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JACKIE STEWART and JIM CLARK at the 1967 BRITISH GRAND PRIX

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About Senna Time ：Ayrton usually gets up after 12:30 ,and he would call you at one o'clock in the morning.

I want to know will he call Alain during Senna time?

via:Julian Jakobi: Senna will be remembered forever | Ayrton Senna - A Tribute to Life

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How do you regard him as your rival? I mean, Ayrton is obviously an enormous rival. What sort of regard do you have for him as a driver?

"In this kind of competition, I think more in terms of Ferrari vs McLaren than Alain Prost vs Ayrton Senna. Ayrton Senna is the best Formula 1 driver at the moment—well, I hope that includes me too, haha. What I mean is that we are dominating Formula 1 because we are more professional than the other drivers. We work much harder and we deserve to dominate Formula 1, to be at the front. And I really appreciate the work he's doing, also during my time, because it's not easy right now. (...) But I enjoy fighting Ayrton. He's tough, he's very tough on track, it's very hard to overtake him."

- Alain Prost to Eurosport, 1990

And this was said like... just days before the big event at Suzuka...pookie had no idea what that crazy pookie was about to do to him ☠️

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Bersenna in the suit

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Ayrton letting Gerhard fly one of his model air planes.

Ayrton: I just rebuild it yesterday so please be careful.

Ayrton: Oh God. Be careful, please be really careful.

Ayrton: Please PLEASE PlEaSe! Don't cut capers, Gerhard Please!

Ayrton: Give me the remote, come on.

Ayrton: NO! Not so low Gerhard, not so low.

Ayrton: Noooo.

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After Ayrton punched Irvine, the Mclaren mechanics added some funny 🥊 items to Senna's car in the next race.

you can also see there is a pattern of hedgehog killed by a car on the 'boxing gloves', I think it's to provoke Alain Prost(I once read relevant reports but i've forgotten the source Sory please tell me if someone knew about that )

via:https://x.com/MSI_Images/status/1173605689257857025?s=19

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Hello! I’m a new fan who recently became interested in James Hunt, and I really appreciate the content about James that you share on your account! For the past few months, I’ve had a question about James that I haven’t been able to find an answer to😩, and I was hoping you might know something about it. The topic is a little sensitive, and I sincerely hope it won’t offend you.🙇‍♀️ In any case, thank you very much for all the work you do in organizing and sharing information every day!

I heard about this from Weibo (which is a Chinese social media platform): It was said that during the program "The Grand Prix Night of the Stars"(I think it's the program that James played trumpet🎺), James Hunt unintentionally excited one of Shirley Bassey’s makeup artists (who was a gay ). The makeup artist even said that James was a popular figure in gay magazines. I have tried my best to search for more details and also contacted the blogger who originally posted about this incident. Unfortunately, she said that it happened too long ago and she no longer remembers the source.

Thank you again for all your efforts in collecting and organizing information! The more I learn, the more I feel that James is such a complex and fascinating individual.💓(P.S. I used translator, hope I didn't say something weird)

Hello! You did not say anything weird, and well done for reaching out in a language other than your first language. I only speak English, and I admire anyone who has any command of more than one language :)

There is one little thing that your translator has done! In English we don't say someone is "a gay", we say they are "gay." It is used as an adjective and not a noun!

As it happens, I DO KNOW ABOUT THIS!

The story is from a book called Memories of James Hunt, which is saved on the Internet Archive (archive.org), and it is on page 195.

It was on the night of the Grand Prix Night of the Stars in 1976 when James played the trumpet, and Doug Darnell, one of Shirley Bassey's wardrobe designers (whose work is now in the V&A Museum in London - he was a big deal in his own right) was moving through the corridors behind the stage and encountered James. Doug was carrying Shirley's dress and said "excuse me, please" and James smiled at him as he moved past. James was apparently wearing tight trousers and a shirt with several buttons open, but photos from the night show him in a t-shirt.

Doug, like any sensible person, almost fainted and ran back to the dressing room to tell Shirley he'd just met James Hunt. He added "No wonder the gay papers voted James Hunt No.1 dream boy for years."

Apparently Doug had heard people say "anything on legs and Hunt is chasing it, without waiting for the hounds!" (This is a pun on Hunt's last name, for anyone who isn't familiar with the extremely barbaric and ugly British sport of fox hunting. People on horses hunt foxes with packs of dogs known as hounds. It's gross. When James owned a farm, he banned it on his land. But it's a fairly standard joke and just means James had a reputation). When Doug told Shirley he'd met James, she joked that she'd seen him first so he was hers.

Of course, in the book, this is all written in a recognisable tabloid-newspaper style, where James met Doug in the "dark, narrow corridors" behind the stage, and they were briefly "in a crush," that Doug "almost fainted", and James obviously "appealed to both sexes." I don't think it's implying anything, but many people who grew up in Britain in the 90s (as I did) would recognise that style of writing. It's very melodramatic!

I have done a little bit of googling looking for gay publications from the 70s that might feature James, but haven't found any. Queer history is a whole area of study and unfortunately, because queer people were marginalised, a lot of material relating to queer lives was destroyed or didn't survive.

James also appeared in a TV comedy sketch show written and presented by Kenny Everett, who was gay and whose sexuality would have been known at the time James appeared on his show. I think it's fair to assume from this and other evidence that James wasn't judgmental about gay men. Attitudes were different then but James seems to have generally been quite liberal and accepting.

Thanks for the ask and for your kind words about the blog ❤️

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To earn money for racing, James once worked as an ice cream🍦 salesman. However, the job didn’t really suit him—he was too soft-hearted and often ended up giving ice cream to children for free.

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INNES IRELAND, JIM CLARK, JOHN SURTEES and COLIN CHAPMAN, 1960

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Guys I tried….,.

Sry I’m a colorblind and I don’t even know those colors are right or not

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ayrton senna | 1990 german grand prix

paul-henri cahier

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Niki, where are you looking?

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AYRTON SENNA and GERHARD BERGER having a little moment on the podium while ex-boyfriend ALAIN PROST is there at the 1990 BELGIAN GRAND PRIX.

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Some of my favourite Jim Clark photos that could be used as reaction pictures ✨️

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Roberto Guerrero, Ayrton Senna and Gerhard Berger on the podium at the 1983 Macau Grand Prix Formula Three