Magistrate Simon Brown blasted Clark's conduct as "an appalling display of driving" and said he clearly put the safety of the public at risk.

In sentencing Clark in the Launceston Magistrates Court on Friday, Mr Brown imposed a non-parole period of two years and three months backdated to April 30.

He also disqualified Clark from driving for three years upon release and ordered him to complete a 12-month probation order as well.

Clark punched the sliding door of the dock in anger when security officers led him away.

EARLIER: A DANGEROUS driver whose criminal history stretched to 52 pages almost a year ago, including re-sentencing, knows jail is his only option when he is sentenced on Friday for his latest crimes.

Dane Andrew Clark, 31, who has spent nine of the past 10 years in jail, faced the Launceston Magistrates Court from the dock on Thursday.

In October 2011, Clark was jailed for two years after he committed a horror carjacking at Blackstone Heights while on parole.

Clark had demanded that a female stranger drive him around, threatened her with violence and when she jumped out, he crashed her car with her four-year-old child in the back seat.

On Thursday, the magistrates court heard that Clark’s ‘‘condensed’’ criminal history spanned 19 pages as at August 13, 2014.

Among his new offences, police spiked Clark’s stolen car twice and rammed it three times before he crashed in Hobart Road at Kings Meadows on a busy Thursday morning on April 30.

The drug addict admitted to having reached speeds of up to 90km/h in residential areas while evading police in a red Holden Gemini he stole from a Mayfield home the day earlier.

Clark, who has an anti-social personality disorder, terrified other road users while police tailed him across a series of Launceston suburbs.

Clark repeatedly drove on the wrong side of the road, passed a truck on the left side of his lane and even went the wrong way around several roundabouts, forcing other drivers to take evasive action.

Police first tried to intercept Clark in Pipers River Road, Turners Marsh, and eventually spiked his car at 9.20am in Lilydale Road, Rocherlea, causing him to lose a front tyre near the East Tamar Highway.

However, Clark continued with the wheel on its rim and evaded police through Invermay, Newstead and Youngtown before his car was spiked again at Kings Meadows and he was arrested at 9.50am.

Police prosecutor Natalie Clark also told the court that Clark shoplifted when he hid a 700mL bottle of vodka, worth $40, down the front of his tracksuit pants in the BWS store at Prospect on April 3.

Defence solicitor Emily Judd, in her plea in mitigation, said her client had a difficult upbringing, had been homeless since his early teens and suffered from a significant drug problem.

She said Clark had finally started to turn his life around, with stable accommodation and medical help, when he felt pressure from police who were falsely accusing him of crimes and he ended up reoffending.

Magistrate Simon Brown further remanded Clark in custody and adjourned sentencing to Friday at 2.15pm.

Clark had pleaded guilty to 17 offences, mostly driving and dishonesty matters, including dangerous driving, burglary and various thefts.

He had previously failed the court-mandated drug diversion program, and when he reapplied for the program his poor attitude and, later, the lack of available spaces  stopped him from being accepted.