Comments on: Three First-Timers On A First-Timers Podium: Part II

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:39:13 +0000

Jody said on a Radio 4 program 10 minutes before the Italian Grand Prix started that he’d like to get the organic farm making a profit (which it’s not quite managing yet) before trying something else.

By: Steven Roy

Steven Roy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:21:41 +0000

I should have said the firearms thing lasted for 12 years not two.

So it should be
race 12
guns 12
food 12

I must read what I type before I post it.

By: Steven Roy

Steven Roy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:14:44 +0000

In the Motor SPort article he pointed out that he raced for 12 years then did his firearms training thing for 2 years and has now been doing the organic thing for a similar period of time so he is due to jump into something entirely different. Any guesses? I can’t see a logical path from racing to firearms to food to ……

By: Oliver White

Oliver White — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:45:50 +0000

You guys are such geeks. I welcome that on BlogF1 – great info, thanks. I genuinely had no idea what Scheckter was up to. It’s actually kinda interesting what drivers get up to with their millions during and after their racing careers.

By: Steven Roy

Steven Roy — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:39:29 +0000

Motor Sport did a 10 page item on Jody Scheckter 6-12 months ago. When he finished racing he went to America and set up a weapons training business for police, FBI etc. He sold it a decade ago for an obscene amount of money and bought a huge organic farm in England. Imagine the cost of 2,500 acres 40 miles from London. He has his own slaughterhouse and butchery. He has an enormous lab on the site full of PhDs to research how to do things better. It’s a bit like an organic university.

http://www.laverstokepark.co.uk/

By: me

me — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:22:00 +0000

in this pic, the man is actually stood in front of his organic market stall in the honda factory:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidepodcast/839713146/

By: Oliver White

Oliver White — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:52:50 +0000

Jody Scheckter’s only current involvement in racing was that his massive organic farm supplied Honda

@Steven: You serious? I never knew that.

I actually meant that he often gives his opinion to the media whenever something controversial or relevant to him happens (he was quite vocal about Mosley earlier in the year, or am I thinking of someone else?). Perhaps that doesn’t constitute “prominence”, but as his name still appears in the press in relation to motor sport, I thought it worth a mention with Lauda. In hindsight, I should have grouped Scheckter with Reutemann – still prominent, but not always within motorsporting circles.

By: Steven Roy

Steven Roy — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:33:18 +0000

I thought Jody Scheckter’s only current involvement in racing was that his massive organic farm supplied Honda which isn’t exactly a high profile role. I suppose the fact that his sons have been involved in racing has kept his name in the papers.

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