James Hunt
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| First start: | 1973 Monaco Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1979 Monaco Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1973–1974 March • 1974–1975 Hesketh • 1976–1978 McLaren • 1979 Wolf | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | World Champion ( 1976 ) | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | 179 | ||||||||
| Podiums : | 23 | ||||||||
| Leadership laps : | 660 over 3,340.6 km | ||||||||
James Simon Wallis Hunt (born August 29, 1947 in Epsom , † June 15, 1993 in Wimbledon ) was a British automobile racing driver . He took part in Formula 1 between 1973 and 1979 . Due to his lifestyle and appearance, he had the aura of a "pop icon" or the "rock star of Formula 1" in the 1970s. He was repeatedly involved in accidents, which earned him the name "Hunt the Shunt" (about "Hunt the scrapper"). Hunt won ten grands prix and was Formula 1 world champion in 1976 . The media made the title fight between him and Niki Lauda a "dramatic duel".
Origin and private life
Hunt was born the son of the London stockbroker Wallis Hunt. His mother was Sue Hunt. James Hunt had five siblings: three younger brothers and one younger and one older sister. The family initially lived in the London suburb of Cheam , later they moved to Sutton and then to Belmont. Hunt received a privileged education from Wellington College .
Hunt was known for his excessive way of life and eccentricity: with his distinctive blond hair, the tall chain smoker and avowed excessive drinker, who had the quirk of always cutting his shoes at the tips, was never overlooked in the paddock thanks to the groupies surrounding him and was considered to be “Last colorful dog” (quote from friend Niki Lauda) of Formula 1. In addition to racing, he had a pronounced passion for squash .
Hunt was married twice. His first wife, Susan "Suzy" Miller , separated from him because of his lifestyle and in 1976 married actor Richard Burton . He had two sons, Tom and Freddie, with his second wife, Sarah Lomax, from whom he was later divorced. His brother David was a test driver for the Benetton Formula 1 team in 1988 and, after giving up his active driving career, worked for the Lotus team in the early 1990s . Hunt's younger son Freddie came into contact with motorsport more by chance. He was allowed to drive a Maserati at the Goodwood Festival of Speed . This made him enthusiastic about racing. In the 2009 season, his son drove for a German team in the ADAC Formula Masters series .
James Hunt died of a heart attack on the morning of June 15, 1993, at the age of only 45 .
Motorsport career
The beginnings
James Hunt began his motorsport career with club racing in which he used a Mini . In 1968 he drove in the British Formula Ford , and in 1969 he switched to Formula 3 .
Formula 3
Hunt's first Formula 3 race was the 13th round of the MCD Lombard Championship, which was held on August 17, 1969 at the Brands Hatch Circuit . Hunt drove an older Brabham BT21 for Motor Racing Enterprises and finished the race in third place. In the further course of the season there were a few more finishings in the points, but Hunt did not come close to the result of his Formula 3 premiere in 1969. He finished the championship in 15th place.
In 1970, three independent championships were held in British Formula 3. Hunt participated in all series with a private Lotus 59 . He finished the Shell Super Oil British F3 Championship in sixth place, the Lombank British F3 Championship in 10th and the Forward Trust British F3 Championship in 15th.
For the British Formula 3 races in 1971 and 1972, Hunt was hired by the March factory team. In 1971 he finished third in the Forward Trust British F3 Championship; the other two Formula 3 championships Hunt finished eighth and tenth respectively.
In 1972 Hunt and Bernard McInerney drove for the March works team in Formula 3, which was organizationally overwhelmed at the time. Before the Formula 3 race in Monte Carlo in 1972, the mechanics failed to get Hunts and McInerney's cars ready to race. Both drivers left the works team before the race in Monaco, which eventually signed Jochen Mass and Russell Wood . Hunt switched to the French Équipe La Vie Claire for this event , whose driver was canceled at short notice. La Vie Claire deployed a March 731. Hunt couldn't qualify with him. In June 1972, Hunt moved to Hesketh Racing , which brought a technically inferior racing car from Dastle to the start in Formula 3. He replaced Steve Thompson . The Formula 3 involvement of the Hesketh team ended in July 1972. At the John Player British Grand Prix 1972 at Brands Hatch, James Hunt destroyed one of the team's vehicles during practice so that he could not take part in the race. The second chassis was driven by Anthony "Bubbles" Horsley , a friend of the team founder. He damaged his car beyond repair on the warm-up lap, so that no Hesketh car entered the race. After that, the team turned to Formula 2.
