Hunt v Lauda: F1's greatest rivals.

[taz123]

I remember the Lauda crash but only vaguely.

Having watched this programme I am astonished at Lauda's recovery, rapid return to racing((5 weeks from the crash and being at death's door to racing) and bravery, what a racing driver.

I loved the comment from Hunt to Lauda at Monza(1st race upon return)

"Niki, you are the only guy I know that can get out of a burning car, better looking"

 

[EddieM]

James Hunt was rhyming slang I think. He was a complete noob !

 

[taz123]

I quite liked the bloke.

He might not have been everyone's cuppa but he was a dedicated driver and his cavalier attitude disappeared once he was buckled in.

 

[EddieM]

He was a boorish oaf if you ask me, but then he spoke highly of me too!

 

[enyam]

He was a boorish oaf if you ask me,

James Hunt was rhyming slang I think. He was a complete noob !

Was that when he turned to commenting or when he was helping to drag Peterson from a burning car.

 

[EddieM]

He was a boorish oaf if you ask me,

James Hunt was rhyming slang I think. He was a complete noob !

Was that when he turned to commenting or when he was helping to drag Peterson from a burning car.

Neither, he was just a boring boorish oaf. The public clown that no-one who knew him liked. Died at about the right age, a real sad sack for sure.

 

[securespark]

This obit disagrees:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-james-hunt-1491961.html

 

[EFLImpudence]

I thought he was a very good commentator and analyst and was grateful for the corrections of the numerous mistakes by the still unfathomably lauded Murray Walker.

 

[EddieM]

I thought he was a very good commentator and analyst and was grateful for the corrections of the numerous mistakes by the still unfathomably lauded Murray Walker.

He was terrible as a commentator!!! worse than murray by a couple of laps!!

 

[securespark]

Have you at least read the Indy's obit?

 

[EddieM]

Indeed I have. I am afraid he was never "my cup of splosh"