"Serial speeder" sets new speed record....

[[Tonko]]

Originally Posted by AceofSpades

i love speed but wtf... and how did they persue him? the chopper would have had fun trying to keep with that..

Just had a flash of Gone in 60 seconds... "120, 140, 160....He's gone"

[schnoods]

I know that BLOKE!

I went to school with him (primary school, not in the same grade) he was one of my brothers mates.

I'm not surprised to be honest, he was all into the BMX thing early, he was the first in the group of my brothers mates to get dirtbikes (his parents were loaded) and looks like it just escalated from there.

What a spinout. :

[Shaggzy]

Originally Posted by schnoods

I know that BLOKE!

I went to school with him (primary school, not in the same grade) he was one of my brothers mates.

I'm not surprised to be honest, he was all into the BMX thing early, he was the first in the group of my brothers mates to get dirtbikes (his parents were loaded) and looks like it just escalated from there.

What a spinout. :

Im in the whole "BMX" thing and i have been in a car at over 250km/h so does that mean im goin to turn out like this moron???

[ExAreSix]

Originally Posted by nugget378

He's gone big time.
I will still contend that 255km/h is a strech,I am a little sceptical,I mean its not the first time a little extra sauce has been added to spice up a story by either media or police..

My 99 WRX, with 121k kays on it, does 200 easy. And that was with only 7psi. (They run 13psi stock.)
This car was reported to be an STI also. I have no doubt 255 is achievable in that car.

[MRHELE]

So if that's the highest recorded speed only in Victoria, what's the highest recorded speed overall in Australia!?

[fmc351]

Originally Posted by MRHELE

So if that's the highest recorded speed only in Victoria, what's the highest recorded speed overall in Australia!?

And here we go.


God the media are stupid, create an unofficial competition. I know, lets give him a quirky nickname too.

[atec77]

Originally Posted by 4Vman

A P-PLATER who clocked Victoria's highest recorded road speed of 255km/h during a marathon police chase has appeared in court.

Justin Andrew Pickering, 20, evaded police in Victoria and NSW during five pursuits over 500km on August 2 last year.

The court heard he drove at 140km/h on the Hume Highway at Euroa in his new Subaru WRX STI.

Pickering pleaded guilty at Broadmeadows Magistrates' Court to charges including reckless conduct endangering life, driving without P-plates, and exceeding the speed limit.

Police said he had driven at up to 255km/h, which was the fastest speed recorded by a car in Victoria.

Pickering's driving licence was disqualified in Western Australia and Queensland -- but he held a Victorian licence.

The chase ended when Pickering drove into a dead-end street in Craigieburn.

Pickering will appear in court again in March.

Stuck in 3rd ?

[merlin]

255 is all it took to set the record? Jeez I would have thought it would have been a lot higher than that...

I read he had spare race tyres and jerry cans of fuel in the car and halfway through the chase he was so far ahead, he pulled over and fuelled up then continued. It was obviously premeditated? (and hence very harsh penalty)

[XR06T]

when i got pulled over once i was chatting to the officer and he told me he has seen 240kph on his radar from a wrx (his highest for a car), but he said fastest speed was 310 by a guy on a bike (he didn't catch that one,, duuuuh)

[zetec]

Originally Posted by BMX_datto

Im in the whole "BMX" thing and i have been in a car at over 250km/h so does that mean im goin to turn out like this moron???

What's your mental age?