Formula 2
After Hunt had contested some of the spring Formula 3 races, Hesketh reported him regularly from July 1972 to the races of the Formula 2 European Championship . In fact, the team did not appear for the first time until September 1972. Hunt's first Formula 2 race was the Festival Prize of the City of Salzburg, in which Hunt dropped out prematurely after 25 laps. He finished tenth at the Hockenheimring and finished eighth in the Albi race. In 1973 Hunt went to individual Formula 2 races for Hesketh with a Surtees T15 . After Hunt destroyed the Surtees in an accident during training for the Grand Prix de Pau in 1973 , Hesketh ended his Formula 2 involvement in the expectation that entry into Formula 1 would be "not significantly more expensive" than Formula 2 operation .
formula 1
Hesketh
Hesketh Racing made his Formula 1 debut with James Hunt in the spring of 1973. The racing team had been founded a year earlier by the wealthy British nobleman Alexander Hesketh . The team had already acquired the reputation of a party troupe in Formula 3; Hunt completed the team's image. During the three-year Formula 1 engagement, Hesketh was a Hunt team; he was the only driver who competed continuously for the team. In 1975 Hesketh brought a few other pilots such as Torsten Palm , Harald Ertl and Brett Lunger to the start; In each case, however, it was only a matter of individual missions, which primarily served to finance the racing team.
1973: Successful with customer cars
James Hunt's first Formula 1 race was the 1973 Race of Champions , which did not have world championship status. Hesketh started as a customer team. The racing team used a Surtees TS9 (chassis 9/006) that was built in 1971. Hunt was the fourth racing driver to drive this chassis after Tim Schenken , Sam Posey and Carlos Pace . He started the race from 13th on the grid. Numerous top drivers dropped out during the event, so that he ultimately finished the race in third behind Peter Gethin and Denis Hulme .
Hunt's first world championship race was the Monaco Grand Prix , held in May 1973. At that time, Hesketh had exchanged the Surtees for a March 731 (chassis 721/5). It was the third of five March 721 G vehicles built in 1972 that had been driven by Ronnie Peterson in the 1972 Formula 1 season and that had received a technical update during the 1972/73 winter break. The car was technically supervised by Harvey Postlethwaite and achieved a better technical level than the factory car. Hunt drove better with him than the works drivers Jean-Pierre Jarier , Henri Pescarolo and Roger Williamson : While the works drivers couldn't score any world championship points in 1973, Hunt finished fourth in his third Formula 1 race, the British Grand Prix . At the following race in the Netherlands , he finished third and was on the podium for the first time in his Formula 1 career. Hunt achieved the best result of the year at the end of the season in Watkins Glen : Hunt finished second in the US Grand Prix . Hunt, who had contested only seven of 15 Formula 1 races this year, finished eighth in the final ranking with 14 points.
1974: Own vehicle
For the 1974 Automobile World Championship , Harvey Postlethwaite designed his own car, the Hesketh 308 , which was ready for use in March 1974. The technically simple 308 was powerful, but also prone to defects. In addition to some successes, there were also numerous technical failures. Hunt won the third race of the 308, the BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone , which had no world championship status, and was third in the world championship runs in Sweden , Austria and the USA . In nine races he was canceled due to technical defects or accidents. At the end of the year, Hunt finished eighth in the drivers' championship with 15 points.
1975: the first victory
The 1975 automobile world championship was the most successful year for the Hesketh team. Postlethwaites Hesketh 308 received some improvements early in the season that made it more competitive. Hunt finished second in the opening race in Argentina , and in the following race in Brazil he was sixth. This was followed by a series of five successive failures, three times due to technical reasons and in two cases due to Hunts driving errors. In Spain he lost a possible victory in an accident.
At the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort , Hunt and Niki Lauda competed for victory for the first time. Lauda was in pole position, Hunt took third place on the grid with a training deficit of 0.4 seconds. At the start it was rainy, Hunt and Lauda, like most of the other drivers, started the race with rain tires. Lauda led the race, Hunt had dropped to fourth behind Jody Scheckter (Tyrrell) and Clay Regazzoni (Ferrari) after the start . When the track dried out, he switched to dry tires early on, while Lauda drove a few laps longer to rain tires, which became increasingly slower. After he had also changed tires, Hunt was at the head of the field in the Hesketh, while Lauda had dropped to third. Between them lay Jean-Pierre Jarier in the technically inferior Shadow . On lap 44, Lauda overtook Jarier, whose tires were damaged, and caught up with the leading Hunt. During the last 15 laps of the race, Hunt and Lauda fought a battle for race victory. Ultimately, Hunt won by one second over Lauda.
