Hunt Jamess biography

But then he decided to become a racer. The World Formula-1 champion was famous not only for racing adventures, but also with countless bedding. The name of this tall, path and eccentric playboy thundered all the more, when sex, races and rock and roll were the main ones in his fast life. By chance, the summer James Hunt visited the Snetteron racing highway in Norfolka.

And he decided to become a racer. That is how his story began. He more than covered the disadvantages of skills and knowledge with youthful enthusiasm. For the first time, he tried to start starting in the legendary “mini”, which he converted himself. But engineering skill and the desire to save money did not impress the inspectors of the Royal Automobile Club - instead of the racing seat, Hunt installed a garden chair on his car.

The young "racer" was given a turn from the gate. But the refusal only raised the reckless eccentric. By the year, Hunt has been playing in the Ford Formulas, arranging regular and very spectacular accidents. So, on the Ulton Park highway, he drowned his Ford in the lake. Only a disregard for the rules saved him. I had no extra money, so I did not install it. And if I installed it, I would probably choke, ”Hunt will tell in an interview with the press.

The same reaches each of his excesses, thanks to which he quickly became famous as a hellish risky racer, nicknamed Hunt the Shunt, a Khant-Cabish. Around the same time, he gets acquainted with the young British aristocrat, Dende-Lord Alexander Hesket. Both of them are madly loved by racing. But unlike Hunt, Lord Hesket had money, and, fortunately for him, he was going to spend them on his own racing team Formula 3.

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The discovery of talent in Formula 1 Talent Hunt as a racer is revealed in full. He not only established himself as a serious pilot, but also became a possible contender for victory in the championship. Hunt drives very energetically. Its branded chip is to slow down before turning, and then, to the indescribable delight of the crowd, to sharply squeeze the gas and fly out of the turn, driving on the verge of physics and devilry.

In private life, it is also impudent. For solemn tricks, he was barefoot, in jeans and a T -shirt, accompanied by a German shepherd named Oscar. And if the three -time world champion Jackie Stuart, for example, was famous for refraining from sex for a week before races, then Hunt acted on the contrary - he slept with countless fans a minute before the competition to catch adrenaline.

The yellow press prints all the scandalous details of its “preparations” for racing, which also consist in sleeping with as many girls as possible and drink as much alcohol as possible. Zenit of his glory falls on the Grand Prix in the Netherlands in M, on which he defeats Nicky Laud in Ferrari. After the legendary victory between him and the Austrian racer, a strong friendship for life is tied - which cannot be said about the passion of the lord to races.

By the end of the season, Hesket did not find a sponsor, stopped funding and dismissed the team. But the ever -young and drunken racer has already been noticed, and next season he is hired by the McLaren team. True, in the new team, he had to modify the ardor, but the result was not long in coming - Hunt finishes the first more and more often. In the season of the year, he came first in six races from but while his professionalism and skill are growing, he himself does not change as a person.

For example, at the beginning of the season, he said about his own car: “This machine is absolutely hopeless. Leading it is like managing a wet sponge!

For example, after he, through the fault of Patrick Depalle, crashed into the wall on the Long Beach highway, he publicly yelled at the opponent: “Where did you find the rights-in a bag of chips?! However, during the Grand Prix of the year in Fuji, Hunt surpassed himself. This was the first formula-1 race in Japan, the attention of the world media was rested to the applicants for the title of champion.

And Hunt did not fail. He and his friend Bari Shen, the champion of the year in motorcycle races, locked themselves for two days in the hotel room and rolled a party with a drink, drugs and a whole host of girls. The details of the orgy leaked to the press. The Kholing Moss Sterling, who was also not averse to participating in Hunt's parties, later rightly commented: “Well, what would you do if you looked like James Hunt?

Head was frightened and ran out. Hunt laughed after him, left the garage, devastated his stomach, got behind the wheel and won the formula-1 Grand Prix of the year with an advantage of one point. More than 30 million people around the world followed the race. After 24 hours, Hunt had to fly to the UK.But before that, the British embassy in Tokyo decided to arrange a solemn reception in his honor.

The champion appeared at him so drunk that the ambassador did not want to let him into his event in his own honor. And during the return flight to his homeland, alcohol ended, according to rumors. In the homeland of a tired Khant, his mother, a girl and screaming from the delight of fans, met. The race at Fuji became the peak of his career. Sunset of the star, but then she went to decline.

Khantu was no longer able to take prizes, although he rumbled the cars all the same diligently. At that time, Formula 1 was a very dangerous sport. Many friends and colleagues of Khanta crashed to death. The British racer hastened the enthusiasm and two years later left the racing forever. He found himself in the role of Formula 1 commentator on the BBC, working in tandem with the legendary Murray Walker.

But even in this role, he remained faithful to himself. During the first live broadcast from the Grand Prix in Monaco, in the year, commentators had one microphone for two. And Hunt decided to take him from Walker, who, in his opinion, had been talking too long. The disagreement ended with a brawl on the air. However, the audience liked that Hunt did not take himself seriously in his new role, and he retained his work.

Moreover, his deep knowledge of all the nuances of racing, multiplied by the merciless sense of humor, attracted crowds of new fans to him. Hunt became famous again. But not like a racer, but as a caustic wit. He did not tolerate slow riders who managed to lag behind the circle from the leaders and then interfered with them. Once, on the air, he scolded the “quiet” Frenchman Jean-Philipp Herryer, calling him “absolute ignoramus”, “French fool”, and suggested that he be removed from the competition for “having a roar”.

James Hunt died on June 15 from a heart attack in his house in Wimbledon at the age of 45. The day before his death, he made an offer to his summer girl-a waitress, whom he met as accidentally as once with races. His close friend Nicky Laud, the threefold champion of Formula 1, said: “We were rivals, but I respected him. He was the best racer of his time.

" Alexander Rogan.