A learner driver has been handed a year-long driving ban and ordered to take an extended test after driving dangerously away from police in his new car.
Levi Robinson, 18, was given a lesson by a friend earlier on February 4 - but he was not having any tuition at the time he fled from officers on roads in Mansfield Woodhouse.
Their attention was drawn to his car which potentially had false plates on February 4, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
Police mounted a pursuit when the car jumped red lights, did a circuit of a residential street and went 40mph in a 30mph zone.
Robinson, who had a passenger on board, even forced traffic travelling in the opposite carriageway to take evasion action, and went 65mph in a 40mph limit.
His journey took him from New Mill Lane, across the junction of the A60, before returning to New Mill Lane, left down Welbeck Road and into the centre of Mansfield Woodhouse.
Despite abandoning the car and making off, he was arrested.
Phil Plant, prosecuting, said he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, using a car without insurance and without a licence.
Sentencing Robinson, of Chatsworth Drive in Hucknall, Judge Andrew Easteal said: "You have never done a test or had any proper lessons".
But he noted Robinson has been working with Framework and has his own accommodation.
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He gave him a 12-month community order, 20 rehabilitation days, and a four-month tagged curfew between 8pm and 6.30am.
And he banned him from driving for 12 months, with a requirement to take a mandatory extended test if he plans to get behind the wheel again.
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"Next time you drive a car, make sure you have your licence," said the judge. "Because if you do that again, you will be locked up. You know that don't you?"
Robinson replied from the dock: "Yes".
Andrew Wesley, mitigating, said Robinson had been smoking cannabis recreationally and as a relaxant.
He described there being a "catalogue of poor decision-making - buying the vehicle in the first place, letting a friend teach him to drive in the morning and to drive it undocumented".
He insisted it was "not a joy ride for fun" - but Robinson had been panicked and scared when he saw police.
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