Postby Hasbeen » 29 Jan 2009 00:08
John, you can't just decide to be a motoring journalist, you have to
practice incopentence first. I doubt that many who contribute here
could ever achieve such a low level.
You have to be able to drive into a corner at 5 tenths, [thinking
you are at 9 tenths], floor the throttle, then describe the
resultant rear end breakaway as oversteer, before you can even apply
for membership of the guild of motoring writers. What's more, you
have to actually believe the cr4p you write, to gain full membership.
In Oz we had the saying, "if you can't do it, write about it, but if
that deosn't work, you can always teach". I am sure the teachers
here will have met some of these people trying to enter their profession.
There are exceptions. The UKs Dennis Jenkinson had forgotten more
about motoring, by the time he was co-driving with Mossy, than most
of us will ever learn.
In Oz we had my old boss, David Mckay, who in his 50s, was only a
second or so slower than me, for a couple of laps, in his F1
Brabham. Of course he used his motoring editors position, to keep
his racing team sponsors happy, so that was all right.
Hasbeen
