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":124872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3007,1687,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,6537,832,3006,3005,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-124871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","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","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}