Hold on to your socks!

[mapguy]

Chin Jr is investing in a chain of 'erotic' stores. (http://www.autosport.com/pc_subscribe.asp?id=40977&s=5&p=1)

For those not subscribed to autosport.com's service here is the text:


Ralf Schumacher has joined a growing list of grand prix drivers with business interests outside of Formula 1 after confirming at the weekend that he is backing a leading sex store chain.

Hmm... I wonder what kind of clientele this place is targeting? Not that there is anything wrong with that...

[spinner26]

WTF! I mean a small race team with promise, a local distributor of fine beverages, an eatery, back something that makes sense. What is the return on investment here? Just doesn't seem to make good business sense. Oh well his dough to blow.

[Cam]

Another link here (http://www.planetf1.com/news/story_18149.shtml). No registration required. :D

[cart7]

Beate Uhse, which is Europe's leading sex store chain, sells more than 10,000 products, which range from erotic films to sex toys to racy lingerie.

I had to look at that twice, I swear I first thought it said "racing lingerie". :laugh:

[oddlycalm]

Even in his early years at the family kart track, little Ralphy's life long dream was always to be part owner of 8 sex shops in Slovenia. Who says it doesn't pay to dream the big dream...? :laugh:

oc

[Wheel-Nut]

It was either sex shops or Eldora Speedway and Tony Stewart got the speedway first.

LINK (http://www.speedtv.com/articles/nascar/auto/14138/)

[RTKar]

Hold on to your socks!


...isn't that supposed to be Holly Hocks?

[devilmaster]

Hold on to your socks!


...isn't that supposed to be Holly Hocks?

Or any other fine product that this chain sells, I guess......

Steve

[nissan gtp]

here's Frau Ralf's car in testing....

http://bilder.bild.t-online.de/BTO/sport/aktuell/2004/11/29/ralf__dienstwagen/schumacher__kopfgrafik,property=Bild.jpg





:gomer: :p

[Don Quixote]

how classy :rolleyes:

[Turn7]

how classy :rolleyes:

Would that be a classy chassis?

[pchall]

Al Unser, Jr. finally gets his F1 ride?

[pchall]

here's Frau Ralf's car in testing....

http://bilder.bild.t-online.de/BTO/sport/aktuell/2004/11/29/ralf__dienstwagen/schumacher__kopfgrafik,property=Bild.jpg

:gomer: :p


In Ralf's case, the correct term is "schatzie".

[Audi_A4]

za dildomeister-asshammer-wid-testicle-clamps TOYOTA will run in f-1 in '05

[Railbird]

Will these places feature a "Cora's Best" product line?

[anait]

I had to look at that twice, I swear I first thought it said "racing lingerie". :laugh:

:D La Vie en Rose sells some of dat dere stuff...saw it in T-O...less expensive here at home. :gomer:

[devilmaster]

:D La Vie en Rose sells some of dat dere stuff...saw it in T-O...less expensive here at home. :gomer:

Since you brought it up, anait......

Aren't you supposed to be modelling it here on OC for us? :D

Steve

[Easy]

WTF! I mean a small race team with promise, a local distributor of fine beverages, an eatery, back something that makes sense. What is the return on investment here? Just doesn't seem to make good business sense. Oh well his dough to blow.


Actually, the porn/adult entertainment/erotic/whatever you want to call it industry is one of the most sound investments you can make. Its like milk, demand is always there.

[Jervis Tetch 1]

Obviously you never Rupert Keegan's F1 March from the 70s. I found old pics from Google, but the site is gone, therefore I can't bring up the photos.

Striking though.

And Durex, manufacturerer of contraceptive devices sponsored Surtees and Keke Rosberg in the 70s. In fact for a joke some mechanics used to stick a condom on a dildo and planted it on Keke's Surtees. :rofl:

[Jag_Warrior]

Actually, the porn/adult entertainment/erotic/whatever you want to call it industry is one of the most sound investments you can make. Its like milk, demand is always there.


Sorta kinda. The trouble is so many companies are run by, or associated with shadey, wannabe mafioso types. But there's also the publicly owned PRVT (Private Media) and PLY (Playboy Enterprises) - though neither has done all that well. The ones that really seem to knock down the bucks are privately owned.

I think he should have just bought skanky Cora a webcam. Or do what the some time Grand Am racer, some time "spank me, daddy" video girl, Belinda Endress has done: start your own "video production company". Give Belinda a few sponsorship bucks, or donate to one of her "religious causes", she might throw in a free Steel Kittens video. ;)

[Sean O'Gorman]

From http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/formulaone/14463/:


First, he was going to invest in a Slovenian chain of erotic stores. Then he wasn’t, apparently forced to do so by his bigger brother.

That is great. Big brother Michael, forcing Ralfie to buy porn. :laugh:

[L1P1]

Well, talk to y'all after I get back from Slovenia. Got to check out new growth sectors....

(now, where'd I put that damn atlas...)