A millionaire supercar dealer who starred on TV has been banned from the roads after crashing his £180,000 convertible Ferrari while racing with another driver.
Carl Hartley, 32, smashed his grey Ferrari 458 Italia into a Porsche 718 Cayman GTS worth £80,000, owned by Henry James Hibbs.
Hartley made his fortune selling supercars to the rich and famous, following in the footsteps of his father Tom Hartley Snr.
He is worth £23million and was recently numbered 32 in the Sunday Times Under 30 rich list.
The father-of-one – who has owned a £1m Bugatti Veyron – starred in Channel 4's First Cut - Supercars: the Million Pound Motors.
He featured alongside his self-made multimillionaire dad, who heads the Derbyshire-based Tom Hartley luxury and performance car dealer.
Carl Hartley admitted dangerous driving when he at Sheffield Crown Court in November last year.
Witnesses told police that Hibbs and Carl Hartley had been adopting "racing style" behaviour in the lead-up to the crash , which took place at 7.55pm on May 20, 2018.
Porsche driver Hibbs, 27, suffered minor injuries in the collision, while Carl Hartley initially fled from the scene.
The crash on a roundabout in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, left the mangled wreckage of the Porsche vehicle without a rear wheel and its bumper in pieces on the road.
Carl Hartley, of Swadlincote, Derbyshire, later identified himself as the driver of the Ferrari, but told police the brakes on his car had failed, which caused the crash.
But a police investigation found no damage to the brakes.
It also found that the speed the airbags were deployed was 68mph - well above the 50mph limit of the road the cars were travelling on at the time of the crash.
The court heard in November that a number of witnesses told investigators the motorists' were driving "dangerously" and "unsafely" prior to the smash.
Both vehicles were captured on numerous CCTV footage at various locations exceeding the speed limits of the road they were on.
Yesterday, he was sentenced to a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for 24 months and ordered to complete 200 hours unpaid work.
He was also banned from driving for two years and ordered to take an extended test before driving again and told to pay £1400 in costs.
Hibbs, of New Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving at the start of the trial.
The jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for 24 months and 220 hours unpaid work.
He was also disqualified from driving for two years and must take an extended test before driving again and ordered to pay £4070 costs.
Traffic officer PC McEnery from South Yorkshire Police, who led the investigation, said: "Vehicles racing and travelling at speed are a dangerous combination and this collision could have seriously injured the drivers and innocent road users.
"I hope Hibbs and Hartley reflect on what consequences their actions could have had.
"The airbag unit from the Ferrari was shipped overseas where a professional was able to confirm at what speed the airbags in the vehicle were deployed - 68mph. The road that the cars collided on has a 50mph speed limit.
"A collisions investigator carried out extensive tests on the car to check for damage to the braking system- no damage was found.
"Numerous witnesses came forward, all highlighting the 'dangerous', 'unsafe' and 'racing style' behaviour that the drivers had been showcasing across South Yorkshire.
"Both vehicles were captured on numerous CCTV footage at various locations."
Carl Hartley's Instagram account features images of luxury, including fleets of super cars, champagne and captions comparing his lifestyle to the Great Gatsby.
One of the pictures shows him being stopped by police while driving a Bugatti, with the caption: 'Officer: Do you know why I've stopped you? Me: Because I let you.'
