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Foe and Friend: Knowing James HuntFrom the archiveJames Hunt and Hesketh: The Unlikely LadsFrom the archiveNiki Lauda Vs James Hunt: Opposites attackFrom the archiveHow McLaren crafted James Hunt's title-winning, underrated M23 F1 carDSJ on…
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It was, I suppose, a result of me being a member of the establishment, schooled in manners and diplomacy by Bruce McLaren. And if James specialised in anything apart from driving very fast, it was tweaking the nose of the establishment. He flatly refused to conform. He had surfed into Formula 1 on the foaming Hesketh champagne wave. The portly, wealthy young Lord Hesketh had come up through the proper schools, so he knew how to behave. It amused him to see the outrage in the paddocks of the world when he arrived with his helicopters and Rolls-Royces.
James was his perfect driver.
After the Hesketh team withdrew from F1, James was ideally placed when Emerson Fittipaldi suddenly announced that he was leaving McLaren. Team boss Teddy Mayer was a member of the establishment brigade and Hunt probably didn't come very high on his list of prospective drivers; it was rather as Nigel Mansell would come to McLaren 20 years later. Hunt's advantage was that he was the only available driver with any form, and team sponsor Marlboro was happy to have him on board. Mayer and Hunt rode with an uneasy alliance that stormy season of 1976, which ended in Japan with an enraged Hunt shouting abuse at Mayer at the end of the race in which he had clinched the World Championship. James was under the impression that Teddy had given him wrong pit signals and lost him the title — instead of winning it for him!
The Sunday after that wet race in Japan I was back home in East Horsley, Surrey when the telephone rang just before lunch. It was a publisher who said he had Hunt in his office and would I be interested in writing a book with James on his championship victory? I said I wouldn't. Surprised, the publisher wanted to know why. I said I thought writing books was a chore, there wasn't enough money in it, and besides, I didn't like James Hunt. There was a long pause, and then the publisher said he thought he might be able to do something about the money. He offered £3500. To me in 1976 that was a king's ransom. But there was a catch — the book had to be completed in two weeks and James would be at his home in Marbella during that fortnight. I asked him to phone back after lunch.
My wife Sandra agreed that it was worth me being away for 14 days to earn that much money. When the publisher phoned back for my decision I took a deep breath and said his fee wasn't high enough. He immediately increased it by £1000 and I immediately accepted.
I flew to Malaga where James had booked me into the Marbella Club. We talked and taped in the mornings, and I transcribed and wrote in the afternoon and into each evening. So much for the delights of Marbella — I never saw more than the walls of my room. To try and speed up the process James arranged for an English secretary to transcribe the tapes. I told her I wanted to know exactly what James said, not what she thought he said. It was taking me an hour to transcribe a tape, but this poor girl spent an entire morning on one tape and phoned in tears to say she'd only transcribed two pages.
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"What's the problem?" I asked, puzzled. "He never completes a sentence," she sobbed. "I have no idea what he's talking about…" I listened to a tape I was working on and realised she was right. I had been automatically finishing sentences for him, the way I did with Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme when I used to write their columns.
Seven days after agreeing to do the book I was back in London with the completed manuscript. The deal had been one-third payment on signing the contract, one-third on delivery of the manuscript and the final payment on the publisher's acceptance. The book was completed so quickly that I received all the money while my s...
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