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F1's craziest and most unusual sponsors

Article To news overview © 'Surtees TS19, Goodwood, Festival of Speed 2014' by Hammerhead27 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 While Formula 1 is usually quite a stuffy, corporate world with sponsorships signed by blue-chip companies and high-end brands, there's been a few glaring exceptions over the years. Exceptions that have made headlines for the wrong reasons, or have just been wildly out of place with F1's image. Here's just a few of those crazy sponsors seen over the years.. Durex Back in 1976, at the height of the Niki Lauda & James Hunt era, the BBC opted not to show the Brands Hatch Race of Champions on television. That was because the Surtees team, run by 1964 World Champion...
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