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Filip Turek (born October 15, 1985 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech businessman and internationally renowned and respected automobile collector and expert, specifically on classic cars. He is also a formula racing driver and a founder and President of the Jaguar Club Czech Republic and a founder, co-founder or consultant to many other automotive clubs and societies.

His car collection comprised around 80 cars between years 2007-2015, of mostly (but not solely) British production such as Jaguar, Aston Martin, Rolls-Royce and Bentley. In the past years, Turek has been slowly reducing his collection and focused on a handful of top-class automobiles, objects of his love and admiration. As of this moment, his car collection has been distilled to comprise around 10-15 cars. Each of them is known to have an interesting individual value being either museum examples, having famous previous owners and history, and/or being the first built example of a given car model etc. Among the most known are: 1979 Aston Martin Lagonda (Series II), 1974 Rolls-Royce Camargue (first-built), 1968 Imperial Le Baron (previously owned by Gabonese president Omar Bongo), 1988 Aston Martin Virage (first built), 1998 Aston Martin DB7 Vantage (only surviving original prototype, practically the oldest V12 Aston Martin in the world), or 1988 JaguarSport XJR-S (first built).

Turek is also a known conservator; his company Art of Performance focuses on automobile restorations (mostly Jaguars, but also other marques), servicing, as well as automotive investment consulting and maintaining car collections.

Turek studied design and graphics on secondary art school, later studied law and political science at two different universities. In between 2015 and 2018 he was an active formula racing driver, participating on various races and championships across the Central Europe. Turek entered total of 33 races, 11 out of which he won. In 2018, he became an F4 Trophy Central Europe champion, having raced Van Diemen RF-02 for Chabrmotorsport team that season. Turek briefly raced in Renault Sport 2.0 as well as Delta 4 national formula racing car of Czech JMT-Racing Engineering.

Before focusing on motorsport, Turek actively practiced several martial arts and shooting. He currently owns a small collection of firearms.