Video: Parallel park world record

There's almost no pleasure to be derived from parallel parking. If you're bad at it it's ten minutes of head craning and needless wheel turning; if you're good at it, all you've really got to show for it is another anonymously parked car.

But there is a way of doing it which is guaranteed to have small children hero-worshipping you from ten paces. It's straight from the Russ Swift school of driving, and it involves handbrake turning into a space not much bigger than your car.