Welcome to My James Hunt Appreciation Home Page

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I thought it was about time that there was a permamnent James Hunt based website. There are pages on F1 sites about him, but no real websites, which is a shame.

James was World Motor Racing Champion in 1976, and part of this site will cover his season.

About this site

I decided to make a site dedicated to James, because there are a lot of sites about Jim Clark and Niki Lauda etc, and very few for James! James made F1 popular with a lot of the public who hadn't known about F1 before in Britain, to the point where if James had not competed and won, we may not have had drivers like Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill to follow him.

This site is purely about his racing, I will not talk about his private life, because it is no-one's business but his, and I think it's wrong to make judgements on him as a person. He did what he did because he wanted to.

OK, that sound preachy, but there you go, lol.

Things to watch out for


There are several models and books to look out for on James.

Minichamps Models do a very nice Hunt McLaren, for about £20

James himself wrote a book called Against All Odds about his championship year, that you can probably find in second hand book shops.

There is a very good biography on James, called James Hunt: The Biography, which you can find on amazon.co.uk.

There is a video that James is interviewed by Nigel Roebuck called James Hunt: Champion. Again go to amazon for this.

Finally Corgi made a toy of the Hesketh, that may be a bit hard to find, but well worth it for Hunt fans!

TV shows and Magazines

The January 2001 issue of F1 Racing had a feature on the McLaren M23, the car that took James to the world championship. Try their back orders for more info, it's very good (both the article and the service lol)

For more M23, and a feature on James try the August 2002 issue of Motorsport magazine, and there was very good article on the 76 season in the February 2001 issue. Again try back orders for these.

The Real James Hunt show on Channel 4 was repeated last night.
For those of you who haven't seen it yet, don't worry, because it's not a great show, and tries to show James in a bad light. There is a better show in the Clash of the Titans sporting series that BBC showed a few years ago.

A Good Hunt Tribute site

James Hunt
James drove for McLaren for 3 seasons

My other F1 Heroes

Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Gilles Villeneuve, Mario Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi, Niki Lauda, Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart, John Surtees, Sir Stirling Moss, Sir Jack Brabham, Juan Manuel Fangio and Tazio Nuvolari to name a few