A fun fact: Here in Brazil, Durex is a brand of adhesive tape. The kind you use in offices and so on. When we ask for adhesive tape here, we say: "Let me borrow some Durex" But in Portugal it means condom. There are several cases of brazilians who have gone to work in Portugal and made the mistake of asking for Durex instead of adhesive tape. 😆
It is in Australia too. There's an old Jasper Carrott joke where he goes "it says on the packet: DO NOT STICK DUREX ON THE WALL... Well... I wasn't about to..."
@@AidanMillwardThus the famous advert for STA Travel back in the 1980s with their words of advice for backpackers heading to Australia, accompanied by the sounds of some poor bloke receiving the Happy Shopper equivalent of a black-crack-and-sack.
The BBC were worried about this, but not that the Hesketh in '76 was sponsored by Penthouse. At least Durex were a legitimate company and not dodgy like plenty of others in F1 (Essex Petroleum, Moneytron and t-minus are just three that spring immediately to mind!)
@@AidanMillward I think you'll find that Penthouse was a "gentlemen's periodical", not a porn mag. Talking about that kind of thing, do you remember when Aiello's DTM Astra was sponsored by Playboy? That car was in ToCA Race Driver 3 in its full glory and wasn't the reason for the 12 rating
Oh, I doubt that. He somehow managed to avoid any paternity suits and there is only ONE sure fire way to prevent them......and it doesn't involve trusting her with the birth control.
Well in the 2000's NASCAR team Rousch racing had one of their cars was sponsor by Viagra and driven by one oldest on the field at that time Mark Martin.
Not just that, but when the2003 track invasion happened,you had it show up in the pictures all over the news and the papers as well,just to add to this.Daily Mail,among others had a two page spread of the picture,with the Marlboro F1 very much there, no airbrushing or editing at all
Fun fact, in brasil for a long time while Globo was the official broadcaster for F1, Red Bull were always called RBR and Toro Rosso STR. There was one race while Adrian Newey smile to the camera with a can o red bull on his hand and the commentary booth went mad with angry 😂
Surtees ran Durex branding at a time when F1 was entering a safety crusade. Hehe, Durex on the helmet. Let's hope we never grow up to not find that funny.
I'm glad F1 has moved on from cigarette advertising to become more socially aware, and we now get ethical industries like crypto and vaping companies to sponsor the Saudi Arabian GP
Me in 2018: Jesus can they please get rid of all the strip clubs and alcohol adds off these damn sports talk radio station and arenas? Monkey paw curls. You get a Fanduel and you get BetMGM and you get Topdog or w/e advertisement.
@@AidanMillward I remember when Clay Regazzoni won the British GP taking a first win for williams. he was not allowed to have Champagne on the podium due to Williams being sponsored by Saudia.
At 70 years of age, I well remember seeing the Durex Team racing, but it wasn't just the logos on the cars that had people talking. The Team jackets were nothing less than marketing genius, a flesh coloured cotton jacket complete with Durex branding and a second form fitting outer later in clear vinal ! I remember fans in the paddock offering cash to team members (pun implied) for their jackets.
While we're on the subject of Surtees have you ever thought about tackling the legends of motorcycling? After all, the son of one of the biggest has now joined the F1 grid!
That tobacco billboard at Silverstone was there well into the '00s, on the exit of Chapel so it appeared in the back of the long shots looking down the Hangar Straight from Stowe. I have no idea how it was legal. (From memory I think it was still there after 2005, after F1 banned tobacco sponsorship.)
I was 10-11 that year (most of the F1 year I'd have been 10). Just at that age to understand that there was something dodgy about the word Durex, but too young and sheltered to understand why. A couple of years later, it dawned on me... Thanks for doing this, Aidan. I always had a crap ton of respect for John Surtees and you're right, he's seriously underrated. I was trying to figure out how come I saw so much of the 1976 season during the year. Highlights were common so perhaps that's how I saw it. I definitely remember seeing the car in an introduction to a race (couldn't tell you which one).
this car was the beta version of SEXMULA 1 (the stable version being the hesketh 308D/E that sported both rizla and penthouse sponsorship at the same time)
Surtees pulled out of F1 after 78 but they Raced in the Aurora British F1 Series with Gordon Smiley winning at Silverstone in 79 after that the shop was closed for good
@@CyanRooper I know, the man has had one hell of a journey in life most of it is on TH-cam. His channel is probably one of the best documented cases of a guy who was in the deepest of lows and through his own effort found success. I hope for him he'll never have to experience what he did ever again.
I used to work for the company that now makes Durex in their r&d labs, there was a picture of that car in the lobby with a few other bits of sponsorship that the company had it's brands on over the years. And yes in the labs there was a lot of lube, I've seen what happens to strawberry flavoured lube after 5 years in 35C at 70% humidity and it doesn't smell good
I may be wrong here, but at 11.25 you state that tobacco advertising had been made illegal in the UK in 1963. I can't believe that as I grew up in the '70s and '80s with billboards and newspapers full of Marlboro, Silk Cut, Benson and Hedges, John Player Black, etc, ads. I think you possibly meant 2003 which is where the blanket ban on tobacco advertising came into force.
@@liamh1982 I think you might be right - I don't remember much in the way of cigarette advertising, but I do remember Hamlet cigar adverts being accompanied by "Air on the G string" music.
1:08 IIRC Marlboro F1 was a “clothing brand” and Marlboro bought a permanent advertising board for like a decade I think it was removed in like 2004/05
Who in Britain remembers the Walls Ice Cream slogan which was emblazoned on their fleet of refrigerated pedal tricycles and later their vans which was “Stop Me and Buy One”, when Durex sponsored the Surtees team, they had 48 sheet posters emblazoned all over the country with a large photo of the car with only a massive headline “Buy Me and Stop One”…… sheer brilliance!
1:00 about those marlboro banners at silverstone, if you watch the 2003 british gp theres a marlboro banner on the circuit pretty visible, no extremly visible, its when the camera shot is on the hangar straight theres a marlboro banner
Channel 5 was 1997, although about a third of the population couldn't really receive it very well (if they could receive it at all) until the launch of digital TV in the UK the year after. And - "cough" - prophylactic contraceptive devices made of latex (because some of my comments seem to disappear if I use certain words) weren't advertised on British television until 1985.
Why?....A complete and total lack of paternity suits against him world wide. Only one sure fire way to prevent that.....and it doesn't involve trusting her with the birth control.
Television in the US was still restrained in the 1970s, as being almost Victorian with its buttoned-down decorum, but TV producers of the likes of Norman Lear were bringing in elements in TV shows to shed the excessive modesty on TV. Example: American TV production standards prohibited the showing of a toilet in TV shows. Then along comes the CBS-TV (US) series, "All In The Family," where executive producer Norman Lear scripted-in the sound of a flushing toilet in a 1971 episode . . . it left the audience both stunned and laughing heartily at the same time, as the sound of a flushing toilet was never heard on TV shows up till 1971.
