THE LAST WILLIAMS CHAMPION! The Story of the Williams FW19 (1997)
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- When I was a kid, Williams was the team to beat. Damon Hill was a household name and a national treasure. Villeneuve on the other hand... Eh, not so much.
But the Williams FW19 was the last hurrah for Williams. It's the last driver's championship winner, and last constructors winner for the team from Grove and it's been a long old wait for us Williams fans. But like most other championship winners, it's an evolution of what came before. So let's look at how it ended up being how it was.
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It's such a pity Williams never got another title in the BMW era.
They should have done better with the BMW engine
Very interesting and informative 👍
That Winfield livery was wrong, I mean it looked the business but it was sacrilege
From memory Villeneuve had repeatedly been caught ignoring yellow flags in free practice all season and had been warned, fined, given a suspended one race ban and been told he was on his “absolute totally very last chance” before Suzuka. So his race under appeal was Williams’ way of circumventing the one race ban whilst trying to get as many points off of Schumacher as possible. (I vividly remember him driving so slow in front of Schumacher even the Minardi’s were in a train behind him) they were never going to avoid the DQ after the race.
I have no idea how many times Schumacher got caught doing the same thing all season. It’d be interesting to know…
(My source for this is the 1997 season review VHS so… possibly very wrong)
That's similar to how I remember why he hot the DSQ in Japan
No that's pretty much correct from what I have from the Australian TV broadcast. Villeneuve had been nailed a few times during the season for it and was on a suspended one race ban. He tried to argue everyone else was doing it and therefore it was a double standard but former F1 World Champion Alan Jones said on the broadcast that wasn't a good enough excuse and Villeneuve should have been more careful at this race because he was on a suspended one race ban. Was it good old fashioned Ferrari International Aid? Maybe, but you couldn't fault the stewards for upholding the one race ban.
Whenever I look at those old Williams pre-Rothmans, I always wonder: If Seb was going to Williams (I know, it ain't gonna happen today), would he have gotten his number 5 in red, like Nigel Mansell had?
Seb tested a Williams way back in the 00s. If BMW stayed at Williams he would've probably gone there
@@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303 I would guess, that he still would have ended up at toro rosso.
@@HeavyMetalGamingHD I'm not so sure, he was a BMW-backed driver before he was an RB Junior. A line-up of Rosberg and Vettel wouldn't have been too far-fetched
@@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303 he was both at the same time for quite a while. that's why he immediately got a seat at toro rosso after he scored with BMW sauber.
@@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303 But that was at a time when they didn't have permanent starting numbers like today. I'm talking since 2014.
As a slightly stupid 11 year old, I thought in 1998 that it was the red livery (wrong) and Mecachrome engines (sort of right) that caused the team to slip down the pecking order in 1998.
I didn't know who Adrian Newey was.
A red Williams has always been wrong. There was the time when Frank had the Iso-Marlboro team (pre-Williams) which was red and green and it just looks flat out weird.
12 year old Quebecois me thought the red was some sort of curse on my hero JV, he had done all of his winning in blue and white cars (both in CART and F1) before 1998
@@senorsoupe And you're not a Quebec separatist out of this? Because that would've been ample ammunition for some!
It was the same 97 engine, just rebadged.
@@emankcin1701 I know this now - I was 11 in 1998. Did you know that then?
I don't really blame Jacques too much, because a lot of the "driver error" flaws seemed to be car-based - it slid a LOT, far moreso than anything else on the grid that season. So if the setup was dialed in, JV usually romped to a win. If it was just a *little* bit out of sorts, all bets were off. Combine that with the pressure to do what dad couldn't and it's no real shock that he made some errors (the Canadian GP especially).
I always love the trivia point that Jacques and The Michael never wound up on the same podium. Weird season.
(Now let's wait for Larry Walker to downvote this video).
97 the last season when you needed almost unpretencended skill to control the car.
Enjoy this one. Would be great to hear more about the Ferrari F2002. Often feel that gets overshadowed the 2004 car. But it could be argued it was more successful compared to the 2004, or?
