Pulled over for speeding

[Breakaway500]

I had an amazing day at the race track yesterday.I was there to instruct a private student in a Porsche. Just before lunch a transporter arrives and unloads a Ginetta LMP3 car. WOW. It's pretty much the top of the food chain in race cars. The owner asks if I would like to take it for a few laps. It's on new tires.

Please Lord..don't strike me dead for at least a few more minutes. Ive driven a lot of cars..but nothing like this. Truly amazing.

On the way home, in my humble 20 year old SVT Focus, I see the blue lights behind me. I pull over and he follows me onto the shoulder. Damn. I get my license and registration out.
"You were doing 56 in a 35".
I apologize and explain I have been driving at over 150mph all day on track and 56 felt like I wasn't moving.Not an excuse..just a fact. He asks when my last ticket was. I say about 25 years ago. 5 minutes later he comes back to the car and says to take it easy through town, Mario. We both chuckle. Yes sir..thank you!

 

[Greyman50]

Glad you did not get cited. Few weeks after moving here got pulled over for 45 in 35. Officer asked me it I knew how fast I was going, told him No Sir, just moved here and not familiar with speed limits. He told me its 35, 20 in School zone. Told him Ok and will watch my speed, let me go. IMHO if you have the blue with black stripe sticker on your vehicle it helps.

 

[Inusuit]

Several years ago, I wasn't paying attention and drove through a school zone at about 30 mph. Saw the LE facing the other direction look over his shoulder prior to making a U turn, so I pulled over and stopped.

First words were "Nobody stops before I hit my lights." I said I knew I blew the school zone and figured he would want to talk to me. Took my license and insurance. Came back without the ticket clipboard and remarked again about my pulling over and admitting my mistake. Handed back my paperwork and told me to have a nice day.

My wife said I used up my ticket karma for the rest of my life.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Several years ago, I wasn't paying attention and drove through a school zone at about 30 mph. Saw the LE facing the other direction look over his shoulder prior to making a U turn, so I pulled over and stopped.

First words were "Nobody stops before I hit my lights." I said I knew I blew the school zone and figured he would want to talk to me. Took my license and insurance. Came back without the ticket clipboard and remarked again about my pulling over and admitting my mistake. Handed back my paperwork and told me to have a nice day.

My wife said I used up my ticket karma for the rest of my life.

30 MPH in a school zone !!
Here in Nevada that would have been one very BIG fine.......
and maybe even wreak less driving tossed in, depending on what took place.
You were in deed, very lucky that the officer let you slide, on that one.

A school zone is my #1 place that I never speed through.

 

[Hair Trigger]

On the way home, in my humble 20 year old SVT Focus, I see the blue lights behind me. I pull over and he follows me onto the shoulder. Damn. I get my license and registration out.
"You were doing 56 in a 35".
I apologize and explain I have been driving at over 150mph all day on track and 56 felt like I wasn't moving.Not an excuse..just a fact. He asks when my last ticket was. I say about 25 years ago. 5 minutes later he comes back to the car and says to take it easy through town, Mario. We both chuckle. Yes sir..thank you!

I used to own a Miata (2nd gen, 2000 year) and modified it quite a bit, full track suspension, supercharged. There's two really nice tracks within a couple hour's drive from home (VIR and Carolina Motorsports Park), and I did quite a few track days in the car. I always drove to and from the tracks, just put on my stickiest tires. When I'd leave for home, I made it a point to keep it in 3rd for at least the first ten-fifteen miles. I could run at or below the speed limit but it still sounded like I was doing 90+ in high gear, and as soon as it felt slow enough, I could finish the trip at a sane highway speed in 5th.

Lord, what I'd have done for a few laps in that Ginetta.

 

[Rodan]

Driving an LMP car at speed would be one heck of an experience! As you said, pretty much the pinnacle of the sports car racing world. Which track were you at?

One thing I like about trailering the race car to the track... It's hard to go overly fast in the tow rig!

There are places and times where you're just not going to get out of a ticket, but a polite demeanor goes a LONG way towards receiving a warning as opposed to a performance award.

