Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Product placement
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Auto racing=== In auto racing, the concept of the [[factory-backed]] contestant, who is provided with vehicles and technical support in return for the car's manufacturer obtaining visibility for its products in competition, dates in [[NASCAR]] to the 1950s and [[Marshall Teague (racing driver)|Marshall Teague]]'s factory-backed [[Fabulous Hudson Hornet]]. "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday" was once a common [[adage]] among automakers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.drivingtoday.com/greatest_cars/hudson_hornet/|title=The Greatest Cars: Hudson Hornet|first=Jack|last=Nerad|publisher=Driving Today|access-date=August 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522184202/http://www.drivingtoday.com/greatest_cars/hudson_hornet/|archive-date=May 22, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In [[Formula One]], a number of major racing teams were once sponsored by tobacco companies, including [[Marlboro (cigarette)|Marlboro]] (which has had tenures with [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] and the [[McLaren]] team. Due to tightening regulations on [[Regulation of nicotine advertising|tobacco advertising]] worldwide, many of these sponsorships have either been dropped, or downplayed and replaced with subliminal versions on vehicle livery when races are held in regions with heavy restrictions or outright bans on the marketing of cigarettes (such as the [[European Union]]).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/15/f1-has-no-plans-to-ban-tobacco-company-sponsorship-despite-health-calls-australian-gp-lewis-hamilton-sebastian-vettel|title=F1 has no plans to ban tobacco company sponsorship despite health calls|last=Park|first=Giles Richards at Albert|date=2019-03-15|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-03-19 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |first=David |last=Tremayne |author-link=David Tremayne |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/motor-racing/minority-stall-as-tobacco-ban-starts-302951.html |title=Minority stall as tobacco ban starts |date=August 1, 2005 |access-date=26 March 2010}}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)