John Newhouse? Yeah, I liked late 90s F1 games too.
john newhouse!
love it!
lol
newhouse= maisonneuve
villeneuve= newtown
jack newtown!
1997 was the last year where everything - cars, tyres and engines - was as it should be. Broad, slick and loud. After that year and up until today, at least one of these key ingredients was/is wrong somehow.
Maybe there's a connection to the demise of a "real" racing outfit like Williams, but what do I know.
@Ian James completely agree. 2009 is the only year to bear some resemblance ever since.
Amazing to think that Williams letting Damon Hill go started the butterfly effect towards their championship demise.
Think Newey leaving was a much bigger impact than hill
They had the habit of dropping their champions years before.
I think it was the killing of the great Ayrton Senna in the deathtrap with the broken steering column that started the downward spiral the team so truly deserved.
@@alamcwa Newey left because he wasn't consulted about Hill's firing. As I say, butterfly effect.
@@azapro911 Newey left because he wanted a similar job and pay to Patrick Head and he wasn’t going to get it. So left.
Love your stories. This is a hard story to tell in such a short time.
I remember the race in Australia because Jacques had outqualified his teammate by nearly two seconds, and the commentators were talking about Damon Hill who was struggling, and that he might not even make the grid because Villeneuve was so fast, the there was the 107% rule. Come race day, my brother and I would record the race to watch later, but this day he watched it live as well. He watched until the first corner when Ervine plowed straight forward and took out Villeneuve, then turned off the television in disgust.
Someone had drawn a cartoon of Irvine as a red rocket shortly after the race. No wheels to turn the corner with, just straight on into the Williams.
1995 doesn't get mentioned enough in terms of how bad Williams were with their strategies, Benetton ran rings around them in 1994 and 1995 with Schumacher and Brawn
They had a tendency to do that brawn and Schumacher did
On top of which I recall the Williams pit stops, for some reason, tended to always be longer than ANY other team on the grid (including the backmarkers). Where Benetton would do a 5.2s, Williams would be 7-ish.... Every. Single. Time.
Sure there was refueling, but they were stopping within the same range of laps, and the engine was the same from 95 to 99.
I never understood why, and while I was more a fan of The Michael then, I thought any Williams fan would go mad over it.
Apart from Brawn and Mr. Safety actually cheating while at Benetton!
@@2007MXV you see. They didn’t really. There’s no conclusive evidence that says they used it. Because like all the other people on the field they were running the previous year’s electronics. What Senna noticed was Schumacher being able to be on the throttle while breaking. And his throttle patterns that made it look like the car had traction control. See the option 13 video on well this channel for a better explanation
Johnny Herbert was Benettons secret weapon. Much faster than Verstappen but no threat to Schumacher. I wonder about an alternative reality where Herbert, Brundle and DC never injured their legs and a still Living wealthy Graham Hill put his son in carting at 14.
F1 97 'Williams Number One'
'You're right there, Murray.'
My gf of the time (I was 15) was in love with Newtown, and I was a die hard Schu fan. Battle joined.
@@lostalone9320 Schumacher tried to punt Villeneuve off and an entire nation lost its shit laughing.
She began yelling Schu is a cheat and I was shouting Newtown is a wanker. Which he was and is. We stayed together until the end of school.
Ah yes John Newhouse the knockoff video game Jacques Villeneuve thanks to copyright
Hopefully a video on the Williams-BMW years is on the cards. Or better yet, a video of BMW's time in F1. From building a turbocharged inline 4 in the 80s that produced more power than their dyno could measure (and later being rebranded as Megatron engines, the coolest name you could give to an engine) to building the most powerful and best sounding V10s of the early 2000s to... dropping development of their 08 car to focus on the new 09 regs which unfortunately didn't go too well (which also ruined Kubica's chances of winning the driver's championship in 08 as a result).
Imagine how different F1 would be right now if Kubica had won. At least there'd still be Polish interest in F1.
Really wish JPM had this honour
He was Williams test driver in 97, so in a way he had.
