Odd product promotions by otherwise-respectable F1 drivers

Cynon · Post by **Cynon** » 29 Mar 2011, 18:51

It's not F1, but I was going to link everyone to Kevin Conway's Extenze ads. Then I remembered; family forum.

JeanDenisAlcatraz · Post by **JeanDenisAlcatraz** » 29 Mar 2011, 23:06

There's a new Head and Shoulders ad in this month's F1 Racing where above Jenson it says "WINNING."

I assume it was commissioned before Charlie Sheen's little outbursts started :lol:

P_Friesacher · Post by **P_Friesacher** » 30 Mar 2011, 00:11

Cynon wrote:It's not F1, but I was going to link everyone to Kevin Conway's Extenze ads. Then I remembered; family forum.

Just googled them - astonishingly rejectful.

Myrvold · Post by **Myrvold** » 30 Mar 2011, 02:25

Cynon wrote:It's not F1...

As usual, eh?

When I see the Pizza Hut commercial I always laugh, and then I'm sad... Murray is getting old, very old

madmark1974 · Post by **madmark1974** » 30 Mar 2011, 08:29

Myrvold wrote:
Cynon wrote:It's not F1...

As usual, eh?

True (but we welcome a bit of variety), and we don't want to get into listing all the shamless plugs, promotions, and endorsements drivers in the USA are 'forced' into doing, or this thread could end up bigger than the entire internet!

Dom · Post by **Dom** » 30 Mar 2011, 13:29

Klon wrote:
JohnMLTX wrote:What about the commercials featuring Damon Hill and Murray Walker for Pizza Hut?
(and damon has spun his pizza!!!)

"Hill's lost it. He's out of control."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Q_9VYU9FE
and outtakes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nafnclze ... re=related

Takes me back to my childhood... great times. I still miss Murray, I'm honestly not sure I'd have got into F1 without him, especially as his co-commentator at the time was the World's Most Boring Man.

Row Man Gross-Gene · Post by **Row Man Gross-Gene** » 30 Mar 2011, 17:31

NOBODY puts JPM in a corner!

Python · Post by **Python** » 30 Mar 2011, 18:33

Priceless wrote:Thought I'd leave my contribution to this thread, too...

The ad is for... well, I don't know the name for this in English off the top of my head, we call this (the product) "massa corrida", and it's used in construction for finishing interior brick walls, it's applied and sanded before paint is applied.

The pun only makes sense in Portuguese though, I think... "corrida" is Portuguese for "race". Translating literally, the ad says: "Massa"? "Racing"? That I know!

Are you thinking of primer, because that is usually applied to porous materials before they are painted.

Priceless · Post by **Priceless** » 31 Mar 2011, 09:18

Python wrote:Are you thinking of primer, because that is usually applied to porous materials before they are painted.

I just tried Google Translator for that, and it gave me "spackling compound", or "plaster" as translations for "massa corrida". After a further search, I think "spackling compound" is the best translation for what I'm thinking - it's used as a filler, and sanded after drying up, making the wall surface smooth before it gets painted. The one depicted in the ad is vinyl-based.

Frentzen127 · Post by **Frentzen127** » 01 Apr 2011, 02:31

Ferrim wrote:
madmark1974 wrote:These are all old ones, and blatantly copied from Sniff Petrol's site, but worth sharing anyway :

That one is interesting because in Spanish the word "hostia" means "host" in the context of sacramental bread. But "hostia" is also used, at least in Spain, to refer to a crash: "me di una hostia" would mean "I had a crash" or "I crashed [against] something". And there is an augmentative form of the word, "hostión", which would be a particularly big "hostia".

From "hostión" to "tostión" there's just a letter, and Montoya has probably suffered quite a few "hostias" and "hostiones" during his racing career

Now now, we Colombians don't use 'hostia' and its derivatives at all. JPM's affinity with walls is an undeniable trait though.
Back to topic, I spent a considerable time looking for this, I FINALLY found it. A contender to Mark Webber!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMTfjS59hnw

Glennerz · Post by **Glennerz** » 01 Apr 2011, 19:31

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U9j3aEIL94&feature=related

German-speakers, watch this and cringe.

Myrvold · Post by **Myrvold** » 01 Apr 2011, 20:01

Well, the newest Merc ad is a bit special in my eyes, pretty cool, but also a bit strange.

Vepe · Post by **Vepe** » 01 Apr 2011, 21:22

Myrvold wrote:Well, the newest Merc ad is a bit special in my eyes, pretty cool, but also a bit strange.

+1 'cause of Häkkinen

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 01 Apr 2011, 23:04

Glennerz wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U9j3aEIL94&feature=related

German-speakers, watch this and cringe.

And non-German-speakers, watch this, be utterly baffled and cringe.

Myrvold · Post by **Myrvold** » 02 Apr 2011, 00:26

Ye, I mean, I eat pasta... he uses it for his hair?

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 02 Apr 2011, 03:16

The hell is a photocopier anyway? :lol:

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 02 Apr 2011, 13:30

Wizzie wrote:The hell is a photocopier anyway?

"No", "No", "The what?", "What is a photocopier?"

Classic Kimi! :lol:

JeanDenisAlcatraz · Post by **JeanDenisAlcatraz** » 03 Apr 2011, 00:45

Glennerz wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U9j3aEIL94&feature=related

German-speakers, watch this and cringe.

