Due to his playboy lifestyle, James Hunt was ... sex with a girl just before the race start. Having been asked to pull over for speeding, he once out-drove three police cars, not wanting them ...

Now deep-pocketed fans of the late James Hunt will be able to buy the last F1 race car he ever drove to victory. RK Motors Collector Car Auctions has announced it will be selling the 1977 McLaren ...

British Formula One racer James Hunt's 1977 McLaren M26 brought $1.2 million at auction a few days ago at the RKMCCA sale in Charlotte, N.C. This is the very car driven by Hunt in the 1977 F1 ...

Bruce McLaren’s only child Amanda has described how James Hunt was the one to make her realise just who her dad was. This story was originally told on the Pondering Papaya: A McLaren F1 podcast ...

Nelson Ireson September 6, 2013 Comment Now! Known for his womanizing, partying ways as much as his brilliance behind the wheel of an F1 car, James Hunt was a racing icon. He's being further ...

For his first seasons in Formula 1, James Hunt drove a car with no sponsor decals on account of his very wealthy benefactor, Lord Hesketh. The team didn't have the resources to be consistently ...

With the release of the Ron Howard movie Rush and McLaren's 50th anniversary, it's hard to think of a better time to sell a 1977 McLaren M26 Formula One car driven by James ... Hunt drove to his ...

was hailed as the next James Hunt. The similarities were obvious: they both started out with a habit of crashing Formula Ford cars, then rose rapidly through the single-seater ranks to Formula 1 ...

This is the actual Hesketh that F1 hero, James Hunt ... of which were driven by Hunt. The Hesketh’s got another claim to fame – it’s the last privately entered car to win a F1 race without ...

Few drivers will ever embody the sheer playboy image of F1 in the boom years of the 1970s better than James ... car - the March-based Hesketh 308. Errors and reliability hampered progress but Hunt ...

The Formula One car that took legendary driver James Hunt to his first Grand Prix race victory is to be sold at Silverstone Auctions’ 23 July event, during the Silverstone Classic weekend. Giving both ...