Scott Lumley ran three red lights as he led police on a five-mile chase, Leeds Crown Court heard.
Lumley, 34, of Sandhurst Terrace, Harehills, Leeds, who was banned from driving at the time, has appeared in court 36 times for motoring offences.
The chase from Moortown to Headingley in December ended when Lumley crashed the car into bollards on Headingley Mount.
Refusing
After sentencing, Lumley's barrister Michael Collins told court officials that both his parents were driving instructors.
Lumley, a father-of-two, was found guilty of dangerous driving, failure to surrender, driving while disqualified and refusing to take a breath test. He was sentenced to three years in jail, including 12 months suspended from a previous conviction.
Sentencing him, Judge Kerry Macgill said: "You are a menace behind the wheel and you do not belong on the roads. You have appeared before this court ... so many times, I've lost count. I wish the law would allow me to jail you for longer and if I could, I would disqualify you from driving for life.
"But official guidelines prevent me. Instead I'm going to give you as close to the maximum sentence as possible."
The judge added: "I hope that in the future the law changes so judges can give tougher sentences for this type of offending."
Defending, Mr Collins said his client, who owns a hairdressing salon in Cross Gates, Leeds, was still suffering from the breakdown of his marriage around 18 months ago, which led to him not seeing his two children, aged eight and 11, for around 12 months.