Well - my aproach to tickets is to consider it an inevitable go-faster-tax - and also count lucky stars. I've not had a ticket yet - but I will at some point I am sure
We do have a passport but we dont use it any more since around where we drive they all use instant on or laser and we dont really drive that fast any more.
When ever my wife or other members of the family have been pulled over we've always gotten off with 5 or 10 above the limit despite going much faster by simply being curteous and cooperative with the cop - and being honest most of all. When asked why we were speeding the response has always been along the lines of 'just enjoying the drive'. Not saying it will get the same results for everyone but it has worked well for us.
Once in Michigan - going up I 75 (I think it was anyway) we got lasered in the Z4M doing close to triple digits. The cop was sitting on the inside of a curve so we did not see him until he was ~100 yards away and shooting - but the road was empty and it would seem the cop did not care or got a bad read since he did not pounce. It was on that same trip we found how at what speed windnoise becomes loud with the top up - which is well into triple digits
Oddly enough, at that speed we hit a large bee and it loosened the rubber seal around the windshield so the seal was flapping about making the next leg of the journey rather annoying until we figured out what it was. When we took it in to get it fixed for good the dealership found the bee still wedged in there