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:For the United States politician, see Jim Hunt.James Hunt ( August 29, 1947 - June 15, 1993) was a British Formula One race car driver, the 1976 World Champion.
Hunt, born in Belmont, debuted in Formula One with the colourful Hesketh team in 1973, scoring several remarkable results, including a second place at the US Grand Prix. His first win came in 1975, in the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. He finished 4th in the championship that year, and signed with McLaren for the next season.
1976 was Hunt's top year, as he won six Grand Prix. A seventh win at the British Grand PrixThe British Grand Prix is a race in the calendar of the FIA Formula One World Championship. It is currently held at the Silverstone Circuit near the village of Silverstone in Northamptonshire. Grand Prix motor racing was first established in Britain by He was disallowed as he used his spare car in at the race's restart. Still, this was enough to beat FerrariFerrari is an Italian manufacturer of racing cars and high-performance sports cars formed by Enzo Ferrari in 1929. At first, Scuderia Ferrari sponsored drivers and manufactured racecars; the company went into independent car production in 1946, eventually's Niki LaudaAndreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (born February 22, 1949) is an Austrian racing driver. Born on February 22, 1949 in Vienna, Austria, to a wealthy family, he became a racing driver in 1968 and began racing in Formula One with the March team in 1971. He initi to the title, after the AustriaAustria is a landlocked country in Central Europe, a federation of nine states. Austria is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to then withdrew from the season's final race due to the wet conditions.
The following season started unlucky for Hunt, although he eventually won three GPs and placed 5th in the Championship. But in 1978, he hardly scored any points, and then moved to Wolf for what would be his last Formula One season.
Hunt later became a TV commentator for the BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation BBC is primarily a national publicly-funded broadcaster based in the United Kingdom, which also has some international services. Some of the international services (such as BBC cable TV in America, Canada and elsewhere alongside Murray WalkerGraeme Murray Walker (born 10 October, 1923 in Hall Green, Birmingham) is a former motor sport commentator. For most of his career he worked for the BBC, but when they lost the contract for Formula 1 coverage to ITV, Walker switched over to the commercial, and died at the age of 45 of a heart attackplaque builds up in the walls of blood vessels. Acute myocardial infarction AMI or MI , commonly known as heart attack is a serious, sudden heart condition characterized by varying degrees of chest pain, weakness, sweating, nausea, and vomiting, sometimes.
Hunt was notorious for his rough behaviour on and off the track, which brought him the nickname "Hunt the shunt". He was thus a relic in the increasingly formal racing world, not unlike Eddie Irvine in the 1990s.
Hunt, James
Hunt, James
