Police within the Czech Republic have lastly arrested the motive force of a System 1-type racing automobile which had been noticed on the motorway on quite a few events since 2019.
The purple racing automobile, decked out in full Ferrari livery, was adopted to a property within the village of Buk, some 60km (37 miles) south-west of Prague, after the most recent sighting was reported to police.
Video emerged on Sunday morning exhibiting the distinctive automobile driving alongside the D4 motorway and stopping for petrol.
The motive force – a 51-year-old man – was arrested at his house and brought into custody after briefly refusing to get out of the automobile.
Video footage captured by native media confirmed him sitting within the automobile in entrance of his storage, arguing with officers and saying they had been trespassing on non-public property.
Finally he relented and agreed to be taken to a police station for questioning – nonetheless sporting his purple racing driver’s outfit and helmet.
In accordance with subsequent media reviews he refused to reply any questions when he acquired there.
A person recognized as his son advised native media that the home had been surrounded by a number of dozen police automobiles and a helicopter, in what he mentioned was a disproportionate response “to a supposed visitors violation of ours.”
He mentioned police “allegedly noticed us towing a System 1 automobile which they claimed had been dashing alongside the motorway a couple of minutes earlier – after all we all know completely nothing about this.”
Police first managed to talk with the phantom F1 driver in 2019, when pictures and video of the automobile on the motorway first began to seem on-line.
They tracked down the automobile and questioned its proprietor, who denied ever driving it on the motorway. It’s unclear if that’s the identical particular person police have now arrested.
As a result of the motive force wore a helmet within the movies and pictures, they may not be recognized and police had been unable to take the matter any additional.
The automobile has steadily been described as “a Ferrari System 1 automobile”.
Nonetheless, in line with the web site auto.cz it’s in truth a Dallara GP2/08 – a racing automobile developed by the Italian producer Dallara to be used within the GP2 Collection, a feeder collection for System One.
The competition has since been rebranded because the FIA System 2 Championship.
No matter its actual provenance the proprietor now faces a effective for driving a automobile on the motorway with out headlights, indicators or quantity plates, and will have his driving licence suspended.
