BUT IT LOOKS LIKE A FERRARI! The Story of the 'Red Williams' Cars (1998-99)

[@dod_the_angel]

I've seen these in person when I visited the Williams factory in 2017. There was a story the guide told us about Jacques being chased around the garage by a guy in a woodpecker costume who was trying to hug him for a photo op

[@iplayeddsharpminor]

No wonder he was never quite the same in the 000s

[@dod_the_angel]

@@iplayeddsharpminor woodpecker PTSD is no joke apparently

[@billy54bob]

That is so good to hear about 😂

[@patrickpalmer1617]

Until J.V told him to knock it on the Head.....

[@Strangegloves]

I do often wonder what Frank and Patrick were thinking in Melbourne 1998 watching the Newey designed mp4-13 lap the whole field!!

[@SebrystianVettel]

iirc, Sir Frank himself said that it was a mistake not giving Newey some stakes at the team that led to his departure

[@Pewnhound112]

Cue the meme template with the two confused looking dogs, and that’s probably pretty accurate.

[@GWFires]

ironically it was never about the stakes @@SebrystianVettel

[@mm91ie]

@@markwilliams1941 At Spa 98 at the first start Villeneuve made a brilliant getaway and passed everybody to get right alongside Hakinen before the big crash and the race was stopped, that was the one moment throughout the season where he got close to the magnificent McLaren.

[@kevinprior3549]

Probably thinking... what were we thinking?

[@senorsoupe]

As a 12-13 year old in Quebec at this time I directly blamed the change in colour for JV's struggles. He had always had blue and white cars and had won everything put in front of him in blue and white so red just seemed like a curse

[@mm91ie]

At 10:25 the 1998 car is shown and the red Winfield livery looks fabulous

[@Klutch58Customs]

My mate was horrified by the livery change. He'd just painted his Fireblade in 'williams colours' . Another friend once painted his garage door red and white with a McLaren logo just before they went silver. 😮

[@PaperBanjo64]

I heard a father and son painted a bedroom in 1997 Mark Martin NASCAR colors then the livery changed in 1998 when they had just finished painting the room

[@duncansnowden6857]

Another thing about the red livery was that while the original Frank Williams Racing Cars livery was the plain dark blue Williams have used occasionaly in testing more recently, a lot of those pre-“Grand Prix Engineering” cars were also painted red. I distinctly remember people who were around back in the '70s saying things along the lines that “Frank never wins with red cars”. I don't think Frank himself was particularly superstitious, but it was certainly quite a coincidence.

[@stewartbailey1653]

One of the major advantages the McLaren had, in 98, was also down to the fact that Newey took a look at the Mercedes engine and asked if they could minimise it to help with the aerodynamics. This led to what were known as the series two engines, that were smaller and lighter than the ones that had been used until the end of 97. If only Frank and Patrick hadn't managed to keep pissing Newey off, even if Renault still pulled out, I think he might have been able to design a car that might have been able to compete, maybe not fight for the championship, but still get the odd win. Then a Newey BMW collaboration could have been epic, as a lot of the time the BMW was considered as the most powerful engine. I bet Frank and Patrick were gutted every time they saw one of Newey's monsters racking up wins

[@Dischingo]

Imagine a universe where the walrus nose didn't exist I don't know how I'd feel about that.

[@stewartbailey1653]

@Dischingo Sssssshhhhhhhh, we don't talk about the walrus nose lol 😆😆

[@keironstoneman6938]

That 99 livery in my opinion was absolutely gorgeous.

[@ianwynne764]

Hello Aidan: At 15:29, in almost the exact middle of the frame, on the car is a reference to Australian culture, a black and yellow "beware of kangaroos" sign. Have a lovely day.

[@kevinprior3549]

In 1998 Williams had Meckacrome, & Benetton had Playlife. Both essential Renaults!

[@timakimat]

About 1982: Before being to critical I think it's a good idea to watch the races to see how Rosberg drove with that underpowered car. He's a worthy champion.

