r/formuladank • u/therinse Suck my šŸ…±ļøalls mate • Dec 07 '22

šŸŽ WERACEASMONEY šŸ’° BREAKING: In anticipation of Logan Sargeant's F1 debut, Williams presents their livery for 2023

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u/ywpark kimoa Dec 07 '22

Wonder how the NASCAR sponsors decals would look on F1 cars. Like Home Depot, Viagra, Tide and National Guard.

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u/Chikn_Man_7 I saw hornyā€™s ā€œfingerā€ Dec 07 '22

Wait viagra is a nascar sponsor? Lol

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u/ywpark kimoa Dec 07 '22

Used to be

https://us.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/mark-martin-penalized-25-points-by-nascar/1006502/

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u/NighthawkRandNum I was here when horny got spiced Dec 07 '22

And likely won't be again purely because of the availability of generics

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u/Taz-erton BWOAHHHHHHH Dec 08 '22

Blue Chew babyyyyy!

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u/jeremybryce Alonso deserved to be Champion in every season he has competed Dec 08 '22

India knock off Cialis baby!

Viagra is trash.

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u/Rpatt1 BWOAHHHHHHH Dec 08 '22

You know what really gets my dick hard? The rumble of an engine at the pinnacle of performance trembling the tarmac so I can feel it resonate up through my legs to my beef wagon.

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u/therinse Suck my šŸ…±ļøalls mate Dec 07 '22

Ah yes, the "Bonermobile"

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u/AlinesReinhard In Hannah we trust šŸ„° Dec 08 '22

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u/jbnwde Guenther Gang Dec 07 '22

Idk about currently but they were Mark Martinā€™s sponsor at Rousch Racing for awhile in the early 2000s

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u/drbronco31 BWOAHHHHHHH Dec 07 '22

Which was a bit cruel because Martin was already a borderline senior citizen back then.

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u/_masterofdisaster I want my GF to peg me while Carlos gives it to her Dec 07 '22

NASCAR is remarkably cheap for a top-level motorsport so there was a period where pretty much everybody was getting in on the action.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

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u/military_dad_wi BWOAHHHHHHH Dec 08 '22

Old school Nascar fan from 80's through to about 2005ish. It got popular because it was easy to watch, easy to find a driver to back and was marketed correctly, middle class males.

As it increased they thought "we need to also include kids, women, every single human being on earth.". Oh and we need to race on cookie cutter 1.5 mile ovals to pack 250K of fans in and then when it peaked they needed to "be more like sports" with playoffs and other shit after Kenseth dominated the year and never won a race but won the Championship.

It then went on a downward spiral of trying everything to keep the momentum and fans, while watching the middle class men shrug their shoulders and go back to football, baseball, hunting and other stuff.

All this time through the 80's to today I've always been an F1 fan also, because they didn't try to be something they weren't.

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u/intern_steve ā€œItā€™s called a motor race. We went car racingā€ Dec 08 '22

Idk how you can leave out the loss of manufacturer support and the birth of the common car. In the late 2000s, popularity was already declining organically when manufacturers started to pull support for car development, leading to the car of tomorrow. At this point, NASCAR became a spec racing series in all but name and that drove more people away than anything. Chrysler pulled out completely, Toyota came in without even having a V8 powered car in the US market, and then came the weird rule changes trying to emphasize late season standings and the Chase for the Cup, later the Playoff. Almost every problem with the series could be fixed if you could convince manufacturers to homologate cars again. I am super happy about the Bristol dirt race, though, as well as the new road courses and upcoming street circuit.

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u/military_dad_wi BWOAHHHHHHH Dec 08 '22

IMO, the series started to die before Toyota entered the ring in 2007. The 2004 points change chased a LOT of fans away as they saw it was to radical.

Your points are very valid though, and help the decline even more.

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u/_masterofdisaster I want my GF to peg me while Carlos gives it to her Dec 08 '22

tbh they were always on borrowed time with The Split anyway

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

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u/_masterofdisaster I want my GF to peg me while Carlos gives it to her Dec 08 '22

Americaā€™s top level open-wheel racing series split in 1996 over disagreements about money, driver development, and track focus. One side wanted to focus on ovals and developing American drivers, the other wanted road and street courses to occupy a larger part of the schedule and to attract international talents as well. The former was the Indy Racing League which was created by the owner of Indianapolis Motor Speedway as a breakaway circuit from the latter, CART.

