A DRINK driver has been charged with evading police after he was allegedly caught speeding at more than 200km/h in Victoria's west. 

Police pursued the man on the Western Highway at Stawell, west of Melbourne, after the allegedly stolen car he was driving was spotted at around nine thirty yesterday morning.

Officers abandoned the pursuit, but the man was spotted at Waubra two hours later, and he was stopped by road spikes and arrested.

Glenroy man Toufic Tlais, 30, has been charged with negligent driving while being chased by police, dangerous driving, theft of a motor vehicle, theft of petrol, and exceeding the speed limit.

He's been remanded in custody to appear in the Ballarat Magistrates Court tomorrow.