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\u201cLife is short and I want to enjoy it as much as I can… I shared my time between serious and fun things. I seriously put deep effort into the first and I have deep fun with the latter.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

London, a group of students which included a seventeen-year-old James. One of them proposed something new \u201cWhy don\u2019t we go to Brands Hatch?<\/em>\u201d. Hunt discovered his own world: \u201cI understood that it was the life for me. And from that moment, I started thinking about how to get there.<\/em>\u201d 18 years old, his first car: a Mini, the first race: Silverstone\u2026 \u201cI spent my last penny to get there, only to be told that I couldn\u2019t race. I had to ask for a loan to get back home.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

A driver\u2019s career from 1967 to 1978 and a nickname \u201cHunt The Shunt\u201d, a winner as a World Driver F1 Champion in 1976 with the McLaren. A very ambitious driver who stated \u201cI only race to win. Coming second is like not getting to the end at all<\/em>\u201d. In 1973, at the Monaco GP, with the bizarre team \u201cHesketh Racing\u201d he debuted in the F1 world championship races. Hunt had to wait until 1975 for his first victory, in Zandvoort, Holland. The 1976 season started behind a McLaren wheel.<\/p>\n

On the eve of the Japanese GP, he was three points away from Lauda. The awaited duel between the two drivers never happened though. The Ferrari driver gave up right after the start, the track was very wet due to the heavy rain. Hunt ended in the third position and became the world champion. Only one point over Lauda.
\nIn 1977 and \u201978 he raced once again with McLaren. After ending his career as a driver in ’79 with the Wolf, he became a TV commentator.<\/p>\n

A nonconformist, without limits, both on track and in life. There were countless occasions when he showed uncontrolled irritability. He appeared shabby in front of the camera, but his reports were always interesting and precise. He was a man of half-ways who left us at only 43 years of age, due to a cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cLife is short and I want to enjoy it as much as I can… I shared my time between serious and fun things. I seriously put deep effort into the first and I have deep fun with the latter.\u201d London, a group of students which included a seventeen-year-old James. 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