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Because the races are outside of the European Union. There has been some consternation recently about whether showing events that run with tobacco ads inside of the E.U. is breaking the law.
I think Marlboro will run there advertisements on the car like they did in U.S, the black strips over a white backdrop. I thin Marlboro signed a contract until 2011 to sponsor Ferrari, I could be wrong though? I am really going to miss Renault's mild seven livery next year
Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, ----head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.
Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
think Marlboro will run there advertisements on the car like they did in U.S,
I think thats right, they have signed a multi-year deal, how long - i dont know - but they will have what they describe as "subliminal" branding, i.e the "barcode" logo like in the US GP.
I am really going to miss Renault's mild seven livery next year
Well Renault's corportate Racing colours are Yellow & white, the blue is for Mild Seven (Carried over from Bennetton), so what do you think the chances are that they will change the race car colours to yellow & white next year?
Silence is golden when you don't know a good answer.
Marlboro have all the rights of the advertisments on Ferrari. They bought all the spaces on the car and then sell it further to other sponsers. This also the reasen of the darker red on Ferrari a couple of years ago, the red must more simelar to the Marlboro red.
Murphy's 9th Law of Technology:
Tell a man there are 300 million stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
Nobody does really, but I guess advertising is one way to crack down on how much the idea of smoking is seen. Here in the UK a ban will soon be passed on smoking in all public places. Further reducing how common smoking is appeared to be.
Hopefully it will crack down, I've seen what smoking can do, its ruined my grandad's fitness levels, and I'm just lucky it hasn't ruined his health.
Bring on Cheerios!
Silence is golden when you don't know a good answer.
Until this year, most of the major Auto Racing in the United States frowned on hard alcahol sponsors being painted on the car. It was just recently that (everyone's favorite) NASCAR allowed teams to paint liqour sponsors on the car. Tobacco companies (only cigarettes, not smokless tobacco) are still not allowed on racing cars.
It would have been weird to see most of the cars lacking a sponsor on their livery. It would have been like watching a whole bunch of Williams running around.
I thoguht crown royal was sponsoring a team for the last two years in Nascar? I still find it wierd Skoal is allowed to sponsor nascar, tobacco related stuff but not a actual cigarette, really wierd
Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, ----head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.
Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
AFAIK, the liquor sponsorship was this year only. There was Crown Royal, Jim Beam, and Jack Daniels in the Daytona 500.
Tony Kannan's Cart car has had Jim Beam as a sponsor for a while now, but no one watches Cart (or what ever its called now). So it really dosn't matter what sponsor he has.