[@karlstannard662]

When you see Rosberg drive at the 1892 Swiss GP where he caught Prost and pasted him he really was on the limit every lap. I can’t remember which lap it was about 10 from the end where, he had both rear tyres spinning leaving black lines coming out of “le Combe” . I when to many a F1 race in the 1980’s Rosberg was the quickest I saw

[@OsellaSquadraCorse]

Not so much a case of being critical - both the primary drivers ahead of him (clearly far ahead, with the best car in the field) were out by mid-year. The part about "only" winning one race is an irrelevance, however to say it was certainly fortunate is accurate.

[@alistairbartlett6569]

​@@karlstannard662 1982 not 1892😅.

[@jkim6200]

Gotta love the Rally style, oversteering Finn

[@patrickparisienne1917]

Flavio was smart taking over the Mechachrome deal. Make heaps while only mainly the engines, but keeping the Renault brains in house until they recommitted to F1, and made good money selling it back. Clever cookie…

[@JohnSmithShields]

These cars after the glorious Rothmans livery, signaled the end of Williams's excellence.

[@Javadamutt]

For me it was always Elf, Canon and Camel with the legendary red 5 on the nose. the Rothmans Livery was epic but say 90's Williams and that's my happy place

[@GldVWisRR]

I said that exact same thing when I saw the pic of the thumb nail.

[@arthurteo8111]

So true: it was downhill after this.

[@CyanRooper]

Early 2000s Williams were still good and they came very close, finishing 2nd in 2002 and 2003 (sad fact: 2003 was the last time the Williams team had a 1-2 finish at the French Grand Prix which was also Ralf Schumacher's last win in F1).

[@bmc3663]

At one point ‘99 Williams tried steel brake rotors on Zanardi’s car as he was having brake feel issues with the carbon discs. I think he actually raced them once too. Perhaps the last use of steel rotors in F1? Interestingly the performance was very close to that of carbon brakes but of course came with a weight penalty. Another piece of entirely dull trivia is that at the European race the team had forgotten to put the cars race numbers on the nose, which was against the rules. I think it was remedied for the race itself but if my poor memory serves me correctly they qualified without the numbers.

[@jamessteel9016]

Yes I remember these Williams; quite a comedown after the success of the early and mid 90s to then go to barely scoring any points let alone a win.

[@GBURGE55]

I can remember when this car was first seen & the tifosi hated it, as it was more Ferrari red (rosso corsa) than the Ferrari's of the time (Marlboro red)

[@thereal_bio]

I remember back in 1998 that the first time I saw the red williams, I was literally shocked: I was 7 yo at that time and i only saw blue williams, so i founded pretty repulsive back in the day, but right now I think it looks pretty good. Meanwhile i always loved the '99 livery, tbh it's one of my favorites of all time.

[@mm91ie]

I was around the same age and I remember the shock of seeing the red livery on the Williams when the car's launch was shown on the news in 1998. In recent yrs I've come to think that the 98 livery was fabulous.

[@matthewpotter8491]

Great video. Love it dude. Blast of nostalgia for me as the first real F1 season I can remember is indeed Hill in 1996. Therefore Williams has a certain resonance with me.

[@cliffthelightning]

This livery made me switch to being a McLaren fanboy as a wee lad. The Rothmans 96 and 97 cars made me a motorsports fan when i was very young

[@EustTube]

This is the first of your videos I've stumbled across, I will be making sure it's not the last! Love the storytelling, humour and simply the level of depth you prove. Awesome job dude.

[@dschoene57]

Choosing Dijon for the Swiss GP was also out of neccessity as closed track motorracing was banned in Switzerland since the Le Mans desaster in 1955.

[@LukSter18998]

very tragic

[@andrewhardman3216]

So Ferrari have raced in the top tier in blue and white and williams have raced i red that both teams by coincidence have race in each others colours is interesting

[@otrab1080]

Slight nitpick: TV at the time in the UK was 576i, not 480p.

[@AidanMillward]

Although you didn’t see it for what it truly was because of the overscan. From what I gather a lot of people still had TVs only capable of 480 by 1997.

