Fun fact: Jos Verstappen raced for Stewart in 1998, a team that later became Red Bull. In 2003, he raced for Minardi, a team that later became Toro Rosso. If Max Verstappen ever joins Mercedes (or, less likely, Alpine), that'll be the third team his father has driven for as well (albeit in a previous incarnation of the team).
A major reason why the Stewarts sold the team to Ford was Paul Stewart's health problems, which would eventually be diagnosed as bowel cancer. I remember Jackie Stewart talking about the decision to sell at the time and giving this as the reason and saying he & the family needed to dedicate themselves to fighting Paul's illness.
It was great to see them starting to come right and be somewhat competitive, but then Ford started to meddle and make them a Jaaaaaag and then the wheels fell off.
Nice little story for you Aidan. December 1996, Boreham (near Chelmsford) dropping my dad off at a pub for a Christmas drink. We're near the Ford test track of what's left of it so I decided to drive past it. It was actually used as a track for about three seasons back in the forties but no more, the area is rich in aggregates and backs onto mid Essex gravel pit so large sections got cut up, I am told by my dad that back in the day you could hear Ford WRC cars being tested there. Anyway, on this particular day just before Christmas I drove down the back lane that goes past trees where a corner of the track is just on the other side and...loads of vans are there and a handful of guys and cameras with huge zoom lenses. I decide to park up and find out what's going on. I get chatting to a Dutch fella and he quietly points at a huge marquee tent in the distance. He tells me that they believe, in the tent is the new Stewart Ford F1 car and Rubens Barichello and they are waiting for it to break cover for its first shakedown. Pretty amazing. Rubens Barichello in Chelmsford. I wish him good hunting and head home. A few days later a picture of the shakedown made the front cover of Motoring News.
If memes had been around in the late 90s, Stewarts blowing up on the grid would have been one of them. It seemed to happen with comical frequency. Herbert at the EU GP though, that was mega.
I can remember a company I worked for at the time were supplying stuff to Stewart. We all had champagne and cake to celebrate their first GP win. Then we became part of the Jag project.
Looking back, Ford should have kept Jackie as the team manager and let him do his thing, but they chopped and changed things so much, the Jaguar factory's revolving doors were spinning faster than Chuck Norris' roundhouse kicks.
the lola Bridgestone joke really got me for no reason lol, been really struggling recently and somehow these 'nerdy' videos are something keeping me going, love the work, have done since 2018 when I was a 12 year old learning abt the history of the sport, keep it up mate, and keep up the wrestling analogies!!!!
Sir Jackie's emotional attachment to Monaco stemmed from his love for the place, having triumphed there three times during his driving career, and his close ties with the local royal family. Eager for his team to live up to his legacy, he went so far as to cancel a post-race test in Imola to ensure that the cars were optimally prepared for Monaco and to address any reliability issues.
There still is huge comparisons between Stewart Grand Prix and MasterCard Lola on how to do and not to do an upstart Grand Prix team in modern F1 circus.
There were some fun bits about Rubinho post-F1, he had a run at a Sunday morning program about cars though I can't recall if it was at Globo or SBT. He was also sadled with the reputation of being so slow that he would arrive to thing years out of date, probably thanks to the efforts of then comedy show Pânico.
Another of my OGs. The white car always stood out, and as I was beginning my education on racing, was intrigued by this team being run by a champion. The unwritten rules of sporting nomenclature seem to say that you're only a 'former' champion if you win a championship, then subsequently compete again and are defeated, then lose the title. Thus, if you retire undefeated - in F1, Hawthorn, Stewart, Prost and Rosberg - you're a champion for life. Champion Emeritus? Rosberg bucked the trend in terms of team ownership by winning titles in Extreme E, soon to be Extreme H. And of course, as a driver, and a team boss, he beat Lewis Hamilton in equal machinery. Boom.
