45 Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and more pulled over by Hong Kong police

On Sunday (21 February 2021) morning, Hong Kong police pulled over 45 supercars on the suspicion of illegal racing. The list of cars included Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches, and Mclarens. A Nissan GTR was even reportedly confiscated for illegal modifications to the car.

The place where the cars were forced the stop was one of the busiest streets in Hong Kong. Videos and photos quickly went viral as the police went through the procession of supercars on the streets.

According to the South China Morning Post, nobody was arrested during the operation, police only took down their details for further investigations. Only one car was towed away.

Police said in a statement that they were alerted of a possible illegal race along the Island Eastern Corridor expressway when they spotted several cars driving westbound.

According to reports, the district council has received plenty of complaints about loud noises caused by cars racing on the expressway, especially after midnight or early mornings during weekends, for some time now.

In the first 11 months of 2020, officers reportedly issued 222,905 summonses for speeding offences. The number already exceeds the number of summonses issued in the whole of 2019 by 3 percent.

Meanwhile, the number of illegal street races reported rose in 2020 by 40 percent, from 139 between January to November of 2020. That’s 99 more reported than the whole of 2019.