[@PaperBanjo64]

Most in North America were only capable of 480i

[@SoftBank47]

Only way you could get 480p was in those old computer monitors that used VGA (the best output the Dreamcast could give us!)

[@SamSamShine]

@@AidanMillwardthis is only valid for North America, in Europe we had 576i

[@funkmachine6420]

I didn't mind the 98 one, and actually really liked (and still do) the 99 one

[@charlesdumar8405]

6:46 time stamp -Unless you were meaning Constructor's Championship, the 1994 Driver's Championship winning car was Ford powered.

[@IanRB26]

Personally I LOVE the 99 Williams livery. That and the Jordans of the late 90s and early 00s with the Snakes and the Hornets.

[@jkim6200]

Buzzing Hornets/Benson & Hedges livery was good, but their Jordan F191 with the 7-up livery was a little better.

[@ibex485]

"Nothing lasts forever" - That immortal line Ian Richardson so memorably delivered at the opening of House of Cards. Williams had such a good '80s & '90s, even the years when they didn't win a title. Even in '88 & '89 they were laying the groundwork for domination. Their fall from power seemed even less likely in the late '90s than Thatchers did in 1990. Their rise from running a customer March in 1977 to 2nd in the constructors in '79 and utter domination in 1980. Dominating the constructors championship again in 1981 (and so narrowly missing out on the drivers). The FW07 was one of the greatest and most dominant F1 cars ever (worth a story in itself), and it was only the 2nd F1 car the young team had ever produced! Until the manufacturer era began at the end of the '90s, Williams' stats were phenomenal. To me they will always be the greatest F1 team ever.

[@shoominati23]

Frank Williams is one of my favourite Builders of all time. The most Gracious, unassuming and giving person you could ask for (and I'm not just giving sympathy because of the chair - he didn't change after the accident) amongst a bunch of snorting bulls, who will tell you as much..

[@areasquirrel]

The red line in the sand. I came in at this point in terms of proper viewing of the sport, so I have never known a time with a champion Williams, only a brief flicker of competition in the early 00s, followed by massive flickers of BMW flames. The blue was back by then, though. It's a strange thing. Last win, by Maldonado, Renault engine, a driver named Senna in the other car, livery blatantly evoking Rothmans. Hybrid era arrives, blue gone, now white Martini; a pole, eleventy hundred seconds and thirds... No wins. Blue is the colour. Da Ba Dee Da Ba Da.

[@TheSt1092]

Villeneuve's performance in 1998 considering the car was excellent . From a driving point he might have even performed better in 1998 than he did in 1997.

[@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303]

Villeneuve was a stunning driver up until when Pollock was replaced as BAR manager

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

@@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303idk about stunning but yup politics behind the scenes of BAR basically ended his car 1996-2001 JV was a top 5 driver on the grid

[@PaperBanjo64]

​@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1he won an Indy 500 coming back from being 2 laps down, definitely not a bad driver like some make him out to be.

[@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303]

@@PaperBanjo64 can I mention he did that in his SIXTH year of full-time car racing? Junior series included??? Like, the guy was out of this world in terms of talent

[@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303]

@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 I think "one entire second ahead of the second car in qualifying" qualifies as stunning

[@TheSuperTrousers]

That 99 Williams is my favourite F1 car ever.

[@rosstaylor8954]

Remember when I went to the Williams museum, the guy doing our tour got to these, went "these are cars", then walked straight past them on to the next ones. Beautiful.

[@LucasOliveira-tt2ll]

Those red cars still looked better than the 2000's cars

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

8:36 sounds like good PR! Wouldn’t be surprised if the real reason was that Goodyear saw the writing on the wall and knew more teams were going to deflect to Bridgestone and they can’t compete with them Fun fact Williams never won a race on Bridgestone tires I do like the 1999 car livery though

[@PrinceOfCats5]

Would be interesting to hear your thoughts on the Saudi Williams liveries too 👍

[@IndaloMan]

I was at the Williams HQ back in the 90s on the day Damon Hill joining was announced. It was back in the day when software distributors used to pick 'cool' locations for events. #goodolddays

[@OsellaSquadraCorse]

Joining, or being confirmed as a race driver? Because there wasn't much of an announcement about him joining back in 1991. He was best-known for crashing into Giuseppe Bugatti, a lot, in F3000 at the time and doing some quiet active suuspension testing for Williams on the side...

