Driving Miss Ecclestone (or rather being driven by...)

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Tamara's car is parked outside her dad's Knightsbridge office, and there's a ticket under the windscreen wiper. I try to couch the bad news carefully: "Is that your black Range Rover? Er... I think you might have a parking ticket". "Oh don't worry," she says, "that's been there ages". We jump in the car and head off into the rain, the plastic-wrapped Westminster council ticket smearing across the windscreen.

The carefree abandon of a billionaire's daughter, perhaps. But Tamara is on the way to a PETA function, to campaign against animal cruelty. So, not carefree then. There's no fur in this socialite's closet - she's gone naked for a series of PETA adverts. When we pull up, she pops the ticket in her handbag. She'll get around to dealing with it.

Her love of furry creatures is largely what's responsible for the behemoth 4x4 that resides in front of her Chelsea home. "I need a massive car - I have four dogs, and I want more," she says. "There's Hob Nob, Socky, Alvin and Buster. My sister [Petra] has four dogs too. They love it in the boot. I make it into a little playpen with toys and blankets and stuff."

Tamara's first car was a Golf, and this new-shape Vogue is her third Range Rover. "I get to be a chauffer to my friends because not all of them drive. A two-seater car would be so anti-social, you can only have one other person with you.

"There's something about Ferraris that I really love, the California in particular, and the Aston Martin DBS. But for me they're so impractical. When I park my Range Rover, I might nudge the person behind me or knock the car in front, or scrape my wheels. I'd be so worried about doing that in a Ferrari."

One of her Range Rovers ended up a wreck when she slid on ice and hit a parked car. "Fortunately no one was hurt, but it was still the scariest thing ever - I thought about jumping out of the car!"

It didn't put her off though. "I love driving. I'm not into collecting anything, apart from shoes and bags, but my dad has a big car collection. He's quite a scary driver. I'm an assertive driver. I think that's probably a result of growing up in London - you snooze you lose. But maybe it's the car family thing. Both my dad and I are control freaks - we don't like to let the other drive."

"A big car collection" is putting it mildly. Mr E has one of the world's finest collections of pre-1960s racing and luxury cars. Has Tamara ever helped herself to the keys? Seemingly, Bernie doesn't let anyone drive his cars but himself. "He said when I get married I could maybe use one of the cars, but I'm not planning on getting married anytime soon."

She's in a long-term relationship with her publicist, Rob Montague, who's helping her carve out a TV career. For the past two years, Tamara's been an F1 reporter for Sky Italia, but she's just quit. "I just don't really want to work in Formula One anymore. F1 was a safety net. I did quite enjoy it, but I've got a few lifestyle projects in the pipeline, and a few more modeling bits and endorsements and stuff."

Tamara's mum, Slavica, was an Armani model and was none too keen when her daughter attempted racing. "I did it for a Sky show called The Race, and I'd like to do more of it - but I don't think I want to be an F1 driver! My mum was so nervous, which made me nervous. All mums are like that I guess."

As for who will be F1 champion this year, Tamara has her favourite and not so favourite. "I'd really like to see Sebastian Vettel win, because he hasn't got his head up his own arse, unlike others mentioned previously."

Could the previous sentence elude to the time she tried to interview Jenson Button, who answered his phone mid interview? "I think he was really rude. And I also don't think he deserved to be world champion. There, I said it."


photo credit: Victoria Nightingale


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Kimi Raikkonen has a brace of these over-the-top hogs: One's black and has Iceman written on the fuel tank, and the other's red and emblazoned with Ferrari logos. Now he's racing WRC will he exchange them for Citroen chevrons and snow tyres?

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When Schumacher made his first million, this is the car he splurged on. Nothing unusually wild about that, you might think. If anyone can handle a 320km/h supercar, it's Schumi. But Michael, with the same level of taste that caused him to wear cowboy outfits in public, chose to order it in banana yellow with blue leather seats. Good job he crashed it in 1994.

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Again, nothing unusual about an F1 star in a supercar, but it's the way they drive them. In 1987, Rene Arnoux drove his company car through a French town with a 90km/h speed limit. Did he stick to it? What do you think? He was busted doing 242km/h. Luckily he was mates with President Mitterand.


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