Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A 1980, Hunt kusan ya dawo tare da McLaren a United States Grand Prix West, yana neman dala miliyan 1 don tseren. Wannan damar ta zo ne lokacin da direba na yau da kullun Alain Prost ya karye wuyan hannunsa yayin atisaye don zagaye na baya a Afirka ta Kudu
, kuma rookie na Faransa ba shi da cikakkiyar dacewa don tuƙi a Long Beach. Babban mai daukar nauyin kungiyar, Marlboro, ya ba da rabin adadin amma tattaunawar ta ƙare bayan Hunt ya karya ƙafafunsa yayin tsere. A cikin 1982 Bernie Ecclestone, mai mallakar ƙungiyar Brabham, ya ba Hunt albashin £ 2.6 miliyan don kakar amma Hunt ya ƙi. A cikin 1990, Hunt yana cikin matsalar kuɗi tare da asarar £ 180,000 da aka saka hannun jari a Lloyd's na London kuma ya yi la'akari da dawowa tare da ƙungiyar Williams. Ya gwada a kan Paul Ricard Circuit 'yan watanni kafin gwada motocin zamani kuma ya kasance da yawa daga cikin sauri kuma ya yi imanin cewa zai kasance a shirye a jiki. Hunt yayi kokarin shawo kan John Hogan, Mataimakin Shugaban Kasuwancin Philip Morris Turai, don tallafawa yiwuwar dawowa, kuma ya gabatar masa da bayanin banki don tabbatar da cewa yana da bashi.