Brits in racing cars caught at twice the speed limit on single-carriageway road
Friday, September 16, 2016 @ 10:59 AM
BRITISH and Canadian drivers nearly doubling the speed limit in souped-up McLaren racing cars on a Navarra highway have been fined €600 each.
Only three have been caught, since another four were going so fast that the police speed trap was unable to register them.
In the space of seven seconds, as many McLarens shot past, all close together, at kilometre 24 of the single-carriageway NA-132 from Estella to Sangüesa via Tafalla, as they passed the exit for Larraga.
The speed limit is 90 kilometres per hour (just over 56mph) and the two Brits and one Canadian who were caught were driving at 163, 167 and 171 kilometres per hour (about 102mph, 104mph and 107mph).
A flood of calls was made to the 112 emergency hotline, with some drivers saying they had been 'overtaken by seven aeroplanes'.
In practice, they were McLaren 650S Coupés and 675LT Spiders.
The seven sports cars had come from the Los Arcos race circuit and were not designed for general road use, say police, and caused considerable alarm among residents because their powerful engines give off a roaring noise way above safe decibel levels for public highways.
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