These 9 famous snake drivers did St. Patrick proud

[Hagerty]

It's Saint Patrick's Day, a holiday well known for the wearin' o' the green and tipping back a pint of Irish stout. Saint Patrick, however, has a reputation for driving all of the snakes off the Emerald Isle. Naturally, his favorite motorsports personalities would also be famous snake drivers, right?
https://www.hagerty.com/media/motorsports/these-9-famous-snake-drivers-did-st-patrick-proud/

[drm101]

You should check out Chris Winkler. Not famous, but Chrysler used him to threaten magazine test drivers. Go faster, or they'll send Chris out to the track. He is a heck of driver, and good people.

[Elsie]

St Pat's Day and racing Alfas also had a 4 leaf clover on various surfaces of the cars.Worked for many years!

[drhino]

Quadrifoglio.

For those that don’t know the story behind Alfa’s use of it:

https://petrolicious.com/articles/more-than-luck-the-story-of-alfa-romeo-s-quadrifoglio-badge

[50s60s70s]

It just goes to show that no matter where folks are from or the color of their skin, we all have a bit of Irish in us. Let's sit down today and have pints until the old lady in the corner with no teeth looks good enough to take home 🍺☘🍀...

[MWL]

Could have also mentioned Keith Tanner at Flyin' Miata with his V8 "Habu" Miata conversion. "Habu" is also a Japanese pit viper.

[Gary_Bechtold]

I miss the Viper. It should still be out there giving the Corvette competition.

[9lbhammer]

I miss it less now that I know I'll never have the 100K plus consumables to run one like it's supposed to be ran. Not sure what that says about me. Maybe I'm just a hater ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[DUB6]

Maybe, but you're sure an impressive keystroke emoji maker!  😃

[SFSGM]

What? No AH-1 Cobra pilots? 🙂

[BillHanlon]

... or SR-71 "Habu" pilots?

[Brandan]

But St. Patrick drove the snakes out, he didn't fly them.

[gtokdx1]

I now have so much respect for Ken Miles after seeing the movie Ford vs Ferrari! Twice!!!

[DUB6]

I don't even know a few of these guys (a Scandinavian drift driver?  who knew?) - but I sure as heck know about Don Prudhomme.  I've done a few different kinds of automotive sports in my day, but my favorite of all was drag racing.  And anyone who was even just a casual observer in the big glory days of 1/4 mile drags knows about "The Snake" and his battles with "Mongoose".  Decent snake choices in the article, but Don is top o' the heap to me!