HERITAGE BOOK COVER 3.qxp_Layout 1 21/03/2019 13:31 Page 1 1000 Formula OneTM Races The Brands Welcome History, Heritage at a rapid pace. It remains one of the most demanding and Passion environments that not only allows us to further enhance our products but also pioneer new and ExxonMobil boasts a efficient technologies. tremendous history, heritage We have come a long way in the past 70 years of and passion in world participation in Formula One, gaining insights and motorsport, particularly in expertise from working directly with some of the world’s Formula OneTM where our greatest racing teams who have driven us to be the very brands have been involved best. The work we have achieved in Formula One has from the very beginning when enabled us to offer our customers all over the world the the World Championship began very best fuels and lubricants for the road. at the 1950 British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Kai Decker The Esso, Exxon, Mobil Global Sponsorships & Motorsports Manager, and Mobil 1 brands have been instrumental in the ExxonMobil progression of fuels and lubricants in Formula One for the past seven decades by developing cutting-edge and innovative technology advances. We have achieved this by helping to power and protect some of the most iconic cars, teams and successful drivers in Formula One history, winning multiple Drivers’ and Constructors’ World Championships along the way. Formula One Grand Prix racing has provided us with the ultimate proving ground to develop innovative fuels and lubricants, and continues to challenge us to 2 explore new technology solutions as the sport evolves 3 Contents Contents 1000 Races 6 The history of Esso and Mobil 1 in F1TM 22 ExxonMobil Driver Hall of Fame 10 Fuel and Oil through the years plus Esso, 28 Key moments from ExxonMobil Published by Mobil and Mobil 1 product images 64 Advertisements from history TRMG Ltd, Winchester Court, 1 Forum Place, Hatfield, Herts. AL10 0RN Telephone: 01707 273 999 Website: www.trmg.co.uk © 2019 Exxon Mobil Corporation. Mobil, Mobil 1 and the 1 Icon are trademarks of Exxon Mobil Corporation or one of its p10 subsidiaries. Other trademarks and product names used herein are the property of their p22 p64 respective owners. ESSO, the Esso Logo and Energy lives here are trademarks of Exxon Mobil Corporation or one of its subsidiaries. Photographs: LAT Images p28 Graham Hill driving the Brabham BT34 Ford during the Italian GP 4 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza on September 05, 1971 5 Key Milestones Key Milestones 1953 – Indianapolis 500 1955 – Italian GP Monza 1959 – Cooper Cars Ltd 1962 – Lotus-Climax The Indy 500 race was included Fangio wins the seventh and Cooper cars, the British equipe Graham Hill in a BRM won the Milestones in F1 in the FIA F1 Drivers’ World final race of the 1955 that pioneered the return to mid- 1962 Drivers’ World Championship, Championship between 1950 World Championship at the engined single seater race cars, while Jack Brabham won the non- The Esso Petroleum Company Silverstone GP – and 1960 but few regular F1 Esso-sponsored Italian Grand Prix used Esso Extra Motor Oil in all Championship Danish Grand Prix Limited is the oldest major oil 18 May 1950 competitors ventured across the their F1 and F2 cars from that year using Esso Extra Motor company in Great Britain. When The first ever World Championship Atlantic to race. In 1956 Mobiloil Cuba 1957 the beginning. Oil in his Lotus-Climax Brooklands, the world’s first Formula 1 Grand Prix was held celebrated a 6th straight win at the Non-Championship F1 GP races In 1959 Bruce McLaren won his permanent motor-racing circuit, in England, with regulations prestigious event and in that 11- were run in Cuba 1957 and ’58, just first Grand Prix at Sebring in Florida 1963 A Golden Period opened in 1907, Anglo (as the that allowed either 1.5-litre year period Mobiloil won a total of before Fidel Castro came to power. using Esso Extra Motor Oil in his Over five seasons from 1959 to company was then referred supercharged or 4.5-litre normally eight races. The 1958 event was noticeable for works Cooper Climax T51 1963, more World Championships to) was present with supplies aspirated engines, running on In that year, too, Alberto Ascari the kidnap of Fangio before the race. Jack Brabham, also using Esso were won on Esso Extra Motor Oil under the Pratts brand name. alcohol-based fuels with a mixture won the Swiss GP in a Ferrari The 1958 season saw the first Extra Motor Oil, crossed the line than any other brand of oil. Pratts became Esso in 1935, and of 98.5% methanol, 1% castor oil mandatory use of Av-gas fuel and 3rd in Sebring to win the 1959 Jim Clark won five Grands Prix in continued the Pratts tradition at all and 0.5% water! 