Stockholm - Swedish Prince Carl Philip spun off the track in a high-speed auto race Friday but was unharmed and ready to race over the weekend, reports said.

"I feel fine," the prince was quoted as telling the online edition of the Expressen newspaper after the incident at a racing track in Falkenberg, south-western Sweden.

"I pushed a little too hard," he added. "It is a tight turn."

His Porsche Carrera was estimated to be doing some 160 kilometres an hour, the report said.

Carl Philip, 30, started competing in the Swedish Porsche Carrera Cup last year.

Like his father, King Carl Gustaf, the prince shares a passion for fast cars.

The king's late uncle, Prince Bertil, who died 1997 at age 84, was known as "the motoring prince" and, during the 1930s and 1940s, raced cars in Europe.

Aware that his father would disapprove, Bertil entered under an alias, Monsieur Adrian.

A Porsche also featured when rumours of a romance between Carl Gustaf and German-born Silvia were confirmed in 1973.

The couple met at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and the following year were spotted together in the king's Porsche on the eastern island of Oland.

They were married June 19, 1976, in Stockholm Cathedral. Their children are Crown Princess Victoria, Carl Philip and Princess Madeleine. (dpa)