at 20-30mph was as impressive as 60-70mph so why bother - also it got too much attention as it was hardly a wallflower.

My uncle used to have a TVR Tuscan, absolute beast of a machine. He took me out in it to show me what it could do, going from Brighton to Worthing, we came out of the Southwick tunnel and around that long sweeping bend at 160mph, the car didn't even twitch, it was so planted.
I was young at the time, early 20's, so I just had a grin on my face, but looking back, same as what you said, nothing would've protected us if anything had gone wrong.

 

[Weststander]

100mph on a London road at night, killing one of his passengers. What a complete cnt.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/passenger-begged-driver-of-range-rover-to-slow-down-before-horror-crash/ar-AA115eqB?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=eb65deeaa808eed1420e1c8d36f4f1ce

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Oh My !

Big wallet, small brain syndrome
100mph and no seatbelts = total disregard for the law
Audition for a Darwin award but killed someone else instead of himself.