Los Angeles: A Qatari driver, who was caught after high-speed street racing in Beverly Hills (scroll down for video), claimed diplomatic immunity.

On Saturday evening, two supercars, with Qatari number plates were filmed racing in a residential area.

The video has gone viral on YouTube and nearing a million hits.

The local residents and witnesses accused the drivers of overspeeding and rash driving.

Witnesses claimed the vehicles, a Ferrari and a Porsche 911 GT3, ran through stop signs and narrowly missed other cars on a number of occasions.

The ruckus only came to an end as the Ferrari started venting smoke and had to be pulled over.

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As the police arrived to investigate the matter, the driver told he has diplomatic immunity. Even though he admitted that the he owned the cars, but denied that he oversped or drove recklessly.

'The car was still smoking when the cops came,' neighbour Roya Levian told KTLA.

'The kids were terrified and the neighbours were out and this woman was screaming 'cause her husband almost got run over.'

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A Video journalist, Jacob Rogers, told Daily Mail how the driver boasted about diplomatic immunity.

Roger said that a man - thought to be the driver - confronted him when he captured the incident on video.

'He told me verbatim, 'I could have you killed and get away with it,' Rogers said.

'I told him, 'the press is allowed to be here on the sidewalk on a public street.' He said, 'F*** America' and threw a cigarette at me.'

The Beverly Hills Police Department said that the United States State Department is involved now in the investigation into his alleged diplomatic status and the legality of the vehicles driven on the road.

The police department maintains that since the officers did not see the incident themselves, and arrest could not be made in the case.