In the introduction of Top Gear’s famous cheap police car challenge, Jeremy Clarkson lampooned the unsympathetic nature of the English police against his American colleagues. I couldn’t help but think about it watching this video from the West Midlands police chasing a man driving a stolen 996 generation Porsche 911 GT3. It is as sad as it is involuntarily funny.
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Sad, obviously, because we hate to see such a cool car stolen and damaged in the process of apprehending the thief – who is currently in prison, by the West Midlands Police – funny, because, well, just watch. The pursuing policeman narrates the proceedings in such a calm way that he does not fit in with what is happening. How many other policemen can you imagine describing those they are chasing as “fighting for traction?”
It turns out that the driver of the GT3 spun on a roundabout, which allowed the police to catch up with the driver, with a car running over him on a snow bank. At this point, the GT3 is really struggling to gain traction as it crashes the car into the rev limiter by turning its wheels. A police officer then breaks the GT3 window and arrests the thief.
“We arrested a car thief after a dramatic chase in Birmingham city center – and arrested the driver just two hours after he stole the Porsche 911,” wrote the West Midlands Police in an online statement. “The high-performance car sped up and passed a red traffic light. But driver Lee Smythe would soon discover that the rear-wheeled Porsches don’t do very well on snowy and icy January roads!”
Hopefully, the car will be in perfect health because if it is a true 996 GT3 – and I believe it is, given the sound and its exclusive bucket seats – it is one of the best 911s of all time. And for possible West Midlands thieves, let this be a warning – the police will catch you and do it in a strangely calm way.
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