Another bit '90's F1 things' from that very race. One of the mclaren in a panic to leave the pits before the race managed to bring down apart of the garage roof when a wheel gun or cable got wrapped around its wheel. Oh yeah, eddie Irvine winning was also abit of a curveball
Barrichello's win in Germany was the second race you mentioned (though "double podium"!? You didn't say which steps!) which I was reduced to tears by. Damon in Hungary being the other, naturally. But the Stewart win turned me into a blubbering wreck because it started with Badoer breaking down when he was certain to get the only points of his career and _he_ was crying on the side of the track. By the time the race finished, I was out of it. 😂 Paul Stewart got out of racing because, IIRC, he had cancer of some sort. It's fantastic that he pulled through the other end, because the timing of him getting it was rubbing salt into a very open wound. It's a shame that the team didn't survive as Stewart, but it's done pretty well a few iterations down the line. 😊
Even though I am a Mclaren fan, I loved it when Stewart did well. Being from the States, I was used to rooting against Ford teams, but how could anyone root against Jackie. I was so sad to see the white and tartan get exchanged for the green.
If I remember correctly, one of the things Ford blamed their reliability issues in the first year with Stewart on had something to do with a new chain drive system they were working on with the engine. The engine blow ups in the 1990s used to be spectacular at times, especially in the Stewart.
@@captiannemo1587 apparently many beautiful women who feel very confident about one particular body part are big fans of formula 1 history and trivia Who knew?
i keep trying to do a similar livery for sim racing but with the MacKenzie tartan instead its very difficult to make look as good as the stewart gp cars
Re JYS doing things right. I read that when the trucks were in the paddock they were jacked up and the wheels rotated so that the tyre logos were on top!
Based on the Stewart wiki page results (For the most part), it was points or the sidelines. No inbetween. I'd be curious to see other midfield teams finishes to points success ratio.
Unfortunate timing that Paul had a fight with cancer at the end of the 90s, wonder if the momentum could've been maintained without that distraction \m/
Stewart never had a bad livery. Jaaaaag on the other hand... Come on, tastefully weaving tartan into the car's livery and making it work takes talent and skill. Whoever came did the liveries was entirely on it
@AidanMillward Paul & Mark. The reason I asked was because I was told some years ago by someone who knew him that he had another son that wasn't Helen's. I could never verify it though.
This is the biggest trauma for Danish F1 fans Stewart blaming our Magnussen for a shit showing.....almost like a Ferrari ..... Never the cars fault kicking him out and it turned out the dam scotsmann couldn't build a car if his life depended on it......some of us are still so angry that we could spit!!!!
@@AidanMillward youre good on the last name, first name is like gilles without the s, not like gil from the simpsons. In light of his recent passing, he's worth a video on
Going from a fragile midfield runner to being so dominant track owners are blaming you rather than their bullshit prices for poor ticket sales is a hell of a turnaround for the team currently running as Red Bull.
Technically the US only has one, given that Andretti was born in Italy… with that bit of Italy now being Croatia but let’s not get bogged down in who redrew which border. 😅
@@AidanMillward Nah, Andretti's American. He came here as a kid and his entire racing development was in as pure American racing as you can get--dirt ovals in sprints, champ cars and stock cars. I'd say he's more American than Eddie Cheever. Maybe even more than the other US F1 champ, Phil Hill.
Wrong. Nico Rosburg the man who beat 7x world champion Lewis Hamilton in equal machinery, is not just world champion. His title is Nico Rosburg the man who beat 7x world champion Lewis Hamilton in equal machinery. @AidanMilward how can you make such an error not to mention this when talking about Nico Rosburg the man who beat 7x world champion Lewis Hamilton in equal machinery? Have you no respect for Nico Rosburg the man who beat 7x world champion Lewis Hamilton in equal machinery?
Your content is good Aiden but your bad jokes are wearing thin. It's becoming even more self-indulgent since you hit 100k for some reason. Stop the waffle about how you made a video but can't remember when and stick to the subject maybe.
Man terrible with numbers has blunder with numbers shocker. Jag was 9th with 4 points in 2000.
you gotta be saying this in a "short" the way I described in the other comment. 😂😂😂😂😂.... HELP I can't even! 😂😂😂😂😂
Fun fact: Jos Verstappen raced for Stewart in 1998, a team that later became Red Bull. In 2003, he raced for Minardi, a team that later became Toro Rosso. If Max Verstappen ever joins Mercedes (or, less likely, Alpine), that'll be the third team his father has driven for as well (albeit in a previous incarnation of the team).
