LADS ON TOUR! The Story of the Hesketh Formula One Team (1973-1978)
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- Just a group of lads out for a good time. Throw in a massively quick driver like James Hunt and you're on to a winner that'll capture the public attention, as early 70s Britain was not fun. Not fun at all. Why watch Dad's Army when you've got Hesketh?
This team came out of nowhere, financed entirely by the personal wealth of an English nobleman and ended up getting sponsors later down the line that fit the team perfectly. But it wasn't to last. But- They were the privateer that really made a mark on the sport.
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Yeah, I've done this one before, but with the wife being on her Christmas holidays because teacher, these are the easier ones to do as I'm all over the place atm.
Plus there's like 70 of them that were taken down, and it's been 4 years so it kinda makes sense. At least they're not shot for shot remakes! Anyway, have fun.
Do you know why any of them got taken down? This was my absolute favourite story time, went back to listen to it and just wasn't there anymore.
I remember reading about them in a biography of James Hunt many years ago. There's also the movie Rush.
@@csababiro7851picture copyright issues.
Your image of a “modern lads F1 team” is perfect Aidan. If Lord Hesketh ran his F1 team his 70s ways today, he’d have the woke brigade RIGHT up his arse!!
Tell her "thanks for being a teacher". I was for 5 years and gave up to be a truck driver. Teaching is a rough gig. No one tells you that you need to do 47477337 hours of work at home each week, or that no matter how much work you put in you'll still feel like you're letting the kids down and have to go to sleep feeling guilty every night.
The fact that James Hunt was with The Hesketh traveling circus seems just perfect.
Fact. Could be no other way.
Formula One was a different culture in those days.
The fact I actually remember all the first versions of these makes me feel older than it probably should. It hasn't been THAT long, has it?
Of the videos? No....of the team existing? Yes!
@@heliumtrophy I just meant the videos, but my sense of time in the years since I’ve started ingesting large amounts of F1 content on CZcams seems a bit blurry.
@@de-fault_de-fault Don't worry - I'm in the same boat with practically anything on CZcams.
Same here! I loved those white cars. James and Lord Hesketh ... those were the days
And Suzie ran off with Richard Burton, to make a more outrageous story!
In 1976 I was working for a helicopter company that was doing pleasure flights at an event at Mallory Park. We picked up James Hunt and Noel Edmunds from a nearby location and flew them in. I also appeared in a Griffin Helmets advert that was filmed there and shown on Central TV. #goodolddays
Mallory is a short track but it’s a high speed thrill.
Thats awesome dude thanks for sharing
Re the TV ad. There were two bikini clad girls with crash helmets on in the back of the Jet Ranger. Griffin wouldn't pay for a flight so we spun the main rotor, I opened the door (wearing my Griffin t-shirt) and they got out. I never saw the ad as it was only shown on Central and I was a Yorkshire TV viewer....
I wish we still had teams like Hesketh, Jordan and Red Bull (When they first came into F1) with the fun Rock n' Roll attitude and plucky underdog teams like Minardi still in F1. It would be a nice breath of fresh air and inject some fun into the sport. Pretty much all of the teams currently in F1 have the same stuffy, corporate, restrained and boring attitudes/images where they barely show any personality. Jordan was one of my favourite teams as a kid because their cars always looked cool and Jordan had that aforementioned Rock n' Roll image but were still somewhat competitive and able to punch above their weight!
Lord Hesketh certainly lived an interesting life though! I had no idea he did so much in politics after F1!
I kind of take that like whatever. Like sure it's great when a team brings that kind of mood.
However, the atmosphere of the race for the spectators and fans is on the race organiser. Not a top priority, but it's on their list of tasks anyway. They shouldn't depend on a team or two to create an atmosphere.
What I am saying is that they should sign some dj and rock bands or whatever around the track. Not just assume that Eddie Jordan is going to be cool like he was (because that's a gamble).
This one is golden. A team like Hesketh could never happen again this day and age, just like you mention at the end. F1 was really approachable back in those days, kind of a shame it has become what it is..
James Hunt and Barry Sheene, champion characters the pair of 'em.
Two of motorsport's biggest Gigachads
The teddy bear with the crash helmet remains the best logo that a Formula 1 team has ever had. Anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong.
