"450X_FTW" (mistermic)
02/22/2016 at 08:19 • Filed to: None
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"450X_FTW" (mistermic)
02/22/2016 at 08:19 • Filed to: None | 0
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The more and more I learn about James Hunt the more and more I wish we had a new version of him in current racing.
Today’s drivers are puppets for sponsors when they speak, like they had to memorize a script before doing a post race interview. Not with Hunt though. For example when a reporter asked Hunt “they’ve changed the regulations concerning the wing and the airbox but you are still extremely fast how do you do it?” To which Hunt famously replied “big balls.....”
Leon711
> 450X_FTW
02/22/2016 at 08:27 |
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Closest is Raikkonen, still not anywhere near the same.
AkursedX
> 450X_FTW
02/22/2016 at 08:27 |
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The closest we have today is Kimi Raikkonen. But he doesn’t have the flash, and charisma of Hunt, but he certainly has the IDGAF attitude down-pat.
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450X_FTW
> AkursedX
02/22/2016 at 08:30 |
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He might be from Finland, but he definitely has the Australian attitude
Ash78, voting early and often
> 450X_FTW
02/22/2016 at 08:38 |
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In the spectrum of drivers, I appreciate the more humble, humanitarian guys like Senna a lot more than Hunt, honestly — there are already too many loud-mouthed showboats in pro sports, but I totally agree the sponsorship dominance has gotten out of control.
I was actually working as an hourly employee at Home Depot when Tony Stewart (still relatively new to NASCAR) started talking shit about Talladega and Alabama. We got angry calls to the store saying they’d never shop there again because of it.
You can’t buy that kind of publicity :D
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450X_FTW
> Ash78, voting early and often
02/22/2016 at 08:41 |
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That’s hilarious about Stewart and HD. I primarily want to see the honesty in the driver interviews, which they rarely do for fear of punishment. Like when a coach says something negative about the refs after a game and is fined $30,000 for doing so.
The Ghost of Oppo
> 450X_FTW
02/22/2016 at 08:43 |
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The PC people would blow a gasket, and that would be just as entertaining as the racing
Michael_N
> 450X_FTW
02/22/2016 at 09:08 |
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Looking at the aspects of modern F1 that are wrong one at a time, it seems tolerable-but the second I think about it as a whole, and all the things that are wrong, boring races, Sponsorship dominance, Bernie Ecclestone, etc, etc, it's just depressing.