Aviemore chef banned from driving after speeding at Auchendean near Grantown-on-Spey
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The chef admitted driving carelessly and at excessive speed on the A895.
Joseph Kirk (28), who also has a job as an outdoors instructor at Glenmore Lodge, was spotted by police on July 21 last year driving at 104mph when the limit was 60mph.
Defence solicitor James McNair told Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood at Inverness Sheriff Court there was little he could say other than it was a long, straight stretch of road notorious for speeding.
Traffic was light and Kirk was driving a powerful Subaru Impreza which he had since sold he added.
He also told the court that Kirk needed his licence to transport people in connection with his work at Glenmore.
But Sheriff Fleetwood responded to this: "If his licence was important to him why was he driving like a madman?"
Mr McNair said he had spoken to his client about this and he said it had been a salutary lesson to him.
"I think it is unlikely he will appear in court again in the future," he said.
The sheriff fined Kirk, of Dalnabay, Aviemore, £500 and disqualified him from driving for four months.