[@alaricbragg7843]

Williams De Tomaso and Iso cars during the 1970s were mainly red.

[@bullfrommull]

I remember They changed to steel discs at Monza in the red Williams. It did not work.

[@joribremer5260]

I actually liked the Winfield livery of 1998 , (My first full year of watching f1 (And my 1st 1/18 model car was a FW19 in 1998 livery , maybe that helped (And the driver helmets (esp Frentzen fitted very well with the Winfield livery

[@MrSniperfox29]

To be fair, the livery actually reminded me more of the Dallara Scuderia Italia cars more as they were red with the white stripe over the engine cover

[@OsellaSquadraCorse]

Which Ferrari then accidentally copied in 92-93; while trying to ape the look of the red & white '75-'78 312Ts

[@DMRetroLP]

Just a minor correction: TV broadcasts at the time would've been in regular 480i (or 576i in PAL regions) SDTV format. As far as I'm aware, most TVs wouldn't be able to receive a proper 480p/576p EDTV signal until well into the 2000s.

[@caphowdy666]

I can hand on heart say that the Rothmans livery on the Williams is still my favourite livery ever. Now when they switched to Winfield, yes I was a little disappointed but I actually did like the 98 livery (the 99 not as much) and was kinda sad to see that go when they switched to BMW. I actually used to have a Minichamps 1:18 scale model of the JV car, with full tobacco branding and it was quite possibly my favourite F1 model I ever owned, and believe me back in the early 2000s I had so many 1:18 and 1:43 F1 models, and it saddens me that I ended up selling the lot. Kinda weird that for a livery that replaced my fave livery, it ended up being my fave model even though I owned (non tobacco branded) Rothmans cars as well.

[@nitrous36]

I remember watching F1 in 98 and mixing the Williams and Ferraris up a bit.

[@beefsuprem0241]

F1 and the occasional Trek reference 👌😉

[@AidanMillward]

Plain and simple.

[@chrisclee6693]

This car threw my brain back in the day. My child mind couldn't get it's head around such a massive change in colour scheme.

[@lukas_jay243]

Me too man. It was almost shocking wasn't it. The relief when BMW showed up.

[@danigonzalez4299]

Frank was an issue within his own team. And Newey saw it. What Frank did to both Damon and specially Nigel, the most winning driver for Williams ever (28 wins 1 WDC 3 runner up with them and 3 team titles in 86,87 and 92) was an issue for the team and Newey saw it. As everyone else we did. Sorry Frank but what you did, made your team go to sht

[@MrCyphermonkey]

@07:30 why did they have Hannibal Lecter on the 500 Franc note?

[@Axle0Bullitt019]

If it makes you feel better my first season paying attention to F1 is 2007, but that was because I started following the sport much later after being introduced to it thanks to F1 Championship Edition on PS3. NASCAR however was 1993 and WRC was 1999.

[@michaeldr6070]

I actually liked these Winfield liveries

[@Ketis1985]

Me too. 1998 is my favorite Williams 😊

[@ukwan]

Man if only Newey had stayed at Williams. 😮 Isn't that an interesting alternate time line.

[@Javadamutt]

He wouldn't have crossed paths with Coulthard who wouldn't have recommended or pushed for his move to Red Bull. I don't think Coulthard was test driver at Williams long enough to be influenced by Newey the same way. I think Frank's and Pratick's politicking and willingness to back stab would have resulted in Newey hitting pissed and moving on anyway but maybe a season or two more. Heck of he survived long enough maybe BMW would step in realising what they've got and push Frank instead. There is also the chance that Newey flies too close to the sun, out designs himself and produces the MP4-18 for Williams and gets booted anyway

[@Holanduzo]

Please somebody confirms this: to me the 98 tires looked wider than 97's ones despide having those grooves

[@WombatXBT]

Ah yes, the end of the Williams glory days.

