High-End Cars Pulled Over in Run to Vegas

Yes, I know for sure. Some do have fake licenses. If their paperwork seems to be in order, and can't be verified, then they get away with it. But it's tough to pull off.

Then there's those who just use their foreign licenses. They still get nailed, in the sense of having their cars towed, being forced to spend nights in jail, and/or pay big fines, but there's no insurance repercussions. Sometimes they pay, sometimes they don't--they don't really care about outstanding warrants in Texas if they are living in London. But nowadays, this can bite you in the ass big-time. If you have a warrant outstanding, and you take a flight to the US, you will be met at the gate and placed under arrest. This is not a "maybe" where you can count on your luck. It WILL happen. Sometimes the police screw up and transpose the names so that the warrant is worthless--but if it's got your proper name on it, and you come back to the US while it's outstanding, you will be nailed.

For those who have US licenses, it is a HUGE risk. You can be careful (like you are usually) and with radar detectors, traveling in the middle of packs, etc., you should be ok. If you get nailed, you will face the consequences. At that point, a good attorney is your best bet.

For those with fake US licenses, I dunno--it's just asking for it. The game will be up the moment they radio them in. If it's a valid license that belongs to someone else who looks like you, well, he will face the consequences. Or he could go to court and claim identity theft...but he would still have a lot of hassles to deal with. And so would you if you get arrested and fingerprinted and that trips you up with your real ID.

I never understood the point of paying someone else $15,000 to risk your license and freedom, beat the crap out of your car, and end up 3,000 miles from home. All for what? A fleeting sense of infamy or idolization by some kids on the web?

 

Even if you are fairly careful you can get rounded up(because of stickers all over your car) and be guilty by association.

The only way this thing would begin to make sense IMO is if it was police escorted the whole way. I doubt they'd do that.

Doesn't seem like there's any shortage of people lining up to take the risk.

 

if i had the money, and the car, i would probably do it. I think it would be a whole lot of fun!
But then again, i am young and foolish.
Obviously there is the risk of getting ticketed, jail time, etc. but really, these rally's are not there to speed. they are there to have a good time driving your car with a bunch of other drivers. the people that choose to speed and drive recklessly do that on thier own. It is definately not the sole point.

 

Sounds like the WSP is falling down on the job; in my LE days 100+ you - and your car- went to jail. You could bail yourself out same day, but we kept the car as 'evidence' until AFTER the trial (how ever many days/months that was away) and then billed you for the daily impound costs.

If you were driving in the manor described here, i.e. .with civilian traffic, it would become felony reckless - and you didn't get out of jail until you went before a Judge....impound could become forfeiture....

Bottom line is, no one, no matter how rich or what type of car, has the right to endanger the lives of others....and few, if any, of these owners really know how to drive fast (just look at some of our 'late' posters here), and even Schumacher couldn't drive like this on a hiway full of civilian drivers.

I was driving to Vegas last year this time down I-15 in the middle of nowhere, Utah when last year's Players Run team drove past me....they were going maybe all of 10 over speed limit...and I mean middle of nowhere!

 

Not true, Iv 'e read stories of Fangio driving Brock Yeats to a race on a two
lane @ 100 or so, they come up on a truck stopped dead in their lane from
around a blind curve, with a car in the oncoming lane. Juan flipped 180
backwards on the shoulder to avoid an accident!

 

having participated in the 2 previous Players Run, I think can shed some light.

1) many people go with the intention of "taking it easy" but quickly realize how boring that is.
2) many cops are very cool and only hand out warnings
3) many cops are out to bust you for 1mph over the limit
4) being in the front at double the limit is always better than being in the back doing 10 over the limit
5) all stories you hear are the exaggerated versions (seriously, do you really believe people go 160mph for hours??)

As far as consequences.... you will pay and pay for fines, lawyer fees and traffic courses. However, as long as you get a good lawyer you will not lose your license (assuming you don't have outrageous prior offenses). But even if you lose it, it is not diffcult to get a license from a different state legally.

I really am surprised no one has died in one of these events. On the first PR, a couple kids who were following us in Texas lost control and smacked into the wall doing at least 80mph. Nobody stopped to see if they were OK.

 

Notice that the author puts an emphasis the Lamborghini to point out that exotics were involved in the rally.