@@emankcin1701 ah but he was not Williams WDC... is what I meant. Screw the car!
For me the FW19 is one of the best looking F1 cars.
Low, wide and the Rothmans livery. Chefs kiss.
FW18 looked slightly better
1997 was the year of my birth so the FW19 is kinda special to me. Last Williams to win a championship, last with a works Renault engine, last with input from Adrien Newey and the last with the Rothmans livery (along with the JPS Lotus livery it's my all-time favourite)
Also the last time F1 had V10s with slick tires. It was quite the special year.
For me this was the high point of my F1 watching career. These days it is vaguely interesting but not much more.
*The Forgotten Williams Champion*
People remember damon's championship victory than jacques' championship victory
A video on intellectual property in F1 may be a good idea. The VW entry is a good case study. VW owns two brands. It is said Audi is using a prototype engine formerly developed by Porsche and Porsche maybe teaming up with Red Bull PowerTrain to leverage on Honda technology... what would Honda say? What other constructors say on potential scale esconomies and synergies within the VW group?!
Can't believe it's been 25 years since Jock Vilneuf won the title...
I remember watching those Schuey/Williams battles on TV in middle school and high school, hearing that it's been 25 years made me go 😲
If that 97 Williams was reliable and ol Jack didn't forget his glasses sometimes he'd of walked that year. At one point he'd won every race he finished bar like 1 but that was after 12 rounds.
If. Schumacher beat a still strong Benetton team in a tractor in 1996. Irvine was not only crushed by a rather struggling Frentzen but DC, Gerhard, Jean and Mika all beat him in inferior machinery in 1997.. He was a good driver, but it was true what DC said. He finished 15 rounds in 1999 to Mikas 11, Frentzens 11 and Coulthards 9.
There's another version of the 1997 championship story. Head was not too keen of Newey and he saw AN's departure as a way to prove himself in an earea he had no expertise for.
So the two championships in 1997 were won DESPITE Patrick Head's best efforts not to. Head enforcing a particular setup despite drivers' feedback, drivers working with the mechanics to change it back when Head was not looking...
For an even closer and more personal outlook on the '97 season, I highly, highly recommend the F1 Beyond the Grid podcasts where Jock Clear and Patrick Head are guests. Really eye opening about how bizarre Jacques car was setup and how that season was from within Williams.
Link?
@@marioskoni5311 you'd probably be better off searching it, TH-cam's moderation seems to auto-delete most comments with external links.
Williams and Head should have given the team to Newey.
On the other hand, Frentzen doubles Irvine and Jacques doubles HHF. It wasn't somehow. Even in a bad year Heinz was much better than the boozey Irishman. Jacques easily beat Heinz but wasn't there?
Jacques Villeneuve - the former F1 champion no-one seems to want to hear what his opinions are. I feel he's almost unfairly maligned.
If you want proof, look no further than his father, who is still loved by the community, albeit it's the older generation. One could also say the same concerning Nelson Piquet.
@@Limegreenedragon I thought Senna was also still loved to this day as well, maybe from a younger generation sense...?
To OP.
At least he's not Eddie Irvine. Irv the swerve made his career from being "2nd best behind Schumacher" and ironically became an inadvertent sycophant of his. At least he almost won the 1999 title and raised his game following Schumacher's accident. I don't see somebody as constantly overrated as Perez doing the same should Verstappen be injured somehow and forced to sit out most races.
As Jenson Button said recently "I am not a former WDC, I am a WDC". As is Villeneuve.
@@paulallen8109 I agreed with the first sentence, but the final one was a bit too much. Perez has shown he can be competitive and win races when bad luck befalls Max. I don't quite rate him as high as Leclerc or Norris, for example, but if Max were to (God forbid, and that goes for all the drivers) have an injury which sidelined him for most of the season, I still think Perez could have a go for the title.
Fw19. My all time favourite racing car. Would love to see it in person one day. We had everything booked to go to the Williams museum in 2020 from Melbourne, but bloody COViD stuffed everything. Thanks Aidan 👍 content is awesome as always
Funny, as a Canadian, Damon Hill was always just Jacques' teammate.