The Surtees team painted in Durex colours was good though, the BBC would not show their cars on track unless they had no choice.
The bear is drawn by Dutch children's book writer Dick Bruna. Google Dick Bruna Bear (or Beer, Dutch for bear) and you'll find it. Bruno won a case against hesketh, Having said that: I love the logo, I got a small bear, a watch and a t-shirt with the bear on it!
Sex, breakfast of champions probably " offeends" you. Fortunately, I don't care.
@@malcolmmitchell6529 okay boomer.
I remember when Red Bull first bought Jaguar and a lot of the teams did not like them as they thought they were too much like Hesketh. Just in it for the fun and not a serious team because they liked to party after races.
The 70s were truly a special time for motor racing in general. All the glitz and glamor along with some of the money and sleaze that you would only associate with rock and roll stars of that era. While the 60s is far better remembered, the 70s are a special time that produced some fantastic stories like that of Lord Hesketh's racing team. Thank you for redoing this one Aidan. Very well done.
The 70's racing scene was somewhat mired by the oil crisis, and overshadowed not only by the decade before when racing was still mainly a matter of National Pride at a time of rapid growth, but also the decade after hosting some of the most excessive machines to race on four wheels with the mainstream adoption of the turbocharger across almost every discipline.
Let’s not forget the ‘Sex: Breakfast of Champions’ logo appeared on the last page of Top Gear Magazine in a segment dedicated to legendary racing drivers.
I have been looking forward to the remake of this episode for THREE YEARS
Edit: as for the modern version of that livery, I'd go with Nando's, Logan Paul's energydrink PRIME, Playboy magazine or the Hub, and Kick, the gambling backed version of Twitch.
Hopefully Forti Corse is coming.
The whole Forti story (from money but driving what was basically a rebuilt 1992 Fondmetal to better car but… Shannon) is one of my favourite F1 stories. Pacific is another.
Also. Roberto Moreno.
@@Somedudethatlikeswrestling we need them all
Doco on Hunt and Sheene is amazing, just a party where some racing happened
Living in the states I enjoyed the Hesketh efforts in F1 particularly at the Glen and Long Beach. After James retired when he was a commentator for European teevee I had the pleasure of sharing a few pitchers of beer with him at the Seneca Lodge during the 80 F1 outing. A chance meeting and sharing of fun with the man.
He worked for the BBC with the legendary Murray Walker
There's a great film about the James Hunt-Niki Lauda rivalry in the 1970s.
It's called "Driven" and Sly Stallone is in it!
Aren't you talking about rush !?
You're mixing those movies up, mate. The Hunt/Lauda movie is called Rush by Ron Howard. Stallone's Driven was about Champ Car and it was... Ridiculous and very silly from what I can remember! 😂
@@legeekdechepaou411 Love that band, but no, I'm talking about a racing film
Well played...
"KEK, and i cannot stress this enough, W" the team
I was 17 and a senior in High School when Lord Hesketh and his merry band showed up in F-1. I remember racing home on Thurs. afternoon because that was when Auto Week showed up in the mail. I have no idea who the reporter was but he got it. He made Heseth the most fun thing abut the sport. Rob Walker writing for Road and Track had a slightly different view about "that circus"...... Thanks for stirring up some good memories
Sex, the breakfast of champions
Hunt also raced a Lotus 59 in 1970. I saw the car at The Race Car Show at the Birmingham NEC in 2017 from memory.
I cannot imagine what things would have been like in the paddock with that team.
It would probably be like that episode of family guy where they go to quagmire’s summer house and the kids are told not to touch anything.
A lot of fun I would imagine. It would have been great to work for them I reckon....
There's a guy from back in the day who Hesketh reminds me of. His name is Captain Peter Janson, he was a Captain in the army during the Boer Conflict and moved to Australia in the late 60s. He modelled himself on that English gentleman (which he listed as his occupation) from a bygone era, he lived in a large Manor House, wore a smoking jacket and deer stalker hat and had stuff like animal heads on the walls. He went into car racing basically for fun and he was a complete lad. He'd show up to race's in a double decker bus with a bar in the top for all the fans to drink. On track he was very outlandish, changing his name on his racing licence to NGK Janson so he could get sponsoring from NGK spark-plugs to smoking a cigar whilst racing around Bathurst. He drove every Bathurst 1000 from 1973 to 1993. A lot of purists didn't like him but he was just in it for a laugh. Also he was familiar with Margaret Thatcher and persuaded her to let her son Mark go into car racing.
