Hoons film themselves driving at over 200km/h

HOONS have taken to filming themselves driving at dangerous speeds on Territory roads and posting the footage on social media.

HOONS have been slammed for filming themselves driving at dangerous speeds on Territory roads and posting the footage on social media.

A man who identified himself as “Fuhrer” on Facebook but admitted the name was a fake uploaded a video to the ‘NT performance cars’ page which showed his speedometer clocking more than 210kph as he shot down a Territory road.

Facebook user "Fuhrer" uploaded a video of himself doing more than 200km/h on a public road in the Northern Territory. The video appeared to be filmed on a handheld mobile.

“Fuhrer” claimed to have been driving a Corolla and boasted about being able to reach high speeds on the public road and film it at the same time.

“Obviously I didn’t post with my real name cos its a video doing something illegal. How f***ing retarded can you c***s get,” Fuhrer responded to his online critics who dubbed him an “idiot”.

Facebook user Jeffery C Coulter told Fuhrer: “There’s a place for this s**t and the public road isnt it ... it’s w***ers like you that kill a family”.

Fuher mocked those who warned that he could be fined by police.

“Hi I found a video uploaded on facebook by a fake account claiming to be his own. There’s no number plates or faces in video. But please arrest someone,” Fuhrer wrote.

The speed limit on most Territory highways is 130kph, except for a section near Alice Springs where there is an open limit.

It is unclear which road the driver was travelling along when the filming took place.

A 200km section of the Stuart Highway between Alice Springs and Barrow Creek, has an open speed limit.

Senior Sergeant Garry Smith said drivers can still be charged with reckless driving within the open speed limit zone.

“It depends on the circumstances,” he said.

Sen-Sgt Smith said Fuhrer’s video and those like it were of “interest” to police but had not been reported.

Many social media users condemned ‘Fuhrer’s’ reckless driving but some were impressed by the feat, claimed their own cars were faster, or even tried to upstage him.

A screenshot of one of the responses when Facebook user "Fuhrer" uploaded a video of himself doing more than 200km/h on a public road.

In response to Fuhrer’s video, Facebook user ‘Andrew Wardo Warden’ posted a photo of a speedometer clocking a driving speed of 240kph.

The scene of a crash during the first and only Cannonball Run held in 1994 when open speed limits were in effect across the Northern Territory. Japanese Ferrari driver Akihiro Kabe slammed into a checkpoint, killing four people including his co-driver and himself.

Hidden Valley Drag Association president Jay Jukes said those who film or photograph while driving at high speeds were risking “injury or death to themselves and also innocent bystanders”.

“They should be concentrating on the road, not filming,” he said.

Mr Jukes said anyone who wanted to drive their cars at high speeds could do it legally at drag strips where emergency services were on hand.

“The whole idea of being able to take your car to a safe and legal environment at a drag strip is knowing you have fire and ambulance safety measures there ... driving like that on public roads comes back to my point about risking lives, potentially even those of family and friends,” Mr Jukes said.