Filed under: Motorsports, Australia
Police only recently released the name, after only confiding that a 25-year-old Briton with Swiss residency was arrested in a Mercedes sedan doing burnouts in a Melbourne, Australia suburb. Yep, that’s Lewis Hamilton, driving down a stretch of section used for the Albert Park track in a Benz sedan and lighting the tires up (sounds oddly familiar). The road was open for public use, and the public watchdogs – Victoria state police – nabbed him for it.
Under Oz’s anti-hoon laws his car was impounded and will be held for two days. Hamilton might have been celebrating topping the timesheets for Friday practice. If he can win the race on Sunday, he might be able to celebrate winning a brand new car getting the Mercedes out of impound. And who knows, if Bahrain was any indication of the season, after qualifying this could be the most exciting thing to happen all weekend.
[Source: The Age | Image: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images]
Lewis Hamilton busted for doing burnouts in public? originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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