F1 Livery Histories

F1 Livery Histories · 8 Feb 2018, 06:13 (Ref:3799471)

Hi everyone,

I'd like to share with you a youtube channel I launched last month called "F1 Livery Histories", which catalogues the different paint jobs, colour schemes & sponsors adopted by different Formula One teams over the years. For anyone who likes having a nostalgia rush, I hope you will enjoy these short documentaries I have been producing lately :-)

The first video in the series is on the very team that started it all, Colin Chapman's original Team Lotus.

F1 Livery Histories: LOTUS

Hope you enjoy!

coppice · 8 Feb 2018, 17:25 (Ref:3799627)

Err. shouldn't your picture show a 1968 Lotus 49 in Gold Leaf livery ?

F1 Livery Histories · 8 Feb 2018, 22:15 (Ref:3799704)

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Originally Posted by coppice

Err. shouldn't your picture show a 1968 Lotus 49 in Gold Leaf livery ?

Good call. The Gold Leaf livery was indeed the first ever sponsor's livery & very significant in F1 history. However, I don't think makes all that much difference.

Thanks for your feedback, hope you enjoyed the short film :-)

wnut · 9 Feb 2018, 00:08 (Ref:3799730)

This was actually the first sponsorship livery.

Rhodesian John Love's very pretty Team Gunston Brabham Repco with Gunston cigarette sponsorship at the 1968 South African Grand Prix.

Jim Clark won the race, his last GP, and we all know what that looked like.

Chapman just copied a good idea!

F1 Livery Histories · 9 Feb 2018, 00:44 (Ref:3799734)

Correct!

IIRC Lotus first showed up with their Gold Leaf livery at the Spanish GP. Full credit deserves to go to Love's team

**bjohnsonsmith** · 12 Feb 2018, 17:36 (Ref:3800748)

I've always been interested in liveries as they can do so much for a car, or not, as the case may be. So thanks for an interesting thread and for the link to your YouTube channel.

I just watched the Lotus episode and a couple of things stood out. During the section on the Lotus '79, it was interspersed with footage of a Lotus '91 at Goodwood. As for the Lotus '92, it raced in the 1983 season not the 1982 season. Otherwise very informative.

F1 Livery Histories · 14 Feb 2018, 22:37 (Ref:3801389)

Quote:

Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith

I've always been interested in liveries as they can do so much for a car, or not, as the case may be. So thanks for an interesting thread and for the link to your YouTube channel.

I just watched the Lotus episode and a couple of things stood out. During the section on the Lotus '79, it was interspersed with footage of a Lotus '91 at Goodwood. As for the Lotus '92, it raced in the 1983 season not the 1982 season. Otherwise very informative.

Thanks mate! Glad to hear you found the video informative, albeit with a couple of flaws here & there. Along with those two points you mentioned, I also referred to Champion as a brake pad supplier, rather than a spark plug manufacturer, so I'll be sure to iron out such mistakes for future videos.

I hope you'll keep following the video series as it unfolds :-)

F1 Livery Histories · 14 Feb 2018, 22:41 (Ref:3801390)

Allow me to post the second video in the series, this time on the colourful & vibrant Benetton F1 team.

Link: F1 Livery Histories: BENETTON

Armco Bender · 15 Feb 2018, 05:18 (Ref:3801432)

I always thought the first F1 sponsorship was the Vanwall Thinwall Special's of the 1950's.

F1 Livery Histories · 13 Apr 2018, 16:12 (Ref:3815235)

Hey everyone, just thought I'd share with you the most recent instalments to the series for anyone who feels like kicking back and reliving those retro liveries.

F1: Livery Histories: TYRRELL

F1: Livery Histories: STEWART

F1: Livery Histories: WILLIAMS

F1: Livery Histories: ARROWS

Peace!

Mekola · 15 Apr 2018, 20:18 (Ref:3815822)

Contact me dear friend of liveries, could tell some things during the Quilmes sponsorship in F1. Not only with Mazzacane at Minardi, but also in late 1940s, when the F1 stars came to Palermo woods and streets.