 

[Beemerguy53]

...He asks when my last ticket was. I say about 25 years ago. 5 minutes later he comes back to the car and says to take it easy through town, Mario. We both chuckle. Yes sir..thank you!

Around 1980 or so, I witnessed a traffic accident and was summoned to court to testify. While I waited for my case to be called, I was watching the other trials...

One middle-aged woman had been charged with speeding...something like 41 in a 25 on a local residential street.

The judge asked her when she'd last gotten a ticket. She replied it was about 1955...

He looked at her and said "Well, you're due then!"...and found her guilty!

 

[Breakaway500]

'Which track were you at?'

Palmer Motorsports Park in Ma. (Whiskey Hill raceway)

Here is a fast lap in the counter-clockwise direction run by a good friend in a P1 racecar about a week ago. Palmer Motorsports Park test day 6/16/22 fastest lap 1:29.2 - YouTube

 

[Rodan]

Palmer Motorsports Park in Ma. (Whiskey Hill raceway)

Looks like a fun course, as long as you respect the lack of runoff...

Out here in the west we're spoiled by not having many walls next to the tracks!

My wife and I are retiring in a year or so, and one of our retirement goals is to haul the race car on a road trip and visit some of the tracks in the East that we've never been to. The current fuel prices are putting a bit of a damper on that plan at the moment... hopefully things will change.

 

[swsig]

In my old neighborhood, I had two neighbors. Neighbor A was a highway patrolman, and Neighbor B was Porsche 911 owner. One Saturday morning Neighbor B was driving enthusiastically down a stretch of rural freeway "blowing out the carbon" from his 911. He crested a rise, and encountered Neighbor A parked in his cruiser on radar patrol. As a chagrinned Neighbor B slowed and prepared to pull over, he checked his rearview mirror and saw saw the cruiser hadn't moved. The only movement was from the driver's window: Neighbor A's index finger wagging at him.

 

[lihpster]

Remember a story I heard some years ago. A guy was travelling through the desert on a long straight stretch of highway at night. No other lights, so he's alone, right? So, he's tooling along at about 95 -100, just making time. About that time he feels a bump to the back of his car. He looks in the rearview just as the State Patrolman turned on his headlights. The patrolman pulled up next to him, made a slow down signal and then roared past him into the night. He said it scared the hell out of him. And he took it down to 70.

 

[COFFEEMUG]

i once got a speeding ticket in a yugo.
i was doing 33 in a 20 school zone.

as the officer handed me the ticket for $690-
he said this cost more than your car is worth.
then to rub even more salt in the wound the
car would not start and i had to have it towed
costing me another $175-

 

[Doug M.]

I use my cruise a lot to keep my speed in check as this car would go much faster if I didn't. It takes almost no throttle to have it keep upshifting to about 50.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Twenty years ago I was in a hurry to get to work as my innards were barkin' at me. I approach an intersection and hung a left on the pink light. Tires chirped. A CPD cruiser was coming out of a convenience store lot on the opposite corner. He lit me up.

I pulled over and he parked about 5 yards behind me. He sat for a bit running my plates as I sat rocking back and forth.

Right before he approached my window I flatuled. As I rolled my window down he leaned towards me and then jerked back and said "dayum!"

I told him I was feeling ill and had just had an accident and was trying to get to the shop.

He said "go! You're not gettin' in my car!"

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

No need to go to the race track, just try out one of Oklahoma's turnpikes.
OHP stopped a Dodge Challenger doing 167 mph last month. Fine was
only $450.00, it seems every mph over 40 above the limit, (75mph), was
free. The news did not explain how they caught the Dodge.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Last week a guy was clocked here on I-71 at 150 in a 55. He was delivering groceries for a supermarket.

 

[GaryS]

Obviously not a Statie.

I had an amazing day at the race track yesterday.I was there to instruct a private student in a Porsche. Just before lunch a transporter arrives and unloads a Ginetta LMP3 car. WOW. It's pretty much the top of the food chain in race cars. The owner asks if I would like to take it for a few laps. It's on new tires.

