Why James Hunt is Ace

[Scoobz]

Just won a race:



No nancy boy champagne and caviar for that chap.

[Twincam16]

I've got that as a poster somewhere

[Marki]

Scoobz said:

Just won a race: No nancy boy champagne and caviar for that chap.

Now your talking they dont make em like that any more

[joospeed]

Hunt is an all-time fave of mine .. shame about his decline towards the end of his life .. he'll always be a people's hero though .. true class

[turbobloke]

Aye the man was unique: inimitable and irreplaceable.

[Murray] James - Hunt - Is - Right - I - Am - a - Dalek [/Murray]

[Wacky Racer]

www.gpracing.net192.com/drivers/lauda-hunt.cfm

[paolow]

was it hunt who turned up for a testing session after a heavy night and then promptly parked up on the grass on the far side of the circuit for a snooze?

[dinkel]

I'm from that era. Before Lauda this was my fav:



Pic of Hunt at Monaco on the wall . . .

[DocJock]

Is that not Ronnie P ?

[simpo two]

And Hesketh. One bloke, lots of money - and you could make a championship-winning F1 car.

Aye, them were t' days. Richard Noble comes to mind as well.

[jaker]

Is it just me or dis James Hunt have the world's most impossibly long fingers? weird!

[Big_M]

James Hunt was my Hero. He used to win races still over the limit from the drinking session the night before and on only a couple of hours sleep.

His early death was a tragedy.

[Twincam16]

dinkel said:

I'm from that era. Before Lauda this was my fav: Pic of Hunt at Monaco on the wall . . .

James May's secret past revealed!

[Scoobz]

Gilles Villeneuve was a great character too...

Taught himself to fly helicopter you know...

I like the pic of him parked in the pit lane, car smashed to bits, just limped it home and he's just sitting there saying "FIX IT"... Pit crew wandering around scratching their arses...

[andygo]

From anothe point of view, what about this chap?

www.brdc.co.uk/assets/Gerry-Marshall-112619.jpg

[clubsport]

I think I will follow the great mans example,,,going out soon, bank holiday friday, ...has to be done...get home whenever, then up at 5.00 a.m. to set off for a trackday.

[BliarOut]

Barry Sheene and Steve Parrish were cut from the same mould..... If one of them got wasted the night before, legend has it they would go out and qualify for each other.....

IIRC, Sheeny even had a hole drilled in the chin bar of his helmet so he could have a fag on the grid just before the start. He used to have a bit of tape there to cover it when racing.....

Proper sporting legends with personality

[love machine]

Proper motorsport was when you could win with a bit of money and some novel ideas. It's all bollox these days. F1 is a joke.

[turbobloke]

BliarOut said:

Barry Sheene and Steve Parrish were cut from the same mould..... If one of them got wasted the night before, legend has it they would go out and qualify for each other..... IIRC, Sheeny even had a hole drilled in the chin bar of his helmet so he could have a fag on the grid just before the start. He used to have a bit of tape there to cover it when racing..... Proper sporting legends with personality

Saw the man at what I think was his come-back race not long after his leg was pinned, and he had hardly any mobility in it - real gutsy to go round Cadwell Park in that state.

[EmmaP]

joospeed said:

Hunt is an all-time fave of mine .. shame about his decline towards the end of his life .. he'll always be a people's hero though .. true class

I was always a big James Hunt fan as a little girl. I watched all his races It is terribly sad though, how his life ended.