Jeremy Clarkson announces plans to sponsor F1 team as one strict condition revealed

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that he hopes to one day sponsor an F1 team as long as he meets one strict condition.

On Sunday afternoon, Formula One fans were treated to a spectacular race at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya that will go down in the history books.

For the first time as a Ferrari driver, seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton crossed the finish line in first, making it his first race win in 686 days, his last being the 2024 Belgian GP with Mercedes.

Former Mercedes teammate George Russell secured second in the race while reigning champion Lando Norris was third to pass the chequered flag.

In doing so, the trio became the first all British Podium since the US GP in 1968 where Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill, and John Surtees made up the top three.

Among those happy to see such an impressive feat was lifelong F1 fan Clarkson, who took to social media to celebrate the feat while aiming a sly dig at one of Ferrari's sponsors.

"Great to see three Brits on the podium in Barcelona. Just a shame the winner was sponsored by an Italian beer," Clarkson wrote on X.

The former Top Gear host's disappointment in Ferrari's official beer sponsor being Peroni Nastro Azzurro 0.0% comes after he started up his own beer, Hawkstone, back in 2021.

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As shown during the beloved Amazon Prime Series Clarkson's Farm, the 66-year-old uses the malting barley grown on his Diddly Squat Farm to create the lager which is sold across the UK.

And while thinking about his beloved beer, Clarkson again took to his social media accounts to announce his plans to bring it to the Formula One grid.

He wrote: "One day, I hope Hawkstone is big enough to sponsor an F1 team. But which one?"

If Hawkstone were to sponsor an F1 team sometime in the future it would join the likes of Estrella, Singha and Paulaner which all sponsor teams on the current grid this season.

Jeremy Clarkson must meet one strict condition to sponsor an F1 team

But, if Clarkson wants to have Hawkstone become a part of an F1 team's branding, he can only do so if he makes a huge decision regarding the future of his beer.

In order to meet the strict advertising regulations that come with sponsoring a Formula One team, Hawkstone would have to join their rivals in releasing a non-alcoholic variant of their beer.

Although full-strength alcohol sponsorships are not strictly banned by the FIA, many countries that are visisted during the F1 season have strict bans on alcohol advertising, such as the various Middle Eastern countries that host races.

Therefore, in order to get around this and become a regular part of F1's massive global coverage, beer manufacturers instead advertise their zero-alcohol and non-alcoholic products.