For many of us our introduction to James Hunt was behind the microphone and not behind the wheel. But that doesn’t make him any less a hero to those of us born too late to remember Hunt’s swashbuckling racing career, as this commentary exchange with the equally loveable Murray Walker from the 1989 Monaco Grand Prix shows.
Now, that you’ve learnt something about James Hunt’s undeniable charisma on the day Ron Howard’s F1 movie Rush opens across Australia, why not head over to AUSringers and get some background on Niki Lauda’s accident (here and here), which plays a central role in the Hunt–Lauda story.