Police Finally Arrest Man Who Drove a Ferrari F1 Car on Public Roads for 6 Years

The Ultimate Forbidden Fantasy

Czech police have finally arrested a 51-year-old man who spent six years driving a legitimate Formula race car on public highways. The Ferrari-liveried race car has been spotted on Czech motorways since 2019, becoming a local legend and every petrolhead’s secret hero.

Let’s be honest, every enthusiast has harbored this forbidden fantasy of driving a full-blown F1 car on public roads. This Czech legend actually lived the dream for six incredible years, evading arrest by keeping his identity secret under a race helmet. He was finally arrested, in the Formula car, at his home in Buk village after police tracked him from a gas station.

Formula Race Car For the Road

What makes this truly legendary isn’t just the audacity, it’s that he documented everything with his son on their YouTube channel, TrackZone. Initially believed to be an F2 car, the owner claims it’s actually a 2006 Ferrari-Dallara GPF1 prototype, one of only two that exist. The claims is that this was Dallara’s scrapped F1 re-entry project, that later became the foundation for their Formula 2 efforts.

He claims it’s powered by a Ferrari 2.4-liter V8 with nearly 800 horsepower, even speculating that Kimi Räikkönen was involved in testing. It’s said the original wing was swapped with an F2 wing for better ground clearance. The father-son duo bought it from British hillclimb racer David Hauser, who himself referred to it as a Dallara GP2, leaving room for plenty of doubt in this story. Either way, our Czech hero was driving Grand Prix-level machinery on public tarmac.

Living the Dream Until the End

The mystique surrounding the Czech F1 Phantom grew with each sighting and YouTube upload. Social media buzzed with grainy photos of the red rocket streaking down highways, always just out of reach of pursuing police. He became motorsport’s folk hero, the man who refused to accept that race cars belong only on race tracks.

While his highway racing days are over, this Czech hero achieved something most petrolheads can only dream about. He didn’t just own a Formula car, he used it, treating public roads like his personal circuit for six years. Sure, it wasn’t legal or safe, but most city roads are more dangerous. Every time we’re stuck in traffic dreaming of something more exciting, we’ll remember the Czech F1 phantom who made it happen.