He was caught speeding and it wasn’t at Circuit de Nevers Magny either. From AFP-

REIMS, France - Formula One star Lewis Hamilton has been banned from driving in France for speeding, a French police spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.

The 22-year-old Briton, who finished runner-up in the world drivers’ championship in his debut season this year, has been banned for a month after being caught speeding at 122mph in a Mercedes by police on a motorway near the northern town of Laon.

The speed limit on French motorways is 85mph.

“He admitted the offence immediately and was really very polite,” the police spokesman said, adding that Hamilton had said in his defence that the motorway was “very clear” at the time.

“It’s a section of motorway which is used regularly by foreigners who have a tendancy to speed,” the spokesman added.

The McLaren driver, who was also ordered to pay a 600 euro fine, will appear before a court in Laon in January.

No word yet if Hamilton will be allowed to drive in next year’s French Grand Prix. That formula one race, which was facing an uncertain future past 2024, is on next year’s race schedule.

It will be raced in Singapore.

PARIS — The first night race in the 57-year history of Formula 1 Grand Prix racing is set to be held September 28 of next season on a street course in Singapore.

The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile’s World Motorsport Council gave its approval to the proposal Thursday, according to reports. According to a press release, “With two positive lighting tests under our belt, we are on track to delivering the first night race,” Colin Syn, deputy chairman of the event, said.

The race will be staged on a 5.067-kilometer circuit set up on the streets of the island city-state at the Southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. Organizers have a five-year deal to stage the event. The temporary circuit will use public roads around the Marina Bay area.

As long as no gay men have oral sex while drawing graffiti and criticizing local officials, the race should be a big success. On a serious note I predicted this race would be held at night-time

Note- Dear wife and I visited Singapore in 1998 for our 9th wedding anniversary.

The big race is only a few days away but there is already lots of news coming out of Northern Florida

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Michael Waltrip’s team became the fifth caught cheating before the Daytona 500, a scandal that tarnished NASCAR’s biggest race of the season and Toyota’s highly anticipated debut. In all, six crew members have been thrown out of Daytona as Nascar made it known cheating will not be tolerated.

“We’ve got people’s attention now,” NASCAR competition director Robin Pemberton said Wednesday.

Waltrip, a two-time Daytona winner, lost his crew chief and team director right before the biggest race of the year. The two were suspended indefinitely after an illegal substance was found during inspection for the season-opener.

Waltrip, docked 100 points, will be allowed to participate in Thursday’s races that determine the field for the 500.

David Hyder, his crew chief, was thrown out of the garage and fined $100,000. Team director Bobby Kennedy also was kicked out.

Waltrip said he was “so sad and embarrassed” but tried to shift blame to an unnamed individual within his team.

“This is not the action of an organization, a manufacturer or a sponsor,” Waltrip said in a statement. “This was an independent act done without consent or authorization from me or any of my executive management team.”

It’s just my opinion, but I don’t believe Waltrip didn’t know what is going on. You’re going to tell me you’re racing a car at 200 MPH but don’t know what is under the hood?

A crackdown on cheating is underway and this isn’t pleasing either the drivers or team owners.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Driver Matt Kenseth and car owner Jack Roush expressed outrage Wednesday over NASCAR’s decision to dock the team 50 championship points before the season-opener Daytona 500.

Fellow car owner Ray Evernham was equally frustrated by the sport’s tough stance on rule-breakers.

Even drivers not involved in NASCAR’s cheating crackdown were concerned about whether the governing body was going too far by suspending four crew chiefs Tuesday for failed inspections.

“They are creating a deterrence right now,” driver Jeff Burton said. “That’s what they are doing. … I’d be willing to bet that if everybody had to do the same thing over again, they wouldn’t do the same thing. We have to be careful not to create a penalty so large that it’s not fair.

“I think the message is really clear in the garage right now that they aren’t going to put up with anything.”

NASCAR suspended Kenseth’s crew chief and three of Evernham’s crew chiefs Tuesday for violations discovered during qualifying inspections two days earlier.

As I see it, you break the rules and you pay the consequences. It don’t matter if others do it, you’re the one who got caught.

Let’s hope the next headline out of Daytona is who wins the big race.

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