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[scotty]

Having met him, yeah, Irvine is a proper sausageface. Would actively avoid him if i ever saw him in the flesh again.

When did you meet Irvine?

The popcorn suggests you want a bit more than just a place and date so... Goodwood '09, in the driver bit there. He was sat completely by himself so me and a mate decided to say hello as he didn't appear busy. He's such a miserable git, i couldn't quite believe it. He seemed to make out that Lord March had basically nagged at him to go for years, so he'd just turned up as a favour and to get him off his back about it or something. Proper WTF. He just didn't appear to care about anything that was going on, at such a great event like Goodwood and given his history in motorsport. Didn't seem to want to talk about any of the cars he liked there or anything. He was just weird mate...

And then compare to guys like (excuse the namedropping! ) Timo Glock and Karun Chandhok, who were just brilliant, had great chats with them. We were taking the piss out of Chandhok cause he was getting into this VW Passat that apparently was a company car and he took it quite brilliantly... top lad.

So these instances just made me think, man what the hell was Irvine's deal? Then you add in (for example) some of the stuff he said at Monza last year on tv, just makes me think actually the guy is a bit of a bellend

[LewEngBridewell]

Well, now you know why he was sat on his own

Goodness me, what a jerk. I've never liked the guy, and sadly, how he conducted himself at this encounter really doesn't surprise me. Great that you had some good chats with other drivers though. Chandhok really does come across as a top guy, especially when he joins in the banter on the BBC.

Goodwood... I WILL go there one day

[andrew]

To be fair, he was pretty much right in what he said at Monza about magic buttons and all that pish.

[LewEngBridewell]

To be fair, he was pretty much right in what he said at Monza about magic buttons and all that pish.

Ohhh, he just bores me to death with all his about how men were men back in his frigging day. Moan, moan, moan let's mourn the times gone by when it was ME racing, because now it's not ME racing, nothing is as good. The Irvine era was the BEST era, and the ONLY era to watch F1, because HE was racing. He's been this bitter ever since his career petered out after 2002, and he hasn't shut the f!ck up since. W!nker.

Jacques Villeneuve is walking along dangerously similar lines.

[Jabberwocky]

Stirling Moss has made a career out of saying "It is not what it used to be" and "Real men would not wear seat belts"

[Hammer278]

To be fair, he was pretty much right in what he said at Monza about magic buttons and all that pish.

Ohhh, he just bores me to death with all his about how men were men back in his frigging day. Moan, moan, moan let's mourn the times gone by when it was ME racing, because now it's not ME racing, nothing is as good. The Irvine era was the BEST era, and the ONLY era to watch F1, because HE was racing. He's been this bitter ever since his career petered out after 2002, and he hasn't shut the f!ck up since. W!nker.

Jacques Villeneuve is walking along dangerously similar lines.

To be fair, I recall races from "Irvine's time" more fondly than races we've been having since McLaren switched to this stupid chrome colour. The McLaren under the West logo, with Mika and David VS Ferrari Marlboro with Schumacher and Irvine was always the story of F1 and I enjoyed that period very much indeed!

I still recall those Racedays...the race is only at night here but from the moment I wake up in the morning I'm always a little on edge the entire day till the race begins. These days I don't even think about it till evening tea comes by. Still exciting of course, but too many variables, too many inconsistencies, too many stupid rules have dumbed down the sport IMO.

[Nin-Chin]

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