A major reason why the Stewarts sold the team to Ford was Paul Stewart's health problems, which would eventually be diagnosed as bowel cancer.
I remember Jackie Stewart talking about the decision to sell at the time and giving this as the reason and saying he & the family needed to dedicate themselves to fighting Paul's illness.
It was great to see them starting to come right and be somewhat competitive, but then Ford started to meddle and make them a Jaaaaaag and then the wheels fell off.
"I'm terribly sorry. I seem to have left my wallet in detroit" 😂
Part of the decision to sell was Paul’s cancer
@@andysimpson8974 He's blocking the rascasse, but it's ok, he's driving a jaaaag
@@andysimpson8974Is ford based in Detroit?
@@Romit12 it was once was yes
Nice little story for you Aidan. December 1996, Boreham (near Chelmsford) dropping my dad off at a pub for a Christmas drink. We're near the Ford test track of what's left of it so I decided to drive past it. It was actually used as a track for about three seasons back in the forties but no more, the area is rich in aggregates and backs onto mid Essex gravel pit so large sections got cut up, I am told by my dad that back in the day you could hear Ford WRC cars being tested there. Anyway, on this particular day just before Christmas I drove down the back lane that goes past trees where a corner of the track is just on the other side and...loads of vans are there and a handful of guys and cameras with huge zoom lenses. I decide to park up and find out what's going on. I get chatting to a Dutch fella and he quietly points at a huge marquee tent in the distance. He tells me that they believe, in the tent is the new Stewart Ford F1 car and Rubens Barichello and they are waiting for it to break cover for its first shakedown. Pretty amazing. Rubens Barichello in Chelmsford. I wish him good hunting and head home. A few days later a picture of the shakedown made the front cover of Motoring News.
Gary Anderson and Jackie Stewart together had a good run, their win at the 99 European Grand Prix was amazing
Gary Anderson my favourite designer and very much underrated
Underrated Darts player as well.
@@Mlaargaar world champion is Gary
I'm going blind I initially read that as Gerry Anderson lol
Thunderbirds was his best work tbh.
@@AidanMillward You beat me to it, ya cow bag!
If memes had been around in the late 90s, Stewarts blowing up on the grid would have been one of them. It seemed to happen with comical frequency. Herbert at the EU GP though, that was mega.
I can remember a company I worked for at the time were supplying stuff to Stewart. We all had champagne and cake to celebrate their first GP win. Then we became part of the Jag project.
Looking back, Ford should have kept Jackie as the team manager and let him do his thing, but they chopped and changed things so much, the Jaguar factory's revolving doors were spinning faster than Chuck Norris' roundhouse kicks.
Who'd have thought Stewart F1 team would win multiple world titles... as Red Bull!
and how Tyrell's fortune turned out in a 2010ies. I believe, Jordan GP is going to see great results soon. : )
@@Istvan_F
Absolutely... so many name changes for those 2 teams.
the lola Bridgestone joke really got me for no reason lol, been really struggling recently and somehow these 'nerdy' videos are something keeping me going, love the work, have done since 2018 when I was a 12 year old learning abt the history of the sport, keep it up mate, and keep up the wrestling analogies!!!!
I remember Sir Jackie all teary eyed when (Barrichello) got first time on the podium. It was very cool. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Sir Jackie's emotional attachment to Monaco stemmed from his love for the place, having triumphed there three times during his driving career, and his close ties with the local royal family. Eager for his team to live up to his legacy, he went so far as to cancel a post-race test in Imola to ensure that the cars were optimally prepared for Monaco and to address any reliability issues.
There still is huge comparisons between Stewart Grand Prix and MasterCard Lola on how to do and not to do an upstart Grand Prix team in modern F1 circus.
Good memories. Stewart, or rather Barrichello overachieving for Stewart, is what got me into F1.
Can you do a retrospective on Rubens Barrichello career in F1
Deserved that title at Brawn (Jenson deserved it too btw)
Yes please. Barrichello's abysmal luck at his home race is also something worth looking into.
There were some fun bits about Rubinho post-F1, he had a run at a Sunday morning program about cars though I can't recall if it was at Globo or SBT.
