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[AndreasF1]

According to the Austrian news agency ORF, Christian Klien has been charged with assaulting another person at dance club in Austria. The victim was hospitalized but released after one night with minor injuries. The owner of the dance club "Enjoy" in Altach claims that two girls in Klien's group of ten started a brawl with another male who was injured in the process. He also alleged that Klien has caused problems in the past and as a result has been banished from the club with imediate effect.

http://vorarlberg.or.../stories/90711/

[Uxoros]

After Kimi, it's Christian Klien's time to be charged with assault by poor journalists.

[petert]

Not surprising. A 23 year old who likes to live life on the edge. I was in a barfight or 2 in my young days.

[dai_ferrari]

Originally posted by AndreasF1
According to the Austrian news agency ORF, Christian Klien has been charged with assaulting another person at dance club in Austria. The victim was hospitalized but released after one night with minor injuries. The owner of the dance club "Enjoy" in Altach claims that two girls in Klien's group of ten started a brawl with another male who was injured in the process. He also alleged that Klien has caused problems in the past and as a result has been banished from the club with imediate effect.

http://vorarlberg.or.../stories/90711/

And we have heard Klein's side of the story about these *alleged* incidents from this same news agency?

[zac510]

It's on F1total.com.. something about a fine there too.

[kismet]

Interesting. Except that it appears I don't actually care what celebs get up to in their spare time.

[SeanValen]

I think his aggression in the fight, will pay dividends on the track, if he fine tunes that aggression in a controled aggression mixed with taking candy from a baby mentality, we might see him up a few tenths in performance throughout the season against DC. Bolds well, good news.

[HBoss]

Originally posted by SeanValen
I think his aggression in the fight, will pay dividends on the track, if he fine tunes that aggression in a controled aggression mixed with taking candy from a baby mentality, we might see him up a few tenths in performance throughout the season against DC. Bolds well, good news.

aggressive drunk bar fighting = 113 miliseconds faster in qualifying

[Lontano]

Originally posted by HBoss


aggressive drunk bar fighting = 113 miliseconds faster in qualifying

you can't know until the season starts, maybe he was fighting with extra-soft shoes to impress the crowd

[PhilKerr]

I always thought he was a bit effiminate till this thread, wearing ear rings, allegedly being gay etc, he is clearly trying to show he has a macho side

[dai_ferrari]

Originally posted by PhilKerr
I always thought he was a bit effiminate till this thread, wearing ear rings, allegedly being gay etc, he is clearly trying to show he has a macho side

Who cares if he's a silly flaming ****** or a hard nosed macho man as long as he can drive an F1 car on the limit and do it faster than his teammate?

[BlackCat]

good news. present-day youth needs some real role models - like James Hunt was a role model for my generation

[PhilKerr]

Originally posted by dai_ferrari




Who cares if he's a silly flaming ****** or a hard nosed macho man as long as he can drive an F1 car on the limit and do it faster than his teammate?

I couldn't care less if Klien is gay or not, I was not taking a dig at his sexuality, I was merely saying that I have always imagined him as the Nick Heidfeld type who wouldn't say boo to a goose whereas now it sounds like he is another Jos

If he is gay then thats his own private business but I was merely surprised that he is capable of giving someone a hiding

[brett_sequeira]

boo to a goose

thats something i must try in summer when the geese and the ducks come back.

[dai_ferrari]

Originally posted by PhilKerr


I couldn't care less if Klien is gay or not, I was not taking a dig at his sexuality, I was merely saying that I have always imagined him as the Nick Heidfeld type who wouldn't say boo to a goose whereas now it sounds like he is another Jos

If he is gay then thats his own private business but I was merely surprised that he is capable of giving someone a hiding

Well, like Brett said, you had me laughing a bit with the *boo to a goose* bit there. But I would think most F1 drivers because they are so fit, and in incredible shape could put a nice whooping on quite a few people, despite many a diminuitive stature.

[zac510]

Wonder if he could take on a London black cab driver then?

