F1 Drivers Drinking

[Tim Falce]

Originally Posted by Kicking-back

Unlike Kimi, who was ****ed, Falcemob is taking the ****...

Moi

[gringottsdirect]

Originally Posted by Armco Bender

And there were 2 Hans Stucks

.... after two crates of Warsteiner ?

[Dixie Flatline]

Originally Posted by Fireblade

The mind boggles.................

Looked up both the Stucks' profiles on grandprix.com. Forgive me, but I am not sure why I should be impressed by him yet - would you (or anyone) care to point it out to me?

[Raglanparade]

There was a Hans Stuck in the 1930's
and another in the late 1970's rite ?

[bigted]

Hey Kimi cant win, the press lambast him for being a McLaren Robot, and the one and only occasion he lets it all hang out he gits ripped to pieces!

but next year you never know JPM might be the boring one with his impending fatherhood, and kimi the exciting one telling journos to f*** off and might start caning it!

[Nicholosophy]

Obvously in the off season the media has nothing better to do.

[BSchneiderFan]

Originally Posted by Dixie Flatline

Looked up both the Stucks' profiles on grandprix.com. Forgive me, but I am not sure why I should be impressed by him yet - would you (or anyone) care to point it out to me?

You need to look beyond F1 (shock, horror) where Hans-Joachim had little chance to shine. But his record in sportscars and touring cars is formidable; many, many 24 hour wins; he also won the Nurburgring 24 Hours this year and in 1969, I believe - pretty good going!

[ghinzani]

Originally Posted by Dixie Flatline

Looked up both the Stucks' profiles on grandprix.com. Forgive me, but I am not sure why I should be impressed by him yet - would you (or anyone) care to point it out to me?

Senior was a pre war GP and European Championship (equiv to World at the time) winner.

Junior was arguably the fastest ever saloon car driver, certainly around the old Nurburgring. Also a World Sportscar Champ when it meant something.

[Adam43]

For Sr, check out the cars he drove - impressive.
For Jr, check out the places he excelled - impressive.
(as well as the achievements mentioned above).

[BootsOntheSide]

Looks like someone's Stuck in a narrow view of racing achievements (sorry).

[Barbazza]

How many proper media outlets actually reported/covered this event? Everyone seems so keen to lay into journalists for blowing this out of all proportion and yet the only place I've read anything about it (in English) is on the net through forums and the odd dubious news site. Forgive me if I'm wrong but the original report came from a paper which is more Sunday Sport than Sunday Times didn't it? It needs to be taken in context.

[Kicking-back]

I have seen no reference to it in any mainstream media outlet.

[Super Tourer]

Today's F1 drivers are much more restricted in what they can do during the season (in terms of not drinking, what they can eat, even what they can say), a reaction to some of that is bound to come out off season. No more, no less.

Stuck was a great sportscar driver in his day BTW.

You have to wonder how drivers like Hunt, Keke and Alan Jones would fare in today's stiffling F1 atmosphere. You need characters in any sport, whether that be subbing a fag out on the way to getting in the car ,or saying what you really think on occasion.

One final thought, you can't expect drivers to sip mineral water and only eat pasta, for 52 weeks a year surely?

[Barbazza]

I don't think anyone who has spent any time within Formula One circles would be surprised that any given driver likes a drink or two when the time is right - who doesn't? They don't serve mineral water at the Log Cabin in Suzuka yet most of the drivers seem to find something to quench their thirst there every year. Bizzarely this has become an 'issue' only because so many people have had their say on why it isn't an issue. I guess that's how the internet works though.

[Al Weyman]

Good job Paul Hawkins was'nt about today then, I shared a few pints with him on occassions back in the 60's when I was a whippersnapper spannerman for Roger Nathan Racing. Folk law has it that after a night on the town it was nothing for him to do half the warm up lap, open the door and 'Shoot a Tiger' (his Aussie expression for a pucke) out the door of the GT40 and then carry on and line up on the grid.

[Dixie Flatline]

Originally Posted by BSchneiderFan

You need to look beyond F1 (shock, horror) where Hans-Joachim had little chance to shine. But his record in sportscars and touring cars is formidable; many, many 24 hour wins; he also won the Nurburgring 24 Hours this year and in 1969, I believe - pretty good going!

Then I'll point out to you that living in Melbourne, I have found zero coverage of European motorsports except a weekly one-hour wrap on rally. It's Formula One (but no qualifying or practice), Champcar (again, only the race), MotoGP, and V8 Supercars which is given saturation coverage by Channel Ten.