NEWEY'S FIRST F1 TEAM! The Story of Leyton House March (1987-1992)

Even the best have to start somewhere. Before he was entering cheat codes for Williams, McLaren and Red Bull with blank cheques, Adrian Newey was able to design a car good enough to lead a grand prix during 1988, and was also the only non turbo car to do so. It even overtook both the McLarens of Prost and Senna! Guess that makes them car merchants kekw.
But whenever this team found something, something went against them. The owner was implicated in the Fuji bank scandal, and Newey himself had gone to Williams for his big break.
So how did this team do it? Let's find out.
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[@cliffthelightning]

Still some of the prettiest cars ever to take to the track!!

[@SoLDMG]

I’ve always loved the green and blue color scheme. You can definitely tell it was an 80’s fashion brand! Similarly with the Benetton team.

[@paul_mumford]

I have a Tamiya model of it and it's my favorite!

[@CyanRooper]

Those cars would fit perfectly on the cover of an 80s album.

[@AdamMGTF]

In his autobiography he says he wants to be remembered for making pretty cars if at all possible. I'd say given exceptions for the rules set by the FIA he's done that and then some

[@Pauli-xl8nr]

Most of 90s cars were pretty and aesthetically pleasing.

[@cribbe6547]

One point from the 1990 French GP: Capelli would have won that race, but his oil pump fell off with 3 laps left. He had to back off, allowing Prost through. The car spluttered over the line just in front of Senna. Shame as it would have been one of the greatest underdog victories in F1 history. Thank you for making a video about one of my favourite teams Aidan!

[@Holden308]

March and Ivan Capelli weren't just the only non-turbo cars to lead a lap in 1988 ... they were the first non-turbo car team to lead a Grand Prix since Michele Alboreto's win at the 1983 Detroit Grand Prix.

[@rodclark5831]

Now that Sir is relevant data, well emitted and thank you.

[@WolfJustWolf]

Newey's book is great. An excellent read for any tech savvy F1 fan.

[@ainmeile]

Agreed, it's a great book; just don't get the audio book unless you want to hear Dario Franchitti speaking in an Italian accent.

[@lorddeox]

Love a good story where you can bust out "Crickey, it's the rozzas." Let's you know a small amount of chaos is afoot

[@eamonahern7495]

Mauricio Gugelmin and Ivan Capelli. Two Jordan Alumni. That got me thinking. Video idea suggestion. In the opening round of the 1999 formula 1 season in Melbourne, Declan Quigley (journalist for the Irish Independent newspaper and pit lane reporter for RTE television's live coverage of the races) coined the term "a victory for the Jordan school of excellence" after the race because every points scorer that day had either raced, tested or both for Jordan at some point in their career. There were probably a few outside the points as well. So perhaps you could look into that aspect of that race and perhaps Eddie's reputation as a talent spotter.

[@Kandimitsu]

Lovely looking car and great liveries. Also Capelli was very underrated and unlucky in F1.

[@GaryWagers]

Literally the words "crikey" and "rozzers" given Japanese accents and then passed off as legitimate Japanese "loosely translating" an English term. This is the quality filmmaking I expect from this channel. You gave me a laugh, I'm happy today, thank you.

[@AidanMillward]

I used google translate. That's exactly how it came out.

[@mrabyssal]

Ivan Capelli often brings his personal CG891 to the Adelaide Motorsport Festival to cruise around part of the old F1 track. Beautiful car.

[@joerieke300]

As a good ol southern boy who came up around NASCAR.....great impression 😂😂😂

[@polycube868]

Yeah that was spot on

[@GregBrownsWorldORacing]

For many years of Indycar you drove a Lola or a March and you could have a Chevy or a Cosworth. Great racing!

[@davidyeo8530]

Built the Leyton house model lovely looking car, also read the Adrian Newey book how to build a F1 car great read

[@chriscuthbertson]

I got to sit in Capelli's 901 or 911 when it was on display in a Local shopping centre, I remember thinking how cramped it was.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

Despite knowing the team(s), this video had a lot of things I didn't know. No internet back then of course! It's always interesting to learn things that I didn't know I needed to learn 😅 I always think of March and Leyton House as separate, mostly because in my head, March was around when I was young, and Leyton House turned up on the grid in the year I got married, so I was kind of distracted by other things that year. I saw a few races but it was only the following year that they really registered on me. I knew March (as I knew that team - like I said, I was young) was a pretty successful one, but I didn't know half as much about them as you told us. I didn't even know what the Indy 500 was back then! I was pretty much still in single digits, age-wise, so give me a break. Sport's news was not "all-seeing" back then either. It was mostly footie on the Beeb and ITV, with F1 occasionally shown on the Beeb at a reasonable hour (unfortunately it often, but not always, appeared in highlights at night, and I would have school the next day, so it was a no-no. When they were shown live, I loved the Aussie and Japanese races because I could get up and watch them live with the sound low), and wrestling at the end of World of Sport in ITV. Gran loved the "good guys" like Big Daddy, and would boo Giant Haystacks and the like. And she was otherwise such a genteel lady...😂 Anyway, great video! You took me way back again lol.