I see another double standard, in the 1970's look at comedies like On The Buses and the Carry On films etc. which nobody batted an eye at but Durex wasn't allowed.
It's criminal that Surtees never got knighted when others got the medal for less. I think Surtees was a great guy, probably too great, and wasn't what the "establishment" liked.
@ I know, but I don’t think he ever got nominated. Ive seen he (either) wasn’t nominated at the time he was involved in F1 so was discounted because of it, or he was too abrasive and wasn’t liked enough.
@ could be. Look at how much bullshit Lewis had to go through to get his. They went all in on his taxes despite Richard Branson, Connery, the Dyson bloke and Cliff Richard being non apologetic tax dodgers for decades.
You missed two things, originally Surtees was actually running ads for London Rubber’s industrial gasket brand. It was later they switched to pushing the Durex brand. A few years later, at the height of the AIDS epidemic bright pink Durex branded up Bikes and Rally cars were fine. Although apparently Frank Williams objected! Also Sky never showed that TNG scene uncut. Sky also censored O’Brian saying “Bollocks” on DS9 while the BBC let it pass. Actually by the 90s Sky were way more prudish. Even using an alternative theme for ‘The Nanny’ as the original uses Fanny (meaning backside) in the lyrics and multiple cuts to The Simpsons for similar.
I'm pretty sure some races were broadcast in 1976, because of the battle heating up between Hunt and Luada. i was at Brands for the British GP and ITV showed some of it two weeks later. and the Japanese event was certainly shown at some point. the directors were i think under orders to not linger on shots of the Surtees. bear in mind, this was two years before the BBC's Grand Prix program started, and F1 coverage was sporadic at best.
I once read that the Gold Leaf sponsored Lotus 49 in 1968 was the reason why German Television showed no F1 races that season. Sadly I have no source at hands to confirm that.
@@simontravers2715 Yeah, age restricted products and logos bumps the rating up. Although, use the f word in a film and it’s a 12. It only becomes a 15 once the f word is used in a sexual context. “Oh f-!” makes it a 12 but “go f- yourself” makes it a 15.
TCRF has a lot of examples of this going on. Over in NASCAR,EA had to remove the Winston logos, but didn't scrub the Winston from the audio for the pre race/post race MRN snippets, in F1 games you had,going by TCRF quite a lot of the,them ship with cigarette ads still in, from a full on Marlboro billboard left in but only visible if you look back at the correct spot and time on the track at Monaco, to some being left in on loading screens or background art but dummied out and you had to dump the disc and it's still there, but there's a lot of parodies of cigarette ads. Not to mention Winston,again,skated by unscathed and Marlboro and 555 got by in rally games,even if not on the car,Rally Challenge got a whole feature on the history of each sponsor,which included 555. Nope.I am not joking, there was a whole history of 555 for the Subaru sponsor menu though
The Japanese games from the 80s do, Namco (Final Lap) and Sega (Super Monaco GP Arcade) in particular got in trouble for including the Marlboro logos in the games outside of Japan itself.
@@palm92 Didn't they have to change them to parody adverts for that reason? TCRF mentions 'the lawsuit' but I'm not sure what lawsuit it's referring to though. The demo for xCar Experimental Racing got away with a full on Marlboro advert,ut come the full game,that was quaker State int is place.Ironically,the demo had the correct sponsors for its version of Mid Ohio, a whole lot of companies that got the axe between the demo and full release as well.I do have a back issue of Autosport that also states that models were sold with full Marlboro branding as it was a Ferrari car and it got into the hands of Children in South africa,about 20-25 years ago as well. Why, why is it always Marlboro? To be fair I'd take big cigarette over crypto or shady energy drink sponsors any day. Least with Marlboro or B&H or whoever else you got a legit company EDIT: Also I remember how huge of a deal it was to finally have Rothmans logos on Senna's model FW16 as well, and how much of a deal the full page ad made about how it's for over 18s only, and how many ways it drove that point home, repeatedly. Also from the Motorsims NHRA games, Team Pissy Duck will never not be hilarious for that being in there, and nobody throwing a fit. Also another one winston got into via the team/driver info screen. Apparently,Motorsims could get away with it,whereas EA couldn't at that time period too
@@jacekatalakis8316 I think in overseas releases they were removed entirely, but then again I only have the Japanese romsets. I do know it SMGP's followup F1 Exhaust Note the Marlboro sponsorship is just "WOWAWOW".
I remember when that episode of TNG aired (here in the US, at prime time, I guess it was no problem for the censors), and being shocked at the graphic nature of it. I was only 10 and it was mildly traumatic, so I can understand decisions not to air it. My parents were Trekkies back in the day, and so we watched every episode of TNG as a family, and there hadn't been anything quite like that up to that point, so it really was pretty shocking for the show.
The BBC edited out a throwaway line from Data about the Irish reunification of 2024 because the year it broadcast the IRA had set off a couple of bombs.
Wasn't the Surtees usually at the back of the grid anyway? So in most cases it wouldn't have been shown on camera (except perhaps the formation lap). Still it is funny to think how perspectives changed over the decades. Heck in early F1 there was an official rule that only car / racing related sponsors were allowed which was later changed
I really liked the posters on billboards across the country, showing a Surtees TS19 in Durex sponsorship. Beneath it was the line. SMALL FAMILY CAR. Brilliant!
Hypocrisy in Government? Hypocrisy in the media? Who could ever imagine such a thing??? Brilliant episode [as always], but it makes me wonder again, for the 8,000,000,000th time, how do these hypocrites get into positions of power in the 1st place? As you say, no one seemed to have any issue with people selling rubbers, lets not even get into violence on TV, and no one seemed to have an issue with the GOVERNMENT pushing their uses for the sake of public health and safety as Mr. Surtees so eloquently stated, so then who were these clowns that arbitrarily decided it was "too much"? I'm sick of this idea of an elite set of religious lunatics making policy all on their own, for OUR wellbeing. All I can say is it's a good thing the FIA doesn't pull stunts like that.
Well, least there's been progress, now you have a bunch of political elitists who see their ideology as a religion and think of themselves as righteous and decide what's best for your wellbeing... nothing's fundamentally changed.
Liquor in F1 is in an odd spot since it generally does appear regular-ishly on the cars again, McLaren has Jack Daniels, Sauber had Whistle pig, and VCARB had Neft. I'm sure there's a few more but they seem to be more remote sponsors only appearing in smaller places on the cars, possibly due to them only being able to be shown in non-dry countries, i.e. none of the middle eastern races.