[Welsh]

I remember from ITVF1 during one race where we saw Klien and Luizzi were sharing a house together - I remember Klien having a new double bed being delivered etc etc.......

nudge nudge wink wink say no more, know what I mean nudge nudge wink wink

[dai_ferrari]

Originally posted by zac510
Wonder if he could take on a London black cab driver then?

Why? What kind of brutes drive a London black cab?

[Al.]

Originally posted by dai_ferrari


Why? What kind of brutes drive a London black cab?

Gachot was charged with assault for spraying CS gas into a London Cabby's face during a row.
He was jailed and a certain M. Schumacher was drafted into the Jordan for the 1991 Belgium GP to replace him.

[xype]

Well he does look like a true austrian Prolet ™, it was time he started acting like one.

At least Wurz has class. Berger had humour. And Niki 3 World Championships. All Klien has is a ghey earring.

[Punisher6]

Originally posted by Uxoros
After Kimi, it's Christian Klien's time to be charged with assault by poor journalists.

What? Are you saying that it's the media charging him with assault? I guess the laws are different over seas

[vroom-vroom]

This is silly. Thirty years ago, real F1 hotshots were involved in more serious stuff

[le chat noir]

Originally posted by vroom-vroom
This is silly. Thirty years ago, real F1 hotshots were involved in more serious stuff

Do we know who that is?

Is is Crazy Jean Alesi?

Good seeing the birds scarper... classy ending... nutter!

[Rene]

Originally posted by le chat noir
Do we know who that is?

Is is Crazy Jean Alesi?

Good seeing the birds scarper... classy ending... nutter!

I have heard it was in fact G.Villeneuve, the clue being both the Ferrari, and Gilles was known to drive this way all of the time....ask Professor Sid Watkins about his experience of driving with Gilles in Rio!

[Ross Stonefeld]

Most people accept the movie was made by the director, and the sound is dubbed in.

[ensign14]

Hitler's big joke:

Zere vere zees two peanuts valking down ze road and von vas assaulted! Peanut.

[Ross Stonefeld]

offal

[HBoss]

Originally posted by Ross Stonefeld
Most people accept the movie was made by the director, and the sound is dubbed in.

If you scroll way to the bottom of http://bligdogomes.b...m.br/index.html ,you'll find a link to the video and a small text about it. Basically, it says that the driver in the film was either Jacques Laffite or Jacky Ickx, but authorities never found out.

http://bligdogomes.b...agens/paris.jpg outlines the route taken in the filme.

[fastlegs]

Originally posted by vroom-vroom
This is silly. Thirty years ago, real F1 hotshots were involved in more serious stuff

This clip seems phoney to me.

If you look closely it appears that the driver is not going that fast. I also think the sound was dubbed over the video footage.

[F1Johnny]

It does seem odd. And the speed is too constant.

[Menace]

It's because it is not that high-quality and is on Google video IMO. Perhaps someone has another clip they could upload to rapidshare or something?

I would find it odd if they would have faked something like this, especially given the director got arrested?

[SkorbiF1]

Well, I've seen the "Ghostrider" movies, and if this clip is real, it goes into the same genre too:
the driver should have crashed to a tree or a building and paralyzed for life.

[Menace]

I own two Ghostrider movies and really can't understand your sentiment? You feel this way because they are doing this on the public roads? I understand someone feeling outraged about these guys endangering innocent bystanders etc. but wishing them to die???

[SkorbiF1]

Originally posted by Menace
I own two Ghostrider movies and really can't understand your sentiment? You feel this way because they are doing this on the public roads? I understand someone feeling outraged about these guys endangering innocent bystanders etc. but wishing them to die???

Your opinions might chance after you've lost your sister and her 17 yr old daughter because of someone that does not obey the rules on public roads.
btw, I talked about paralyzing so that they could never drive a car, not death.

[edit] I have no hard feelings for the guy that was responsible for my sister's accident, that was not on purpose, just a bad brainfade on a road with 100km/h speedlimit.
But if it would have been a guy driving like this... [/edit]

[MrSlow]

Originally posted by Menace
but wishing them to die???

