Sheesh! Kids and their speed racers these days.

Actually, Oregon State Police say the drivers of six exotic sports cars stopped for racing along Oregon 18 near Grand Ronde this morning were all grown men, some in their late 40's, from Washington and Canada on an annual road trip.And apparently one ticket wasn't enough for one of the drivers. Two hours after getting dinged near Grand Ronde, one of the same cars - a yellow Lamborghini -- was stopped again for racing into the Columbia River Gorge near Multnomah Falls.

"These were all $100,000-or-more cars," said State Police Sgt. Brad Hessel. "One guy told us his Ferrari cost more than $400,000. It was pretty much a street-legal racing car."

The first incident was like something out of a Vin Diesel flick.

About 11:15 a.m., a driver on Oregon 18 called the State Police Northern Command Center to report about ten expensive, high-octane sports cars zooming past each other in no-pass zones that cut through the farmlands near Grand Ronde.

East of town, Senior Trooper David Peterson spotted five of the cars. As he chased after them, a sixth exotic racer sped past his patrol car. Peterson was eventually able to stop all six vehicles and cite their drivers for speed racing (a $679 ticket!).

Last year, a pack of drivers in exotic racers were caught racing near Bend, which holds an annual exotic car show in September, but Hessel said he didn't know if it was the same group.

Thursday morning, the drivers were cooperative and told Peterson that they were part of a pack of 20 similar race cars traveling together on an annual road trip.

"They said they had been down in California and they were on their homeward part of the trip," Hessel said. "They knew they were pushing the envelope. I guess they're pretty high-paid fellas. They just accepted their citations and went on about their trip."

But apparently one of them had no problem blowing about $1,000 on traffic tickets in a single day.

Two hours after getting pulled over outside Grand Ronde, the driver of a 2004 Lamborghini was caught going 90 in a 65 mph zone on Interstate 84 near Multnomah Falls, some 100 miles away.

Police say they have no doubt it was the same driver. Same name. Same shiny hood ornament with the Lamborghini raging-bull logo. Same Alberta license plate: "BADBUL."

-- Joseph Rose;josephrose@news.oregonian.com