A Dario Franchitti Portrait
I’ll keep this short as it is a very long article but noteworthy for fans of [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/irl.png]IndyCar[/avatar] and Dario Franchitti. Kenny MacAskill writing for the Scotsman newspaper has penned “Big star, big country,” a piece that details his meeting and interview with Franchitti before and after the IRL’s event in Nashville.
I’ll leave it at that but will add this short exerpt and also recommend you read the rest:
Scots have followed the exploits of Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart and David Coulthard in F1 motor racing. Scots cheered their success, commiserated with their defeats, and grieved Clark’s death. Scotland would follow the exploits and endeavours of Franchitti with the same zeal, if only they were able to do so, and could read about him and watch him perform more.
He is an excellent role model; highly successful and clean-cut, with little vanity and no obvious bad habits. As we seek to tackle delinquency and anti-social behaviour, Scotland should be promoting, not ignoring him.
Franchitti deserves Scotland’s support and Scotland is entitled to follow his success. He is big in the Big Country. It’s time he was big in his own country.
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