In the US at the time like in the UK, the "Big 3" TV networks at the time (CBS, NBC & ABC) had a major issue with showing auto racing flag to flag at the time mainly due to all of the tobacco advertising that was present especially in NASCAR. Heck NASCAR's top series was called the Winston Cup. The main reason why the "Big 3" networks were very hesitant to air any auto racing was because back in 1971, the FCC banned all tobacco advertising from TV. As a result, the "Big 3" networks only showed highlights of races (usually the big ones like the Daytona 500, Indy 500 & Monaco) in NASCAR, USAC (which would later become CART after 1979) & F1 as part of their Wide World of Sports, Sports Spectacular & SportsWorld sports compilation shows that were shown on weekends. Meanwhile leagues like the NFL, MLB & the NHL had their games shown in full because the networks could just have the camera focused on the field or rink the whole time, even though there were tobacco advertisements all around the stadium. It wasn't until ESPN & other cable networks like TBS came on board in the early 1980's that auto racing in the US got shown regularly on TV with NASCAR & CART benefiting greatly from the increased exposure. Meanwhile the "Big 3" networks got an exemption from the FCC around the same time regarding showing cars with tobacco advertising which allowed them to show more races especially with NASCAR (though NBC largely stayed out of motorsports until 2001 when they became a NASCAR TV partner).
Other than the series sponsor, which teams in mid-70's NASCAR were running tobacco sponsorship? The top teams were sponsored by the likes of STP, Purolator, Gatorade, Coca Cola, Norris and Holly Farms. When tobacco advertising did come into NASCAR in the 80's it was from chewing tobacco companies like Skoal and Kodiak, which did not conflict with the series sponsor Winston.
It was the same here as well. The World Snooker Championship was sponsored by Embassy for a very long time, the Masters (also snooker) was Benson and Hedges and the Premier League was sponsored by Carling (a lager brand) Then- the authorities turn round a few years back to Liverpool and Newcastle, who were sponsored by Carlsberg and Newcastle Brown Ale that alcohol sponsors on shirts would be banned because kids wear those shirts. Then about 3 quarters of the 92 clubs in the top four tiers of English football ended up with betting companies on those shirts. So no booze but gambling is fair. But now they want to ban that too.
14:54 Early TNG was a weird beast. That death was pretty grim, and I always forget Picard used to say 'merde' a lot. Didn't Data's mentioning of the 'Irish Unification of 2024' in another episode get yeeted too for a while? (You're cutting it close, Ireland!)
I never really liked the tobacco sponsor liveries, except the Gold Leaf and JPS ones used by Lotus. The tobacco-less Benetton B186 and Jordan 191 liveries were much more aesthetically pleasing, in my view. I also thought the ICI sponsorship looked better on the Williams cars than its Camel replacement. By the time I started following F1 in the mid-1980s, the tobacco liveries were also much criticised for public health reasons. Here in Australia, the F1 circus was controversially given a special dispensation to advertise tobacco; such advertising was otherwise totally banned by federal legislation. But in those days, F1 was still a very dangerous sport, and therefore I used to think that it was okay to have tobacco advertising. Lots of F1 drivers died or were very badly injured in crashes, but I never heard of any dying of lung cancer. As for Durex, well, here in Oz it's always been best known as a brand of adhesive tape.
In Germany ARD & ZDF are publicly funded too, they get tons and tons of money, yet they still are showing advertisments and claim they don't have enough money otherwise. It's ridiculous!
One thing I think is hilarious is that while Ferrari isn't sponsored by Marlboro anymore they're still sponsored by Phillip Morris under the guise of "energy-related technologies" lol
9:50 - I lived in South Korea for a few years. I'm not a yank but occasionally watched that yank TV channel AFN (yankee forces network). It was a bit like the BBC: no advertising was allowed so that it didn't compete with SK TV channels for money. But since all the shows on were yank shows (and all a year old, not current season for contractual reasons), they were only 44 minutes per episode, not 48 as the UK still is or Canada/yankland used to be. Those extras 16 minutes were a constant stream of yank military public service announcement or upcoming TV shows. It was very weird.
@MrTakaMOSHi Lol. The tobacco brands definitely gave the best liveries in F1. Lotus' Gold Leaf in the '60s and that black and gold John Player Special (personal favourite). Marlboro on Mclarens and Ferraris. Rothmans on Williams' cars.
@@DBIVUK I mis-parsed your original comment. I read it as tobacco advertising was reintroduced in 1991. Understand your point now, and matches my memory of those days.
1) At the time, the Surtees was referred to as ‘the small family car’. 2) I have lived in the UK, and it is common knowledge that there are ten or twelve elderly ladies around the country who do nothing but write letters complaining about one thing or another about programming on BBC. I think it takes four or five letters or calls from these defenders of the public morals to get something canceled or abridged . . .
Truthfully, if government allows tobacco products to be sold then not allowing tobacco companies to advertising should be illegal. Government loves to be hypocritical. Many governments love to tax tobacco products but then turn around and disrupt their businesses.
To this day in the 21st century it is still on to show violence - sometimes very graphic violence - on TV and no sex. Apart from HBO Max no other channel shows sex scenes on TV shows or movies. Perhaps some more tame but full frontal for instance is still a no-no!
@@davidkavanagh189 it was still under Roddenberry as well so no clue how that got through. Considering he was so anti federation at conflict and stuff. And then boom! DS9.
@@AidanMillward haha yeah it's such a wild outlier. When I actually finally saw it for the first time(this year) I assumed it was some whacky AI edit thing
Joe Leonard won championships on both 2 and four wheels winning USAC Indy championship in early 70s and winning many races on pavement and dirt in USAC stocks while having many good showings in nascar and championship dirt cars.And then there is Paul Goldsmith who won motorcycle titles before moving on to Indy car, USAC stock car and NASCAR fame. I think he raced a few airplanes as well. Goldsmith won on road courses as well (Watkins Glen 62’)
@ Joe Leonard did. Goldy did not. Surtees, Goldy are in my top 10, Leonard is in my top 20. Leonard and Goldy won big races on dirt ovals. Surtees didnt win ANY races on ovals that im aware of. Goldsmith has won multiple races on road courses. Joe Leonard won one road course race . Heck Goldy won at DAYTONA road course lol.
2:26 well there is peroni zero and Glenfiddich for Aston, Heineken as a track/race name partner as well as Estrella zero😉 for Ferrari (although I’m sure they will move to Williams).
@ interesting fact those zeros don’t count as alcohol and are sold in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia convenience stores but in Britain you need to be 18 to be able to buy them at tescos
I always said that with his record, he should have been given a knighthood, making him Sir John Surtees. I'm not just talking about the fact that he won 7 motorbike world championships before switching to Formula One and winning that title, but all the work he did with motorsport safety, following the death of his son Henry, too. I'm not sure what stopped the powers at B giving him one, but he must have been looking at someone like Sir Jackie Stewart and going, "Really". Maybe it's because they looked down on bike racing, or because he dared to have a condom company sponsor his team, after all we all know how snobbish the British establishment can be!!!!!
Some people turn down knighthoods and Surtees might have quietly done so. Bowie, Hawking, Roald Dahl, George Harrison, Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy and Jennifer Saunders all did.
