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Celebrity car antics

Published: March 02, 2009 6:34 p.m.
Last modified: March 02, 2009 6:54 p.m.
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Who’d be a celebrity with expensive wheels?

Last week it transpires that Manchester City star footballer Cristiano Ronaldo is being ordered to fork out for the damage he did to a tunnel when he totalled his Ferrari sports car.

Manchester airport, who own the tunnel that Ronaldo crashed his red Ferrari 599 in are charging $360,580 for the damage that the crash did to the brickwork, railings and exit door. An expensive crash, even for a man who earns $216,348 a week...

In the meantime, Lance Armstrong was distraught when his beloved yellow time trial bike was stolen from their truck parked up in Sacramento during the Tour of California race. There’s a happy ending to this story, though — after making an SOS to his Twitter and Facebook followers and offering a reward for the one-off Livestrong Trek TT, it was returned to a local police station.

On a more upbeat note, tennis champ Rafael Nadal has been celebrating his recent victory over rival Federer with a cruise in his new car — a 6litre, V12 Aston Martin DBS, the choice of James Bond.



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