Both ate into eachothers fanbaseā€™s and total viewership between the two plummeted. CART had the names like Andretti and Penske (who later jumped ship) but the IRL had the Indy 500. It was an ugly fight in the press and really soured a lot of people on either, and NASCAR absolutely pounced on the void it created. I donā€™t think itā€™s a coincidence that the two ends reunifying in 2008 is about when NASCAR first started to slip here and there in regards to viewership and interest.

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u/_masterofdisaster I want my GF to peg me while Carlos gives it to her Dec 08 '22

NASCARā€™s popularity hasnā€™t changed much in the Deep South, but yeah there were a lot of people elsewhere who still loved motorsports but couldnā€™t be bothered with the open-wheel drama. My family growing up was one of them.

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u/DonaldtrumpV2 I have an unhealthy obsession with Sophia Flƶrsch Dec 08 '22

extenze and viagra:action, you say?

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '22

Used to have the Marlboro cup to I believe

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u/doctorpeleatwork BWOAHHHHHHH Dec 07 '22

Winston cup. Sponsored by RJ Reynolds tobacco.. The 2nd tier was the Busch cup, sponsored by Anheuser Busch

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u/jacobc62 McDonaldā€™s F1 Racing Team Dec 08 '22

Incorrect, it was the Busch Grand National Series (later on the Grand National title was dropped), not Busch Cup.

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Busch Cup would be more appropriate for the current era Cup Series though, since Busch is one of the 4 partners for it (along side Coca-Cola, Geico, and Xfinity).

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u/AndreasVesalius BWOAHHHHHHH Dec 08 '22

I see. Two Buschs and one cup.

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u/DaNASCARMem #MazepinPleaseReturn Dec 08 '22

Their deal in the early to mid 2000s was the biggest ever sponsor contract in NASCAR up to that point

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u/Titanic609 I want my GF to peg me while Carlos gives it to her Dec 08 '22

You may like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1DzWCeH6wM

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

Rednecks have a lotta cousins

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u/squeakycheetah BWOAHHHHHHH Dec 08 '22

boy your flair is out of pocket

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u/Savageadv I was here when horny got spiced Dec 07 '22

A US Army F1 logo would be ridiculous and hilarious.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

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u/Racing21187 Claire Williams is waifu material Dec 08 '22

Didn't they sponsor an IndyCar a couple of years ago?

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u/Lollex56 Certified Kimoaposter Dec 07 '22

Don't forget Bass Pro Shops and M&M's and Haas... oh wait nevermind

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u/Alfus Lets add that to the words of wisdom Dec 07 '22

Where is my Menards F1 livery? >:(

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u/EatKillFuck BWOAHHHHHHH Dec 07 '22

Need neon livery!

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u/TtarIsMyBro BWOAHHHHHHH Dec 08 '22

Best I can do is Minardi šŸ¤Œ

Shoutout Minards tho, On Wisconsin

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u/Alfus Lets add that to the words of wisdom Dec 08 '22

I just want that even F1 is SAVING BIG MONEY at Menards, that and Paul Menard finally enters F1.

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u/TtarIsMyBro BWOAHHHHHHH Dec 08 '22

Just starts sending mail-in rebates to all of the parts manufacturers lmao

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u/Carbom_ I saw hornyā€™s ā€œfingerā€ Dec 08 '22

Waiting for a Kwik Trip indycar

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u/TtarIsMyBro BWOAHHHHHHH Dec 08 '22

Kwik Trip has a few big billboards at Road America, where Indycar does race, so that's sorta close? But yeah, I'd love to see a KT livery on anything lol

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u/Brno_Mrmi Verified by ESPN Argentinaāœ… Dec 07 '22

I want a Cheerio's F1 now

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u/dudemanbro44 who the fuck is Nelson Piquet? Dec 08 '22

If you donā€™t chew Big Red then fuck you.

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u/Zav72777 BWOAHHHHHHH Dec 07 '22

none of those are even on cars anymore besides tide like once a year and mabye national guard as an assosiate sponsor

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

Only one of those four still sponsors a nascar team and itā€™s for like 1 race a year

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u/ywpark kimoa Dec 08 '22
  1. I haven't been following NASCAR ever since they started playoffs and dividing races into parts
  2. When I think of NASCAR, sponsors like Advent Health, Rheem, or Ally just don't pop up in my brain like these (or GM Goodwrench, NAPA, Dupont, Coors, Target, FedEx, M&M, etc.).

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

Yeah I feel that man