Oh he snuck in a Monty Python reference! Someone look up the black knight skit! It’s ok to show the limbs cut off with the fake blood flowing….but it would have been banned if he tossed a rubber at him… That would have been funny now that I think about it…
ITV must have shown at least delayed highlights. Over the night of the 1996 Japanese Grand Prix when I stayed up to hopefully see Damon Hill clinch the championship ITV showed a rerun of their coverage of the ‘76 Japanese Grand Prix where Hunt clinched the title. Clever scheduling that lured F1 fans who were waiting on the BBC showing F1 live. Whatever show ITV had originally shown the ‘76 title decider on wasn’t clear from the ‘96 re-run. It may have been shown on World of Sport or something originally, but the version I saw was heavily cut down, with little to no titles or introduction. It also has Simon Taylor on commentary duties, as he later did for the film Rush. Whether the BBC showed that race, I don’t know. I’ve never found any BBC highlights of it. Though given how the BBC wiped video tape for re-use in the ‘70s, who knows if they did broadcast it as well as ITV, and the tape no longer exists? Whether “ITV” showed the race is also a little bit muddy, given all the various ITV regions at the time. Where I lived in the ‘80s, in the Border TV region, you could be fairly sure that any networked programming would be shown - Border hardly had any money to make programmes, so if the network suggested airing a show produced by another region Border would air it. If you lived in one of the big players in ITV’s regions (such as Granada, Thames, Central, etc.) they might opt to show one of their own programmes instead. Different ITV stations produced different motorsport coverage - mostly it was on World of Sport that was produced by LWT, but the Birmingham Superprix events were covered by Central. It’s a bit like trying to catch fog working out who showed which programmes on British TV up until the ‘90s - particularly on ITV.
A fun fact:
Here in Brazil, Durex is a brand of adhesive tape. The kind you use in offices and so on. When we ask for adhesive tape here, we say: "Let me borrow some Durex"
But in Portugal it means condom.
There are several cases of brazilians who have gone to work in Portugal and made the mistake of asking for Durex instead of adhesive tape. 😆
It is in Australia too. There's an old Jasper Carrott joke where he goes "it says on the packet: DO NOT STICK DUREX ON THE WALL... Well... I wasn't about to..."
And France. At least, they were selling Durex adhesive tape in Le Harvre when I went there in 1984.... Gods, I'm getting old....
Am I the only guy who cringed at the thought of mistaking those two? Condom for tape is sort of amusing, tape for condom on the other hand......
@@AidanMillwardI did once... SHE WAS FURIOUS!!
@@AidanMillwardThus the famous advert for STA Travel back in the 1980s with their words of advice for backpackers heading to Australia, accompanied by the sounds of some poor bloke receiving the Happy Shopper equivalent of a black-crack-and-sack.
The BBC were worried about this, but not that the Hesketh in '76 was sponsored by Penthouse. At least Durex were a legitimate company and not dodgy like plenty of others in F1 (Essex Petroleum, Moneytron and t-minus are just three that spring immediately to mind!)
Yeah, it's absolutely hilarious how they lost their shit over Durex but not a porn mag.
@@AidanMillward I think you'll find that Penthouse was a "gentlemen's periodical", not a porn mag.
Talking about that kind of thing, do you remember when Aiello's DTM Astra was sponsored by Playboy? That car was in ToCA Race Driver 3 in its full glory and wasn't the reason for the 12 rating
Rich Energy drink comes to mind too!
This thread is like a history of Storytime episodes.
@@AidanMillward This is why government bureaucrat tend to get the respect they deserve. They can't even get their hypocrisy about sex right.
The irony of Durex causing broadcasters to pull out early.
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Absolute 💀💀💀💀💀
If there was ever a driver whose name was begging for a Durex sponsorship, it's Dick Johnson.
What about Dick Trickle? I remember playing some NASCAR game on the N64 and falling into childish giggles at his name.
@@liamh1982 it depends on the viscosity.
Or Dick Seaman
Perhaps NASCAR's Dick Trickle should have used the product?
Nah Richard seaman was a great name .
I have a feeling James Hunt was the kind of guy who convinced ladies that “skin on skin is the way to win”
Oh, I doubt that. He somehow managed to avoid any paternity suits and there is only ONE sure fire way to prevent them......and it doesn't involve trusting her with the birth control.
Ha
Absolutely the way to victory. cheers
Nikki Lauda even remembered that sponsorship.
I object to all this sex on the TV. I mean, I keep falling off😅 (Monty Python.)
So if F1 was sponsored by Durex shouldn’t F1 historic be sponsored by viagra?
Well, you joke but remember a few years ago when the cars had those dildo shaped air things mounted on the tip of the nose?
Well in the 2000's NASCAR team Rousch racing had one of their cars was sponsor by Viagra and driven by one oldest on the field at that time Mark Martin.
The Sun ran a headline when the car had a puncture, saying 'Durex popped.' It had an effect.
Imagine if a competitor used the picture of the punctured car to advertise their condoms. The tagline could be: "We don't pop" or something.
I think there's rules about that.
Reminds me of Jasper Carrott. The BBC didn't want to show the car with "You know what!" on it. Anyway, it's in the pits with a puncture.
Jasper Carrott is a legend
@AidanMillward he's touring again early 2025
Came here mention Jasper! They didn’t want to show the car which was a bit awkward as “it was leading most of the time” 😂😂
@@JohnSmithShieldsit supposed to be Mark Cavendish instead.😅
It was illegal to advertise safe sex. I love it!
I think the Catholic Church complained that their congregations were dropping off?
@@mikehipperson If they want alert congregations they need to spice up their Homilies man.
Safe sex wasn't a thing until the 80s.
1:02 - it was on the outside of Chapel so visible down Hangar Straight, even six year old me wondered why that was allowed.
Not just that, but when the2003 track invasion happened,you had it show up in the pictures all over the news and the papers as well,just to add to this.Daily Mail,among others had a two page spread of the picture,with the Marlboro F1 very much there, no airbrushing or editing at all
And the very next year, Hesketh shows up with a car sponsored by Penthouse Magazine.
Fun fact, in brasil for a long time while Globo was the official broadcaster for F1, Red Bull were always called RBR and Toro Rosso STR.
There was one race while Adrian Newey smile to the camera with a can o red bull on his hand and the commentary booth went mad with angry 😂
Why?
I think it might be penis reasons they got angry.
File 76?
Globo is Spanish slang for condom \m/
Even as late as 2003 you saw the "Marlboro F1" advert on the Hangar Straight yet the cars were all tobacco free.
Surtees ran Durex branding at a time when F1 was entering a safety crusade.
Hehe, Durex on the helmet. Let's hope we never grow up to not find that funny.
Having met John, trust me, that joke will have occurred to him...
I'm glad F1 has moved on from cigarette advertising to become more socially aware, and we now get ethical industries like crypto and vaping companies to sponsor the Saudi Arabian GP
Probably explains the lack of alcohol sponsors as well.
@@AidanMillward To be fair alcohol and driving are not a very good mix.