8:35 it must be said at Monaco Williams made the idiotic decision to start both drivers on silcks on a wet track. I don't know what weather forecast they saw that day but it was an horrendously bad decision
Also I'm not mistaken the reason Jacques got DQ for Japan is because he racked up too many offenses/penalties during the season and was on his final warning before Japan
I'm on a fb group that has ex-Williams mechanics as members. I vaguely remember a story one of them said that they hired a weather dude for the weekend, but the guy's computer with the relevant radar details malfunctioned at the crucial moment.
@@donnypopovski7251 Interesting thanks for that development because the decision just looks so strange everyone else were on wets aside from DC I believe
Your story starts with Traction Control in the 90's. Funny how there's 19 F1 drivers today that wish they had Traction Control so they could be smooth like Checo.
Gilles Villeneuve would actually be "John Newtown/city" not house, probably "Gilbert" rather than "John" too
Source: I speak French
Also, Williams 97 season is proof that even with just competent enough drivers (at least in that car, they had brighter moments elsewhere) a good car will win the championship, even if it´s more difficult than it actually should have with top tier talent at the wheel (which HIll wasn´t either, at least in the consistency department)
It's John Newhouse
Source: I played F1 games from the 90s when JV didn't allow his name to be licensed.
@@AidanMillward oh like the old Winning Eleven games where you had "Peli" and "Baquistata" or "Maradone" instead of Batistuta or Maradona. "Man red" and "North London" instead of Man U and Arsenal were classics too.
Guess they mistranslated JV surname as an extra dig to him. Good old times and now I get the joke ^^
@@mafiousbj Or just mistranslated it on purpose so he couldnt' file a lawsuit. They even took a picture of one of the Microprose employees and had him portrayed as a real driver.
@@AidanMillward you could totally review or play for fun those old non simulator games in a stream! It would be nostalgia for some and discovery for others!
It’s Jock Voonuf and his Ronalt V10!
An very nice video, Aeydin!
Micky Shoemaker
Is that a Paul page reference?
Villeneuve's undoing was his manager Craig Pollock who pretty much spoiled him. This is the prime reason his career gloriously stalled when he was on top. Though if if he was in the sport to earn money he sure succeeded.
You don't think his career stalling wasn't due to JV being an average driver spoiled by always driving the best cars, riding on the coattails of his father's name ?
@@johnandrews3568, an average driver? Wins the 1995 Indianapolis 500 and the 1995 Indy championship. First F1 race in Australia, pole position, fastest lap, lead 53 of 68 laps, finishes 2nd. 1997 WDC. I could go on. I don't think that is the resume of an average driver.
His greatest demise was listening to his manager and believing that BAR would be a contender.
@@michaelfrench9062 I mean an average driver in the best cars. Take his father as an example. a master driver who drove a lot of shit cars and yet still scored points and won races DESPITE his equipment. When JV got a car anything less than perfect, he vanished from top tier racing. Hamilton will suffer the same fate... IS suffering the same fate now.
@@johnandrews3568 The 1999 BAR was a piece of junk and the 1998 Williams wasn't much better.
@@johnandrews3568 Michael might have gotten 95 points in the Williams. Jacques would be a far better number 2 than Irvine but wasn't interested. He's a great driver but Schumacher was just better as was Hakkinen.
You don't double Frentzen and nearly quadruple Irvine if you are a mediocre driver. Both Williams drivers finished the season reliable so Jacques crashes have something of the car in them.
Button was desperate by 2003 and used all his inherent racepace to stay in F1. He ended up beating Jacques handily. Villeneuve only outscored Panis 4-3:in 2002 after easily besting the Gallic driver in 2001. Panis was said to be as fast as DC when he tested for McLaren.