He was also sadled with the reputation of being so slow that he would arrive to thing years out of date, probably thanks to the efforts of then comedy show Pânico.
@@thesfdoctor3603button was better that year and barichello was a bit washed up by the end of the
Another of my OGs. The white car always stood out, and as I was beginning my education on racing, was intrigued by this team being run by a champion.
The unwritten rules of sporting nomenclature seem to say that you're only a 'former' champion if you win a championship, then subsequently compete again and are defeated, then lose the title. Thus, if you retire undefeated - in F1, Hawthorn, Stewart, Prost and Rosberg - you're a champion for life. Champion Emeritus? Rosberg bucked the trend in terms of team ownership by winning titles in Extreme E, soon to be Extreme H. And of course, as a driver, and a team boss, he beat Lewis Hamilton in equal machinery. Boom.
Steward Ford is one of my favourite stories of the 90'.
I waas ruling for them as much as for the Michael.
And even that livery grew on me.
Still my fav team
2000 Jag didnt finish 4th in the constructors.. they finished with 4 points. they were classified 9th
Yeah I read it the wrong way round. Twas too hot to work yesterday.
Not sure it should be mentioned as a Jan Magnussen debut, he stood in for Hakkinen at Mclaren before his Stewart stint.
also that Lola livery was stunning, i wish there was an onyx/minichamps haha
I share your pain about Damon finishing P2 in Hungary, some things just never fade even after nearly 30 years! 😆
I loved that livery
Another bit '90's F1 things' from that very race.
One of the mclaren in a panic to leave the pits before the race managed to bring down apart of the garage roof when a wheel gun or cable got wrapped around its wheel.
Oh yeah, eddie Irvine winning was also abit of a curveball
The 99 car was a good one
A jonny Herbert video ?
Yes please.
Right after a Martin Brundle one 🙂
exaclent video
Barrichello's win in Germany was the second race you mentioned (though "double podium"!? You didn't say which steps!) which I was reduced to tears by. Damon in Hungary being the other, naturally. But the Stewart win turned me into a blubbering wreck because it started with Badoer breaking down when he was certain to get the only points of his career and _he_ was crying on the side of the track. By the time the race finished, I was out of it. 😂
Paul Stewart got out of racing because, IIRC, he had cancer of some sort. It's fantastic that he pulled through the other end, because the timing of him getting it was rubbing salt into a very open wound. It's a shame that the team didn't survive as Stewart, but it's done pretty well a few iterations down the line. 😊
Even though I am a Mclaren fan, I loved it when Stewart did well. Being from the States, I was used to rooting against Ford teams, but how could anyone root against Jackie. I was so sad to see the white and tartan get exchanged for the green.
Hates Jackie's guts....he killed Magnussens career
If I remember correctly, one of the things Ford blamed their reliability issues in the first year with Stewart on had something to do with a new chain drive system they were working on with the engine. The engine blow ups in the 1990s used to be spectacular at times, especially in the Stewart.
The bits never get old.
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@@captiannemo1587 apparently many beautiful women who feel very confident about one particular body part are big fans of formula 1 history and trivia
Who knew?
That or Aidan is just a fanny magnet, the modern sim racing equivalent of James Hunt
@@Chris-et2fm I do seem to attract a lot of c*nts doing this sort of thing. There’s always someone who gets worked up over nothing.
i keep trying to do a similar livery for sim racing but with the MacKenzie tartan instead its very difficult to make look as good as the stewart gp cars
crazy to think Tyrrell is now Mercedes and Stewart Red Bull!
Re JYS doing things right. I read that when the trucks were in the paddock they were jacked up and the wheels rotated so that the tyre logos were on top!
Based on the Stewart wiki page results (For the most part), it was points or the sidelines. No inbetween. I'd be curious to see other midfield teams finishes to points success ratio.
Ye most midfield teams were like that since cars were so unreliable
Did I just watch the whole video and Herbert's win got completely glossed over?
Mentioned double podium and will do a full vid on that race in future. Did have to go back and watch that bit again.
Why isn't this post titled: Laddie and Daddy.