I think my sarcasmometer just went off
Me in 2018: Jesus can they please get rid of all the strip clubs and alcohol adds off these damn sports talk radio station and arenas?
Monkey paw curls.
You get a Fanduel and you get BetMGM and you get Topdog or w/e advertisement.
@@AidanMillward I remember when Clay Regazzoni won the British GP taking a first win for williams. he was not allowed to have Champagne on the podium due to Williams being sponsored by Saudia.
Imagine Murray Walker saying And the Surtees sponsored by DUREX goes head 1st into the bush!!
It would destroy Brundle's line about heading for the scene of the accident.
PR was very carefully handled, they didn't want things going off at half cock.😬🤣🤣🤣
At 70 years of age, I well remember seeing the Durex Team racing, but it wasn't just the logos on the cars that had people talking. The Team jackets were nothing less than marketing genius, a flesh coloured cotton jacket complete with Durex branding and a second form fitting outer later in clear vinal ! I remember fans in the paddock offering cash to team members (pun implied) for their jackets.
While we're on the subject of Surtees have you ever thought about tackling the legends of motorcycling? After all, the son of one of the biggest has now joined the F1 grid!
Who?
Moto GP champ, yeah OK somewhat impressive, Surtees won the Isle of Mann TT seven times! That makes me want a Durex.
@@truehunger108 Jack Doohan, son of 5-time 500cc champion Mick Doohan
Mike Hailwood would like a word...
Barry Sheen might enter the chat.
That tobacco billboard at Silverstone was there well into the '00s, on the exit of Chapel so it appeared in the back of the long shots looking down the Hangar Straight from Stowe.
I have no idea how it was legal. (From memory I think it was still there after 2005, after F1 banned tobacco sponsorship.)
I was 10-11 that year (most of the F1 year I'd have been 10). Just at that age to understand that there was something dodgy about the word Durex, but too young and sheltered to understand why. A couple of years later, it dawned on me...
Thanks for doing this, Aidan. I always had a crap ton of respect for John Surtees and you're right, he's seriously underrated.
I was trying to figure out how come I saw so much of the 1976 season during the year. Highlights were common so perhaps that's how I saw it. I definitely remember seeing the car in an introduction to a race (couldn't tell you which one).
Did this not all start before with the Durex Lola T400 F5000? Or was that after?
Now that "other brands are available" makes so much sense, that so many British youtubers sometimes keep saying as jokes ... Especially Yogscast
Back then TV was such a low definition, the only way you'd be able to see the sponsors would be if the camera was about 6 inches away from the cars.
this car was the beta version of SEXMULA 1 (the stable version being the hesketh 308D/E that sported both rizla and penthouse sponsorship at the same time)
The car carried the Durex logos in to 1977 as welll
@@AidanMillward _cue the japanese guy yelling "sex" out of his lungs meme_
Surtees pulled out of F1 after 78 but they Raced in the Aurora British F1 Series with Gordon Smiley winning at Silverstone in 79 after that the shop was closed for good
Didn't need the Durex then.....
@@JohnSmithShields bravo, sir, bravo
6:55 That is one very specific anecdote. Not to mention Jimmy Broadbent fans making the joke that the logos protect your racing virginity😂
state comp was an experience...
The irony of this comment is that Jimmy Broadbent is going to be a dad soon.
@AidanMillward I can only imagine😅
@@CyanRooper I know, the man has had one hell of a journey in life most of it is on TH-cam. His channel is probably one of the best documented cases of a guy who was in the deepest of lows and through his own effort found success. I hope for him he'll never have to experience what he did ever again.
Great job on this one, left rubbery with laughter
I used to work for the company that now makes Durex in their r&d labs, there was a picture of that car in the lobby with a few other bits of sponsorship that the company had it's brands on over the years. And yes in the labs there was a lot of lube, I've seen what happens to strawberry flavoured lube after 5 years in 35C at 70% humidity and it doesn't smell good
I heard that there is a picture out there with the Durex sponsered car with a puncture. I did a quick search for it but had no luck.
This whole episode is full of giggling and double-entendre. Proper British humour, and I love it.
I may be wrong here, but at 11.25 you state that tobacco advertising had been made illegal in the UK in 1963. I can't believe that as I grew up in the '70s and '80s with billboards and newspapers full of Marlboro, Silk Cut, Benson and Hedges, John Player Black, etc, ads. I think you possibly meant 2003 which is where the blanket ban on tobacco advertising came into force.
I think he meant on television (and even then that was only for cigarettes, cigar adverts ran into the 90s).
@@liamh1982 I think you might be right - I don't remember much in the way of cigarette advertising, but I do remember Hamlet cigar adverts being accompanied by "Air on the G string" music.
1:08 IIRC Marlboro F1 was a “clothing brand” and Marlboro bought a permanent advertising board for like a decade I think it was removed in like 2004/05
How about a video about Martin Brundle?
This was so damn good!!! Funny, great information and a well-struck watch!
Who in Britain remembers the Walls Ice Cream slogan which was emblazoned on their fleet of refrigerated pedal tricycles and later their vans which was “Stop Me and Buy One”, when Durex sponsored the Surtees team, they had 48 sheet posters emblazoned all over the country with a large photo of the car with only a massive headline “Buy Me and Stop One”…… sheer brilliance!
Tack!
I like when Zakspeed in the 80s would use "East" too, or an odd Barcode.
1:00 about those marlboro banners at silverstone, if you watch the 2003 british gp theres a marlboro banner on the circuit pretty visible, no extremly visible, its when the camera shot is on the hangar straight theres a marlboro banner
I've recently come across this channel and the videos covering F1 over the decades are top drawer.👍
Channel 5 was 1997, although about a third of the population couldn't really receive it very well (if they could receive it at all) until the launch of digital TV in the UK the year after.
And - "cough" - prophylactic contraceptive devices made of latex (because some of my comments seem to disappear if I use certain words) weren't advertised on British television until 1985.
“Party hats with the coloured tips” as Madness described them.
What on Earth makes you think Hunt used contraceptives?
Because I believe he was a gentleman.
@@AidanMillward I was brought up to believe that a gentleman was a man who leant on his elbows.
Why?....A complete and total lack of paternity suits against him world wide. Only one sure fire way to prevent that.....and it doesn't involve trusting her with the birth control.
Something for the Grand Prix weekend, sir?
He's no Wilt Chamberlain, that's for sure.
By that, I mean the "10k children" myth.
The BBC wouldn't show Coventry City when they wore the Talbot (car manufacturer) logo shirt.
Damn I made my joke about a puncture on the Durex car causing an 18 year penalty 1 video too early.
I guess I pre-joked
Television in the US was still restrained in the 1970s, as being almost Victorian with its buttoned-down decorum, but TV producers of the likes of Norman Lear were bringing in elements in TV shows to shed the excessive modesty on TV.
Example: American TV production standards prohibited the showing of a toilet in TV shows.
