Doing a Hammond

I'm not really a petrol head - that's too environmentally unPC these days - but I do notice car stories, especially when an £800k motor has a tiff with a common old Astra. It doesn't really matter which one came off the best, this Bugatti Veyron definitely lost. Loadsa money in damage, face, street cred and probably points off someones licence.
I heard Top Gear's James May on 5Live this lunchtime saying that he'd driven one of these at something like 230 mph. The name of the driver of this one isn't given but it sort of fits Dicky Hammond's reputation ......