Melbourne 97 was not magnussens debut, that was in 1995 for mclaren
Unfortunate timing that Paul had a fight with cancer at the end of the 90s, wonder if the momentum could've been maintained without that distraction \m/
I'm amazed Damon Hill didn't join Stewart for 1997. Stewart would immediately have had the number 1 on their car.
Put that full White livery on today's (2024) grid❗An all white car in a sea of black, would b amazing.
🏴🏴 Och a grand ol’ vid me boy! All that purple though, puts Parma Violets to shame!
It's actually O-moj...but who cares.
Another good one!👍😁
I miss Johnny on tv
4:39 - Prior World Champion, perhaps?
Quick heads up, great video but Gil de Ferren is pronounced with a soft G not a hard one. Its like Jif rather than the simpsons character Gil.
14:15 this view sooooo invites for a parody, where you are holding like your 15th pint and slugger something drunkish no one understands! 😂😂😂
so long as the car worked!!
Has it been converted to RHD?
First. To LOVE IT. Childhood memories
Now Red Bull and will soon have ford power units
Well, they are Red Bull now, and Jos Verstappen is still hanging around their garage, there's a connection.
Is it coming home Aidan?
Stewart never had a bad livery. Jaaaaag on the other hand...
Come on, tastefully weaving tartan into the car's livery and making it work takes talent and skill. Whoever came did the liveries was entirely on it
I wonder if the team ever saw the Worldcom money from that sponsorship given the fraudulent accounting that business was doing around that time.
Jackie has 3 sons? Paul, Mark & ????
Could have sworn he said he had three in an interview.
@AidanMillward Paul & Mark. The reason I asked was because I was told some years ago by someone who knew him that he had another son that wasn't Helen's. I could never verify it though.
This is the biggest trauma for Danish F1 fans Stewart blaming our Magnussen for a shit showing.....almost like a Ferrari ..... Never the cars fault kicking him out and it turned out the dam scotsmann couldn't build a car if his life depended on it......some of us are still so angry that we could spit!!!!
Well well well 😂
Pls learn gil defarrens first name, it is not gill at all. Great content, but ive heard this more than once and it hurts.
Could you at least spell it correctly if you’re going to have a go at me for saying it incorrectly?
@@AidanMillward youre good on the last name, first name is like gilles without the s, not like gil from the simpsons.
In light of his recent passing, he's worth a video on
Ford should have just bankrolled the team and let them continue as they were.
Hell, rename it Stewart Jaguar or something if you need to
Jackie & Paul needed to stop anyway, due to Paul Stewart's health problems.
And then they became RedBull.
You must be doing well for yourself on these videos to afford that shirt!! 😂
Does anyone know what happened to Paul Stewart? All I know about him is that he had the good sense to buy a McLaren F1!
Think he’s making films now. One of the three sons is.
I remember he survived cancer.
Going from a fragile midfield runner to being so dominant track owners are blaming you rather than their bullshit prices for poor ticket sales is a hell of a turnaround for the team currently running as Red Bull.
Prost is France's only F1 World Champion? So the US has more F1 champs than France? Yeah, 'Murica!
Technically the US only has one, given that Andretti was born in Italy… with that bit of Italy now being Croatia but let’s not get bogged down in who redrew which border. 😅
@@AidanMillward Nah, Andretti's American. He came here as a kid and his entire racing development was in as pure American racing as you can get--dirt ovals in sprints, champ cars and stock cars. I'd say he's more American than Eddie Cheever. Maybe even more than the other US F1 champ, Phil Hill.
Wrong. Nico Rosburg the man who beat 7x world champion Lewis Hamilton in equal machinery, is not just world champion. His title is Nico Rosburg the man who beat 7x world champion Lewis Hamilton in equal machinery.
@AidanMilward how can you make such an error not to mention this when talking about Nico Rosburg the man who beat 7x world champion Lewis Hamilton in equal machinery? Have you no respect for Nico Rosburg the man who beat 7x world champion Lewis Hamilton in equal machinery?
Your content is good Aiden but your bad jokes are wearing thin. It's becoming even more self-indulgent since you hit 100k for some reason. Stop the waffle about how you made a video but can't remember when and stick to the subject maybe.