McLaren Group executive chairman Ron Dennis has been banned from driving on the road for six months.

Dennis this week pleaded guilty at Woking Magistrates Court to failing to stop for a red light in Bagshot last September. The three points he received for the offence subsequently pushed his total up to 12, which resulted in him being given an automatic six-month ban. [Dennis defended himself in the hearing by claming that he should be spared a driving ban because of the inconvenience it would cause to his work and family life, and that he had driven through the light to avoid collision with a friend's car which was following close behind
Is it just me or is telling the Magistrate that you ran the light because you were trying to avoid a collision from a car behind you driven by a friend, is a pretty lame excuse.
BTW is this one of those photo-enforced tickets?
Those things piss me off.