Formula 1 star David Coulthard is caught speeding at 110mph during Gumball Rally in France - just ONE MPH short of getting an automatic driving ban
- Scottish racing driver pulled over on French motorway in Alsace yesterday
- The 45-year-old was caught driving at 110mph during 'Gumball 3000' rally
- The Formula One star was ordered to pay an on-the-spot fine of about £105
- If he had been going 1 mph more, he would have had to forfeit his licence
Formula One star David Coulthard has been caught speeding at 110mph during the Gumball Rally in France - just one mph short of getting an automatic driving ban.
The Scottish racing driver was on a French motorway in the Alsace region yesterday when he was stopped and fined, police have revealed.
Coulthard was taking part in the 'Gumball 3000' rally that takes contestants across public roads in Europe from Dublin to Bucharest.
Formula One star David Coulthard has been caught speeding at 110mph during the Gumball Rally in France - just one mph short of getting an automatic driving ban. He is pictured during the rally yesterday
The Scottish racing driver was on a French motorway in the Alsace region yesterday when he was stopped and fined, police have revealed. His Mercedes E63 AMG coupe is pictured
The 45-year-old, who drove for the McLaren-Mercedes Formula One team in the 1990s and 2000s, was pulled over and paid an on-the-spot fine of about £105 (135 euros), police said.
If he had been driving just one mph more, he would have had to forfeit his licence.
Fourteen other rally contestants were also stopped for breaking France's 130 kph motorway speed limit.
If Coulthard (pictured) had been driving just one mph more, he would have had to forfeit his licence
David Coulthard poses next to the 'Batmobile' as Gumball Rally moves down Regent Street in London earlier this week
The Gumball rally sees wacky and vintage cars race over seven days between two European cities.
A police source said they acted 'not to reprimand (the drivers) but to calm the situation'.
'These are low vehicles. The drivers of heavy goods lorries risk not seeing them. We can't let them... scare other drivers,' the source added.
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