Hunt finished second at the French and Austrian Grand Prix ; there were also two fourth and one fifth places in the autumn races. Hunt finished the season with 33 points from fourth in the World Cup; Lauda became world driver champion with 64.5 points.
At the end of the year, the Hesketh team had reached a point where - unlike before - it could no longer be financed by the owner Alexander Hesketh alone. The team had to find sponsors in order to continue. Hesketh's efforts were unsuccessful given the reputation of the Hesketh team, which was still mistaken for a somewhat dubious party troop. Hesketh then withdrew from Formula 1 at the end of 1975. James Hunt was thus initially without a cockpit for the coming season.
McLaren
At the beginning of the 1976 Formula 1 season, Hunt switched to McLaren at short notice after the established McLaren No. 1 driver Emerson Fittipaldi had switched to his brother Wilson's Copersucar team . According to John Hogan, the senior executive at team sponsor Marlboro who initiated Hunt's move, Hunt brought back a freshness, vitality and kind of enthusiasm that Fittipaldi drove the team: “Emerson was a tough taskmaster to the team had been a tough time getting the pace needed. In a strange way, the whole team was pretty exhausted. Then came James with his boyish enthusiasm ... ".
1976: The world championship
The 1976 season was again marked by a duel between Ferrari and McLaren. Tyrrell caused quite a stir with the P34 six- wheeler , but in the fight for the world championship, he only had an outsider's chance, and in 1976 Lotus was in a slump. Hunt drove the M23 at McLaren , which had already helped Fittipaldi to the 1974 World Championship.
At the opening race in Brazil he qualified for first place on the grid; it was the first pole position of his Formula 1 career. In this way he secured his number 1 position within the team against his colleague Jochen Mass, whom he called "Hermann the German".
Ferrari was the dominant team until the middle of the season: Niki Lauda won the Grand Prix of Brazil , South Africa , Monaco and Belgium in the 312T and 312T2 . After the seventh world championship run, the Swedish Grand Prix , Hunt was 47 points behind Lauda, as he had only won the world championship runs in Spain and France so far . The victory in Spain was only confirmed retrospectively: First, Hunt was disqualified because the width of his car did not meet the rules that came into force a week earlier. McLaren had launched the M23 unchanged, not considering that the tire manufacturer Goodyear was now delivering slightly wider rear tires. McLaren's team boss Teddy Mayer finally prevailed with the argument that this had no effect on the racing. Lotus CEO Colin Chapman also testified in favor of his competitor McLaren at the hearing in Paris. At the British Grand Prix , Hunt was the first to cross the finish line in a McLaren, but after a protest by Ferrari, Fittipaldi and Ligier because of illegal use of a replacement vehicle, the victory was subsequently dismissed and Niki Lauda was awarded.
The German Grand Prix was a turning point: Hunt's rival Lauda had a serious accident at the Nürburgring and had to skip the following two races due to injury. In the following five races, Hunt won three times, while Lauda, who had returned to the cockpit for the Italian Grand Prix , could only record a fourth and a third place in the second half of the season.
Before the last race in Japan , Lauda had 68 world championship points, while Hunt had 65. Hunt qualified for second, Lauda for third. It rained heavily on race day and the track was heavily fogged in places. Hunt overtook pole sitter Mario Andretti shortly after the start and took the lead. Lauda, however, gave up in the second round, saying: "My life is more important to me than the World Cup". Hunt finally crossed the finish line in third place and won the drivers' championship one point ahead of Lauda.
1977: Falling performance
McLaren contested the automobile world championship in 1977 with the same driver pairing as in the previous year. James Hunt was the top driver of the team whose job it was to defend the world title; in addition, Jochen Mass drove his third and final season for the British team. McLaren competed with a new car this year. The McLaren M26 had more effective aerodynamics than its predecessor, but since it had been designed the previous year, it was already out of date when it debuted. In particular, the Ground-Effect -Cars type 78 , the Lotus introduced this year, the M26 was clearly inferior, even if they were more reliable than Colin Chapman's designs.
Hunt, on the other hand, suffered numerous accidents in the 1977 season, most of which were self-inflicted and earned the British the nickname "Hunt the Shunt". In Argentina , South Africa , the Netherlands and Canada he got off the track after driving errors and in some cases seriously damaged his cars. In Canada, the failure resulted in a scuffle between Hunt and a marshal , as a result of which Hunt was fined $ 2,000. Two weeks later, Hunt won the final race of the season in Japan . He also won the British Grand Prix and the Race of Champions at Brands Hatch, which however did not have world championship status.
