{"id":110307,"date":"2015-09-17T22:21:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T05:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=110307"},"modified":"2015-09-17T22:29:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T05:29:44","slug":"owner-of-speeding-ferrari-in-beverly-hills-is-drag-racing-qatar-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=110307","title":{"rendered":"Owner of speeding Ferrari in Beverly Hills is drag-racing Qatar prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s racing royalty. Literally.<\/p>\n<p>And to Beverly Hills residents, obnoxiously.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of a yellow Ferrari valued in the seven-figures captured on video speeding through stop signs and blazing past pedestrians in the wealthy city is Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad al Thani of Qatar\u2019s ruling family.<\/p>\n<p>Al Thani has been dubbed the \u201cpatron sheikh\u201d of drag racing by the press.<\/p>\n<p>But over the weekend, the twenty-something was just a guy driving a very fancy car very fast, police said. Al Thani denied to officers who investigated the incident that anyone was driving recklessly. He also said he had diplomatic immunity, Beverly Hills police said.<\/p>\n<p>After discussing the matter with the U.S. State Department and the Qatar consulate, authorities concluded the sheikh did not have such immunity &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-beverly-hills-cars-qatar-20150917-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original Article<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=110251\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;\u2018F___k America\u2019 &#8211; Driver claims diplomatic immunity after luxury car drag race in Beverly Hills&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s racing royalty. Literally. And to Beverly Hills residents, obnoxiously. The owner of a yellow Ferrari valued in the seven-figures captured on video speeding through stop signs and blazing past pedestrians in the wealthy city is Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad al Thani of Qatar\u2019s ruling family. Al Thani has been dubbed the \u201cpatron sheikh\u201d of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,11,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-misc","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110313,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110307\/revisions\/110313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}