- 05 Sep 11, 08:48#272804
How can you respect someone, who says of a current driver-"He is a danger, he is mad, he needs the FIA to punish him, he will kill someone" ?
And then talks of his own racing thus:-
"In my day we used to hit each other off the road but if somebody complained afterwards, we'd just say, 'I don't know what happened'. Now you cannot really do that."
The cars he raced were far more dangerous than todays cars. Lauda has another agenda.
I dare say if Lauda sat on you're side of the fence you would think he was wonderful but because he takes a differant stance he doesn't get a fair press. Just look at internet forums. Some people dare to hold a different view to the masses and they get flamed. Just the way it is sadly.
How can you respect someone, who says of a current driver-"He is a danger, he is mad, he needs the FIA to punish him, he will kill someone" ?
And then talks of his own racing thus:-
"In my day we used to hit each other off the road but if somebody complained afterwards, we'd just say, 'I don't know what happened'. Now you cannot really do that."
The cars he raced were far more dangerous than todays cars. Lauda has another agenda.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abe Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abe Lincoln
Abe Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abe Lincoln
Lauda has an agenda! Back in the 70's they could get away with this. Drivers didn't go running to the stewards every time someone looked at them the wrong way and the cars could stand up to a bit of punishment. Safety was a dirty word until around the mid-70's and the drivers were organising strikes and wotnot. The stewards also had a lot less data available to them so it was harder for them to penalise anyone and would have to rely mainly on driver accounts of an incident.
DD