Jason raced Aussie sedans for years. Was VERY quick. He resided in a penthouse in the Windsor in Melbourne.
Great driver😊
Hesketh also made "luxury motorcycles" for a time. There's a couple examples on display at the National Motorcycle Museum in Solihull.
Best logo ever for a F1 team💪🏻
Weren't they pretty cars back then? Beautiful.
All pretty unique. You could paint them all the same colour, no sponsors, and still be able to recognise the cars.
@JohnSmithShields absolutely. They may have the aero of a brick, but they looked incredible.
Oh to have been in the rival teams garage when the what was essentially “Lads on Tour” the F1 team, built their own chassis and were immediately competitive.
You know there were people going “they’re only doing so well because of that March they bought”
I miss the days where privateers could just buy a car and make a team. The Strolls would ABSOLUTELY have Lance bombing around in a paid for Red Bull by now.
It's funny you say that given the worst team to use that March chassis they bought was...March themselves.
In fact, March only scored 14 points that season because of Hesketh and Hunt due to the fact constructors points went to the actual constructor of the chassis and not to the team who entered said chassis.
I think the March chassis they used was a Formula 2 car with a DFV in the back.@@MrSniperfox29
Great Story and Epic Story Telling - Thank you, Sir.
11:33 Never forget that Top Gear episode when they attempted to drive three old supercars from Bristol to Slough.
The conditions at the start of the 75 Dutch GP was not too bad and todays teams would certainly race in similar conditions, i know, i was there. but i know where you are coming from. the teams today seem evermore reluctant to race in the wet. maybe we should have a return to cars that are capable of having a softer setup and a tyre that can cope with more extreme rain.
Another great video. Thank you sir 🫡
Enjoyed that, every days a school day,thank you Aidan 👍
This is the best video you’ve ever done Aidan. Well done 👍🏻
Hello Aidan: I used to read about this in Car and Driver magazine, while it was happening. I thought I knew all about this, however, you have taught me a huge amount. Thank you.
Loved this first time out, still a good listen.
Hahaha that Towcester moment!
Oh man , I nearly spat my drink out at the ..Guns N Roses going into the scented candle industry.. comment. Great work mate.
Have you ever done a video on Rob Walker? He was the last of the true privateers,who was also wealthy.
I remember these guys, it was an almost mythological outfit.Hunt was one of the drivers that saved Niki Lauda, and walking away from an interview, smoking a joint with his arm around some lady ("bird"?) What a time. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Hunts first win F1 was also his first ever win. In fact he found that season it was the first time he even lead a race, hence the mistake in the first race, he didn't know how to lead.
I’d love seeing this team win as much as seeing this team exist
It’s a real funny thought a sport as posh as F1 with a team of, well, lads, not many other words do it justice, running the whole show and driving the car, and being good while at it
10:33 I have difficulty imagining Enzo looking at Hesketh with anything but contempt.
One thing that always stood out for me was Hunt throwing up on the podium because he was drinking too much Champaign and eating too much Foie gras prior to the race out of the boot of Lord Heskeths Rolls...
Lord Hesketh is in Monaco living off the profits from flogging the fields around Towcester to house builders. Probably the fields where that wheat was grown. He’s not as popular around this part of the world.
Archbishop of Banterbury is very good. Tress amusmant.
I think that saying originates from some advice Richard Branson was given in the early '80s, when he decided to start his own airline. The story goes that the owner of British Midland said to him: 'The quickest way to become a millionaire is to be a billionaire and start an airline'.
That saying has been around for a,long time. Want to make a small fortune in racing? Start with a large one.
Red Bull - perfect example. And as for Hesketh, fantastically "British" story.
Early Red-Bull, that is
Hesketh with Hunt just seems like the exact same vibe Red Bull had nesrer to their launch as "the party team", though obviously much more extreme, as times have changed.
And before that... Jordan, I assume, based on their advertisements.
1970s were F1 hay days and still today F1 lives off that time but will never capture the mood again, Who could replace Chapman, Tyrell, Williams, Ferrari and other team principals of that time.
Early 1970s: Champagne and poontang!