Please Lord..don't strike me dead for at least a few more minutes. Ive driven a lot of cars..but nothing like this. Truly amazing.

On the way home, in my humble 20 year old SVT Focus, I see the blue lights behind me. I pull over and he follows me onto the shoulder. Damn. I get my license and registration out.
"You were doing 56 in a 35".
I apologize and explain I have been driving at over 150mph all day on track and 56 felt like I wasn't moving.Not an excuse..just a fact. He asks when my last ticket was. I say about 25 years ago. 5 minutes later he comes back to the car and says to take it easy through town, Mario. We both chuckle. Yes sir..thank you!

 

[Kaarde]

A few years ago I was coming home in my 1967 Chevelle SS396 (I have posted pics of it on this forum in a previous thread). I knew this was probably my last outing with it before I sold it. There is a straight stretch of two lane about half a mile from my neighborhood. I decided I wanted to experience that big-block torque one more time. The posted speed limit was 30. I hit 60 about the time I passed a church parking lot with a city cop running radar. I just shut it down and rolled into the lot next to him. He came over and we had a "discussion". It was friendly and he happened to be the father of a girl my daughter played softball with. He also told me his dad used to have a Chevelle similar to mine. He gave me a warning, told me "nice car", and let me go. In 25 yrs of owning that car I never got a speeding ticket. I sure miss that car.

 

[kamloops67]

Got nailed hard a few years ago , it was all just a big misunderstanding
I decided to drive my camaro to work one day as a treat to myself , had my apprentice drive the flat bed behind me
We came up to a 4 lane intersection that leads to another intersection about a 1/4 mile away almost everybody turns right at this intersection so people often race for position to be "first" at the corner
I was already front guy in right lane at the red light
I could tell the guy in left lane was inching forward and getting ready to launch himself ahead of me .
NO WAY ! I thought to myself
The light turned green and we were off !
I got tire spin but I just stayed in it and left the guy in my dust lol
Smoked the tires and made some noise , a few seconds later I'm at the corner hard on the brakes and look in the mirror there was a sedan coming up pretty fast .
I pulled on to the highway and let that full roller aluminum headed 383 eat
Looking in my mirror I could see that sedan changing lanes and trying to catch up
I thought maybe I had po'd some guy or maybe spun a rock on someone , so I decided I probably didn't want to talk to them and smiled as I pressed a little harder
A couple miles later I pulled onto a windy canyon road and flew through those corners as fast as my 67 camaro would go , which isn't super fast they handle like a shopping cart lol
I slowed down as I entered the round about as I got to the top of the hill and saw an unmarked cruiser tearing up the road , now with his lights on !
That guy following me at speed had been a cop !
He comes up to my window and says " how fast were you driving ?"
I looked down at my speedo and said," well, I guess 40 mph which is about 60km officer"
He gave me a bleak look said " been following you since the Esso on Halston drive "
" oh … then I'm not sure how fast I was going "
About then my apprentice drives by with the flat bed shaking his head and smiling
Cop gave me a ticket for $386 I think it was , which was bad but it turned out I had to pay that same amount each year for 3-4 years ! Dangerous driving or something ,I don't think he could have gotten me on radar
lucky it wasn't racing they take your car for that

 

[Kiwi cop]

Several years ago, I wasn't paying attention and drove through a school zone at about 30 mph. Saw the LE facing the other direction look over his shoulder prior to making a U turn, so I pulled over and stopped.

First words were "Nobody stops before I hit my lights." I said I knew I blew the school zone and figured he would want to talk to me. Took my license and insurance. Came back without the ticket clipboard and remarked again about my pulling over and admitting my mistake. Handed back my paperwork and told me to have a nice day.

My wife said I used up my ticket karma for the rest of my life.

My biggest peeve is the speeding driver who sees my red and blues come on as he approaches, slows down yet keeps on going for another kilometre or three with me behind and the siren on.

I've had a few stop as I was U turning but very seldom.