James Hunt

It's 27 years to the day that James Hunt died-of a heart attack. He really was a real racing driver of the old school -not one of today's colourless characters who cannot say anything without their PR Manager and their sponsor's PR Managers clearing it first.

Here I am taking beer drinking lessons from James at the Australian GP in Adelaide in 1985.

I met him and downed a few with him prior to this when he won a Formula 5000 race at Winton, Victoria - in Oct 78. I was staying in the same motel as him and the Elfin team and he took over the bar at 7.00pm and was still going strong late into the night when I turned in. All in a day's racing for James.

Those were the days.