Then along comes the CBS-TV (US) series, "All In The Family," where executive producer Norman Lear scripted-in the sound of a flushing toilet in a 1971 episode . . . it left the audience both stunned and laughing heartily at the same time, as the sound of a flushing toilet was never heard on TV shows up till 1971.
The real reason Ron Howard made "Rush": because the British never got to see that season and Ron decided to recreate it for them.
Wtf are you smoking? Britain did see that season there is bbc footage from it.
We did get to see some of the season because of the battle heating up between Hunt and Lauda. this guy is wrong on that for sure.
19:36 Maybe an unfortunate choice of words there?
Excellent, yet again!
8:54 ok I'm not getting the caption. Yes, I know, South Park, Terence and Phillip, but I don't get how it applies here
The part of the building centre left looks like it’s a Canadian from South Park
Actually 'back then' most people in the UK thought it was ridiculous. I certainly never knew anyone who thought the ban made any sense.
I wonder why most of the teams in 2014 didn't ask John for Sponsorship due to Questionable Noses
I see another double standard, in the 1970's look at comedies like On The Buses and the Carry On films etc. which nobody batted an eye at but Durex wasn't allowed.
Or Bernard Manning with his “Comedy”
Yes, well, those were firmly in the 'wink, wink, nudge, nudge' territory, while the Durex Surtees car was more like in yer face ;)
@@whtalt92the whole point of condoms is so it doesn’t end up on your face
It's criminal that Surtees never got knighted when others got the medal for less. I think Surtees was a great guy, probably too great, and wasn't what the "establishment" liked.
@@burkezillar he might have turned it down. Some people do.
@ I know, but I don’t think he ever got nominated. Ive seen he (either) wasn’t nominated at the time he was involved in F1 so was discounted because of it, or he was too abrasive and wasn’t liked enough.
@ could be. Look at how much bullshit Lewis had to go through to get his. They went all in on his taxes despite Richard Branson, Connery, the Dyson bloke and Cliff Richard being non apologetic tax dodgers for decades.
You missed two things, originally Surtees was actually running ads for London Rubber’s industrial gasket brand. It was later they switched to pushing the Durex brand.
A few years later, at the height of the AIDS epidemic bright pink Durex branded up Bikes and Rally cars were fine. Although apparently Frank Williams objected!
Also Sky never showed that TNG scene uncut.
Sky also censored O’Brian saying “Bollocks” on DS9 while the BBC let it pass. Actually by the 90s Sky were way more prudish. Even using an alternative theme for ‘The Nanny’ as the original uses Fanny (meaning backside) in the lyrics and multiple cuts to The Simpsons for similar.
I'm pretty sure some races were broadcast in 1976, because of the battle heating up between Hunt and Luada. i was at Brands for the British GP and ITV showed some of it two weeks later. and the Japanese event was certainly shown at some point.
the directors were i think under orders to not linger on shots of the Surtees.
bear in mind, this was two years before the BBC's Grand Prix program started, and F1 coverage was sporadic at best.
I once read that the Gold Leaf sponsored Lotus 49 in 1968 was the reason why German Television showed no F1 races that season. Sadly I have no source at hands to confirm that.
@AidanMillward Imagine if the old F1 games had the tobacco sponsors shown & was an +18 rating? They’d be selling less than the Ford *Cozzeh*
@@simontravers2715 Yeah, age restricted products and logos bumps the rating up.
Although, use the f word in a film and it’s a 12. It only becomes a 15 once the f word is used in a sexual context. “Oh f-!” makes it a 12 but “go f- yourself” makes it a 15.
TCRF has a lot of examples of this going on. Over in NASCAR,EA had to remove the Winston logos, but didn't scrub the Winston from the audio for the pre race/post race MRN snippets, in F1 games you had,going by TCRF quite a lot of the,them ship with cigarette ads still in, from a full on Marlboro billboard left in but only visible if you look back at the correct spot and time on the track at Monaco, to some being left in on loading screens or background art but dummied out and you had to dump the disc and it's still there, but there's a lot of parodies of cigarette ads.
Not to mention Winston,again,skated by unscathed and Marlboro and 555 got by in rally games,even if not on the car,Rally Challenge got a whole feature on the history of each sponsor,which included 555.
Nope.I am not joking, there was a whole history of 555 for the Subaru sponsor menu though
The Japanese games from the 80s do, Namco (Final Lap) and Sega (Super Monaco GP Arcade) in particular got in trouble for including the Marlboro logos in the games outside of Japan itself.
@@palm92 Didn't they have to change them to parody adverts for that reason? TCRF mentions 'the lawsuit' but I'm not sure what lawsuit it's referring to though.
The demo for xCar Experimental Racing got away with a full on Marlboro advert,ut come the full game,that was quaker State int is place.Ironically,the demo had the correct sponsors for its version of Mid Ohio, a whole lot of companies that got the axe between the demo and full release as well.I do have a back issue of Autosport that also states that models were sold with full Marlboro branding as it was a Ferrari car and it got into the hands of Children in South africa,about 20-25 years ago as well. Why, why is it always Marlboro? To be fair I'd take big cigarette over crypto or shady energy drink sponsors any day. Least with Marlboro or B&H or whoever else you got a legit company
EDIT: Also I remember how huge of a deal it was to finally have Rothmans logos on Senna's model FW16 as well, and how much of a deal the full page ad made about how it's for over 18s only, and how many ways it drove that point home, repeatedly.
Also from the Motorsims NHRA games, Team Pissy Duck will never not be hilarious for that being in there, and nobody throwing a fit. Also another one winston got into via the team/driver info screen. Apparently,Motorsims could get away with it,whereas EA couldn't at that time period too
@@jacekatalakis8316 I think in overseas releases they were removed entirely, but then again I only have the Japanese romsets.
I do know it SMGP's followup F1 Exhaust Note the Marlboro sponsorship is just "WOWAWOW".
I remember when that episode of TNG aired (here in the US, at prime time, I guess it was no problem for the censors), and being shocked at the graphic nature of it. I was only 10 and it was mildly traumatic, so I can understand decisions not to air it. My parents were Trekkies back in the day, and so we watched every episode of TNG as a family, and there hadn't been anything quite like that up to that point, so it really was pretty shocking for the show.
The BBC edited out a throwaway line from Data about the Irish reunification of 2024 because the year it broadcast the IRA had set off a couple of bombs.
Remember the Durex newspaper ad? Strapline was “the small family car”!
Wasn't the Surtees usually at the back of the grid anyway? So in most cases it wouldn't have been shown on camera (except perhaps the formation lap). Still it is funny to think how perspectives changed over the decades. Heck in early F1 there was an official rule that only car / racing related sponsors were allowed which was later changed
I really want your shirt!!! Saw the durex sponsored car at snetterton 79 or 80 ? Commentators wouldn't mention it in on track commentary
If there’s a castore shop near you, then you can get it there.
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@AidanMillward west coast Canada,
I really liked the posters on billboards across the country, showing a Surtees TS19 in Durex sponsorship. Beneath it was the line. SMALL FAMILY CAR. Brilliant!