The drivers' world championship this year went to Niki Lauda on Ferrari, who just like Hunt won three world championship races, but also achieved five second places and was also only canceled in three races. Hunt finished the season with 40 points in fifth place in the drivers' standings.
1978: Death of Ronnie Peterson
In 1978 , James Hunt played his third season for McLaren. This year the team was “in free fall”: McLaren achieved only 15 world championship points in the entire season and fell back to eighth in the constructors' championship. So it was still behind the financially much worse equipped racing team of Emerson and Wilson Fittipaldi. James Hunt could only finish one race on a podium (third in the French Grand Prix ). Hunt and his team-mate Patrick Tambay , who replaced Jochen Mass, were 14th in the drivers' standings at the end of the season. The reason for the declining success of the team is mostly seen in the clinging to the outdated McLaren M26: Regardless of the success of the Lotus 78, McLaren had refrained from designing its own wing car for the 1978 season; instead, it brought the M26, which was provided with a flat underbody, to the start again throughout the season.
On September 10, 1978 Hunt was involved in a pile-up at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza . The Arrows -Pilot Riccardo Patrese passed after the start of some vehicles driving in front of him on the shoulder. When threading in front of the first chicane, he tried to oust Hunt. Hunt dodged, touching the right rear wheel of Ronnie Peterson's Lotus . Peterson's car picked up and went over the side. The car caught fire there. Peterson suffered severe leg injuries and was trapped. Hunt and Regazzoni stopped and freed Peterson from the burning car before he could be seriously burned. Peterson, one of Hunt's closest friends, was fully conscious when he left the circuit in the ambulance. He later died in a Milan hospital due to an embolism .
At the end of the year Hunt turned down an extension of the contract with McLaren from.
wolf
For the 1979 season, Hunt moved to Walter Wolf Racing , a team that had emerged from Frank Williams Racing Cars in 1976 and that took over the technical equipment of the Hesketh team that year. Wolf had been the surprise of the 1977 Formula 1 season: Wolf's driver Jody Scheckter had won the first race of the year with the newly designed WR1 and, after two more victories and several second and third places, was runner-up in 1977. The following year Wolf had dropped from third to fifth in the constructors' championship: Scheckter achieved two second and two third places, but no more wins. In view of this, the commitment Hunts was seen by some team members as reinforcement and linked with hopes for the 1979 season; other team members were skeptical, however, believing Hunt was past his prime.
Hunt played seven world championship races for Wolf in 1979. He failed six times; he only crossed the finish line at the South African Grand Prix . He finished eighth here. In any case, observers attribute the poor performance in part to the problematic racing cars that the team used in 1979: The Wolf WR7 , WR8 and WR9 models designed by Postlethwaite , which were not designed for ground effect from the start , are ineffective and also technical been unreliable. The majority of Hunt's failures were accordingly due to technical defects in the electrical system ( Argentina ), the steering ( Brazil ) or the power transmission ( USA-West ).
The Monaco Grand Prix was Hunt's last Formula 1 World Championship run. A week later he took part in the non-World Cup Gunnar Nilsson Memorial Trophy in Donington Park , where he finished second. Immediately after this race, Hunt announced his immediate retirement from active motorsport. Wolf replaced him for the rest of the season with Keke Rosberg , who also only crossed the finish line once in eight races.
Retirement and death
After his active career as a driver, he became an F1 reporter and second television commentator alongside Murray Walker on the BBC in 1980 . There he stood out for his often blunt comments and determined views and formed a counterpoint to the calm and reserved Walker.
Hunt died of a heart attack in his sleep at his Wimbledon home on the morning of June 15, 1993, aged only 45.
James Hunt and Niki Lauda
James Hunt and Niki Lauda , the opponents in the title fight for the 1976 Formula 1 season, had known each other since the beginning of their racing careers. They first met in July 1970 in qualifying training for the Formula 3 International Trophy. Lauda missed the qualification here, Hunt finished third in the final race. Since 1973 they competed against each other in Formula 1.
In the motor press, the character traits of Hunts and Laudas have been and are described as opposing. In retrospect, for example, journalists saw them as "the McEnroes and Connors of motorsport". Regardless of this and regardless of the competitive sporting situation in 1976, both pilots were close friends. Lauda later stated: "We made sure that our personal friendship never got in the way of our professional relationship".
