GP2 car wearing Ferrari F2004 livery spotted cruising along Czech roads

Formula 1 fever has yet to subside as the hot topic – in South Africa at least – is the looming reality of an F1 Grand Prix held at Kyalami sometime next year. Despite our pending excitement, we can imagine seeing a GP2 car wearing a Ferrari F2004 F1 car livery cruising down the N2 would have everyone raving mad and foam at the mouth and this is exactly what happened in the Czech Republic! 

Someone took an old GP2 car on a highway joyride in the Czech Republic.

Police have not been able to identify the driver and are looking for him.

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Picture this, you’re on your way home and chatting to your passengers when suddenly the spine-tingling whine of a Grand Prix car deafeningly bursting your ear drums. You turn your head slightly, and in your rearview mirror is what appears to be a GP2 car wearing a Ferrari F2004 livery. 

A brassy Czech car collector was spotted causing down the D4 motorway, and it’s the third time this driver has taken this F2004 replica out for a joy ride on public roads, with his first public F1 debut recorded in 2019. Driving a single seater Grand Prix car on a public road is illegal, end of story. F1 cars lack the necessary safety measures required by law, such as proper lights, bumpers, height clearance, among a spectrum of other implications. Not to mention that these cars are the quickest four-wheelers out there. Fortunately, this Czech F2004 isn’t anything like the original and powered by a 3,0-litre V10 producing somewhere around 636 kW at 18000 rpm, but it still sounds great with performance that isn’t too far off! 

This F2004 lookalike appears to be a homage to the legendary F1 driver, Michael Schumacher’s F2004, used during the 2004 F1 season. No drivers were sporting the number seven during the 2004 season or any season several years after that, so it’s likely that the number seven on this road-going F1 car replica is another homage to Schumacher’s seven title victories. In 2020, the criminal proceedings surrounding the first incident involving this car had been suspended.

The Driver’s Protection Society, which represented the driver, stated that due to the police not stopping the driver when he was spotted on the road meant it was unequivocally illegal, according to the DPS executive. This time around police managed to track down the suspect but the alleged driver evaded the threat of a fine and ten-year ban.