[@minibus9]

awesome video

[@AntoniusTyas]

Ralliart's livery for Rally Australia in the 1990s was also Winfield livery. It just looked odd seeing Mitsubishi Lancer with Winfield livery. Not as simple and clean as Ralliart's white livery or their later iconic Marlboro livery

[@domformula1]

Fascinating insight into the BHP ratings for 98 by the way!

[@Pmor75]

I have seen one of these cars in display on the lobby of a business building in London in 2012.

[@Holanduzo]

15:51 Aaaaaaaand that is an FW17 with Windfield colours...

[@AidanMillward]

It’s just a picture of the livery nothing to read too much in to.

[@Holanduzo]

@@AidanMillward I know I know, was just pointing it out, cause I hate that trend of using whatever chassis with not original colours.

[@nitroxinfinity]

You forgot to mention that, that 480p was also analog, not digital.

[@AidanMillward]

Didn’t forget anything

[@baksatibi]

The standard in the UK was PAL, which translates to 576i. NTSC would be 480i. Neither of these are progressive.

[@DBIVUK]

Yebbut you might have got 480p (just) on Realplayer in 1997/98 if you had good phone lines

[@Torpedo_Hans]

16:30 The Hulkster approves BROTHER!

[@s1e5b9]

Honest question mate, due to the dry skin was it painful?

[@patrickparisienne1917]

The 1998 McLaren used chamfered corners on the bottom of the monocoque not the side pods. Newey details this in his book. That and the longer wheelbase with forward weight distribution and less pitch sensitive aerodynamics were big chassis differentiations from the Williams.

[@jkim6200]

It was even funnier to see Scuderia Italia (Dallara) in the late 80s and early 90s since it had the same Marlboro and Agip sponsorship and the Italian red as the Ferrari cars.

[@mrterp04]

At first I thought Winston was their sponsor and “Winfield” was just the censored version for certain countries.

[@mike04574]

As an Aussie kid I was hyped seeing it

[@mrdraw2087]

Ah well, a story about Williams in the late-1990s, post-Newey and pre-BMW. What if Newey was still around when they had these BMW engines? Losing Newey was bad, especially as this happened right before the 1998 rule changes, although they probably would have suffered from their slightly under-powered engines anyway. I didn't know the Ferrari engine was stronger than the Mercedes engine in these years. I thought Mercedes had the strongest engine up until beryllium alloys were banned in 2001. Interestingly, Williams were doing surprisingly well at the high-speed circuits in 1998, with a 3rd place for Villeneuve right behind the McLarens at Hockenheim and a 2nd place in qualifying at Monza; they were actually more competitive at these tracks than in 1997. By the way, I thought the story about Villeneuve was that he wasn't within one second of Hill at the test, so Newey thought he wouldn't be considered, so he was quite annoyed when they still signed him. I believe Zanardi's biggest problem in Formula 1 was that he couldn't get used to the carbon brake disks. He only did well at Monza, where he was in second place, but slipped back to seventh. He ran out of fuel in Austria (interestingly, Alesi did the same that race) and ended up delaying Coulthard, which would eventually cost Coulthard the win.

[@Rypsolisti]

Zanardi didn´t succeed with 1999 Williams because of the brakes, he was used to steel brakes and could not get used to carbon brakes and that´s why he failed.

[@stanislavmelekhin6908]

It looked like a Ferrari, stewards in Barcelona even showed Trulli a blue flag to let Frentzen pass thinking it was Schumacher lapping Trulli.

[@23nine]

I first saw the red Williams playing Grand Prix 3 which featured the 1998 cars. I only played it in 2003 though, when I also started watching F1 at 10 years old. Without any commentary or context, I was really confused why there were red cars which weren't Ferraris ... Glad to hear they confused not only me

[@qbertq1]

I did not know the race at Dijon was called the Swiss Grand Prix. That's interesting given that the Swiss still have a ban on motor racing (I think) stemming from the LeMans disaster in the 1950s.

[@AidanMillward]

I think they just assigned the closest country. Like how the Nurburgring race in 97 was the Luxembourg Grand Prix

[@rayblackford]

Black country flag ! Great to see someone local doing such a great informative channel ! Top bloke yow am !

