Moment driver stuns motorists and police by taking a Ferrari grand prix car for a highway joyride
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Cops hunt driver who stunned motorists by taking a Ferrari grand prix car for a joyride on a highway – and it’s not the first time it’s happened
- Mystery GP2 car filmed speeding along public roads in Czech Republic
- Driver escaped ban for similar stunt that occurred on motorway in 2019
- Driver of vehicle cannot be identified by police due to racing helmet
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A bizarre video shows the moment a ‘Formula One’ car was spotted driving down a motorway in the Czech Republic.
The racing car with Ferrari livery was filmed speeding along a highway which runs out of Prague in the Czech Republic to the German border.
The vehicle appears to be a GP2 car and was decked out in the livery of the famous Ferrari F2004 model which was used by F1 legend Michael Schumacher when he won the world driver’s championship in the 2004 season.
A GP2 racing vehicle decked out in the livery of an F1 car is filmed on a Czech motorway
GP2 cars raced in the feeder competition that is one rung below Formula One, the pinnacle of the sport.
The cars share many features with F1 cars but don’t make as much power and aren’t as expensive and complex.
It is illegal to drive such cars on motorways in Europe – and amazingly, this isn’t the first time this has happened.
A strikingly similar incident occurred in September 2019 when a seemingly identical car was sighted being driven on the same stretch of road.
It’s reported that police tracked down the owner of the vehicle at the time, but the man denied he was behind the wheel – and because he was wearing a race helmet and couldn’t be positively identified, no charges could be laid against him.
F1 fans had a field day with the images once they started to spread like wildfire on social media.
Police are hunting the driver of the vehicle who can’t be clearly identified due to racing helmet
Some joked that the mystery driver might have been former racer Kimi Raikkonen – who raced with number seven. Others joked that, being a Ferrari, it will probably break down after the Italian F1 team’s widely publicised struggles with reliability this season.
‘That is incredible! Hats off (or helmet in this case) to that guy haha,’ wrote one Twitter user.
‘If I was the cops I’d pull him over just to check out the car. And then let him go!’ wrote another.
The vehicle featured the classic livery of the legendary Ferrari F1 car that swept all before it when it was piloted by Michael Schumacher in 2004
The penalties for driving a racing vehicle on public roads include huge fines and a ban from driving.