[@danielr3244]

My mum’s first husband from yearrrrrs ago (I was born in 2002) was a reporter for Fiji Television and thus, he had a load of merch from the 90s. My mum now has a lot of it and one of the coolest is a full Leyton House merch set, the coat being the coolest by far. the colours are so 90s it’s hilarious

[@rafaelcaus3762]

Always great looking cars by Newey, even if they were not that fast. But I believe he started at Fittipaldi in 1980, an assistent to Harvey Postlewhaite and Ricardo Divila.

[@WolfJustWolf]

If i recall correctly, that team didn't make it to the start of the season. The budget had run out before the first race.

[@rafaelcaus3762]

@@WolfJustWolf Acctually, the team only folded just before the 1983 season. In 1980 they even got a podium, with Emerson in Long Beach.

[@rodclark5831]

Lovely factoid thanks.

[@ianwynne764]

Hello Aidan: The early March F1 cars were really quite good. When Mark Donohue had a try at F1, he started out in a Penske and changed to a March. I read in Car and Driver that he rated the Penske as a 3/10 and the March as a 7/10. Which was high praise from a person who said he was "a chassis guy". Keep up the good work.

[@Edudux]

Don't forget Osella/Fondmetal, and the great Coloni/Andrea Moda purchases.

[@christinehow3595]

Yes some of the best days of my live working for Leyton House . Adrian was working there at the same time .

[@strredwolf]

"7-11 not the American convenience store" Japan: HOI! We got them over here!

[@AidanMillward]

They’re also in Canada and not a lot in there an be considered food to a European where we have food standards 😅

[@strredwolf]

@@AidanMillward True. You have a higher quality of beef than we yanks do. But I so do want the "ekiben" or Japanese lunchboxes to come over here (for different reasons).

[@AidanMillward]

@@strredwolf The crap quality of your meat is why you all feel the need to cake it with a powder or gloop to give it some taste and then say we're doing it wrong. "THERE'S NOT ENOUGH SEASONING WHERE'S THE FLAVOR(Kekw)!!!!!" In the meat. Because it's actually meat...

[@strredwolf]

@@AidanMillward No argument there. It's supported by both Austrailian and Japanese wagu beef imports tasting a whole lot better.

[@haggismcmutton4702]

@@strredwolfHate to be pedantic, but 7/11 don’t technically sell ekiben. The eki in ekiben means station, as in train station. Ekiben are either sold at special stores in or around the train stations, and also on longer distance trains like the Shinkansen. 7/11 and other convenience stores sell bento boxes, which are basically the same thing, but aren’t called ekiben.

[@daxtr5]

Just wanted to say, watching your vids during lunch has inadvertently become a tradition of mine. Is good.

[@nitrous36]

Same here.

[@ADxWales81]

Murray used to refer to Williams as "Saudia Leyland" at one point in the past ...

[@yudhabagaskara98]

which means sponsorship bs has been around since in the old days

[@mrkipling2201]

They started being sponsored by Saudia in the late 1970's I believe.

[@jyhan1q94]

​@@yudhabagaskara98And that's why "it's all about money nowdays" argument makes sense but yet feels so odd. As if people forgot motorsport is expensive by nature.

[@rodclark5831]

@@jyhan1q94 I'm a 45 year F1 loving, tree hugging hypocrite. I just want hard clean racing in small, light weight technical masterpiece. We need nature to show us the best efficiency and design, then the bags of cash prove to be truly useful.

[@MrMikeJkay]

Laughed so hard at the "scungey office building in Darlaston", yep sounds about right 😂😂😂

[@ImInLoveWithBulla]

I grew up in California. My dad raced motorcycles at Sears Point. To this day, we have never called it anything but Sears Point. And it warms my heart to see another Brit(my dad is a Brit) to stubbornly insist that its name is, in fact, Sears Point.

[@theF1oracle]

Absolutely beautiful way of telling a story as always my man, well done 👏👏👏

[@minibus9]

awesome video, super interesting

[@palm92]

Love all of these machines.

