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Lewis Hamilton Fined $500 For Melbourne Burnout

 
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It seems officials in Melbourne, the place where Lewis Hamilton was apprehended for doing an illegal burnout on the eve of the Australian Grand Prix last March, have finally dropped charges against the F1 superstar.

Hamilton apologized for carrying out the burnout and was fined $500 AUD (approximately $442), the maximum amount possible under Australia’s hoon laws. Despite the fine, no conviction was recorded after defense lawyer Sandip Mukerjea argued a conviction could affect Hamilton's entry to the U.S. to see his Pussycat Dolls girlfriend, Nicole Scherzinger.

Following last March’s incident, Hamilton had his car, a 451 horsepower C63 AMG that was owned by Mercedes-Benz, confiscated and apologized immediately for his actions.

Incidentally, this isn’t the first time Hamilton has had a run-in with the law. In 2007, Hamilton's car was impounded in France after he was caught speeding on a local highway in a Mercedes-Benz CLK.





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  1. By MercMan Posted: 5/24/2010 10:37am PDT

    The car Hamilton was driving was a C63 AMG, not a E63...and the picture caption is of last year's Australian Grand Prix.
     
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  2. GreyRazor avatar Jason Benson Posted: 5/24/2010 10:40am PDT

    Doing a burnout is far from "intentionally losing control of a vehicle". If anything it showcases how much control one actually has over a vehicle.
     
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  3. fb_1518955678 avatar Chen Lee Posted: 5/24/2010 2:26pm PDT

    Over reaction by the court, and the media, no one got hurt and it was done in good fun. I think he need to do a burn out at every city that F1 visit this year. I am in total support of Lewis and I am not even a fan of his!
     
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  4. By Jack Posted: 5/25/2010 2:40pm PDT

    Australia is such a nanny state in every sense of the word. Once upon a time we prided our selves on our sense of larrikinism. And no this does not mean that I condone dangerous driving. What it does mean is that we've become so inscribed by the for-profit media's construction of 'good' and 'bad' (through its power to contruct a hyper-relity largley detached from reality) that we have arguably lost the capacity to talk about events such as Lewis' in any other way beyond the standard and generic demonising discourse. Apologies for the jargon boys.
     
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  5. By Harold Posted: 6/2/2010 5:38pm PDT

    Hey Jack, Australia is a country and a continent, not a state....
     
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  6. By recca7 Posted: 8/25/2010 7:55am PDT

    oh no $500....that's like a penny to Hamilton. why bother even charging him, probably cost more money to set the case up.
     
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  7. fb_1141604309 avatar Hajime Kishi Posted: 8/25/2010 8:53am PDT

    $500. yeah as if that amount does any harm to him.
    probably cost more money to set the case up.
    cant agree more. pure waste of time and energy.
     
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  8. GreyRazor avatar Jason Benson Posted: 8/25/2010 10:25am PDT

    That's chump change. Hamilton pulls in ~£20,000,000 annually. It would take him just under 9 minutes of doing nothing to raise $500 USD.
     
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  9. By Yeah I went there! Posted: 8/25/2010 11:30am PDT

    Come on give the Australian govt. a fair shake. For a bunch of former inmates they seem pretty civil folk!!! Heck did form a country and a book of laws, even if they are a "Nanny State".
     
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