As far as Formula 1 drivers go, none lived up to the rock ‘n roll excess that the sport could offer in the seventies than James Hunt. While many sportsmen spend their time in the run up to a major event practicing, Hunt spent the 2 weeks prior to his famed 1976 win in Japan on a “round-the-clock alcohol, cannabis and cocaine binge”.

Somewhere in amongst all of that living, he still managed to find the time to sleep with no less than 33 British Airways hostesses as well as “countless” Japanese fans.

On the day of the big race, just minutes before the race start, he was found by Patrick Head (who went on the become co-owner of Williams F1 team) in a pit garage bumping uglies with a Japanese fan. Moments later, he walked outside, threw up, got into the car and drove his way into the history books.

Later that day, at a British Embassy party being thrown in his honour, he arrived so drunk that the ambassador almost didn’t let him in.

So at this point he could have called it a day and still gone down in history as a legend but he wasn’t done yet. The following day, he and his entourage got on a flight back to London and literally drank the plane dry. 2,000 screaming fans were at Heathrow airport to greet him as he staggered off the airplane.

All in, Hunt is estimated to have slept with over 5,000 women in his lifetime.

Oh, and he also “sold” his wife to Richard Burton for $1 million.

So ja, suddenly my plans for the weekend don’t seem as rad as I thought they were.

[Source: Daily Mail]