1954 – Scuderia Lancia the end of alcohol fuel use World Championship, thus making ‘63his Lotus 25 Climax to win the major racing events. The supercharged engines The radical Lancia D50 first made it the first F1 title for a car with the World Championship consumed five times as much fuel its appearance in January of 1954. 1958 – Monaco GP engine behind the driver The Vacuum Oil Company Ltd, as the normally aspirated engines. Lancia ran into financial troubles Graham Hill drove a Lotus 12 using 1960s Lotus Cars the parent company of which The Alfa Romeo 158 won the first in 1955 (the company was then Esso Extra Motor Oil in his F1 race 1960 – Cooper Cars Ltd In the 1960s Lotus Cars won the originated the Mobil trademark race with Italian Nino Farina at bought out) and handed the cars debut at the 1958 Monaco Grand In 1960 Jack Brabham won both Drivers’ World Championship – two in 1899, started selling MobilOil the wheel; he went on to win the over to Scuderia Ferrari. Mobilgas Prix, an event he would go on win 5 the Drivers’ and Manufacturers’ times with Jim Clark in 1963 and products in the UK the following first Drivers’ World Championship. racing fuel and Mobiloil lubricant times. Graham is still the only driver World Championships, again using ’65 and with Graham Hill 68. year, and was also active in motor Several of the contenders of that were used in the car’s 2.5-litre V8 to have won the ‘triple crown’ of Esso Extra Motor Oil In 1967 Jim Clark scored Esso’s racing from the very early years. very first race used Esso fuel and oil. engine. Designed by soon-to-be motorsport – Le Mans, Indy 500 twentieth pole position in F1 in a The Alfa Romeo 158 won the Ferrari engine guru Vittorio Jano, and the F1 World Championship Lotus 49 at the Nürburgring in a first race with Italian Nino Farina at the compact Lancia V8 produced a Constructors’ Championship time of 8:04.3 The monocoque the wheel; he went on to win the potent 260bhp first awarded chassis Lotus 49, with its new Ford- first Drivers’ World Championship 6 7 Key Milestones Key Milestones financed Cosworth DFV (Double among the fastest cars in 1970 but Williams and Mobil 1 go on to score 1996 2007–2009 2019 Four Valve) engine, was a game was let down by reliability. At the 40 races wins, four Constructors’ Mobil introduces ‘SuperSyn’ Lewis Hamilton wins four races and Aston Martin Red Bull Racing changer in F1 end of the year, Jack would retire World Championships and three technology to the racetrack, finishes second in the 2007 Drivers’ switch to Honda power for from F1 racing, albeit with three Drivers’ World Championships allowing the McLaren Formula Championship in only his first this season with drivers Max 1966 – Brabham Racing World Championships to his name One cars to perform in extreme season. He eventually takes the title Verstappen and Pierre Gasly in Organisation Ltd 1981 race conditions while minimising in 2008 with five race wins. In 2009, their RB15 racers Jack Brabham won the 1966 World 1971 – Brabham BT34 First Mobil 1 win: Alan Jones, engine stress. In 2002 ‘SuperSyn’ Hamilton won the first race for a Championship driving a Brabham Graham Hill drove the distinctive Williams Ford, US West Grand Prix, technology is applied to Mobil 1 hybrid Grand Prix race car, powered World Drivers’ Champions BT19, and thus became both the ‘Lobster Claw’ Brabham BT34. Long Beach, California products for road cars by a Kinetic Energy Recovery 1982 Keke Rosberg, Williams Ford first race winner and first World At the end of the year, Bernie System (KERS) 1987 Nelson Piquet, Williams Honda Champion driving a car constructed Ecclestone purchased the team 1987–1992 1998–1999 1998 Mika Häkkinen , McLaren by his own company and bearing Mobil enters a new sponsorship Mika Häkkinen wins the Drivers’ 2015–2016 Mercedes his name on its badge. The car’s 1973 deal with the Benetton team. The Championship back-to-back in The presence of Esso, Exxon 1999 Mika Häkkinen , McLaren Mercedes Repco RB620 F1 3-litre engine ran After pioneering the development successful six-year partnership 1998 and 1999 while McLaren and Mobil-branded fuels returns 2008 Lewis Hamilton, Vodafone on Esso fuel and oil of fully synthetic oils for jet-aircraft delivered five Grand Prix victories claim the Constructors’ to Formula 1 as the official McLaren Mercedes engines, Mobil begin marketing and three top-3 finishes in the Championship in 1998. The fuels partner of the McLaren- 2009 Jenson Button, Brawn GP* 1967– Brabham Racing Mobil 1, the world’s first globally Constructors’ Championship team wins 16 races over these Honda Formula One team.