Late 1970s: Oil crisis, stagflation, oh crap we have no money.
1980s: Thatcher.
2010s: UKIP.
Yeah, I'm going to use Lord Hesketh's bio to explain Boomers to younger generations.
nice video
4.2k!! It's getting closer!!
Fun fact: Penthouse inexplicably sponsored a Jim Dunn funny car in NHRA for a short while
I've found this team fascinating as I first started expanding my knowledge of racing history. On the surface its a layabout team with a crass, lazy 70s image in the actual 70s. But underneath the unserious image, this was a TEAM. A nobleman he may have been, but archive interviews and footage showed that he knew what he was talking about, a rarity in the age of 'let's buy a car and beat Ferrari' BS merchants. The up and comer element that Hunt brought, for all of his known faults, completed the story. It was never going to last after the big guns came for Hunt, but this was a rare good example of what decades later, some bloke called Christian called "work hard, play hard." An always interesting story.
I love "of the time".
Man i was born too late. I would have loved to see this team 🤣
Yeah, "quite a time-capsule". But I can't help wishing F1 in particular could just lighten up a bit in 2024.
The Transporter driver was the grandson of the designer of the Royal Albert Hall was not on my James Hunt BINGO Card 😊
Hunt did become Champion, so the motto on his suit was correct. He certainly had that breakfast on many occasions. 😀
I've seen an interview where Hunt blamed himself and a poor strategy for not winning the 1973 USGP. He was right behind Peterson and believed he was faster, so he pushed to get in front. In doing so, he used up his tires. He later believed that if he had been more patient, he would have gotten by Peterson later in the race.
The final Hesketh design proved to be more lasting than the team. The team struggled through 1976 in an alliance with Walter Wolf. Then Wolf split off and took Postlethwaite with him in 1977. The first Wolf F1 car that Scheckter used to win 3 races that year was effectively a refresh of the Hesketh 308.
And i was at two of those races, Hunt at Zandvoort 75 and Scheckter Monaco 77.
I think the closest thing to the post Hesketh livery would be found in SRO GT World Challenge Australia. It was/is an Audi R8 run by Renee Gracie that is backed by OnlyFans. GT America also has a OnlyFans sponsored Porsche 911 GT3 R that is run by the P1 Group with Alex Vogel as their driver.
great shit
I would love to have a team in F1 who sincerely just want to have fun and to hell with the consequences, it’ll never happen of course but what a thing that would be! (As long as it would had a sense of class of course!)
Hospitality and fun is still a massive part of F1. Hungover drivers couldn't couldn't dance with todays speeds and set up.
Not for just this video, but for the historical
commitment and how much I missed. And why isn’t a flat £20 allowed?
Hesketh, the Jordan GP of the 1970's.
I didn't know there ever was a grand prix in Jordan.
They weren’t even “of the time” they were a 1920s racing organisation, with C21st catering and 1960s engineering, hacking through 1970s big aero years. Postlethwaite (who designed the World Champion Ferraris of 1982 & 1983) thinking they were great fun to be with and loving a job where he could do what he liked, is the main reason they stayed relevant to car design, while Hunt kept the driving at a similarly world class standard. You didn’t mention the silver service butlers with champagne & lobster catering trackside, because this is standard for F1 teams now and way less shocking than it used to be 😹
also the only F1 team to produce a motor cycle for puplic use
I can imagine Jordan and maybe the next two teams it turned into being run similar to this, or at least being for their respective eras....then again, Red Bull has pulled this off, too.
When Aidan mentioned bags of grain as payment, did anyone else think the same as me? 🤔 😅
£1000 per bag is some very special grain.
They were ludicrous even at the time, with Hesketh giving interviews wearing a bow tie and flourishing a glass of champagne, and Hunt obviously still under the influence of whatever he'd been on the previous evening.
One of my favourite lines from the now taken down original video is that Hunt was still hung over from the night in the hotel when getting into the car on Sunday. What an absolute LAD. Also, that might explain why he always had to throw up before getting into the car, apart from the nerves, because racing stressed him out a lot more than he's have wanted to admit.
