Audi R8 driver banned after being caught speeding in convoy of supercars near Grantown
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A third supercar driver who drove with two other motorists in expensive high performance cars has been banned from driving for six months after being caught by police speeding in convoy on a road near Dulnain Bridge.
Stewart Gall, a 40 year old engineering company executive of Southern Cross, Kintore, was clocked doing 106mph on the A95 on June 26, 2021 near Skye of Curr.
He was with Dunstable-based businessman 48 year old Noel Hendry of High Street, Eaton Bray and 50 year old Portlethen man Jason McBain from Barclayhill.
They had previously admitted travelling carelessly at excessive speed in convoy in the 60mph zone.
Hendry was in his £200,000 McLaren, complete with personalised plate NH57MCL behind McBain’s Porsche 911 on June 26, last year, when speed cops caught them overtaking another vehicle at 106mph.
Gall was in his Audi R8, with personalised plate 5 GAL.
He pleaded guilty through solicitor David Patterson at Inverness Sheriff Court on Thursday again before Sheriff Ian Cruickshank
At an earlier hearing, fiscal depute Emma MacEwan had told the Sheriff that the road was dry and the weather was fine at the time.
Hendry’s defence solicitor advocate Neil Wilson said that his client ran a company refurbishing hospital laboratories but ‘his business practically ground to a halt during Covid’.
He had told the court: “He is building it up again. Through a momentary act of foolishness he now faces losing his licence.
“He knows he should have thought about that before putting his foot down.”
Offshore worker McBain’s lawyer, Rory Gowans said: “This was a moment of madness.
“The Porsche is now sold and he drives something more modest.”
She added that a third vehicle (Gall’s) was also in convoy and that case would be heard later this year.
Sheriff Cruickshank decided on Thursday to deal with Gall in the same fashion as his two co-accused.
The Sheriff said: “No-one anywhere on the A95 should be travelling at 106mph. It is totally unacceptable.”
He fined Gall £1,675 and disqualified him for six months – the same punishment for Hendry and McBain. All three solicitors has said that their clients were in the position to pay a financial penalty within 28 days.
