New Tooned

[skeggysteve]

James Hunt special:

http://www.mclaren.com/formula1/heritage/driver/ja...

[Eric Mc]

Not altogether sure I like that.

[Teppic]

It's not really a new one. It's had new scenes with Jenson and Fernando added, but otherwise it's a re-hash of the one they did in 2013.

Here's the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YyX4Ogj8OA

[skeggysteve]

Eric - in what way? Fair enough it wasn't the best Tooned but I still thought it funny, different sense of humour?

Teppic- I realised that after reading further down the page I linked to!

[Eric Mc]

I just thought the Bond stuff was a bit silly and non-relevant. Hunt had such an interesting life on and off track they could have made better use of that for a "funny" story - I thought.

His love of budgies for a start.

Or the fact that he drove an Austin A35 van as his home car.

[williamp]

Eric Mc said:

I just thought the Bond stuff was a bit silly and non-relevant. Hunt had such an interesting life on and off track they could have made better use of that for a "funny" story - I thought.

His love of budgies for a start.

Or the fact that he drove an Austin A35 van as his home car.

dont forget he actually owned every A35 van. And every Merc 6.3 saloon. Well, it seems that way from the classifides!

[Eric Mc]

A bit like Jim Clark's Lotus Cortinas.

[S0 What]

Eric Mc said:

I just thought the Bond stuff was a bit silly and non-relevant. Hunt had such an interesting life on and off track they could have made better use of that for a "funny" story - I thought.

His love of budgies for a start.

Or the fact that he drove an Austin A35 van as his home car.

They mentioned his love of "gardening" i did lol at that

[Smollet]

I was never a fan of the earlier Tooned stuff. Found it bland and inane so I won't bother watching the James Hunt version either. I'd rather remember him as he was

[andyps]

I enjoyed it first time round, and the revised version. Probably the sheer audaciousness of someone as anti-conformity as James Hunt being a spy being the reason behind it - as said there was so much in his real life that could have been used, but much of it could have been difficult to portray so why not go to the other extreme of believability - or was he really a spy?

[Eric Mc]

He wouldn't have been very reliable.

[GCH]

I always used to skip through the tooned stuff when watching on catchup.

Perhaps they have better things to concentrate on right now....like their car

[ZX10R NIN]

This isn't meant to be controversial but my 10 year old said to me while watching the GP that if Nico is going to be a lucky champion does that make him the same as James Hunt (we'd watched Rush in the afternoon) I tried explaining Hunt was a good driver despite only winning one championship but to him there is no difference had Lauda not had his crash Hunt would not have won the championship.

I never watched Hunt race but through watching old races I can see he had a talent after talking to my son I wonder if we'd be rating him so highly had he not managed to win the title?

It's just a thought.

[skeggysteve]

ZX10R NIN said:

... had Lauda not had his crash Hunt would not have won the championship...

In part three of these short films Niki doesn't agree with your son:

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/10307885/ja...

[ZX10R NIN]

I agree Hunt had talent but this is the simple view of a ten year old, not being in the right car is part of racing ask Alonso/Button/Vettel etc but to my boy if Nico is a lucky Champion if he wins then so is James.

[andyps]

Hunt was lucky to some extent, but there were some decisions that went against him in terms of the championship that year - it was the first year I was really interested (I was 13 in 1976) so I may not be completely correct but I think the politics were probably the most controversial they had ever been up to that point.