This is the moment a £500,000 Ferrari allegedly being driven by the son of a South African property billionaire was towed away in front of stunned onlookers in Mayfair.
The Ferrari 458 Speciale Aperta, one of only 499 ever made, was seized just off Berkeley Square in London on Sunday at around 2pm.
It has been claimed the man at the wheel was 21-year-old budding racing car driver Sisa Ngebulana, who was said to have been driving in convoy with his father at the time.
Mr Ngebulana – whose businessman father also goes by the same name – has named Lewis Hamilton as his favourite Formula One driver.
This is the moment police in Mayfair towed a £500,000 Ferrari owned by a South African billionaire’s on because he allegedly wasn’t insured
The car is thought to have been owned by Sisa Ngebulana, 21, a budding race car driver, and was driving in convoy with his father, South African property billionaire, also named Sisa Ngebulana
Sisa junior, who is pictured with his idol Lewis Hamilton, allegedly received a £300 fine after being stopped in his Ferrari
Sisa senior, 51, was said to have been driving a Porsche 918 hypercar – which retails at £1.1million – when police officers allegedly pulled over his son, who was trying to park behind him.
An onlooker said: ‘The young Sisa was in a baby blue Ferrari worth probably around £600,000. He was driving in convoy through Mayfair with his dad who was in a Porsche 918.
‘The driver of the Porsche parked and young Sisa was trying to park the Ferrari behind it.
‘He was blocking the road and police pulled him over. The officer said they couldn’t find the driver’s name on the insurance.’
Sisa junior is said to have been slapped with a £300 fine.
Perhaps most devastatingly of all, the driver was forced to watch as police seized his vehicle
According to Sisa junior’s website, he is a ‘racing driver with aspirations of turning his dreams into reality, by making it into Formula 1’
The incident attracted a crowd of around 20 or 30 onlookers with people filming the moment the Ferrari was lifted onto a towing vehicle.
One eyewitness said: ‘Everyone was shocked as the car was seized. It’s not everyday you see a vehicle worth over half a million pounds – and you definitely don’t expect to see it towed away.’
According to Sisa junior’s website, he is a ‘racing driver with aspirations of turning his dreams into reality, by making it into Formula 1.’
He adds that his favourite racing driver is Lewis Hamilton.
The 21-year-old was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, but educated at £20,000-a-year Bosworth College, a boarding school in Northampton.