"Loeb is a bad image" : FIA
"Loeb is a bad image" : FIA
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Le TVR

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3,097 posts

280 months

Wednesday 7th May 2008
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News channels getting just a little upset here. Sebastien has been receiving official complaints about his unkept appearance and 'not being a suitable image for international motorsport'.

Guess who's sending these emails and comments??

Pot, kettle etc yes

Mr POD

5,153 posts

221 months

Wednesday 7th May 2008
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Le TVR said:
News channels getting just a little upset here. Sebastien has been receiving official complaints about his unkept appearance and 'not being a suitable image for international motorsport'.

Guess who's sending these emails and comments??

Pot, kettle etc yes
He looks just like 'le Youngsters' his sponsors want to buy the car that his rally missile bears a passing resemblance to. I'd have thought the only people that have a say (and it's a small say) are the PR people employed by his sponsors.

Gun

13,432 posts

247 months

Wednesday 7th May 2008
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This remind me of that FIA dinner where the three winners of the FIA world crowns were pictured together, Loeb looked like he had been dragged through a hedge backwards. But who cares if his hair is a little bit messy when he drives as well as he does.

10 Pence Short

32,880 posts

246 months

Wednesday 7th May 2008
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It's all crap, isn't it. You want a huge earning from motorsport, you've got to have sposorship. To please the sponsors, you've got to appeal to their target markets. Your life is no longer your own.

Whatever happened to just being bloody good at going bloody fast, eh?

Money has a lot to answer for.

dilbert

7,741 posts

260 months

Wednesday 7th May 2008
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If one was divine, one would probably find he's the cleanest of the lot!

anonymous-user

83 months

Wednesday 7th May 2008
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james hunt wore a badge with "sex: breakfast of champions" on it

jacques villenueve had more facial hair than badly drawn boy and a race suit four sizes too big

jenson button looks like he is chewing a squirrel

at points fisichella has sported lamb chops which rivalled the great legend of the sideburn emmo fittipaldi

loeb is small time.

Le TVR

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3,097 posts

280 months

Wednesday 7th May 2008
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In one way this is good.
French media had 'forgotten' about Max's little episode until now the FIA has chosen to critise Loeb as being an unsuitable image.
There is now a sense of indignance about how an organisation associated with Spanky can be taken seriously.

andyps

7,819 posts

311 months

Wednesday 7th May 2008
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Can't say I had ever thought that Loeb was particularly scruffy or unkempt, and he seems to be a reasonably eloquent communicator when talking in English. If that is the largest problem the FIA think they have to consider regarding the image of motorsport they ought to try looking a little closer to their presidents office.

JP_Midget

438 posts

240 months

Wednesday 7th May 2008
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I had a shave this morning in case the FIA started to complain about my image. I hope they've not already posted the letter!

patmahe

5,919 posts

233 months

Wednesday 7th May 2008
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This level of hypocricy(sp) is laughable. How they can reprimand Loeb for his unkempt look (which I'd describe as fashionably scruffy). And yet consider letting the president of the FIA away with a Nazi oriented orgy is beyond me. I think we all know what is more damaging to the sport and its sponsors.

The FIA is a joke - its getting to the point where I dont want to watch motorsport because if I do I feel sick because of the way the FIA have screwed it (not just F1) up. If other motorsport fans start switching the TV off, how long do you think it'll be before the sponsors all fk off to Premier league football or some other high profile sport where they are not seen to endorse sexual perversions.

MrKipling43

5,788 posts

245 months

Wednesday 7th May 2008
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pablo said:
jacques villenueve had more facial hair than badly drawn boy and a race suit four sizes too big
Actually, his race suit is the perfect size... if you don't want to get burnt that it. Air, as they say, is the best insulator; these drivers who have spray on race suits - Mark Webber, I'm looking at you - would come off very badly in a firey accident, NOMEX is not very heat resistant.

chris_w

2,571 posts

288 months

Wednesday 7th May 2008
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Some quotes from the FIA's 'EveryRace' campaign:

Bernie Ecclestone said:
The sport is all about a driver’s ability
Max Mosley said:
One thing that most attracted me to motor sport was that nobody cared about your background, race, gender or religion; all that mattered was how quick you were.
As said above, you really couldn't make this stuff up...

Mojocvh

16,837 posts

291 months

Wednesday 7th May 2008
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chris_w said:
Some quotes from the FIA's 'EveryRace' campaign:

Bernie Ecclestone said:
The sport is all about a driver’s ability
Max Mosley said:
One thing that most attracted me to motor sport was that nobody cared about your background, race, gender or religion; all that mattered was how quick you were.
As said above, you really couldn't make this stuff up...
Said it before, he is all alone in his own little FIA world.....

andy_s

19,853 posts

288 months

Wednesday 7th May 2008
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Some people are far too far up their own arses.

DrTre

12,957 posts

261 months

Wednesday 7th May 2008
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chris_w said:
Some quotes from the FIA's 'EveryRace' campaign:

Bernie Ecclestone said:
The sport is all about a driver’s ability
Max Mosley said:
One thing that most attracted me to motor sport was that nobody cared about your background, race, gender or religion; all that mattered was how quick you were.
As said above, you really couldn't make this stuff up...
I think your quote would fit in quite handsomely here

anonymous-user

83 months

Thursday 8th May 2008
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Cant stop laughing at this one. I've met Seb a few times back when i was doing a lot of the WRC events, proper good bloke, he even brought his girlfriend to the stages to watch on one event when he had retired, rather than swan off. He is the type of guy motorsport needs.

chrisgtx

1,341 posts

239 months

Thursday 8th May 2008
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Helmet hair!!
i look quite well kept untill i've worn a helmet for most of the day.
I really do despair at some of these clowns in charge,you'd of thought they'd be a bit more worried about the lack of general spectator interest in the WRC compared to previous years?

Airbag

3,466 posts

225 months

Thursday 8th May 2008
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It's all a bit rich, isn't it?

mark69sheer

3,906 posts

231 months

Thursday 8th May 2008
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Strange after a days karting i can look anything from a hurricane survivor to a red blob with greasy hair deending on wether it is wet or hot.
Presumably the MSA will have to hide me and everyone else away from the world who partake in motorsport just in case we give out a bad image.

I presume being old , overweight and overindulged like the World Motorsport council is the way to go.. as it happems Bernie Ecclestone gives me the creeps , but having said that he has surprised me by making waves against Max so he has earned some Kudos there even if it was only to shoe in Todt and keep the political landscape the same as it is now.

davyboy

746 posts

284 months

Thursday 8th May 2008
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I like the fact he is a bit of a rebel.

I also like the fact he smokes cigarettes between stages!