ADP

lol

Eddie Ervine on the ITV F1 prog. Sat on a massive boat in the sun, bikini clad girls around - he says something along the line of " Ive got a boat, some birds, Im still famous and Im out partying every night - life isnt bad "

nice on Eddie, you lucky g1t

Chris L

Yeah - thought the same 'I've got a $100m in the bank and I don't really care' kind of look.

I doubt Irvine will ever win the award for 'Mr Nice Guy', but you can't help laughing and thinking he's done pretty well.

Chris

Brun

And Ralf thought the track was "Sh1ty"

47 NAT

PMSL @ Ralph

Nath

thecirsch

Irvine,

What a bloke, he don't give a monkies and ain't afraid to say it either. Where do you think it started to go wrong for him????


Don't think he'll be welcome at Jordon neither!!

Ed

XT

Where did it go wrong? Nowhere, he knew he ain't going to be a champion and just opted for the 'get as much money as i can' option.

The Zohan

I like Eddie Irvine, says what he thinks, made his money and got out whilst the going was pretty good.

F1 is a poorer place for loosing his personality from the sport, the rest seem a bit like robots.

Flat 4x4

...and Schumacher and Montoya both seemed to moreorless ignore Raikonnen at the end of the race. Is it something he (didn't) said?

south-star

A prat and a waster if you ask me....the more he says he doesnt care what people think,the more i think he does.

NACRO

"a prat and a waster"

You could maybe call him a prat and be somewhat justified as that is a matter of personal opinion. However he obviously isn't a waster as his succesful businesses and F1 career have proved.

Green eyed monster? The guy is still fairly young, rich, succesful with women and has the ***** to stand up and say what he thinks. Probably has a lot of ego too but that's par for the course with F1 drivers.

He seems to be his own man and I respect that a lot.

carl

IIRC, somebody asked George Best this when he was filthy rich and tubbin' Miss World
"George, when did it all start to go wrong?"

south-star

If he didn't care about his career as a driver why does he spend EVERY interview saying how much he doesn't care and how not being World Champion isn't important.

Spoon

Because he doesn't care maybe?

Davestamf

Good man Eddie. I always thought he was Edward, so amusing that he's Edmond. Thought that name disappeared with my grandad's generation.

Many Humbug Returns

He's not still famous at all. No-one outside of F1 fans would really know who the hell he is, and it'll only get worse as the years pass. He'll grow up one day and find himself lonely, old and washed up, with a drink problem.

johnfelstead

i dont think so!

The guy is constantly taking the **** out of the establishment, he cracks me up.

He isnt the playboy some people think either, he has a young daughter and spends a fair bit of time with her.

Eddie seems to have done incredibly well for a guy with average driving tallent, good for him.

Many Humbug Returns

He's about as funny as treading on an upturned plug.

Charmless and arrogant, not surprised his wife left.

fatherpierre

Average driving talent?

Does that mean I've got a shot at an F1 drive if that's all you need?

midget1500

one of lifes arrogant and brain dead *****. he can have his money, he's gotta have something going for him...

Beef

Lives the life I want to - top bloke

fatherpierre

A mate of yours is he, Midget?

ProperCharlie

all you need is to be rich to start off with, spend your youth driving carts and then get an F1 deal. There are a few great drivers out there but I reckon that many of them are no more talented then your average club driver. They just have more practice. Remember when you used to get the likes of whasisname Suzuki buying their drives? Ok, he was rubbish but he still made the 110% cut.

Charlie.

zoog

I agree. Never did buy all that hype about what mega talents/athletes they are. Shumi/Senna/Prost/ et al were the real deal, but the rest are not super heroes.

chiark

Sad IMHO.

Anyone who has to have a t-shirt with their name on in bright orange is in serious need of a lot of expensive psychotherapy.

He's an attention seeking braggard who consistently proved that his talent couldn't match the high expectations that his mouth keeped on setting. So he then belittled the things that he couldn't get because he didn't have the talent. Sad, very sad.

Top marks to him for living the life, but I can't help but think his image of himself is rather better than everyone else's, and that it's all rather superficial.

Rather sad in my books I'm afraid. I'm not a fan. And I'm not jealous, as I'd rather have the life that I have because the important things aren't a yacht or t-shirts with your name on it

ProperCharlie

That T Shirt did make me laugh a bit. I wonder if it's supposed to prevent people from having to ask him who he is...