He was 7-5 ahead of Heidfeld in qualifying in 2006 when his season ended. He was also much more consistent than Kubica who had that one spectacular podium. Heidfeld beat Kubica one season and was close another.
jv was dq because he had a suspended ban for a similar offence. also your acting like 1997 was hhf only season and f1 and ignored his previous heroics with sauber or him almost winning the title in 99 in a midfield car. Also bmw never had a stake in williams it was just a works engine supply and a title sponsor deal.
Not acting at all. Frentzen never got to grips with the car that season, this much is fact.
He was like Fisichella, good in a midfield car but when it came to driving at a top team never showed that same form, especially with all the hype that came with him that he was faster than Schumacher in sports cars.
@@AidanMillward Still crushed Irvine. It was funny in 1999 when DC said he would hope Irvine would come close with 15 race finishes. DC had 6 mechanical DNF'S that year and one bonehead. Mika had 3 Mechanical DNF'S and two bonehead DNF'S. The more famous of the latter found the Finn crying by a track in Italy. Hakkinen scored 55% more per race finish in 1999 than Eddie. Even DC was at a 20% higher clip than the Irishman.
Frentzen and Fisichella did their jobs. However, you have to say HHF recovered his form far more spectacularly than Fisichella. It may be a drubbing by an all time great is more traumatic than one by a very very good driver like Jacques.
He was beat by Heikke then got way worse results in the 2009 Ferrari than Felipe and Raikkonen did.
I think the paucity of Italian Champions and the opportunity he had at Renault broke his spirit.
If I remember correctly, Newhouse already had a suspended ban for previous ignoring of yellow flags that year and the rule makers lost patience with him even though the suspension period had passed. That is why he got a dsq while Schumacher didn't.
I wonder if Damon stayed at Williams in 97...
You could argue that there were 2 three letter words that would help improve Williams. One being BMW, yes. The other one being JPM. But just when it looked like Williams would wage an assault on Ferrari's dominance ... Kimi's 2003 happened. Then the F2004 happened. Then JPM was gone.
Hilarious Aidan i hope your never fired yourself, hiring 2 different drivers means youve been sacked.
"John Newhouse"
I see what you did there.
porsche in F1 would be an interesting topic. TAG, 1991 footwork porsche, early 60's, pre war GPs, ect
I really liked JV's skid lid.
A few things here - 1995 - Benetton and Schumacher dominated not as much due to Williams cocking up, but to the fact they now had the same Renault V10 as Williams, having previously ran Ford V8s. In addition, Adrian Newey was still responsible for the 1997 Williams, and later on in 1997 had influenced the McLaren with a new front wing later on in the season that improved Coulthard and Hakkinen's competitiveness immediately. That was a major reason why they were so close behind Villeneuve when he was limping post contact with Schumacher, and was let by to score that 1-2.
Herbert. Nuff said
The 1998 Williams looked like this car shrunk down lmao, it looked like they didn't do their homework
Funny thing, aero deflectors in front of the rear wings still in the FW18, also in the Ferrari, McLaren and Benetton in 1996
They banned them low down in front of the rear wheels. The ones on the 18 were higher.
@@AidanMillward Also they were a bit farer from rear tires
Would love to see a video about Mclaren mp4-20 from you like the flawed mp4-19 vid.
In hindsight Jacques was a bit of a mess, but I would say he was a national treasure at the time. Canada had a real golden age of open wheel drivers in the late 80s and 90s, with people like Tracy, Goodyear, Moore, Tagliani, Carpentier, etc. Not only was Villeneuve an exciting, talented young driver we Canadians could be proud of, he was the son of the only Canadian driver to ever win an F1 race.
Only the second Canadian to be named CART rookie of the year. First Canadian to be Indy 500 rookie of the year. Finished 2nd in his 1st Indy 500. Finished 1st in his 2nd Indy 500 (first Canadian to win the race, too). First Canadian CART champion. Only the second Canadian to win an F1 race. First Canadian F1 champion.
He was exciting to watch and extremely talented, just like his dad was. And for Canadian fans, who always had a bit of an inferiority complex about racing I think, he was definitely a source of pride.