[@aboubakerr]

13:07 alright, that one caught me off guard xD

[@T.E.S.S.]

Good video. I only found your channel recently. I can't bring myself to care too much about modern F1, but I was *really* into it from about 85 to 10, and I've had a great time watching your videos covering that time period. Haven't watched them all yet though! I like the format of the videos too, you pack a lot of info into relatively short runtime and it all works really well.

[@lostalone9320]

Every time you do the "...To name, quite literally, four" bit it make my soul happy.

[@AidanMillward]

It’s my way of dodging the “you forgot to mention…” comments as if mentioning that thing was super important to the video. 😅

[@5340robert]

Were any of the Climax teams ever sponsored by Durex ?

[@polycube868]

Ha ha😂

[@mrkipling2201]

Brilliant!! 😂😂

[@charamia9402]

I love these types of videos. The history of F1 is one of, if not the twistyest and turnyest of sports - or any - history and you always deliver to my inner nerdgeeks blissful content.

[@LJW1912]

My favourite grand prix team of all time, I even have a mouse mate of the livery

[@douglasladowski6342]

Awesome channel

[@christopherwaller2798]

Leyton House is the name of Redbridge Council's offices in Ilford (5 minutes walk from the Town Hall), but definitely other buildings such as a small block of council flats in Hackney.

[@daz4627]

At one of the very first driver's interview that Jacques Villeneuve gave when he came to F1, he constantly referred to his Williams team by their full sponsor name... something along the lines of Williams Rothmans Renault or something like that... all the other drivers sitting with him looked on and just shook their head... they couldn't believe what they were hearing and even the media were a bit confused. How times have changed (and definitely not for the better... Bernie... where are you??????)

[@joribremer5260]

Haha , Yeah he came from CART, (And in America you thank the sponsors before you thank the team ;) 😂

[@mrkipling2201]

Capelli and Gugelmin suffered a lot of bad luck driving for Leyton House. Especially Capelli. There was a few occasions where he was in the top 2 or 3, or even leading, a GP in the late 1980's, only for the car to fail for some reason.

[@samuel_boivin]

The Ppppicture PPPperfect PPprivateer 😂 Reminds me of Gary Oldman and Matt Leblanc in Friends

[@jyhan1q94]

Yeah I forgot about Leyton House existed until this vid, so was Footwork Arrows and *Coloni/Andrea Moda.* History really *DO* repeat itself.

[@sheldoniusRex]

Yank here. Your NASCAR driver impersonation is too good. Scary good.

[@alwaysinverted1224]

As an American myself I thought the same thing! 😂 The "...skinny-dick, half way inn..." was just icing on the cake 😅😅

[@VenusDoom891]

One of my favourite colour combos in F1 of all time is the red/orange/yellow of Gugelmin's helmet on the cyan car. It also looked very good with the blue of the 1992 Jordan too.

[@awordon9631]

Your American accent is impeccable

[@alaricbragg7843]

Thank you for this video. I think that March and Lola could have saved the farm and still be around if they had ventured into building a road going supercar like Lotus and McLaren, or more recently, Dallara and Brabham.

[@williamross2579]

Loved their livery in the day. I remember their moments.

[@cyberfutur5000]

You convinced me (not today but over the last year) and Newey's book is next in line. Right when I'm done with Erik "Winkle" Brown's book about flying all the airplanes. Also I think Leyton House sounds like a 90's boy group from Milton Keynes.

[@shanebarker3131]

1st F1 car i ever saw in the flesh when i went to the 87 Adelaide GP ( saturday ) I sat on the outside of the final hairpin and the one thing i noticed was how much faster this car took the fast right hander that led into aforementioned hairpin.

[@kieranbott]

As if you mentioned Darlaston haha. I love those occasional local references!

[@Tyindel]

Saw the 901 from 1990 and wow what an incredible looking car, unfortunately also saw thge same car crash hard infront of me when it went straight on at Molecomb. Hopefully it wasn't the chassis that Cappali finished 2nd in although being at FOS, i suspect it would've been

[@master-kq3nw]

Most beautiful colour f1 car

[@upthebracket26]

Never thought id hear Darlaston mentioned on youtube...

