I’d like to know why the most unprepossessing racing drivers are the biggest philanderers. Unfathomable. Jenson Button is really uninteresting. I bet his conversation is mostly about gearboxes.
Ditto David Coulthard, who was probably at his peak 15 years ago: incredibly dull, had a square head, even the best chat show hosts couldn’t make him sound fun. No, it was just him, his cube-shaped head, his dull revelations about his diet and YAWN. Yet he put it about as well. The ladies must have been able to see past his vacant personality and into his bank account. I laughed a lot when he crashed his sports car in Monaco whilst taking some air hostesses for a spin.
Contrast them with Damon Hill, who is good value in an interview and doesn’t appear to have any scandal attached to him, and Ayrton Senna who did loads of charity work and apparently found it very easy not to behave like an arse. Maybe the boring ones get over-excited when they finally have something that attracts attention, like driving a car with a really big engine?
Actually, I just remembered, in Jordan’s first autobiography (I got it in The Works bargain bin a few years ago, best 15p I ever spent!) she was working as a ‘grid girl’ at a Grand Prix and got off with Michael Schumacher despite the heinous yellow satin jumpsuit she was required to wear. She said that he was very dull.