A good pedigree across the Atlantic doesn't necessarily make the sea crossing well. Villeneuve was very fast but erratic and overall a bit of a liability. It isn't just about speed.
@@philiptownsend4026 which Villeneuve are you talking about? I don’t remember Jacques having that rep on his way up. Post world championship maybe?
Williams were my team growing up. Montoya was my favourite driver.
Thank you Aidan. I always really enjoy these. Stay well and safe.
I hilariously would have actually been named after Damon Hill if I had have been born a boy (in the year he won the drivers championship), obviously I wasn't but my younger brother is named Damon
Villeneuve was under a race ban suspended for nine races for ignoring yellow flags, because he'd done it a few times in 1997. He got it after Monza if I remember, so when he ignored them again in Japan he was initially excluded, allowed to race, then excluded a second time when Williams withdrew their appeal
the decline of williams, started when they were to cheap to resign mansell. the decline is permanent. the will never be competitive again.
2003? 2014?
"we hired other guys to take your place but youre not sacked!" Isn't sacking, bit it is constructive dismissal. Which is essentially the same thing when you're the guy who "wasn't sacked"
Have been that guy. Name it what you like, I was sacked with no legal reason to sack me.
Ill never understand why the 98 williams was red.. winnie blues are iconic in Australia... never seen someone smoke a winnie red though.
BMW quote from 'Williams' era: We would have won at least 2 Championships if we partnered with McClaren. The Brits have no idea how to utilize German power. Especially that stupid idea of running the hydraulics through the carbon fiber chassis instead of lines.
Great shirt btw.
Up to 11!🍀
Front nose of the 1997 Williams looked a bit scruffy to me with the sponsor logos they had. But 1998 was even worse. An absolute mess!
C'mon reach 100k subs already. I want to at least see it in my lifetime.
Love your 90s related content! There must be a sentimental element there for you mate..... I sure do. Great work👍
My biggest memory of the FW17 was it finishing races with a yellow tinge from oil fr everything in front of it.
Love this story
I’d love to see more like this! The cars need looked at more especially the 2013RB and the W11 Mercedes with its DAS
Love the idea of the story behind the cars. More please!
(Btw, Ville = city or town, so he's Newtown.)
Microprose has entered the chat.
John Newhouse was unlicensed JV in the days when he wouldn’t allow his name for use.
@@AidanMillward which annoyed me a bit because "Jacques" is more equivalent to "Jake" short for "Jacob" 😅 for the French (rather than "Jack" being commonly used for people named John in the Anglophone sphere)
At some point I've got to sort out the livery on my cars, hopefully they'll look as good as the Rothmans Williams.
Awesome video again Aidan, thank you! 😉
for non native english speaker, what is to bottle in this context?
John Newhouse 😂 remember that well from GP3 😂
codemasters learned a lot from williams
10:05
Loving the 'F197' reference 😂
“LOOK LEFT!!! THAT’S VILLENEUVE!!!”
Is that a Marshall T-shirt ? Or maybe it's Mansell :)
Great view on the car rather than the events! Well 1997 should have been in the bag earlier than Jerez. I remember Eddie Irving stating the F310B was a dreadfull car. The way Schumacher was into the championship fight afterall was merely of poor clinching the races as they were for grabs (especially in the first part of the season).
That Ferrari indeed was slower than most people realize, but at least it was reliable. In 1997 McLaren, Benetton, Jordan, Prost and even Sauber had pretty good cars. McLaren lost many points due to dreadful reliability, Jordan had two inexperienced drivers, while Prost and Sauber basically only had one driver. Benetton, on the other hand, seemed to benefit most from others' misfortune, although they had a few weekends in which they were really quick too.
Irvine was more than tripled by Schumacher. He was crushed by his nemesis DC in a much inferior McLaren. He needed an awesome car to do anything.
Ok Aidan how many times have you watched the 1996 f1 review??? Haha loved that year! Go Williams
Far too many.
1997 Jaques Villeneuve
How often do you find yourself saying got punted off by verstappen the father did nothing but make enough money to allow his son to become a psycho
I don’t like either father or son
Had DH been at williams in 97 would he have bested JV again? Thoughts?
