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Inside Dua Lipa's one-off 184mph Porsche 911 GT3 RS with special paint job that's set to raise £100,000s for charity

Inside Dua Lipa's one-off 184mph Porsche 911 GT3 RS with special paint job that's set to raise £100,000s for charity

The Sun18 hours ago
YOU'D normally see Dua Lipa doing Dua Lipa things on the front page or Bizarre.
Not here on Motors.
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But we bagsied these pictures because the singer has designed her own car.
It's a 184mph Porsche 911 GT3 RS with a special swirly paint job and 'Dua Lipa RENNSTALL' (racing team) printed on the doors.
Looks tidy.
Dua unveiled the one-of-a-kind motor at May's Monaco F1 GP.
Now she's been blasted up Goodwood's famous hillclimb in it, in front of 100,000 fans.
How much was the insurance for that high-speed run, you reckon? More than a lot.
Dua said: 'I love speed. Adrenalin all the way. I'm very, very lucky to have been driven in two very iconic places.
I'm very, very lucky to have been driven in two very iconic places. Monaco F1. That was surreal. The whole experience was insane. Then the Goodwood hillclimb, which just blew me away.
'Monaco F1. That was surreal. The whole experience was insane.
"Then the Goodwood hillclimb, which just blew me away. Very, very exciting.
'I feel very lucky to get to work with the Porsche team and to create something that feels really unique and fun and to bring it down here to Goodwood.'
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The Training Season singer has previously written, directed and starred in adverts for Porsche's electric Macan.
She said: 'They have allowed me to express my creativity.
'Things that I guess I didn't really expect anyone to let me do. They were like 'Yeah, go for it, just have fun and enjoy'.
Charity auction
'I think that's really the core values of the brand — being creative, living life on the edge a little bit, and just having fun.
'So that's what we are here to do — and we're having a good time doing it.'
Dua's unique GT3 RS will be auctioned by Sotheby's in aid of her Sunny Hill Foundation, supporting Kosovan culture and arts.
The regular car costs £193k. So double that. And double it again probably.
Other familiar faces pitching up at the always-brilliant Festival of Speed included Olympic swim king Adam Peaty, who went up the hill in a Ferrari 12Cilindri.
He said: 'Fully got my guts inside out. So much respect for the drivers.'
Colin McRae's daughter Hollie jumped in her dad's Subaru Impreza 555, the car he steered to world rally championship glory 30 years ago in 1995.
Nigel Mansell was one of seven F1 world champions in the house.
NEXT year's Goodwood Festival of Speed runs from July 9-12. Book the time off work now.
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