F1 playboy who ‘lost count of the women he slept with’ has £92million net worth

They don't make 'em like Eddie Irvine anymore. The former F1 playboy once joked he'd lost count of the number of women he'd slept with and now has a reported net worth of £92million.

Irvine was an immensely talented racing driver and partnered Michael Schumacher at Ferrari from 1996 until 1999. 'Fast Eddie', as he became known, won four Grand Prix for the Scuderia and finished second behind his team-mate in the 1999 drivers' championship.

But Fast Eddie was much more than just a racing driver. He was a playboy too. His womanising and partying are the stuff of legend, with the no-nonsense Irishman establishing himself as one of the sport's great characters.

Fun-loving Irvine is rumoured to have gotten close to a host of high-profile beauties over the years, including page three bombshell Kelly Brook, New Zealand model Rachel Hunter and even Pamela Anderson.

Given his success with the ladies, it is perhaps no surprise that Irvine has previously admitted to losing count of his conquests. In an interview with the Daily Record in 2000, he said: "Sex is too easy. It's an easy way to have fun, isn't it? It's not massively challenging."

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He continued: "Even if you're with the most beautiful girl in the world, the one across the table looks better – and the next one better still. Where does it all end? Usually in tears."

The publication wrote how Irvine "admitted he has no idea how many women he's slept with" before the man himself insisted he is too discerning to pick up a passing girl "unless she is exceptionally good looking, of course".

In a separate interview, Irvine said: "You get girls ringing your room, sending you letters and photos. One girl mailed me a picture of herself in her underwear outside a Hard Rock Cafe in South Africa.

"We go out with two good-looking girls and I always get the pick. Why? Well, that's just the way life is."

When it comes to his looks, Irvine was given a gift. But when it comes to his money, the 56-year-old Irishman has been very shrewd indeed.

It's not clear how much Irvine earned during his four-year spell at Ferrari, but he pocketed a reported £18million at Jaguar for three seasons work before retiring from F1 in 2002.

It has been claimed he made his first million from his racing exploits in Japan, long before he came to Formula One. And during his time on the grid, he certainly wasn't shy in showing off his wealth.

"I've made loads of money," he told the Daily Mirror in 1999. "I bought a lot of shares when the market was collapsing last year. I made a fortune. I woke up one morning and I'd made a quarter of a million dollars in the night. But another time I was down $600,000."

At the time, he added that he was the "most toyed-up driver in the paddock". In 2015, Irvine was pictured on his £12million superyacht surrounded by beautiful bikini-clad women.

Irvine has also invested in property through his firm Chrishardzoe Developments and last year shelled out £7.25million on a new home in Miami. Just in time for this season's Miami Grand Prix.

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