BSchneiderFan · 16 Apr 2018, 14:19 (Ref:3816016)

Always thought the Stewart F1 livery was very smart and well done. But then, JYS has a very astute commercial brain.

Mike Harte · 16 Apr 2018, 14:48 (Ref:3816018)

Quote:

Originally Posted by BSchneiderFan

Always thought the Stewart F1 livery was very smart and well done. But then, JYS has a very astute commercial brain.

Indeed, and more remarkable in view of his severe dyslexia which leads to a poor ability to read and write.

F1 Livery Histories · 2 May 2018, 05:13 (Ref:3818798)

Quote:

Originally Posted by BSchneiderFan

Always thought the Stewart F1 livery was very smart and well done. But then, JYS has a very astute commercial brain.

Arguably one if the neatest & tidiest looking team liveries to ever grace the track!

F1 Livery Histories · 26 May 2018, 07:04 (Ref:3824698)

Hey everyone. Back again with the most recently produced videos. This time I cover Bernie's team & those little yellow teapots.

F1 Livery Histories: BRABHAM

F1 Livery Histories: RENAULT

F1 Livery Histories · 27 May 2018, 05:36 (Ref:3824859)

Bernie's team & those little yellow teapots.

F1 Livery Histories: BRABHAM

F1 Livery Histories: RENAULT

Mekola · 31 May 2018, 07:48 (Ref:3825812)

Quote:

Originally Posted by wnut

This was actually the first sponsorship livery.

Rhodesian John Love's very pretty Team Gunston Brabham Repco with Gunston cigarette sponsorship at the 1968 South African Grand Prix.

Jim Clark won the race, his last GP, and we all know what that looked like.

Chapman just copied a good idea!

Wasn't Yeoman Credit the first known sponsor???

**bjohnsonsmith** · 31 May 2018, 11:10 (Ref:3825845)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mekola

Wasn't Yeoman Credit the first known sponsor???

I found this on Wikipedia about Yeoman Credit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeoman_Credit_Racing

Rob29 · 1 Jun 2018, 07:02 (Ref:3825973)

I think advertising brands on the car was banned before 1968-hence team name allowed-Thinwall spl,Vanwall,Yeoman Credit,Bowmaker-Yeoman;UDT-Laystall?

F1 Livery Histories · 18 Jun 2018, 12:46 (Ref:3831627)

Latest vid of the series. F1 needs an Irish team again.

F1 Livery Histories: JORDAN

Spyderman · 20 Jun 2018, 13:34 (Ref:3832094)

Quote:

Originally Posted by wnut

This was actually the first sponsorship livery.

Rhodesian John Love's very pretty Team Gunston Brabham Repco with Gunston cigarette sponsorship at the 1968 South African Grand Prix.

Jim Clark won the race, his last GP, and we all know what that looked like.

Chapman just copied a good idea!

I was a boy at the time and saw this car race many times. Love was my first racing hero.

F1 Livery Histories · 28 Jul 2018, 10:25 (Ref:3839261)

Hi everyone. Couple more videos have been created in the F1 Livery Histories series. This time we've got an automotive giant in Toyota & everyone's favourite underdog team, Minardi. Hope you enjoy :-)

F1 Livery Histories: TOYOTA

F1 Livery Histories: MINARDI

Mekola · 1 Aug 2018, 03:14 (Ref:3840531)

Then you must know the story between Minardi and the minor formula series & Indycar = Their links with Sighinolfi et al and also Stoddy's adventures at the States.

F1 Livery Histories · 1 Aug 2018, 12:16 (Ref:3840601)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mekola

Then you must know the story between Minardi and the minor formula series & Indycar = Their links with Sighinolfi et al and also Stoddy's adventures at the States.

I actually don't know very much about Indycar at all tbh. Were there any notable drivers that Minardi picked up through Indycar?

wnut · 3 Aug 2018, 09:35 (Ref:3841039)

I guess the real truth is that John Love and Gunston just copied Indycar and their sponsorship liveries.

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