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Teng Wentian, 21, wrote off his multi-million-yuan Lamborghini in the illegal road race in April. File Photo

China’s ‘Fast and Furious’ illegal road racers start their jail sentences

Beijing’s young “Fast and Furious” illegal road racers, who made headlines when they wrecked a Lamborghini and a Ferrari worth millions of yuan in early April, started serving their jail terms on Wednesday, according to a newspaper report.

Tang Wentian, 21, is serving five months, and Yu Muchun, 20, four months, The Beijing News reported.

Yu, the driver of a borrowed Ferrari and a private high school pupil in Beijing before the accident, will miss this year’s college entrance examination, which starts this coming Sunday.

Yu said he felt “really bad” about his mistake and may take the examination next year.

The two were driving at between 165km/h and 179km/h – three times the speed limit – when they span out of control in the Datun Road Tunnel near the Olympic Stadium on the night of April 11.

A woman passenger in the Lamborghini, surnamed Xu, suffered a fractured lumbar vertebra.

The crash sparked speculation whether the young drivers were from families of senior government officials or rich businesspeople, after a high-speed Ferrari crash in Beijing in March 2012 killed the son of Ling Jihua, a key adviser of then president Hu Jintao.

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