Moisés Caicedo has been fined £1,444 and handed eight penalty points after being caught driving his £160,000 Audi RSQ8 without a valid licence or insurance. The case, heard at Crawley magistrates' court this week, leaves him four points short of the 12-point threshold that can trigger a six-month driving ban.
The court case and the ban threshold
Caicedo was caught in April 2025 near Chelsea's Cobham training ground in Surrey. The charges were driving without a valid licence and without insurance, both of which fed into this week's court outcome.
British drivers who reach 12 points within three years are not allowed behind the wheel for six months, so the margin left by this ruling is not small. He is on eight points now, which means one more serious offence would take him to the level where the ban comes into play.
Chelsea's other Caicedo concern
The legal case lands while Chelsea are already trying to manage Caicedo's fitness. He has been injured this season and has only played 14 minutes for the club, with a persistent calf issue also keeping him out of Ecuador's squad for matches against South Korea, Japan and Panama.
That gives Chelsea two separate problems around one player. One is off the pitch, in court. The other is on it, with almost no football played so far this season.
Chelsea signed Caicedo from Brighton in 2023 for £115m, so the club's investment is already sitting alongside a very different kind of distraction. The immediate reality is simpler: he has eight penalty points, a £1,444 fine, and four points left before the ban threshold.
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