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Great video. Could you do a video on the Williams BMW era and explain the cars that they created. I believe for a few of those years BMW Williams made some good race winning cars.
When an AM video pops up I always watch it. Variety and excellence wins for me.
Since when did JV had that john newhouse nickname?
When he was in the Microprose F1 games
I lost it at "...and then Schumacher had gone from Benetton to Ferrari and taking half of Benetton with it..."
Damon Hill has Schumacher living rent free inside his head.
Hill will always be a highly mediocre driver when compared to Schumacher, no matter how many times Yer Da says otherwise 👌🏻
@@sanfordcurtis8242 Maybe to you, but to Newey, Ferrari, Williams and McLaren he was good enough to be approached and/or offered a contract. Gerhard Berger consider Hill one of most the most underrated drivers in F1 history. And how the heck is somebody "highly mediocre" ?? Mediocre is mediocre you can't be "highly" mediocre.
Here's something you also need to realize. If Hill truly was "mediocre" (no mediocre drivers are ever champions) then that *lessens* Schumacher's titles. Great men are judged against other great men. Hannibal had Scipio, Ali had George Foreman, Senna had Prost. See my point?
And this video is about Jacques Villeneuve not Damon Hill so what's your tangent anyhow?
To OP. But considering Schumacher's present condition I'd say that Hill easily can afford this free lodger if this is true.
Just realised I'm looking at F1 the last 25 years, great video thanks.
Ps why John NewTown? Isn't Jacques.... Jack????
JV didn’t allow his name in the f1 games of the time. One of the fake names used was John Newhouse.
@@AidanMillward ooooh man I forgot about that!!!!!!!
Damon Hill not being sacked is just hilarious, no one does semantics quite like you Aidan.
Hi Aiden. Great video as per usual. It would be fantastic to have a series giving the biography of racing legends.
It would be John Newtown not Newhouse
Not if you played Grand Prix Manager 2
nice video..i was 9 in 1997 and i feel absolutely old!
Villeneuve describing the '97 Williams as his favourite F1 car is probably the least surprising thing I've ever heard in F1.
Thanks for the dive into the FW19, not a car I've ever really heard discussed, despite the significance of the season it ran in.
Also, love the 'John Newhouse' reference ;)
Villeneuve was very unhappy with the groved tyres the next season. He claimed it made the car feel numb.
Looks like even back then.. the fia liked to do what they could for the show. DQ the championship leader for something both contenders did so shumacher could catch up for a final round showdown. And then miraculously both contenders post the exact same time wow look at how close it is... shit frentzen is going to go quicker.... make him have the same time.....
John Newhouse was great but he’s no Robert Brown
"John Newtown", I'd have thought?
Not if you played Grand Prix Manager 2
@@AidanMillward Ah, I see LOL. Just going by A-Level French from the Dark Ages.
You forgot the 93 car had 4 wheel steer
huh weird im just in the middle of watching the review of that season......had the mclaren been more reliable they really could had a say in the title race, mika retired from the lead at least 3 times that season, n both cars retired in the poinys on numerous occasions.
Also DC lost an almost certain win at Montreal if the Panis crash hadn't caused a red. I'm a Williams fan but McLaren made a huge step in '97 - the problem was they were either super fast or stuck in the midfield.
'.... punted off by Verstappen' ...plus ca change...
That statement still stands today only it is Max not Jos doing the punting.
Morrrreeeeeee pls keep up the good work
“Gardening leave” I am a dumb American, help me out with this one?
Sometimes when you move jobs in the UK and Europe, particularly if you move to a competitor, you might get paid by the company you’ve just joined but you won’t actually be working for them yet. This can be anywhere from 6 months to a year. To stop you taking customers/clients/knowledge to a rival.
It’s called gardening leave because you’re at home doing nothing. So might as well sort the garden out.
newhouse is maisonneuve... newCity is villeneuve
Didn’t play any of the Microprose f1 games I take it?