Motorsport
Name | Team when arrested | Competing series when arrested | Offense | Sentence | Notes |
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Kim Ashkenazi | Inactive | Possession of cocaine with intent to supply | 6 years, 6 months | ||
Possession of child pornography | 9 months | Additional sentence | |||
Kaye Don | MG Cars | N/A | Manslaughter | 4 months | |
Roy James | Self entry | Formula Junior | Robbery with violence | 25 years for conspiracy and a 30 years for armed robbery, to be served concurrently. | Released on parole in 1975. Main article 1963 Great Train Robbery |
Juan Garriga | Retired | N/A | drug trafficking and possessing firearms | 2 year suspended | |
Bertrand Gachot | Jordan Grand Prix | Formula One | Assault and use of offensive weapon | 18 months | Sentence was reduced to nine months and six months suspended. Released after two months. |
Jim Ka To | Fretech FRD Team | Asian Formula Renault Challenge | Assault | 15-month | Released on appeal after serving 3 months |
Junior Johnson | NASCAR Grand National Series | Moonshining | 2 years | Served 11 months, presidentially pardoned in 1986 | |
Jason Lawrence | N/A | AMA Supercross Championship | assault with a deadly weapon, battery with serious bodily injury, and mayhem | 365 days in detention center | Released after 4 months |
Vic Lee | Vic Lee Motorsport |
BTCC | Drugs trafficking | 12 years (1993) | Presumably released in 1999, made a comeback when he announced a new team in 2000 |
Vic Lee Racing |
12 years (2005) | Released in 2010 | |||
Randy Lanier | Arciero Racing | CART | conspiring to import and distribute marijuana and of being principal administrators of a Continuing Criminal Enterprise | Life without Parole | Ben Kramer was also convicted for the same case |
conspiracy | 40 year (concurrent) | ||||
tax fraud | 5 year (concurrent) | ||||
Don Whittington | Patrick Racing | Money laundering | 18 months | Released in 1988 | |
Bill Whittington | Arciero Racing | Income tax evasion and conspiracy to smuggle narcotics | 180 months (15 years) | Released in 1990 | |
Marty Hinze | Marty Hinze Racing | IMSA Camel GT | Drugs smuggling and tax fraud | 3 years, $20,000 fine | Released in 1989 |
John Paul, Sr. | JLP Racing |
IMSA Camel GT | Drugs possession (1979) | 3 years probation, $32,500 fine | Paul, Jr. and Sr was convicted for the same incident on both occasions |
Possession of false passport (1985) | 6 months | Served sentence in Switzerland. Later extradited to the U.S. | |||
Importing marijuana, tax evasion, possession of false passport and attempted murder of a federal witness | 25 years | Released after serving 15 years, currently wanted for questioning since 2001 for a disappearance case. | |||
John Paul, Jr. | JLP Racing | IMSA Camel GT | Drugs possession (1979) | 3 years probation, $32,500 fine | |
Conte Racing | Racketeering (1986) | 5 years | Served 28 months | ||
Doug Shierson Racing | CART | ||||
Jos Verstappen | Arrows | Formula One | Assault | 5 years suspended | Sentence was given after settling an out-of-court settlement with his victim |
Harassment and assault | 3 months suspended and €1650 fine | ||||
Anthony Gobert | inactive | Theft | A$600 fine and given 300 hours community service | ||
Salt Walther | inactive | check fraud (1987) | not specified | ||
drug abuse (1987) | not specified | ||||
George Walther | CART/USAC | theft (1992) | not specified | ||
inactive/retired | illegal conveyance of painkillers into the jail (1998) | 6 months, 3 years probation |
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child endangering (2000) | 180 days | ||||
violating probation terms (2000) | 10 months | For violation of terms for the 1998 case | |||
Failure to pay child support (2005) | not specified | Already served 240 hours in jail | |||
violation of community control terms (2007) | 10 months in prison, had served 240 days in jail | Prison terms are to run consecutively | |||
"fleeing and eluding" (2007) | 3 years | ||||
Charles Zwolsman | inactive | Drugs smuggling | 2 years (1987) | ||
Euro Racing |
WSC | 5 years (1994) | Was given an extra year following a retrial in 1995, released in 1997 | ||
inactive | 8 years (2001) | Released in 2005. | |||
possession of 2,000 kilos of hashish and 4 counts of firearm possession | 3 years (2010) | Died whilst serving sentence in 2011 | |||
Adrian Sutil | Force India | Formula One | grievous bodily harm | 18-month suspended and €200,000 fine | Trial took place in Germany for an offence taking place in China |
Ben Kramer | Superboat | conspiring to import and distribute marijuana and of being principal administrators of a continuing criminal enterprise | Life without parole (1988) | Also convicted for another drug smuggling case in 1977 | |
Federal money laundering (1990) | Was serving sentence when convicted | ||||
manslaughter | 19 years (1996) | Was already serving sentence when convicted for a 1987 murder of Donald Aronow | |||
George Morales | Superboat | Drugs smuggling | 16 years | ||
Eddie Trotta | APBA Offshore | tax evasion | ? | Served 4 years, released in 1987 | |
Slick Gardner | Retired | animal cruelty and grand theft | 1 year | Sentence given following plea bargain, originally served house arrest but jailed following parole violation. |
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