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Why don’t they make F1 drivers like Tony Stewart?


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A driver like Tony Stewart makes us realise just how dull most modern F1 drivers are. In a recent, must-read interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the two-time Nascar champ revealed what motivates him: “Pussy, money and race cars. That’s pretty much all I care about.”

No F1 driver has the balls to come out with such a line. They’d be too worried about upsetting sponsors or besmirching the F1 global brand - fair enough, F1 is a very different environment to Nascar. But we can’t even think of an F1 driver who has a similarly brazen philosophy to Stewart’s. Kimi likes a drink and Lewis loves the ladies but neither comes close to matching the sheer fuck-youness of the man they call Smoke.

Other amazing stuff we learned from the interview:

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Posted: September 4th, 2008 by Ollie Irish