This is in today’s Star :
“David Coulthard lived up to his reputation as one of a dying breed of playboy racing drivers yesterday when he compared driving in the sultry heat of Malaysia to having sex in a sauna.”
Asked during a routine pre-race news conference at the Sepang circuit about how it felt to drive a Formula One car in high humidity and temperatures of more than 33°C, the Scot gave a typically succinct reply. “It’s like having to do some physical exercise in a sauna, effectively, and unless it was having sex, I cannot imagine why anyone would want to do anything in a sauna,” said Couthard, 35 later this month.
When the conference moderator interjected, saying that he always “brought it down to that” Coulthard, who has had a series of model girlfriends without ever settling down or marrying, grinned and continued.
“We’re all here because of that, aren’t we – so I think it is a natural action between, normally a man and a lady, but sometimes.”
As laughter spread, the moderator interjected again.
“Stop there. Are there any other analogies that anyone else can give us?” he said, and the interview went into more traditional and serious territory.
It’s too late. The newsmen have picked it up. But did he really say that F1 was like having sex in the sauna? What he said was, “it’s like having to do some physical exercise in a sauna” and he wonders why anyone would want to do that unless it’s of the three-letter variety.
There’s no doubt about it though. Sex in the sauna makes great copy. It’s sizzling, it’s alliterative (words with initial consonant sounds) and it’s so naughty in its implication.
What other analogies could have been used to describe the intense heat on the race track? I suspect the drivers’ grey matters must’ve been fried on the circuit or they might have come up with comparisons like these :
“It’s like sun-bathing in a BBQ pit.”
“It’s like running a marathon in the Sahara dressed in an Eskimo’s fur.”
“It’s so hot on the track that I feel like driving in the nude.”
“It feels like driving through hell.” Wait, scrap that. How would they know unless they’ve been there?
Except, Lydia, the heat of a barbeque pit and the Sahara desert are both dry heat. No?
By: Dizery on March 17, 2006
at 7:26 pm
hmmm – they do know what sells. Alas, my blogspot is down – and i am blogless!!!!
By: kak teh on March 17, 2006
at 8:21 pm
dizery, ok. Throw in some light rain for humidity but it’s quite cumbersome to write it nicely then. Any suggestions?
KT, Yeah, that’s right. Hang on in there, meanwhile, you’re most welcomed here.
By: lydiateh on March 18, 2006
at 3:28 pm
How about “exercising in a sauna”?
By: Dizery on March 18, 2006
at 9:14 pm
You know, David Coulthard is a ‘Legend’. Naughty but sometimes nice.
how about using words like
being in a slow cooker?
jogging in a steam room?
sunbathing in the Gobi desert?
Eating curry Laksa in the Sauna?
Chewing feverishly at high speed at fresh Cili Padi…and nothing else?
Doing situps in a Sauna?
Cycling with an Eskimo suit through the Australian Desert?
Dunno…..maybe sex in a sauna is raunchy and naughty that it becomes natural.
come to think of it, none of the above suggestions sounds better than SEX IN THE SAUNA.
By: marsha on March 20, 2006
at 1:59 am
Dizery, exercising in a sauna could be “lifting weights in the sauna?”
Marsha, you’re on a roll, aren’t you? You’re right, sex in the sauna makes the other suggestions pale in comparison.
By: lydiateh on March 20, 2006
at 4:59 pm
well, he did mentioned that “unless it was having sex, I cannot imagine why anyone would want to do anything in a sauna”. so those reporters just jump at it. and the moderator didn’t make the the whole thing clearer…
By: Nor Ismat aka Radical Scope on June 12, 2007
at 10:49 pm