A member of Monaco’s royal family says he flipped his car over while driving around Monte Carlo.
Pierre Casiraghi, who is eighth in the line of succession to the Monegasque throne, named the Fiat 500 as one of his favourite cars because even at low speeds it handles like a race car.
Speaking to British former Formula One driver David Coulthard and former F1 team owner Eddie Jordan on the Formula For Success podcast, Casiraghi, 36, admitted he turned his Fiat over while speeding around the streets of Monte Carlo, mimicking the circuit used in the Monaco Grand Prix.
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“I love the Fiat 500 because basically at 40kmh, or 50kmh, if you take a turn it’s very fast for those cars,” Casiraghi said. “I could feel like I was racing, but I was just at 40, 45, 50kmh, still at the speed limits of the town.
“But if you take that curve full speed at 40 you can flip these things. So it was a way for me to have fun. I flipped one once in Monaco. You can have fun driving [Fiat 500s] at low speeds because they’re really fun.”
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Casiraghi said he enjoyed driving his Fiat 500 so much that he went out and bought two more. He added: “I have a little collection with my brother. I have an Abarth 1000, 1962.
“Then I have a little Fiat 600 ambulance from the late seventies, so it was an actual ambulance in Italy.” Coulthard then interjected, quipping: “That’s very useful for a night out.”
Casiraghi is the is youngest of three children of Caroline, Princess of Hanover, and her late husband, Stefano Casiraghi. He’s also the maternal-line grandson of Rainier III, the late father of Albert II, Prince of Monaco.