What a Guy - James Hunt - LEGEND
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Mazda Baiter said:
A brilliant Hunt quote seen on TNF:
Walker: "Andrea De Cesaris has #8 this year at Mclaren"
Hunt: " Conveniently, it's the same number upside down"
Anyone know where this is on Youtube.
Have not got that exact clip but Hunt clearly was not a fan of his driving Walker: "Andrea De Cesaris has #8 this year at Mclaren"
Hunt: " Conveniently, it's the same number upside down"
Anyone know where this is on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPe0t02dWF4
Could Hunt have driven today? Natural talent wise probably but that's not what the sport is about in a vast amount of ways. The most naturally gifted driver today probably isn't Sebastian Vettel, Michael Schumacher or Lewis Hamilton, it's probably a taxi driver from Nepal or similar, motor sport is so difficult to get into today that you need a hell of a lot more than just talent. Hunt didn't even start in the sport until he was about 20, that's at least 12 years too late by todays standards.
Naturally he wouldn't be able to act the same way he did or live the life in the same way that he did today, however he wouldn't have tried. People adapt to circumstance and that's the way he'd have been.
The world is so different today than in the 1970s but could Hunt have driven todays cars? Almost certainly. You can either drive or you can't and he was a WDC
Naturally he wouldn't be able to act the same way he did or live the life in the same way that he did today, however he wouldn't have tried. People adapt to circumstance and that's the way he'd have been.
The world is so different today than in the 1970s but could Hunt have driven todays cars? Almost certainly. You can either drive or you can't and he was a WDC
CampDavid said:
Could Hunt have driven today? Natural talent wise probably but that's not what the sport is about in a vast amount of ways. The most naturally gifted driver today probably isn't Sebastian Vettel, Michael Schumacher or Lewis Hamilton, it's probably a taxi driver from Nepal or similar, motor sport is so difficult to get into today that you need a hell of a lot more than just talent. Hunt didn't even start in the sport until he was about 20, that's at least 12 years too late by todays standards.
Naturally he wouldn't be able to act the same way he did or live the life in the same way that he did today, however he wouldn't have tried. People adapt to circumstance and that's the way he'd have been.
The world is so different today than in the 1970s but could Hunt have driven todays cars? Almost certainly. You can either drive or you can't and he was a WDC
Good point. Quite a large percentage of people, even diehard F1 fans seem to think the fastest drivers in the world are in F1, not simply the luckiest who managed to be at the right place at the right time with a big enough chequebook (with a bit of nepotism thrown in for good measure!)Naturally he wouldn't be able to act the same way he did or live the life in the same way that he did today, however he wouldn't have tried. People adapt to circumstance and that's the way he'd have been.
The world is so different today than in the 1970s but could Hunt have driven todays cars? Almost certainly. You can either drive or you can't and he was a WDC
Motor racing ALWAYS required a fair amount of money to get involved. The 1960s was probably the most egalatarian era - but look back at the period from 1903 to the mid 1950s and you will see that it was mianly populatedf by the wealthy.
It still is, it's just that the wealth tends to come from self advancement and commercialism rather than inheritance.
It still is, it's just that the wealth tends to come from self advancement and commercialism rather than inheritance.
superkartracer said:
He'll be straight into lewis's gf like a rat up a drain pipe ha ha
I'm sure he would not be the first (or car).Make me laugh Nicole is pressuring LH saying it is here tim for sprogs - I don't give it till the start of the 11 season (unless she "forgets" the birth control pills).
Wonder if any illigitimate Hunts about?
jellison said:
superkartracer said:
He'll be straight into lewis's gf like a rat up a drain pipe ha ha
I'm sure he would not be the first (or car).Make me laugh Nicole is pressuring LH saying it is here tim for sprogs - I don't give it till the start of the 11 season (unless she "forgets" the birth control pills).
Wonder if any illigitimate Hunts about?
DJC said:
jellison said:
superkartracer said:
He'll be straight into lewis's gf like a rat up a drain pipe ha ha
I'm sure he would not be the first (or car).Make me laugh Nicole is pressuring LH saying it is here tim for sprogs - I don't give it till the start of the 11 season (unless she "forgets" the birth control pills).
Wonder if any illigitimate Hunts about?
I'm sure he would not be the first (or care).
Makes me laugh, Nicole (according to the press) is pressuring LH saying "it is her time for sprogs" - So, I don't give them till the start of the 2011 season (unless she "forgets" the birth control pills)!
CampDavid said:
Could Hunt have driven today? Natural talent wise probably but that's not what the sport is about in a vast amount of ways. The most naturally gifted driver today probably isn't Sebastian Vettel, Michael Schumacher or Lewis Hamilton, it's probably a taxi driver from Nepal or similar, motor sport is so difficult to get into today that you need a hell of a lot more than just talent. Hunt didn't even start in the sport until he was about 20, that's at least 12 years too late by todays standards.
Naturally he wouldn't be able to act the same way he did or live the life in the same way that he did today, however he wouldn't have tried. People adapt to circumstance and that's the way he'd have been.
The world is so different today than in the 1970s but could Hunt have driven todays cars? Almost certainly. You can either drive or you can't and he was a WDC
None of the recent world champions have come from wealthy families, I believe, indeed Schumacher's background is as ordinary as it gets. Hamilton has only ever had the one thing going for him, his talent. I'm told the Raikkonen family didn't even have an indoor toilet when he was young. In Finland.Naturally he wouldn't be able to act the same way he did or live the life in the same way that he did today, however he wouldn't have tried. People adapt to circumstance and that's the way he'd have been.
The world is so different today than in the 1970s but could Hunt have driven todays cars? Almost certainly. You can either drive or you can't and he was a WDC
They've all had family support though. Then again I guess Hunt had neither money or family support.
heebeegeetee said:
Eric Mc said:
I think Hunt's family was fairly well off. After all, he did attend public school (Wellington College).
True, but I thought they were set against him racing. Tbh I've got the biog on my shelf, it's perhaps time I read it. Wifey has and said it was a brilliant story. 
Did either of his sons consider a career in motorsport, the book is rather sparse around this?
zeb said:
heebeegeetee said:
Eric Mc said:
I think Hunt's family was fairly well off. After all, he did attend public school (Wellington College).
True, but I thought they were set against him racing. Tbh I've got the biog on my shelf, it's perhaps time I read it. Wifey has and said it was a brilliant story. Did either of his sons consider a career in motorsport, the book is rather sparse around this?
jellison said:
superkartracer said:
He'll be straight into lewis's gf like a rat up a drain pipe ha ha
I'm sure he would not be the first (or car).Make me laugh Nicole is pressuring LH saying it is here tim for sprogs - I don't give it till the start of the 11 season (unless she "forgets" the birth control pills).
Wonder if any illigitimate Hunts about?
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