Ferrari Mailing List: Driver Personalities...Re: Dear Mr. Ecclestone:

[LS (lashdeep]

Bubba, I met M. Andretti and his son last fall. They seemed okay, nothing
special, the kid was cool.

Dan Wheldon, Helio Castroneves and Johnny Rutherford were absolutely
hilarious and fun to talk to.

Michael Gascoyne and Sir Jack Brabham seemed like decent chaps as well.

Interestingly, the Canadian GP is one of my top car related trips, yet
typically not so good for running into drivers/celebrities. At Goodwood,
it was overwhelmingly easy to find yourself asking Sir Stirling Moss to
pass the ketchup at the hot dog stand...

LS

--- red5hilser [at] aol.com wrote:

> When der Frau and I were long-distance dating (She in Little Rock and me
> in Tucson), she drove out to visit one time, arriving on a Sunday
> morning in March. I told her that I wouldn't be home when she arrived as
> I would be at the F1 race in Phoenix that weekend to cheer my beloved
> Ferrari on to victory. The key would be under the door mat. Beer in the
> frig, and the pool was warm. When I finally got home late Sunday night,
> she confronted me and asked me whether SHE or a "stupid car race" was
> more important to me? All I could answer was the old Jack Benny line
> when the robber pointed a gun at him and asked, "Your money or your
> life, which will it be?" Both Mr. Benny and I said the same thing, "I'm
> thinking, I'm thinking ... " After we were married, she thought I was
> nutz to get up at 4:30 on Sunday mornings and go sit, watching F1 on a
> TV that I had set up in our 'genuine' Navaho sweat lodge by the pool.
> Later she got hooked on Nigel Mansel (The Red5 in my e-mail address) and
> became as big a Tifosi as I was. We used to go to all the CART races on
> the West Coast to see Nigel drive, starting with his 1st year over here.
> From there it was Montreal, Indy, Belgium and Monza Italy. After Nigel,
> it was Jacques, then Alex Zanardi, and frinally Michael. (No, not
> Andretti, who we found to be almost as big an ass as his then wife Sandy
> was.) Our Michael. End of Story.
>  
> Forza Ferrari! yer pal Bubba
>  
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rentiers [at] mac.com
> To: red5hilser [at] aol.com
> Cc: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com
> Sent: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 9:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Dear Mr. Ecclestone:
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Rick Moseley wrote:
> 
> >
> > I just knew it wasn't a unique psychosis!!!
> > I'm not alone... I'm not alone... I'm not alone...
> >
> > Now I'll know when I'm up in the wee hours of the morning, there  
> > are other
> > crazy car people out there...  in the dark, alone on their couch.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> 
> with two reheated slices of BBQ chicken pizza, wrapped in a ratty old  
> Linus-quilt, thinking "My God! It's 3:30 AM! How am I supposed to  
> sleep now....":
> 
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