Prime this, Lewis Hamilton.
A 19-year-old piloting a 2016 BMW M3 was caught on radar doing 176 miles per hour simply after midnight Wednesday on Interstate 5 south of Portland, Oregon.
The teenager, who spent an evening in jail and was fined $1,100, informed Washington County sheriff’s deputies that at one level he had hit 183 mph.
Not surprisingly, his license was suspended.
“In my 15-year profession, I’ve by no means seen a pace this excessive wherever,” Sgt. Danny DiPietro informed OregonLive.com. “Whenever you’re going at that pace, you’re going to hit one thing, and somebody’s going to die.”
A patrol deputy armed with a pace gun broadcast an outline of the blue sedan after measuring its pace on I-5 close to Oregon Route 217. One other deputy noticed the automobile go away the interstate, then each “pinned” it when it stopped on the off-ramp.
DiPietro stated the teenager was booked into the county jail on one depend of reckless driving and has since been launched. Anybody caught dashing above 100 mph faces an computerized $1,100 positive and a six-month suspension of his license, DiPietro stated.
For 2016, the M3 efficiency sedan got here with a 425-horsepower, twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter straight-six engine and a typical six-speed guide or optionally available seven-speed M Double Clutch Transmission.
A report in The Drive speculated that the F80 M3 might have been modified to exceed its pace limiter, or that the twin-turbo might have been adjusted to make extra energy. You assume?