Ngl Hesketh had one of the best logos ever
I don't think we'd see the Lads on tour in Formula one, but I can see a GT team like this running a Lambo or Ferrari
There was the OnlyFans McLaren in British GT last year. 🤣
I'd imagine SKY Tempesta Racing would be like this in some ways. Both Chris Froggatt and Jon Hui are avid car collectors and businessperson, with Hui being member of one of 4 big families in Hongkong. Froggatt got spicy Ferrari collections, and Hui owned several Pagani Zondas and I think a Huayra, along with 911 GT1, McLaren F1 and CLK GTR.
And then we have Eddie Cheever Jr.
Yes aidan, you've pronounced copersucar right
What? No mention of Rupert Keegan & Hector Rebaque? Research dear boy!
We had fun, who wouldn't with Penthouse providing the totty.
Netflix would be lit
The greatest F1 team ever!
Oh dear
Oh dear oh dear
@11:39 - 11:57 ...and the team would be run by Eddie Jordan.
Actually I think modern day formula one needs a Hesketh Team again.
I do think there’s something to be said for that, just going at it for fun. It’s all so corporate serious now, but why were you interested in racing cars in the first place? It’s not contributing to society or anything. It’s just going around in circles, as Hunt said in the movie.
Me, I loved one frame in a Michel Valliant comic. Some cross Europe rally, a Mini with two cussing guys in it, in a downpour. It was an adventure.
That’s why you do it. Like Around the world in eighty days or For a dime, by the same writer. No, I get Hesketh. It was always going to end in tears, but hey! You gotta do it. Just so you’ve done it.
A modern day lads team would have OnlyFans branding
Believe it or not a team in MotoGP's Moto2 class is sponsored by OnlyFans
I need the modem Lads car
6:45 I *NEED* a patch that says that.
Can probably get them off eBay or Etsy or something
Comments for the algorithm.
8 bags of grain worth £1000 each must be a euphemism.
Twitch and Onlyfans would have to sponsor the ultimate lad team today. Also a vape company and of course sports betting.
Way before my time, but this must be an awesome era.
A shame f1 gone woke today.
Unfortunately the whole world has gone woke now!
While modern racing has changed there are some racers that break the mould, like the Australian GT driver (EX V8 Supercar driver) who is popular on OnlyFans for her video's and who's Audi is sponsored by OnlyFans.
Why was there a Scottish and English flag on the car
How about Ken Tyrell? Worthy of a video?
Someone should make a t-shirt with that logo from Jimmy Hunt's race overall.
Imagine going around with SEX written in front of your shirt.
Team Hesketh PornHub 2024 - with Franck Montagny and Thomas Enge at the wheel... Hell Yeah!
Was grain code for cocaine? Lol😊
It was pot. Cocaine wasn’t a thing yet
I've got sex, breakefest of champions tattoed on my right arm
That sack of grain thing is utterly confusing to me.
Why on earth did they exchange a car for something that’s only worth 8 grand?
The DFV was “only” 750 quid when it came out.
What kind of grain is worth £1000 a bag?
I only knew about Hesketh from the movie Rush. I knew they partied but holy hell, I didn’t know they were essentially the Sex Pistols of F1.
….. and then he goes on to be a bloody Tory and helped usher in Brexit? Ffs
I mean he was born a Tory
Rich public school boy ends up being a Tory in a shock to nobody.
"The name's Hunt, it rhymes with cu..."
lads team 2024 also will have a crypto and probably onlyfans sponsorship
Ron Dennis could of learned a few things from those guys! If only 'fun' existed in his world...
Dennis was way more successful. Which probably matters more. 🤣
@@AidanMillward Obviously. From starting out as a Brabham mechanic to ending up as a Team Principal and 30% shareholder in McClaren with the multi-millions that ensured. Down through the 'glory' years though he never looked or seemed to be a happy fella, and with a favourite colour of grey...
Ron Dennis took over McLaren as a favour to Bernie Ecelstone. He already had plans for his Project 4 to go to F1. Ron saved McLaren.
Kinda makes me think of Mazispin and his Dad at Haas.
Loads'a paper, not particularly talented but seemed to have a laugh trying it, groping women in cars, and pals with a mental dictator.
At least James won a world championship with McLaren and managed to win a race with Hesketh. He knows what he's doing.
Unlike Nikita.
Hesketh spent sh#tloads of cash on his hobby.
Looks nervously at the sim rig...
ye great days,no PC, no WOKE, f1 was danderous and woman had bushes.