Quotes about James Hunt
“I didn't mind actually. The only one who should beat me was James because I liked the guy ... ”
“I didn't mind being overtaken by him. James was the only one who got to hit me because I liked this guy ... "
“Hunt is my favorite of all drivers. I appreciate him. He is relaxed, easy, stands above things. He's a great driver because he has great talent. When he's rested, he's the toughest opponent "
"Hunt drank to excess, smoked to excess and womanized to super-excess"
"Hunt drank excessively, smoked excessively, and had excess women's stories."
"Hunt is a saucepan that starts to simmer before the start."
filming
Hunt and Lauda's fight for the world title in 1976 is the subject of the 2013 feature film Rush - Everything for Victory . The Australian actor Chris Hemsworth plays Hunt, Daniel Brühl plays Niki Lauda. Niki Lauda stated in an interview in September 2013 that the film portrayed the 1976 Formula 1 season quite accurately, but exaggerated the alleged rivalry between him and James Hunt. Screenwriter Peter Morgan confirmed this in the same interview.
statistics
Statistics in the automobile world championship
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| colour | abbreviation | meaning |
| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
| no participation in the World Cup | ||
| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
literature
- Elmar Brümmer, Bodo and Ferdi Krähling: rivals of the race track. The big Formula 1 duels . Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2013. ISBN 978-3-7688-3595-4 .
- Gerald Donaldson: James Hunt. The biography . Virgin Books, London 2003, ISBN 0-7535-0735-8 .
- Werner Eisele, Franz-Peter Hudek, Adriano Cimarosti: Formula 1 legends . Rolf Heyne, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89910-256-8
- James Hunt, Eoin Young: In spite of everything . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-87943-551-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lehbrink / Schlegelmilch: McLaren Formula 1, p. 71.
- ^ Werner Eisele, Franz-Peter Hudek, Adriano Cimarosti: Formula 1 legends . Rolf Heyne, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89910-256-8 , p. 248.
- ↑ a b Lehbrink / Schlegelmilch: McLaren Formula 1, p. 76. Literally translated, to shunt means something like drifting off, sliding off.
- ^ Elmar Brümmer, Bodo and Ferdi Krähling: Rivals of the racetrack. The big Formula 1 duels . Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2013. ISBN 978-3-7688-3595-4 , p. 48.
- ^ A b Shunt - James Hunt Biography
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Mike Lawrence: March. The rise and fall of a motor racing legend. P. 63.
- ↑ Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945, p. 75 (on Dastle).
- ↑ Statistics of the XXXIII. Grand Prix de Pau on the website www.formula2.net (accessed on September 28, 2013).
- ↑ Mike Lawrence: March. The rise and fall of a motor racing legend. P. 70.
- ↑ Model history of the March 721G / 3 on the website www.oldracingcars.com ( Memento from January 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 28, 2013).
- ↑ Mike Lawrence: March. The rise and fall of a motor racing legend. P. 74.
- ↑ Cimarosti: The Century of Racing, p. 258.
- ↑ Overview of the Dutch Grand Prix 1975 on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on September 29, 2013).
- ↑ Malcolm Folley: Senna versus Prost Century, 2009, ISBN 978-1-8460-5540-9
- ↑ Cimarosti: The century of racing, S. 267, respectively.
- ↑ Tom Rubython: In the Name of Glory - 1976 Myrtle Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9565656-9-3
- ↑ Cimarosti: The Century of Racing, p. 268.
- ↑ a b Hodges: Racing cars from AZ after 1945, p. 180 ff.
- ↑ Lehbrink / Schlegelmilch: McLaren Formula 1, p. 82.
- ↑ a b Hodges: Racing cars from AZ after 1945, p. 268 f.
- ↑ a b Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1, p. 588.
- ^ Elmar Brümmer, Bodo and Ferdi Krähling: Rivals of the racetrack. The big Formula 1 duels . Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2013. ISBN 978-3-7688-3595-4 , p. 51.
- ↑ a b Quoted from: Elmar Brümmer, Bodo and Ferdi Krähling: Rivals of the racetrack. The big Formula 1 duels . Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2013. ISBN 978-3-7688-3595-4 , p. 54.
- ↑ Motor Sport , September 2013, pp. 66–70 (English)
- ↑ Niki Lauda: Protocol. My Ferrari years . ORAC Verlag, Vienna 1977, p. 71.
- ↑ Octane Magazine, issue 10/2013, p. 99.
- ↑ Interview at www.welt.de from September 20, 2013 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hunt, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hunt, James Simon Wallis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British racing car driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Epsom |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 1993 |
| Place of death | Wimbledon |