When driving like that - would they really mind? They do not care about other peoples life either, that is the bad thing.

I do not want them dead, but they should have their balls kicked in.

[F1Johnny]

Originally posted by SkorbiF1

Your opinions might chance after you've lost your sister and her 17 yr old daughter because of someone that does not obey the rules on public roads.
btw, I talked about paralyzing so that they could never drive a car, not death.

[edit] I have no hard feelings for the guy that was responsible for my sister's accident, that was not on purpose, just a bad brainfade on a road with 100km/h speedlimit.
But if it would have been a guy driving like this... [/edit]

That's really tough. I'm really sorry for your loss.

[zac510]

Originally posted by Ross Stonefeld
Most people accept the movie was made by the director, and the sound is dubbed in.

There is one point in which he seems to shift down 5 times. I didn't think the Ferrari has a 6 speed box.. does it?

[Menace]

Sorry to hear that SkorbiF1. I understand better now.

[Dudley]

Originally posted by brett_sequeira
boo to a goose

thats something i must try in summer when the geese and the ducks come back.

Surprisingly little happens.

[macoran]

Would Alesi from Avignon know Paris well enough to ditch a car at such speeds
into some of the sidestreets ?

For me only Arnoux could have done something like this....non of the other French
F1 drivers would be so crazy ?

[BRG]

Originally posted by macoran
Would Alesi from Avignon know Paris well enough to ditch a car at such speeds
into some of the sidestreets ?

Forget Alesi - the film was made in 1978 when Jean was 14 years old.

[plmoknijb]

Originally posted by Menace
It's because it is not that high-quality and is on Google video IMO. Perhaps someone has another clip they could upload to rapidshare or something?

I would find it odd if they would have faked something like this, especially given the director got arrested?

Nope, I've seen a proper quality version of it and thought exactly the same. In fact, in addition to that, I thought to myself 'I'm glad I didn't spend money on this fraud'. I suggest that others do the same!

Not that I'm saying he should have been driving faster, rather, it just shouldn't have been made/released at all because there's nothing in it that warrants this. Which is presumably why the police didn't bother finding out who the driver was.

[Lontano]

he may not be running at 140MPH (he was passing cars too slow yo be running that fast), but he was obviously running faster than he should, and did ignore a few red lights.

[Orin]

Klien and Red Bull appear to refute the story in its entirety (see the Grapevine). Sounds like press mischief-making.

[BRG]

Originally posted by Orin
Klien and Red Bull appear to refute the story in its entirety (see the Grapevine). Sounds like press mischief-making.

Surely you're not saying that the Calgary Sun is making this up?

[lukywill]

so klien caught speeding with a ferrari in paris while a man gets spanked in a discoteque by laffite :/
who needs red bull wings, lelouche the master.

[Red ITC]

http://en.wikipedia...._un_rendez-vous

Hardly the worst driving seen on the streets of Paris...

[Jerome]

On google:

C'etait un Rendezvous was filmed in 1976 throughout the streets of paris and taken in one shot using a car mounted camera. It's been said that the sound was dubbed over after the fact but so it goes with anything this spectacular - there are believers and doubters (as seen from the comments section at Autoblog). None however can deny the number of red lights, wrong way turns, near misses and sheer exhiliration throughout this nine minute short film. Seven minutes into it and my jaw was dropped wide open. When the film first debuted in 1976 the French director Claude Lelouch was arrested and because of this the film has remained underground for a number of years.

The car is not driving that fast as it seems, but the speed looks illegal enough...

[vroom-vroom]

Originally posted by MrSlow

When driving like that - would they really mind? They do not care about other peoples life either, that is the bad thing.

I do not want them dead, but they should have their balls kicked in.

For Chrissake, it's a short movie. Whether it's fake or not, I don't care. What I hate, though, is *supposedly* politically correct BS as above. Does this happen only in America? So, to come back to the topic at hand, do you also think, MrSlow, that Klien endangered other peoples lifes by being involved in a drunken brawl? No answers needed. Grow up.

[Ross Stonefeld]

How many people are killed annually in car incidents, how many in bar fights?