{"id":217609,"date":"2026-01-05T09:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217609\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:29:15","slug":"speedster-nabbed-at-159km-h-on-mount-panorama-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217609\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedster nabbed at 159km\/h on Mount Panorama Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE lure of Mount Panorama has seen a 25-year-old man nabbed at 99km\/h over the speed limit at the famed circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at around 1:30pm on Boxing Day, when officers from the Chifley Police District, undertaking routine patrols, clocked the motorcyclist at 159km\/h in the signposted 60km\/h zone.<\/p>\n<p>The rider was charged with riding a class A motor vehicle recklessly\/furiously or at a speed\/manner dangerous, and with exceeding the class A motor vehicle speed limit by more than 45 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>He was issued with a Field Court Attendance Notice to appear at Bathurst Local Court on Wednesday, 11 February 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/2026-meguiars-bathurst-12-hour-official-program?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2026-12-hour-program_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incident was one of the headline incidents from the New South Wales Police\u2019s Operation Christmas and New Year 2025 traffic safety campaign, which over a 17-day period saw 40,875 infringement notices issued.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of race weekends, the general public can lap the Mount Panorama Circuit, with police often keeping a close watch on motorists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/learner-allegedly-caught-nearly-100km-h-over-limit-at-bathurst\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In May last year, a learner driver in a Mazda was clocked at 149km\/h on the circuit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Motorcycle racing was once a mainstay of Easter competition in Bathurst, with the last two-wheel event on The Mountain contested in the year 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE lure of Mount Panorama has seen a 25-year-old man nabbed at 99km\/h over the speed limit at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-217609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}