MotorsportsRetro.com - Hunt and Sheene: When Playboys Ruled the World
Sir James Hunt Manho of the British Empire
Turbo charged by lust
How Formula One womaniser James Hunt slept with 33 BA stewardesses before race that made him world champ. He had spent the two weeks leading up to the race on a round-the-clock alcohol, cannabis and cocaine binge with his friend Barry Sheene, who was world motorcycle champion that year.
While Jackie Stewart famously abstained from sex a week before a motor race, Hunt would often have sex minutes before climbing into the cockpit.
Nothing could have prepared Patrick Head, now co-owner of the Williams F1 team but then a young car designer, for the morning when he inadvertently walked into the wrong pit garage.
He found Hunt inside, with his racing overalls around his ankles, cavorting with a Japanese girl. Hunt laughed when he saw the interloper, who left, not quite believing what he had seen.
A few minutes later, Hunt left the garage and went around the side to carry out his pre-race ritual of vomiting — the result of extreme nerves combined with overindulgence.
Finally ready for action, Hunt went out to drive the race of his life... and won the 1976 world championship, beating his nearest rival by one point."
At the circuit, he had been behaving bizarrely — at one point dropping his overalls and urinating in full view of the crowds in the grandstand.
The spectators, many of whom had powerful binoculars trained on him, applauded once he had finished.
He famously wore a tee shirt under his racing overalls that read Sex - Breakfast of Champions.
But that's not all, he ended up selling his wife too, to Richard Burton...for $1,000,000!
Thereafter he carved out a career as a TV commentator only to die prematurely from a heart attack at the age of 45.
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