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[FirstnameLastname]

So after being at the F1 this weekend… they sold so much merchandise at the event. Mostly Norris/McLaren stuff

The best stuff I saw, was when you noticed a 98 Jordan Jacket, or someone wearing stuff from West McLaren Mercedes. Love seeing that.

The teams must make an absolute mint from the sales of this stuff. Lewis had a ‘limited edition’ cap for Silverstone (in Brazilian colours… *shrug*) and they were selling like hot cakes after the race - despite having a £20 markup on what they were selling on the online stores.

Saw a couple fans with Haas stuff on… but would imagine when Bearman joins they’ll shift a lot more stuff. I wonder what value the teams place on a drivers ability to shift this kind of stuff - saw hardly any VCARB stuff, probably because it looks awful and the team isn’t very inspiring at all. Probably saw more Stake Sauber gear tbh.

Quite a bit of Williams stuff to be seen - but don’t think they even bothered making up any Sargent stuff…

And nobody seemed to be snapping up any Stroll merchandise, even though Aston had plenty dedicated stalls around the circuit.

Of course, maybe when you go to the German race it’s a sea of Hulk Haas stuff… so there will have been a heavy bias to the British drivers.

Next year will Silverstone be a sea of red?

[PayasYouRace]

Too young to remember. What was the Silverstone crowd like in 1989/90? That was obviously peak Mansell-mania.

I remember the 2004 British Grand Prix and how everything was red, white, gold and black as it was the beginning of Button mania and everything was Lucky Strike colours.

[Collombin]

Too young to remember. What was the Silverstone crowd like in 1989/90? That was obviously peak Mansell-mania.

Didn't do 1989, and only qualy in 1990, but whilst there was a lot of Ferrari stuff being sold and worn in 1990 I would say that was also the case in 1988, before the Mansell move. I guess Ferrari just have lots of fans everywhere.

[Beri]

Too young to remember. What was the Silverstone crowd like in 1989/90? That was obviously peak Mansell-mania.

I remember the 2004 British Grand Prix and how everything was red, white, gold and black as it was the beginning of Button mania and everything was Lucky Strike colours.

 

This is something I cant really recall seeing on TV nor on other circuits. We all know the various era's of fan favourites. Much of this started with me during the 90s with Williams and Rothmans who sold their merchandise and I ever since bought stuff of Williams. This translated on the grandstands as well next to the eternal red on there. Then the grey of McLaren Mercedes followed. There being some yellow from Jordan. Then Williams during the BMW days with McLaren and Ferrari being flanked by the bright blue of Renault who were also peeking around the corner. But I cant really remember a large crowd of black and white from the Lucky Strike BAR/Honda days. Must really have been a Silverstone thing then.

[IrvTheSwerve]

This is something I cant really recall seeing on TV nor on other circuits. We all know the various era's of fan favourites. Much of this started with me during the 90s with Williams and Rothmans who sold their merchandise and I ever since bought stuff of Williams. This translated on the grandstands as well next to the eternal red on there. Then the grey of McLaren Mercedes followed. There being some yellow from Jordan. Then Williams during the BMW days with McLaren and Ferrari being flanked by the bright blue of Renault who were also peeking around the corner. But I cant really remember a large crowd of black and white from the Lucky Strike BAR/Honda days. Must really have been a Silverstone thing then.

 

There was certainly a fair bit of BAR stuff in the crowd around 2004, I wouldn't say 'everything' was Lucky Strike colours but there was quite a bit. I think the colours just blended in with a lot of the other teams merchandise, such as Williams, McLaren, even Sauber around then. There was a lot of Ferrari stuff that stood out with the orangey/red they had at the time, I've got a (very overpriced) Ferrari coat from around 2003/4 that is loud to say the least.

 

The McLaren stuff really stands out with the bright orange - a bit like the dayglo orange t-shirts they had around 2005-7 (got one of those too, lol).

[Beri]

On those McLaren liveries and merch from the Vodafone era; if you havent seen it in real life, you cant imagine how bright the colors were. When you bought McLaren gear, you got a dscount coupon for sunglasses as well. 

 

And on the Lucky Strike part, it is just something I havent really noticed. But to be fair, I havent seen it on track that much either. During those Button/BAR/Lucky Strike days, I must have been to about 10 Grands Prix in 4 countries in total and I really cant remember.

[PayasYouRace]

This is something I cant really recall seeing on TV nor on other circuits. We all know the various era's of fan favourites. Much of this started with me during the 90s with Williams and Rothmans who sold their merchandise and I ever since bought stuff of Williams. This translated on the grandstands as well next to the eternal red on there. Then the grey of McLaren Mercedes followed. There being some yellow from Jordan. Then Williams during the BMW days with McLaren and Ferrari being flanked by the bright blue of Renault who were also peeking around the corner. But I cant really remember a large crowd of black and white from the Lucky Strike BAR/Honda days. Must really have been a Silverstone thing then.

As Irv says, the colours blended in quite well with other merch and people’s normal clothes, so it wasn’t so obvious. There were so many of the red white and gold Union Jacks everywhere. I came away with a BAR Honda rain jacket which I got good use out of for a good few years.

[PayasYouRace]

Didn't do 1989, and only qualy in 1990, but whilst there was a lot of Ferrari stuff being sold and worn in 1990 I would say that was also the case in 1988, before the Mansell move. I guess Ferrari just have lots of fans everywhere.

I remember at Jerez 1997 they were mostly in the grandstand by the chicane. The entire circuit cheered when Michael didn’t come round on the crucial lap, except for that grandstand.

[Collombin]

I remember at Jerez 1997 they were mostly in the grandstand by the chicane. The entire circuit cheered when Michael didn’t come round on the crucial lap, except for that grandstand.

I don't know if it's a bit fanciful to suggest that perhaps part of the difference is that Enzo was still alive in 1988, and so a lot of the magic and mystique of Ferrari was still intact. The 1990s version felt different.

[ensign14]

I'm usually wearing an Osella or Andrea Moda or Kojima tee at warm weather motorsporting things.

 

Still waiting for Barry Boor to work out a Connew line.

[Gareth]

Too young to remember. What was the Silverstone crowd like in 1989/90? That was obviously peak Mansell-mania.

In 1990 you could still buy cheap knock off merch at the track. I got a distinctly low quality Senna cap, that I still have to this day, as it was all the budget could afford.

 

Wore it very proudly whilst standing on top of our cool box on the grass bank our GA ticket got us access to.

[PayasYouRace]

In 1990 you could still buy cheap knock off merch at the track. I got a distinctly low quality Senna cap, that I still have to this day, as it was all the budget could afford.

Wore it very proudly whilst standing on top of our cool box on the grass bank our GA ticket got us access to.

If that’s a low quality one, how durable were the real things?

I think my parents still have the Leyton House brolly that my dad had to hurriedly buy from the first merch stall he saw when it poured with rain the morning of a late 90s Spanish GP.

[Myrvold]

I still regret not buying the one LOLA BMS Scuderia Italia t-shirt I found at a F1 Merch shop when I was on a day trip to Monaco.
I skipped it as it was an XL shirt, so I would never be able to wear it.

It would be a cool thing to have.


Instead, all I got is two bottles of Huski Chocolate and one can of Rich Energy.

[FirstnameLastname]

Lots of senna merchandise on sale, and his blue cap still coining up good sales

Don’t know if the sponsors from that cap are still in business these days, but if so then it’s been a very worthwhile investment to sponsor sennas hat