[@gofastandwynn]

A couple of things in the INDYCAR side, the FW07 was not turned into the March INDYCAR, the FW07 was turned into the Longhorn INDYCAR. T

[@danielhresko4900]

I’ve got to take issue with your dig at the “Americanization” of F1 teams by having the sponsor name so prominent. Gold Leaf Team Lotus changed the car’s color from green to red & gold, ages before any INDYCAR team did anything similar. Even today, the teams are known by the owners’ names: Penske, Andretti, Foyt. European footy teams have had massive shirt sponsors logos for decades, while US major sports (baseball, American football, ice hockey) have ZERO advertisements on their uniforms. Even the NBA only allows a tiny patch near the right shoulder. I love your channel, and I know you like to take the occasional jab at America; that’s fair. But don’t blame us for what F1 team names have become. 🙂

[@klutchcustoms2428]

I would give my house for a stack of Newey's note books! Imagine the gems of knowledge in those pages...

[@AdLamb]

Never knew autoglass used to be called carglass & I was around for when it would changed, like Opel Fruits.

[@ClassicFormulaOne1]

Extra info: At South-Africa 1993 Jan Lammers was so desperate to being able to drive the March he made a substantial payment to Mario Illien for the V10 engines. Mario Illien however accepted this payment only as a debt payment for the previous 1992 season so March was still without engines in 1993. This was the final death struggle of March and it left Jan Lammers in great financial troubles for years. 😮

[@ClassicFormulaOne1]

where is the love for my comment???

[@LJW1912]

I didn't realise the wind tunnel was in Southampton, I know that it caused problems but it's still cool to know the team has a connection to my city nonetheless!

[@AidanMillward]

It’s where Newey did his degree I think.

[@LJW1912]

@@AidanMillward oh that's even cooler!! I knew I liked them for a reason 😂

[@richardyorke9055]

881 the most beautiful f1 car ever to me

[@areasquirrel]

It was fun a few years ago to get the magazine that had models of historic cars, a throwback to the partwork publications of the 80s and 90s, and I had to get the Leyton House that got that podium finish. It's all about that stat, the first podium finisher by Newey. It's a hell of a quiz question: With which team did Adrian Newey first achieve a podium? Ten or so years ago, along with quite a few, I'm sure, I'd have said Williams, hands down. Nope. Soshite, karera ga iu yō ni, nokori wa rekishidesu.

[@michaellorenson2997]

Man, that 1988 MARCH was quick! At the time, it was very hard to know what to make of that. Was it Capelli? Was it the car? Adrian _who?_ In the end, the McLarens were all-dominant and neither MARCH nor Capelli subsequently followed-up with anything like their 1988 performances. So it passed as a nearly unremarked-upon thing. Now, of course, we've all come to know the genius of Adrian Newey. Turns out his name was _Newey_ ... we probably won't forget that, now.

[@markoarkaina8656]

Aidan's Murican accent on point.

[@Watchmedome3017]

I live in America since 1998 and i still speak English with my Puerto Rican accent 😂 it’s impossible for me to speak with a different accent like he does 😫😂

[@christinehow3595]

Also Knew Robin Herd when he was Rallying Metro 6 R4 ..

[@terminateshere]

I do remember reading the story of their one notable moment in 1992. Canada - they cobbled together a load of local sponsors for that one race, and Wendlinger rose to the occasion, holding on when so many dropped out and finished 4th. A last hurrah, if you like. At the time, some were reckoning that Karl might be an equal to Schumacher, but he was never quite the same after his Monaco 94 accident .

[@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303]

Karl was something special. Monaco 1994 was heartbreaking, considering what had happened just a couple weeks earlier to boot

[@henkormel5610]

In that season with N/A and turbo engines the Ford was the best off the rest. I remember the quite narrow airbox. When all cars were running N/A engines the next season the fun was over.

[@T_Mo271]

This episode was pretty high on the "learned something new" scale.

[@michaellakinloch5371]

I'm going to call "that" team V-Carb. (From Visa Cash App Red Bull). Has an anachronistic automotive feel at least, and can be said in one breath. I liked the very odd, different, look of that 1987 March, and the unique colour helped.

[@simontravers2715]

You should do Nino Farina next, F1’s first ever champion. Also give u an excuse to put on a blue caption screen “Hellooooo! My name’s NINOOOOOOOOO!!!” PS those blue Leyton Houses look like a bottle of PRIME

[@RFWPHX]

Phoenix 1991 the Leyton House had a lot of tosional flex and was down on engine power to boot.

[@BigBailBikesandBeer]

I own a leyton house F1 Oz yellow rimmed wheel.. If it was not stencilled with Leyton house it would be the only other team that used the same wheel that year,... The Benneton the MS won his first world championship in..

[@dragonheatgaming5005]

There is a video on here with someone starting a Leyton house car

[@jamsociety-jm26]

My name is James Marrable and ken marrable was my grandad😂

[@truehunger108]

That texan accent was decent.