The most cringeworthy part of that ad is being reminded how the Germans have misappropriated pasta. The worst kind of tinned spag bol from Netto in the UK is better than the rubbish they serve up as pasta over there.

Kobacrashi · Post by **Kobacrashi** » 03 Apr 2011, 10:43

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JkjvHUua7k

Quite possibly my favourite advert of all time for pure cheese and the little hakinnen joke at the end!

Also i think this was made before the big fall out between the two drivers!

pablo_h · Post by **pablo_h** » 03 Apr 2011, 16:21

Kobacrashi wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JkjvHUua7k

Quite possibly my favourite advert of all time for pure cheese and the little hakinnen joke at the end!

Also i think this was made before the big fall out between the two drivers!

Now the mercedes ad makes some sense!

Lord Fiddlebottom · Post by **Lord Fiddlebottom** » 03 Apr 2011, 22:48

Apparently a big ad campaign by a Finnish phone company featuring two Kovalainens:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYL13D5B4a0

Dj_bereta · Post by **Dj_bereta** » 04 Apr 2011, 00:18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L_CaUXYKgY

A funny brazilian pepsi old ad with barrichello.

*edit:

I find another ad, more old (1993).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-fLkdwD14c

Myrvold · Post by **Myrvold** » 04 Apr 2011, 01:14

Lord Fiddlebottom wrote:Apparently a big ad campaign by a Finnish phone company featuring two Kovalainens:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYL13D5B4a0

That was just a brilliant ad! Pretty expensive as well I guess. And uploaded by Heikki himself?

nome66 · Post by **nome66** » 04 Apr 2011, 02:30

Dj_bereta wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L_CaUXYKgY

A funny brazilian pepsi old ad with barrichello.

AH, BS! THAT WAS TEAM ORDERS
...jean todt gran prix challenge.

madmark1974 · Post by **madmark1974** » 04 Apr 2011, 15:57

Ayrton Senna advertising a Ford Escort XR3i (presumably in Portugese), looks to be from his Toleman days :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhuGjIj3nc4

nigellamansell · Post by **nigellamansell** » 05 Apr 2011, 06:37

Hmmmm ruthless capitalists with cavalier regard for the rules and German driver with similar persuasion...cant see the connection, can you? :lol:

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 06 Apr 2011, 09:25

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTIrZ0eDcFU&NR=1

It doesn't matter whether Schumi was promoting Sky or Sky was promoting Schumi this ad is simply hilarious.

madmark1974 · Post by **madmark1974** » 06 Apr 2011, 09:28

Wizzie wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTIrZ0eDcFU&NR=1

It doesn't matter whether Schumi was promoting Sky or Sky was promoting Schumi this ad is simply hilarious.

That is excellent!

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 06 Apr 2011, 09:28

I found another one of Schumi and Sky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GAQJ65BhRM&feature=related

Belegur · Post by **Belegur** » 06 Apr 2011, 14:18

Do drivers still do this sort of promotion? In Australia at least, whenever there's product advertising involving F1, it's only on the cars, and not the drivers (I'm thinking ING's ads with Renault, for example). Odd that Mark Webber doesn't seem to do much publicity for Red Bull...

Dom · Post by **Dom** » 08 Apr 2011, 17:48

More Rosberg/Schumacher shenanigans for Mercedes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uE67arN ... r_embedded

I did enjoy the way they pointed out how much better Rosberg was last year...

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 08 Apr 2011, 18:39

Dom wrote:More Rosberg/Schumacher shenanigans for Mercedes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uE67arN ... r_embedded

I did enjoy the way they pointed out how much better Rosberg was last year...

Absolutely fantastic, hats off to them!!!

Libertango · Post by **Libertango** » 09 Apr 2011, 09:30

Wizzie wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTIrZ0eDcFU&NR=1

It doesn't matter whether Schumi was promoting Sky or Sky was promoting Schumi this ad is simply hilarious.

Maybe it was promoting Vettel's hair?

Jeroen Krautmeir · Post by **Jeroen Krautmeir** » 10 Apr 2011, 07:14

Dom wrote:More Rosberg/Schumacher shenanigans for Mercedes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uE67arN ... r_embedded

I did enjoy the way they pointed out how much better Rosberg was last year...

Absolutely fantastic!

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 19 Apr 2011, 12:59

MIG Capital and Brawn GP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixDk14l8s68&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57q6TUMTS_M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDTmrqQBuFw&NR=1

Henrique · Post by **Henrique** » 19 Apr 2011, 14:46

Those Sky ads made me facepalm really hard. I hope the producers are ashamed.

Myrvold · Post by **Myrvold** » 19 Apr 2011, 15:08

The Brawn GP ads was just as cheap as the team...

WeirdKerr · Post by **WeirdKerr** » 19 Apr 2011, 18:11

Myrvold wrote:The Brawn GP ads was just as cheap as the team...

Was it Rubens Bear-Ichello....

Myrvold · Post by **Myrvold** » 19 Apr 2011, 18:39

I can barely bear such dry jokes...

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 19 Apr 2011, 19:05

Wizzie wrote:MIG Capital and Brawn GP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixDk14l8s68&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57q6TUMTS_M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDTmrqQBuFw&NR=1

MAKE THE NON-ACTORS STOP ACTING!