Now it’s emerged after being kept quiet for several months that it was Ling Gu, the son of a loyal aide to President Hu Jintao, was the one killed in Ferrari accident in Beijing back in March.
Reportedly Ling was half-naked when the crash occurred and his two passengers were equally or even less well-clad, suggesting high-speed hanky panky pre-crash.
Yesterday’s SCMP story came just days after the Beijing government announced Ling Gu’s father had been transferred to a new position, a move that analysts say stymied his ambitions for a stellar ascent to the leadership upper ranks. And it all started with a Ferrari crash. Not sure why the sins of the son are being visited on the father though. That seems a little harsh, unless he is deemed responsible for having given his fun-loving son such a lethal weapon.
Playboys, hot girls and fast cars - it’s not a new cocktail, but a mix that’s proving too heady for China’s nouveau riche. Add China’s precarious roads, and it’s a lethal combination.
As former Grand Prix driver Rubens Barrichello once commented, the most terrifying part of the Formula One season was the taxi ride from Shanghai airport into town en route to drive in the Chinese Grand Prix. Even the car Princess Anne’s son Peter Phillip’s was riding in got pranged on the way to the Shanghai racing track.
Now each day brings fresh news of blood splashed on the tarmac after yet another Ferrari crash, today’s being driven, allegedly, by the grandson of the founder of caffeine drink Red Bull, who killed a policeman in a midnight hit and run on Bangkok.
Back in May there was yet another: a speeding red Ferrari that ran the red light at an intersection in Singapore, crashing into a taxi. Apart from the Ferrari owner who died instantly, the 52-year-old Singaporean taxi driver and his Japanese passenger also died later in hospital.
