Car-mad pop star Jay Kay has been banned from driving for six months and fined 750 pounds sterling for speeding.

The front man for chart-toppers Jamiroquai admitted driving at 170 kilometres per hour in February on the south-bound carriage of the notorious A9 near Perth in central Scotland.

Kay, famed for his passion for sports cars, usually Lamborghinis, has previous motoring convictions but does not always need to be driving to get into trouble.

In May 2002 he was involved in a street brawl after he found photographers leaning against his newly delivered Bentley.

Jamiroquai burst onto the British music scene in 1992 with the single When You Gonna Learn?

The disco-funk group subsequently enjoyed chart success with their first album Emergency On Planet Earth.

-- <strong>Reuters</strong>