[@chrisdavidson911]

Didn't the Lotus 107 come from March closing?

[@davidmarecek1754]

4:49 or Infineon Raceway if you speak Gran Turismo 4

[@williamstephens9945]

The 89 car looks a lot like the FW14.

[@skojuzija]

Hmm no one is talking about team Onyx getting 3rd place while having not prequalified for half of the races. Seems as interesting topic

[@bockersjv]

GT 40 would be a better choice of spray, better lubricant than wd40. Interesting gizmo nonetheless. 😂

[@dannyjost1196]

new outro?👀

[@crapmalls]

Im gonna call the team "but i wanted a peanut"

[@nelzojunior]

What is the color code of this amazing car?

[@stemartin6671]

Leyton house always sounded like a coffee brand to me 😂

[@deabreu.tattoo]

wait, wasn't Fittipaldi Newey's first F1 team? then he went to Indycars and later came back to March?

[@Axle0Bullitt019]

7/11 is not quite as american as one might think. It got the name when it was purchased by a Japanese company, Seven-Eleven. It seems that the American branch was not formed until the late 1980s or so,

[@Alan-cg8gx]

What are the oldest teams in F1 with the least owner's ie Ferrari and the ones with the most owner's over there history.

[@kyleolson8977]

You say the sport is "Americanized", but to me this is European (or perhaps just non-US). Let me give some examples. Yes, NASCAR and other US racing leagues have lots of sponsors, but that's normal in racing world-wide and normally NASCAR teams are usually not sponsor named, although they are associated with manufacturers and possibly larger sponsor groups (like Coca-Cola racing) And more importantly, while US sports leagues have clothing logos on gameday gear, they aren't huge and represent the maker of the clothes. And there are ads on the sidelines and the stadiums. But US/Canadian sports teams in the 4 major leagues are not named after sponsors nor do the feature random sponsor logos on jerseys. If you buy an Eagles jersey it will have an Eagles Logo, a smallish Nike Logo, a couple small NFL Logos and a small NFL Player's Association Logo. No NFL, MLB, NBA, or NHL team will say "Team Viewer", "Standard Chartered" or "Emirates 'Fly Better'" on front. The only league that allows that is MLS. They aren't at the level of the rest, and they have the ads because they're trying to be like world (association) football teams with the jerseys and the names (DC United, New York City FC, New York Red Bulls). So from my point of view as an American, this amount of sponsorship is much more international.

[@Buy_YouTube_Views_a135]

The video's overall aesthetic is consistent with your brand, creating a recognizable and cohesive identity for your content.

[@ElectoneGuy]

I loved the look of the CG891 - you could tell it was an aerodynamic masterpiece. Too bad it was horribly unreliable.

[@MrSniperfox29]

The reason Prost caught Capelli was because Capelli developed a misfire late in the race The most famous thing about the March entry in 1992 was Jan Lammers returning after a record 10 years

[@mgrzx3367]

OMFD. Do not turn on the subtitles. It's Horrifying! or Hysterical depending on your sense of humor. Good story, Thank you Aidan. 🌺

[@ruudhobsumaz6473]

Also Jan Lammers comeback after 10 years!

[@MrSniperfox29]

Didn't Newey actually begin in F1 with Fittipaldi?

[@qbertq1]

Your NASCAR driver impression was spot on!

[@yashparanjape5211]

Wasn’t Neweys first team the Beatrix Haas project

[@michaellakinloch5371]

I should have said 1988 March, sorry.

[@Suicaedere666]

Your american accent is honestly just incredible.. it gets the point across literally perfectly😂😂

[@Watchmedome3017]

It’s kinda annoying to know there would never be privateers teams in F1 ever again.

[@Batters56]

I don’t really get F1 sponsorship, even with allegedly dodgy money, £4 million in the early 1990s? Someone says here’s $200,000 and you say actually can I have $4 million? And they say yeah no problem?! Did Leyton House make that back in sales from the F1 exposure? Does anyone? Is it the vicarious thrill of competing, winning if you are lucky? It’s an extremely expensive hobby!

[@siwynjones]

Is it pronounced “Gugelmin” or “Gugelmin”?

[@JohnSmithShields]

The dusty end of the grid never disappoints.

[@MAte925]

How come Cappelli went so bad at Ferrari!

[@gedhoughton9523]

Yep. Too Americanised! I like the states but there’s too many races in the USA. Just keep COTA or rotate between those circuits. Wanna see more privateer teams come in as well.