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James Hunt was my boyhood hero. As far as I was concerned the bloke walked on water. He was a driver from a different era who was a real character. Smoked, regularly had sex with a host of different women, didn't give a stuff about how the press perceived him or for that matter sponsor corparate hospitality. He wasn't slow in coming forward!
Anyway I was reading in MotorSport lastnight about a funny story about THE MAN. He was reputed to have taken off his clothes in a pub in Watkins Glen, Upper New York State after winning the US Grand Prix. Needless to say he was drunk as a skunk.
I really can't see the likes of Coulthard etc celebrating a victory in this manner today, can you? That is the period when the Sport was litered with characters and not robots as is the case today.
Anyway I was reading in MotorSport lastnight about a funny story about THE MAN. He was reputed to have taken off his clothes in a pub in Watkins Glen, Upper New York State after winning the US Grand Prix. Needless to say he was drunk as a skunk.
I really can't see the likes of Coulthard etc celebrating a victory in this manner today, can you? That is the period when the Sport was litered with characters and not robots as is the case today.