Hypocrisy in Government? Hypocrisy in the media? Who could ever imagine such a thing??? Brilliant episode [as always], but it makes me wonder again, for the 8,000,000,000th time, how do these hypocrites get into positions of power in the 1st place? As you say, no one seemed to have any issue with people selling rubbers, lets not even get into violence on TV, and no one seemed to have an issue with the GOVERNMENT pushing their uses for the sake of public health and safety as Mr. Surtees so eloquently stated, so then who were these clowns that arbitrarily decided it was "too much"? I'm sick of this idea of an elite set of religious lunatics making policy all on their own, for OUR wellbeing. All I can say is it's a good thing the FIA doesn't pull stunts like that.
Well, least there's been progress, now you have a bunch of political elitists who see their ideology as a religion and think of themselves as righteous and decide what's best for your wellbeing... nothing's fundamentally changed.
Liquor in F1 is in an odd spot since it generally does appear regular-ishly on the cars again, McLaren has Jack Daniels, Sauber had Whistle pig, and VCARB had Neft. I'm sure there's a few more but they seem to be more remote sponsors only appearing in smaller places on the cars, possibly due to them only being able to be shown in non-dry countries, i.e. none of the middle eastern races.
13:00 “Surtees held firm…” 😂
In the US at the time like in the UK, the "Big 3" TV networks at the time (CBS, NBC & ABC) had a major issue with showing auto racing flag to flag at the time mainly due to all of the tobacco advertising that was present especially in NASCAR. Heck NASCAR's top series was called the Winston Cup. The main reason why the "Big 3" networks were very hesitant to air any auto racing was because back in 1971, the FCC banned all tobacco advertising from TV. As a result, the "Big 3" networks only showed highlights of races (usually the big ones like the Daytona 500, Indy 500 & Monaco) in NASCAR, USAC (which would later become CART after 1979) & F1 as part of their Wide World of Sports, Sports Spectacular & SportsWorld sports compilation shows that were shown on weekends. Meanwhile leagues like the NFL, MLB & the NHL had their games shown in full because the networks could just have the camera focused on the field or rink the whole time, even though there were tobacco advertisements all around the stadium. It wasn't until ESPN & other cable networks like TBS came on board in the early 1980's that auto racing in the US got shown regularly on TV with NASCAR & CART benefiting greatly from the increased exposure. Meanwhile the "Big 3" networks got an exemption from the FCC around the same time regarding showing cars with tobacco advertising which allowed them to show more races especially with NASCAR (though NBC largely stayed out of motorsports until 2001 when they became a NASCAR TV partner).
Other than the series sponsor, which teams in mid-70's NASCAR were running tobacco sponsorship?
The top teams were sponsored by the likes of STP, Purolator, Gatorade, Coca Cola, Norris and Holly Farms.
When tobacco advertising did come into NASCAR in the 80's it was from chewing tobacco companies like Skoal and Kodiak, which did not conflict with the series sponsor Winston.
It was the same here as well. The World Snooker Championship was sponsored by Embassy for a very long time, the Masters (also snooker) was Benson and Hedges and the Premier League was sponsored by Carling (a lager brand)
Then- the authorities turn round a few years back to Liverpool and Newcastle, who were sponsored by Carlsberg and Newcastle Brown Ale that alcohol sponsors on shirts would be banned because kids wear those shirts.
Then about 3 quarters of the 92 clubs in the top four tiers of English football ended up with betting companies on those shirts. So no booze but gambling is fair. But now they want to ban that too.
awesome video, veyr interesting to note the hypocrsy
14:54 Early TNG was a weird beast. That death was pretty grim, and I always forget Picard used to say 'merde' a lot. Didn't Data's mentioning of the 'Irish Unification of 2024' in another episode get yeeted too for a while? (You're cutting it close, Ireland!)
I think the episode was edited. It would have been a government order, I'm sure.
The line was cut out by Auntie for a long time. Early 90s and the IRA still around they didn’t want to unintentionally rattle the cage.
I'd imagine the controversy actually provided great advertising for Durex, despite the TV channels wanting them to pull out....
I never really liked the tobacco sponsor liveries, except the Gold Leaf and JPS ones used by Lotus. The tobacco-less Benetton B186 and Jordan 191 liveries were much more aesthetically pleasing, in my view. I also thought the ICI sponsorship looked better on the Williams cars than its Camel replacement. By the time I started following F1 in the mid-1980s, the tobacco liveries were also much criticised for public health reasons. Here in Australia, the F1 circus was controversially given a special dispensation to advertise tobacco; such advertising was otherwise totally banned by federal legislation. But in those days, F1 was still a very dangerous sport, and therefore I used to think that it was okay to have tobacco advertising. Lots of F1 drivers died or were very badly injured in crashes, but I never heard of any dying of lung cancer. As for Durex, well, here in Oz it's always been best known as a brand of adhesive tape.
I wouldn't be suprised if radio was the beneficiary of no F1 races on tv outside of the finalie in 1976
I remember in early 70’s in USA that would broadcast the F1 races in winter after season was over
In Germany ARD & ZDF are publicly funded too, they get tons and tons of money, yet they still are showing advertisments and claim they don't have enough money otherwise. It's ridiculous!
One thing I think is hilarious is that while Ferrari isn't sponsored by Marlboro anymore they're still sponsored by Phillip Morris under the guise of "energy-related technologies" lol
9:50 - I lived in South Korea for a few years. I'm not a yank but occasionally watched that yank TV channel AFN (yankee forces network). It was a bit like the BBC: no advertising was allowed so that it didn't compete with SK TV channels for money. But since all the shows on were yank shows (and all a year old, not current season for contractual reasons), they were only 44 minutes per episode, not 48 as the UK still is or Canada/yankland used to be. Those extras 16 minutes were a constant stream of yank military public service announcement or upcoming TV shows. It was very weird.
Lob in those infomercials you guys love so much instead.
“Wow! I can’t believe we got all that juice from a whole bag of oranges!”
Wait a minute, is durex more or less the reason why Bernie could go in and buy the broadcasting rights and such?
No, Bernie bought them because he could.
@ peak Bernie behavior. Great video as always man, keep up the great work
Is there a Bernie Storytime episode, if not,.it would be a great story.
@@AidanMillward 😂..an elegant reply
Martini on F1 and Budweiser on Nascar feels entirely appropriate
I miss the era when Budweiser, Miller Lite, and Coors all had cars at the same time. They used to call it the war of the beers
@MrTakaMOSHi Lol. The tobacco brands definitely gave the best liveries in F1. Lotus' Gold Leaf in the '60s and that black and gold John Player Special (personal favourite). Marlboro on Mclarens and Ferraris. Rothmans on Williams' cars.
@@Jesus_H._Tap-DancingChrist Rothmans also sponsored March and Gitanes sponsored Ligier. Lucky Strike was also another famous one.
