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Poor Tommi Makinen and Colin McRae, champion rally drivers.....The cops out in Wales must be ticket-happy that day making a huge haul of those rally drivers.
Now that a huge lesson to learn for next rally: Leave the speeding on the dirt road!
BTW their race cars are legal to drive on public road on way to next stage.
Top rally drivers caught speeding
Wed Jul 30,11:04 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - A host of the world's best rally drivers have been up before a Welsh court this week -- for speeding.
Former world champions Tommi Makinen of Finland and Briton Colin McRae typically skid their way round rally stages at more than 120 mph (200 kph).
But at a court in South Wales this week they were accused of falling foul of police speed cameras as they dashed between stages of the Rally of Britain last year.
Rally drivers race against the clock and, while the time they take to get between the end of one stage and the start of the next is not counted, they do face hefty time penalties if they turn up late for the start of a stage.
McRae, Makinen, current championship leader Richard Burns of Briton, twice world champion Carlos Sainz of Spain, and Estonian Markko Martin were among those caught speeding on the roads of the principality.
Only former European Champion Armin Schwarz, 40, was in court to plead guilty to speeding charges, an official for Neath Magistrates' Court said. The others were represented by lawyers.
Schwarz will be sentenced on November 10, when the drivers return to Wales for the 2003 British Rally and the other drivers' cases have also been put back to that date.
The drivers will have to be more careful this year after the police spokesman promised his force would again be watching out for drivers speeding on public roads.
"I can confirm that speed detection will be on our list of priorities at the next rally championships, because speed kills," he said.
The world rally championship website reminds drivers they must obey local speed limits when they travel between stages.
Poor Tommi and Colin in court for speeding on way to rally
Now that a huge lesson to learn for next rally: Leave the speeding on the dirt road!
BTW their race cars are legal to drive on public road on way to next stage.
Top rally drivers caught speeding
Wed Jul 30,11:04 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - A host of the world's best rally drivers have been up before a Welsh court this week -- for speeding.
Former world champions Tommi Makinen of Finland and Briton Colin McRae typically skid their way round rally stages at more than 120 mph (200 kph).
But at a court in South Wales this week they were accused of falling foul of police speed cameras as they dashed between stages of the Rally of Britain last year.
Rally drivers race against the clock and, while the time they take to get between the end of one stage and the start of the next is not counted, they do face hefty time penalties if they turn up late for the start of a stage.
McRae, Makinen, current championship leader Richard Burns of Briton, twice world champion Carlos Sainz of Spain, and Estonian Markko Martin were among those caught speeding on the roads of the principality.
Only former European Champion Armin Schwarz, 40, was in court to plead guilty to speeding charges, an official for Neath Magistrates' Court said. The others were represented by lawyers.
Schwarz will be sentenced on November 10, when the drivers return to Wales for the 2003 British Rally and the other drivers' cases have also been put back to that date.
The drivers will have to be more careful this year after the police spokesman promised his force would again be watching out for drivers speeding on public roads.
"I can confirm that speed detection will be on our list of priorities at the next rally championships, because speed kills," he said.
The world rally championship website reminds drivers they must obey local speed limits when they travel between stages.
Poor Tommi and Colin in court for speeding on way to rally
