A three-time Formula One champ has been forced to take driver’s-education classes in his native Brazil after his license was revoked following too many traffic violations.

Nelson Piquet lost his license in June after racking up speeding and parking tickets.

“I think we have to pay for our mistakes,” he said. “It’s not even just a speeding thing. I got tickets for all kinds of reasons.”

Piquet won titles in 1981, 1983 and 1987.

Has Orange County come up with a new way to catch speeders? or is it entrapment?

An Orange County sheriffs deputy, dressed as a leprechaun was seen on the roadside warning speeding drivers to slow down. A laser speed gun clocked cars above his sign read “Watch your speed or it will cost you your pot of gold.”

Deputies on motorcycles pulled over many of the lead footed motorists who didn’t ease off the gas peddle after reading the warning. Apparently deputies were writing one ticket each minute.

Some drivers complained of entrapment but Richard Lockman, AKA deputy leprechaun says “the elf didn’t force anybody to speed.”

I guess leprechauns aren’t always good luck now are they?