The most tedious and pointless man in F1 returns...
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Well, one of them anyway:
www.f1racing.net/en/news.php?newsID=110979
Not to mention, the stubble on that cleft chin of his makes it look like a pair of hairy knackers...
www.f1racing.net/en/news.php?newsID=110979
F1racing.net said:Oh great, the man with one of the biggest egos with nothing to back it up plans to return to the paddock. I wonder, does he actually know that racing is about coming first, rather than just doing enough laps to impress the vacuous totty on the sidelines?
Irvine plans to start F1 team
06 March 2006
Eddie Irvine announced he is interested to start a brand new Formula 1 team with Russian Vodka and banking billionaire Roustam Tariko in 2008. The former Jordan, Ferrari and Jaguar driver was already linked with Minardi and Jordan in the past as the Ulsterman seemed interested in buying one of those teams.
"We are looking at starting a team from scratch as there are no teams for sale at the minute," Irvine told the Irish Independent. "It will be a great challenge, but Roustam wants to do it and we've got the money."
"Roustam needs the branding that F1 can bring him. He wants a Russian team and he wants to take his brand and turn them into world brands. It's not going to be easy. It is going to be very, very difficult. But if I go back into F1 I am going to be married to it for a long time. It is definitely a challenge I want to go with."
Not to mention, the stubble on that cleft chin of his makes it look like a pair of hairy knackers...
Quite agree - this thread's title doesn't really give much of a clue as to the content.
I certainly wouldn't use the words tedious or pointless to describe Eddie Irvine. Amongst his contemporaries, he seemed IMHO one of the least tedious and most focused... astute, even.
But then again, I can't agree that the whole point of racing (in the context of F1) is to win...
I certainly wouldn't use the words tedious or pointless to describe Eddie Irvine. Amongst his contemporaries, he seemed IMHO one of the least tedious and most focused... astute, even.
But then again, I can't agree that the whole point of racing (in the context of F1) is to win...
he's a very silly boy. never much of a driver, but still thought of himself as being as cool as james hunt. in your dreams edmund..
its all very well being known for 'speaking your mind' but, if everytime your mouth opens utter bo
ks comes out then i think it kind of defeats the object. a second rate shuey kisser!
its all very well being known for 'speaking your mind' but, if everytime your mouth opens utter bo
ks comes out then i think it kind of defeats the object. a second rate shuey kisser!I agree with pwig, he (Eddie) always come across as more down to earth than most of the prima donnas in F1. I think you'll find that most people (in whatever line of work) are relatively careful about what they say to a public audience about their colleagues, particularly if you are clearly the no2 and more expendable team member. Can't blem him for that. Theres a right and wrong time slag off, and when you're working alongside someone is rarely the best time to do it.
BTW I thought the thread must be about the guy who took over from Murray (so dull his name escapes me right now........)
BTW I thought the thread must be about the guy who took over from Murray (so dull his name escapes me right now........)
Anyone "controversial" is a GOOD THING in F1 - bring him on!...IIRC he paid for his Jordan drive with his cash from his earnings in Jap F3000 - anyone brave enough to do that and also take a punch from Senna is a top man in my book 
Also knows a good property investment when he sees one....
Also knows a good property investment when he sees one....kevin ritson said:
Full of b/s and says whatever he's paid to say (eg: Michael Schumacher is wonderful when he's Eddie's team mate, nowadays Eddie can't wait to put the boot in whenever it takes his fancy...)
Guess he's perfectly suited to F1...
Yes, and if you were being paid several million quid to drive for what at that point was the best team on the F1 grid, you'd say EXACTLY the same things. And no one would do otherwise.
I don't get people that whinge and complain about people like Irvine. He was, like Villeneuve, a breath of fresh air for F1 as he really didn't care what he said, or how he said it. Then when he went ot Ferrari he changed, mainly when he had to take over from Schumacher as No 1 in '99. So what if he talked the PR talk? He was still a more colourful character than 90% of the others.
Alonso for one, as a world champion, is a right boring bastard!
>> Edited by racefan_uk on Wednesday 8th March 10:50
racefan_uk said:
Full of b/s and says whatever he's paid to say (eg: Michael Schumacher is wonderful when he's Eddie's team mate, nowadays Eddie can't wait to put the boot in whenever it takes his fancy...)
Guess he's perfectly suited to F1...
Yes, and if you were being paid several million quid to drive for what at that point was the best team on the F1 grid, you'd say EXACTLY the same things. And no one would do otherwise.
I don't get people that whinge and complain about people like Irvine. He was, like Villeneuve, a breath of fresh air for F1 as he really didn't care what he said, or how he said it. Then when he went ot Ferrari he changed, mainly when he had to take over from Schumacher as No 1 in '99. So what if he talked the PR talk? He was still a more colourful character than 90% of the others.
Alonso for one, as a world champion, is a right boring bastard!
>> Edited by racefan_uk on Wednesday 8th March 10:50
But as you say, "like Villeneuve" and Jacques managed a World Championship...
had irvine done what was asked of him and won in suzuka he would have been remembered completely differently. as it was, when he had to pull out the race of his career and beat hakkinen, he couldnt do it and he trundled round in third. one race could have completely changed history, but the fact remains that he simply wasnt fast enough.
to me he was an irritating gobshite who could talk a great race but sadly couldnt deliver the goods on the track.
to me he was an irritating gobshite who could talk a great race but sadly couldnt deliver the goods on the track.
fozzi said:
sounds like a lot of jealous ranting to me... anyone posting on this thread who would not have liked to swap places and live his lifestyle?
I'd lying if I said I'd turn down his lifestyle but swap places? I remember the documentary he did a few years ago...the man has no social conscience, sense of responsibility or soul, so no.
fozzi said:
sounds like a lot of jealous ranting to me... anyone posting on this thread who would not have liked to swap places and live his lifestyle?
not jealous at all, he was a racing driver who didnt produce the goods. end of story. If i were a racing driver at ferrari, I would have been a damn sight more focused than he was and given my all to the team rather than accept teh number two status and live like a playboy.
pablo said:
had irvine done what was asked of him and won in suzuka he would have been remembered completely differently. as it was, when he had to pull out the race of his career and beat hakkinen, he couldnt do it and he trundled round in third. one race could have completely changed history, but the fact remains that he simply wasnt fast enough.
to me he was an irritating gobshite who could talk a great race but sadly couldnt deliver the goods on the track.
Yes, and if Ferrari weren't so hung up about thir 60 million dollar man becoming the first Ferrari World Champion since the late 70's then he might well have done.
But they were. So he never got the goods to pull off the task, plain and simple. How else do you explain him having a car that enabled him to carry on fighting for the World Championship right through the season to being so utterly crap at the last round? As he pointed out in the documentary himself, to beat Michael in the same equipment isn't possible, to beat him in superior equipment is. He was given the treatment from the team after Schumacher broke his leg of team nunber one. His pace imporved and he was in with a shout.
But do you really think Ferrari would have been at ease after courting Michael just two years earlier for a ludicrous 8 figure sum then have the second string driver that we're only paying peanuts (in comparrison) to win it for them instead?
No, they couldn't it would have shown it to be a complete wastew of money investing in Michael in the first place. It actually showed what everyone else knew anyway, that once the infrastructure at Ferrari was sorted out they could produce a car that anyone could win a World Championship in, they wouldn't have needed to virtually bankrupt Fiat in the process.
>> Edited by racefan_uk on Thursday 9th March 15:29
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