Michael Schumacher...
"They (journalists) ask me about my car's suspension settings and then go away and write my life story."
Nelson Piquet...
"I think the most important thing if you want to keep going in racing is never to read anything. So, I never read anything."
James Hunt...
"I sympathise with the Italian fans - they treat racing like a religion, get very passionate about it, and are fed a complete load of rubbish by their press."
Alan Jones...
"A lot of drivers are thought of as just grown up spoiled brats
who would rather play tennis and swim or look at the birds than
be made to sit down and think. A big part of this is played by the press:
the I'm-too-stupid-to-think syndrome is an escape from the endless
low-level questions the drivers have to face from the idiots who
write about them."
Tyler Alexander (McLaren Team Veteran)...
"I think this thing (F1) is like an overbred cocker spaniel,
and most of it is created by the journalists, because it isn't anything
any different than it's ever been. You come here, you fuck around
with a car, it's got four wheels and a motor in, you start it up and
you're on. But the journalists pump it up into something else. I mean,
there's all those people crowding around the garages. There must be
50 million pictures of Ayrton Senna sitting in there picking his nose."
Alastair Caldwell (McLaren Team Manager)...
to suffer fools gladly and James was no fool. But in my opinion
most journalists were. They knew what I thought of them and
they were afraid of me. Teddy Mayer (McLaren boss) was the one
who normally dealt with the press - the bullshit side of the
business."
David Coulthard...
"I am very aware of the fact that I would be a much better bet
from a journalistic point of view if I was prepared to say things
like: 'That was the best lap of my life!' or 'That was the biggest
shunt of my life!' or 'He's an idiot and I'm going to drive him
off the track!' But I'm not an actor, I'm a racing driver and I don't
see why I should be anything other than myself.
"As a driver you often get asked the insulting question:
'How do you feel about the fact that there are no personalities
in F1 today?' Just because we're not smoking fags, getting in
from nightclubs at two o'clock in the morning having shagged a
few birds and then driving the bloody foreigner off the track and
coming through to win. To some people that is the definition of
personality.
"There are more media demands on your time than there
is time available. After you've been quickest, got pole or won,
you have to do your celebrating with cameras shoved under your
nose, and people shouting: 'Over here, Dave.'I would like to have
a quiet moment with the team and then go and do the acting bit
for the cameras. You don't have that luxury. It's just wallop,
straight in your face. There are no private moments.
"There is nowhere you can stand in the paddock, either one-on-one
or with a group of people, and expect to just be in the fresh air quietly
talking to people. Even nipping out to the toilet can take you 15
or 20 minutes. It's quicker to just piss in a bottle and pour it
down the drain."
"They (journalists) ask me about my car's suspension settings and then go away and write my life story."
Nelson Piquet...
"I think the most important thing if you want to keep going in racing is never to read anything. So, I never read anything."
James Hunt...
"I sympathise with the Italian fans - they treat racing like a religion, get very passionate about it, and are fed a complete load of rubbish by their press."
Alan Jones...
"A lot of drivers are thought of as just grown up spoiled brats
who would rather play tennis and swim or look at the birds than
be made to sit down and think. A big part of this is played by the press:
the I'm-too-stupid-to-think syndrome is an escape from the endless
low-level questions the drivers have to face from the idiots who
write about them."
Tyler Alexander (McLaren Team Veteran)...
"I think this thing (F1) is like an overbred cocker spaniel,
and most of it is created by the journalists, because it isn't anything
any different than it's ever been. You come here, you fuck around
with a car, it's got four wheels and a motor in, you start it up and
you're on. But the journalists pump it up into something else. I mean,
there's all those people crowding around the garages. There must be
50 million pictures of Ayrton Senna sitting in there picking his nose."
Alastair Caldwell (McLaren Team Manager)...
"A lot of journalists called James Hunt a spoiled brat, but I don't think
anyone at McLaren would have called him that. I was never oneto suffer fools gladly and James was no fool. But in my opinion
most journalists were. They knew what I thought of them and
they were afraid of me. Teddy Mayer (McLaren boss) was the one
who normally dealt with the press - the bullshit side of the
business."
David Coulthard...
"I am very aware of the fact that I would be a much better bet
from a journalistic point of view if I was prepared to say things
like: 'That was the best lap of my life!' or 'That was the biggest
shunt of my life!' or 'He's an idiot and I'm going to drive him
off the track!' But I'm not an actor, I'm a racing driver and I don't
see why I should be anything other than myself.
"As a driver you often get asked the insulting question:
'How do you feel about the fact that there are no personalities
in F1 today?' Just because we're not smoking fags, getting in
from nightclubs at two o'clock in the morning having shagged a
few birds and then driving the bloody foreigner off the track and
coming through to win. To some people that is the definition of
personality.
"There are more media demands on your time than there
is time available. After you've been quickest, got pole or won,
you have to do your celebrating with cameras shoved under your
nose, and people shouting: 'Over here, Dave.'I would like to have
a quiet moment with the team and then go and do the acting bit
for the cameras. You don't have that luxury. It's just wallop,
straight in your face. There are no private moments.
"There is nowhere you can stand in the paddock, either one-on-one
or with a group of people, and expect to just be in the fresh air quietly
talking to people. Even nipping out to the toilet can take you 15
or 20 minutes. It's quicker to just piss in a bottle and pour it
down the drain."
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