12 Speeding Supercar Club Driver’s Named In I-394 Chase

The member's of an exclusive supercar club in Minnesotta have been named by the authorities and stand accused of racing each other on I-394 and reaching speeds in excess of 100mph.

Authorities Monday named the drivers — and their rides — who were cited this weekend for reckless driving after getting stopped for speeds that topped 100 miles per hour. “The vehicles were changing lanes and passing other motorists at high speeds,” the State Patrol said in a statement describing the behavior of the men driving a variety of exotic cars late Saturday afternoon on westbound Interstate 394 and its Hwy. 12 extension into western Hennepin County. Among the 12 cited was Swen D. Corbin, a 42-year-old Minnetonka resident who was pulled over in his 2012 Lamborghini Aventador. Corbin co-founded MN Exotics and Supercars (MNE & S), an invitation-only club in the Twin Cities that counts as members some of the others who were cited.

This promotional YouTube Video shows MN Exotics & Supercars member's with their cars.

The club’s Facebook page on the morning of the pack ride teased, “be sure to watch our page around 5 p.m. for a live Facebook broadcast.” The speeders were first detected about 5:20 p.m. On its website, the club says it’s “one of the most exclusive” for high-end cars in Minnesota, “hand selecting its members from the state’s exotic car and supercar owners. MNE & S has a wide variety of vehicles in the group, everything from American supercars to the most exclusive exotics Europe has to offer. The club meets several times a year in groups of 15 to 30 vehicles. When the patrol first revealed the fast and furious frenzy to the media, several of the accused drivers and others kicked around in a Facebook discussion how to deal with the situation. “It will be easy to get [the charge] thrown out,” wrote David K. Morgan, 25, of St. Louis Park, who was pulled over driving a 2016 McLaren 675LT, which has a base sticker price of $349,500. “They didn’t actually clock us.” Alfredo Santiago, 37, took a good-natured jab at one of his cruising buddies, saying, “I already told them Ethan Hoover wasn’t going that fast because I passed him like he was standing still.” Santiago, of Andover, was stopped in a 2011 Nissan GT-R. Hoover, 27, of Bloomington, was driving a 2009 Lamborghini Gallardo, which has 552 horsepower. Austin J. Kemmer wrote, “I’m clearing my personal page from anything about this situation. Advise everyone else do the same.” The 24-year-old Fargo resident was driving a 2010 Nissan GT-R. The patrol said all 12 men must appear in court on the misdemeanor charge. Some of vehicles were stopped along westbound Interstate 394, while others fled and were eventually detained at a gas station in Maple Plain. Others among the two dozen or so spotted have yet to be cited.

The patrol said it first detected the group about 5:20 p.m., when a trooper spotted Hoover’s lime green Lamborghini heading west on I-394. The low-slung sports car was clocked at 110 mph by the eastbound trooper, the patrol’s statement read, and there were roughly two dozen other sports cars “traveling well over the speed limit” nearby. The patrol gave this account of the pursuit: The trooper changed direction and gave chase with his lights flashing and siren sounding. Several of the sports cars pulled over to the right shoulder, and the trooper kept up his pursuit of the others. Now on westbound Hwy. 12 (what I-394 becomes west of I-494), the trooper saw Hoover’s lime green Lamborghini at the front. The trooper turned his attention to other sports cars behind the Lamborghini. As the trooper got out of his squad car, the drivers “revved their engines and did U-turns” onto eastbound Hwy. 12. The trooper caught up to the fleeing vehicles, closed eastbound Hwy. 12 and successfully flagged down seven cars. Others still on the loose, including the lime green Lamborghini, were spotted at a Holiday gas station in Maple Plain by a police sergeant and detained until the trooper arrived and made a positive identification of the cars.

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