[@kevinprior3549]

The Swiss GP in France was like Luxembourg GP in Germany & San Marino GP in Italy. Maybe you should do a video on why there was a Luxembourg GP even tho Nurburgring in Germany is miles away from Luxembourg.

[@aslamnurfikri7640]

Also European GP in Baku

[@williamford9564]

1:50: It is funny that back then, F1 kept up the false facade that there was only "one" race in each country and today, there are THREE US GRAND PRIX!

[@crookeymonster]

what hockey team do you follow?

[@lamontbeadle8281]

@ Aidan Millward you should do a video about how Keke Rosberg won that championship even though he only won race.

[@paulblackman8159]

I never understood why they did not opt for Winfield Blue since that tends to be a more popular variety in Australia and from a non smoker’s perspective a much less offensive tobacco.

[@brickspace9]

While the 98 car looked like a slower Ferrari the 99 car looked and performed decently, despite dropping two places in the constructors. Would have been even better if the second car wouldn't have performed like the similar looking BAR.

[@jakubklinger2289]

That is a shame that Zanardi had such misfortune in his F1 stint. He was a beast in other series, even winning a race in WTCC after losing both legs.

[@dodolurker]

I started watching F1 in 1998 so I just missed out on both seeing Williams win championships as well as that iconic Rothmans livery. Of course I didn't know these things at the time, but looking back it does make me a bit sad that I missed Williams' glory years. 1998 livery was a bit of a pig's breakfast, but I don't mind the 1999 one, it looks kinda cool.

[@dextrodemon]

they funny thing about the red winfield livery is in australia i think most people associate the brand with the colour blue because those ones are the most popular (i think they're milder or something) ..no end of uncles and aunties asking you to pick up a pack of 'winnie blues.'

[@mrkipling2201]

The best Williams livery is the 1991 and 1992 FW14 and FW14B Camel one. 1993 as well on the FW15C. That livery, along with the late 1980's Marlboro McLaren are 2 of the best there's ever been.

[@darkmyau]

I 100% chose to follow Williams because I loved the 1993 livery

[@midnightlexicon]

I know its blasphemy... but i quite like those color schemes.

[@nath-hh2ff]

When you said all good things must come to an end. For a second, I thought this was the end of the channel.

[@wassapdude94]

All those big youtubers calling it quits recently got me on edge about that

[@andrewbowen4544]

Didn't they have the Luxembourg GP at Nurbergring in Germany during the 90s

[@Tacko14]

I must‘ve blacked out back then. I remember Keke winning, from magazines. Then there was a period where I couldn’t distinguish between Williams and Brabham. B/W pictures did that. One of them had the maxed out BMW engine, I’m quite sure it was Brabham but what was Williams up to? Then the 90s came along and Brabham was gone. Just… gone.

[@Holanduzo]

I have to confess, I really like this shitbox of a car it was the FW20.

[@MrSaywutnow]

The funny thing is, Winfield cigarettes came in both red and blue packaging, so Williams could have had a blue car with the Winfield livery. My guess is Winfield went with red because one of the other big tobacco sponsors in Australian motorsport at the time was Peter Jackson, and their colour was blue. Also, if I'm not mistaken, the Winfield car was the one that 500cc champion Mick Doohan took for a spin around Catalunya. I was going to call it a "test drive" but it was more of a publicity stunt engineered by Rothmans, who were also the sponsor for the Honda team Doohan was riding for.

[@classicsportclassictiyl8547]

Rothmans didn't sponsor the honda team at the time of Doohan's run out it was repsol honda. Rothmans was Doohan's personal sponsor

[@MrSaywutnow]

​@@classicsportclassictiyl8547 Crap, you're right. Rothmans stopped being the name sponsor for the Honda team after the '93 season. The Rothmans liveries were so striking I keep forgetting about the sponsor change. It doesn't help that some of the most iconic Mick photos are of him on a Rothmans bike. I was still right about them being responsible for putting him in an F1 car for a day, though.

