James Hunt

2022 - 10 - 13

James Hunt's friends remember a Jekyll & Hyde F1 driver (Motor Sport)

This month's issue looks at James Hunt's 1977, a season which featured perhaps his finest driving but also encapsulated his unique personality.

“If he’d been born 20 years earlier he would have been a fighter pilot. There would have been a lot of black crosses on the side of his Spitfire. “James was a highly competitive person,” he says. I liked him, there was a mutual respect.” “James was wild,” says Mass. As he went into 1977 he had the benefit of being the world champion and felt ‘I can do it again’ – fundamentally he was outstanding then.”

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