The driver of a ‘phantom Ferrari F1 car’ has been arrested in the Czech Republic, after a years long search.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Back in 2019, footage was released on social media of a driver on a motorway driving what was purported to be a Ferrari F1 car.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the machine was again seen on the public roads, with people alerting it to the police after the machine pulled over for petrol.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police then traced the vehicle to Buk, a small town south-west of Prague, where a 51-year-old man was arrested, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On X, the Czech Police wrote that the man “refused to comment” on the situation, but that the matter was being forwarded to the “administrative proceeding”, where he faces a fine of “several thousand” and a driving ban.<\/p>\n
The car itself is not a Ferrari F1 machine, but rather what appears to be a GP2 car, built by Dallara, and decked out in a livery no Ferrari has ever carried in F1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of a ‘phantom Ferrari F1 car’ has been arrested in the Czech Republic, after a years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-127559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}