[@GWFires]

Some would say that the F310B (1997) was a Williams copy.

[@kevinprior3549]

It was a bit of a culture shock seeing Williams in red. Tho i quickly got to used to it.

[@dannykerr2152]

I thought the royal bank of Scotland sponsor was a brilliant livery 🤤

[@arthurguitar]

Williams should have moved heaven and earth to keep Newey.

[@grahamnguyen3726]

Even if Newey had stayed the mechachrome were just so subpar at that point. I really would've loved to have seen newey design the bmw era Williams, with a strong engine.

[@FryV2]

How F1 could look In an alternate universe if Frank had given Newey shares in Williams.

[@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1]

Mika most likely doesn’t win a world title, BMW and Williams doesn’t spilt after 2005 JPM/Ralf wins a world title maybe JV doesn’t go BAR most likely as well

[@FryV2]

@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 And the Michael isnt a 7 time champion

[@PaperBanjo64]

​@FryV2 or The Michael goes to Williams, I mean if Ferrari wasn't as competitive, and BMW would want a German, and no offense to Ralf but he's not the famous Schumacher bro, and I'm sure he'd want to drive a Newey prepared car...and he probably sticks around a lot longer than 2006 and never has his 2010 comeback as he's still driving...the Ferrari decline probably happens much sooner, and Ferrari also tries to lure Kimi Raikkonen away from McLaren much sooner...we also see an explosive rivalry between Michael Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya that rivals Senna vs Prost and puts Hamilton vs Rosberg to shame! Also BMW will never partner with Sauber but stays with Williams, and bring in Robert Kubica.

[@michaelkitchin9665]

It probably all falls apart a year later than advertised. Frank and Patrick just loved to go their own way.

[@OsellaSquadraCorse]

In 1999 BMW already stipulated that for 2000 they would not permit any tobacco advertising. BMW had control over the livery in those years and specified that they could only have blue & white livery; including all sponsor logos. This was modified slightly to accomodate Compaq's red outlines (as title sponsor, makes sense!). Williams were always going to lose Winfield one way or another, because BAT had their own team, and Rothmans/Winfield's owners, were... Philip Morris, who also owned Marlboro. Interestingly the Winfield connection led to the infamously bad Tommi Makinen Williams test in 1998. Winfield/Rothmans were part of BAT, as were Makinen's personal sponsor Pall Mall. Winfield gave full red liveries to the works-supported cars in Australia 97/98 and so had Tommi Makinen and Mick Doohan (formerly of Rothmans Honda) test with a '97 Williams; Doohan spun several times & hit the T4 wall & Makinen crashed into the T4 wall later as well.

[@benkjamin4156]

Not entirely correct at 6:46. Title winning Benetton B194 had a Cosworth engine.

[@domformula1]

Isn’t this what Murray Walker described as having a cannon of sponsors fired at it

[@privateinformation2960]

every aussie in existance has bought a $1 winnie blue from a dodgy milk bar around the corner from school.

[@mrwhatever9025]

They could have used Winfield Blue ( Winfield's biggest seller ) but I'm guessing it would have looked too close to the Rothman's car even though it was a slightly lighter blue.

[@thirdwheel1985au]

Having tech as the next source of sponsorship in 2000 must have seemed like such a good idea at the time. Oof.

[@EddieVanAidan]

I started watching F1 in '99 and every car that year looked fantastic. I will never remove my rose tinted glasses for F1 around then 🤓

[@Tuvaben95]

Although I was not a fan of the 98 livery, I really liked the 99 livery. With the additions of white, yellow and blue, it made the car stand out massively, and look completely different from the red Ferraris, while still retaining the Winfield sponsors. I've seen multiple yt channels making "Top 10 worst F1 liveries of all time" lists, and the 99 livery always made it on there, and it made me sad. 😔

[@Ultegra10SPD]

It wasn't 480p, in the states it was NTSC 480i (Europe PAL was 576i). So in the words of Weird Al Y. 'Even Worse'. -U10

[@gchampi2]

You feel old??!?! I remember the original Renault TurboKettles!