Damon Hill - true gent

Instead of employing an expensive lawyer to try and wriggle out on a technicality, he actually did the adult detention speed awareness course (it would appear more than once).

From The Daily Mail:

When asked what he was convicted for he told the hosts: “You can’t ask people what they were in for.. It was a camera. I was slowing down going into a village, but I was just going a bit too fast. There was another one that I got at about 3am in the middle of nowhere, which I felt was a little bit hard cheese, but you know you are supposed to stick to the rules.”

Bonus points for “hard cheese”, I haven’t heard that in years.

On a separate occasion in 1994, Hill, 60, was fined £30 and banned from the roads for seven days after being caught doing 102 mph on the M40 in Oxfordshire in a Renault Safrane.

He used up his luck on that one. £30 for 102 mph? Those were the days.