Tobacco advertising was banned in 1963 except for cigars - remember the Hamlet adverts? But this exception was ended in 1991.
I was born in 1990 so… no.
Do you mean as actual TV adverts in the UK? I don't remember any cigarette TV adverts growing up, going back to the late 70s.
@@davem9204 Cigarette advertising on TV ended in 1965, but cigars and loose tobacco were still advertised until 1991.
@@DBIVUK I mis-parsed your original comment. I read it as tobacco advertising was reintroduced in 1991. Understand your point now, and matches my memory of those days.
1) At the time, the Surtees was referred to as ‘the small family car’.
2) I have lived in the UK, and it is common knowledge that there are ten or twelve elderly ladies around the country who do nothing but write letters complaining about one thing or another about programming on BBC.
I think it takes four or five letters or calls from these defenders of the public morals to get something canceled or abridged . . .
Truthfully, if government allows tobacco products to be sold then not allowing tobacco companies to advertising should be illegal. Government loves to be hypocritical. Many governments love to tax tobacco products but then turn around and disrupt their businesses.
Speaking of alcohol advertising. The black and gold Miller Genuine Draft livery Rusty Wallace ran was fabulous.
To this day in the 21st century it is still on to show violence - sometimes very graphic violence - on TV and no sex.
Apart from HBO Max no other channel shows sex scenes on TV shows or movies. Perhaps some more tame but full frontal for instance is still a no-no!
Amazing, considering how BBC is so progressive now. We all need a James Hunt now, the 007 of F1.
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
That scene in Star Trek was a hilariously extreme departure from their generally family-friendly level of violence in the entire franchise.
@@davidkavanagh189 it was still under Roddenberry as well so no clue how that got through.
Considering he was so anti federation at conflict and stuff. And then boom! DS9.
@@AidanMillward haha yeah it's such a wild outlier. When I actually finally saw it for the first time(this year) I assumed it was some whacky AI edit thing
Pebble Mill...long gone!!!
The fact Aidan laughed so much thinking about a teenager putting a Jonny on his head and blowing it up with his nose tells me Aidan was said teenage
Not with my lungs. It was one of the year 11s when I was in year 8.
Joe Leonard won championships on both 2 and four wheels winning USAC Indy championship in early 70s and winning many races on pavement and dirt in USAC stocks while having many good showings in nascar and championship dirt cars.And then there is Paul Goldsmith who won motorcycle titles before moving on to Indy car, USAC stock car and NASCAR fame. I think he raced a few airplanes as well. Goldsmith won on road courses as well (Watkins Glen 62’)
He didn't win world championships on both though.
@ Joe Leonard did. Goldy did not. Surtees, Goldy are in my top 10, Leonard is in my top 20. Leonard and Goldy won big races on dirt ovals. Surtees didnt win ANY races on ovals that im aware of. Goldsmith has won multiple races on road courses. Joe Leonard won one road course race . Heck Goldy won at DAYTONA road course lol.
2:26 well there is peroni zero and Glenfiddich for Aston, Heineken as a track/race name partner as well as Estrella zero😉 for Ferrari (although I’m sure they will move to Williams).
All of them except for Glenfiddich peddling the 0% stuff.
@ interesting fact those zeros don’t count as alcohol and are sold in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia convenience stores but in Britain you need to be 18 to be able to buy them at tescos
I always said that with his record, he should have been given a knighthood, making him Sir John Surtees. I'm not just talking about the fact that he won 7 motorbike world championships before switching to Formula One and winning that title, but all the work he did with motorsport safety, following the death of his son Henry, too.
I'm not sure what stopped the powers at B giving him one, but he must have been looking at someone like Sir Jackie Stewart and going, "Really". Maybe it's because they looked down on bike racing, or because he dared to have a condom company sponsor his team, after all we all know how snobbish the British establishment can be!!!!!
It does seem odd, especially given Sir Jack Brabham was knighted, even before Sir Jackie Stewart. Surtees is definitely befitting of it, imo.
I think it's just that motorcycling isn't very prominent here.
Some people turn down knighthoods and Surtees might have quietly done so. Bowie, Hawking, Roald Dahl, George Harrison, Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy and Jennifer Saunders all did.
@@davidmoore1253 You have to be joking right !
Oh he snuck in a Monty Python reference! Someone look up the black knight skit! It’s ok to show the limbs cut off with the fake blood flowing….but it would have been banned if he tossed a rubber at him… That would have been funny now that I think about it…
that one guy at school thet blew up a jonny on his head was me!
Ironic that the same people that protected Jimmy Saville, didn't like to advertise a more appropriate protection.
didnt the BBC Broadcast the Japanese GP of 1976
ITV must have shown at least delayed highlights. Over the night of the 1996 Japanese Grand Prix when I stayed up to hopefully see Damon Hill clinch the championship ITV showed a rerun of their coverage of the ‘76 Japanese Grand Prix where Hunt clinched the title. Clever scheduling that lured F1 fans who were waiting on the BBC showing F1 live. Whatever show ITV had originally shown the ‘76 title decider on wasn’t clear from the ‘96 re-run. It may have been shown on World of Sport or something originally, but the version I saw was heavily cut down, with little to no titles or introduction. It also has Simon Taylor on commentary duties, as he later did for the film Rush.
Whether the BBC showed that race, I don’t know. I’ve never found any BBC highlights of it. Though given how the BBC wiped video tape for re-use in the ‘70s, who knows if they did broadcast it as well as ITV, and the tape no longer exists?
Whether “ITV” showed the race is also a little bit muddy, given all the various ITV regions at the time. Where I lived in the ‘80s, in the Border TV region, you could be fairly sure that any networked programming would be shown - Border hardly had any money to make programmes, so if the network suggested airing a show produced by another region Border would air it. If you lived in one of the big players in ITV’s regions (such as Granada, Thames, Central, etc.) they might opt to show one of their own programmes instead. Different ITV stations produced different motorsport coverage - mostly it was on World of Sport that was produced by LWT, but the Birmingham Superprix events were covered by Central.
It’s a bit like trying to catch fog working out who showed which programmes on British TV up until the ‘90s - particularly on ITV.
Jamie Whitham had Durex sponsorship for the Isle of Man TT in 1989.
15:52 Truer words have never been spoken.
Don't forget the Big Boss Man dragging the big show through a cemetery on top of his own fathers casket. Peak attitude era hilarity!
Two words. Katie. Vick.
Okay that was more depravity than hilarity.
There was also the time The Big Boss Man killed Al Snow’s pet dog and fed it to him.
@@AidanMillwardKatie Vick was from the "Ruthless Aggression" era, but it still tracks.
Brit TV Licensees , Ringway Manchester ( the radio guy ) just did a piece on this.
Little bit of fully justified salt at the end there. Preach!
“These millennials are so soft they’re offended by everything!” Says generation that raised them.
I remember Zakspeed switching West to East for those races
James smiling in the grave when you called him "there biggest customer ".