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British American Tobacco joins McLaren

Photo by: www.kymillman.com/f1 You may recall that several years ago, British American Tobacco bought a Formula 1 team and named it British American Racing or BAR F1 or as we liked to say at the time, BARF 1. They had purchased Tyrrell back in 1997 and their star driver was none other than Jacques Villeneuve (JV) himself. Craig Pollock, JV’s manager and former ski instructor, was the team boss. They sold their team to Honda in 2006. Now British American Tobacco (BAT) are back in the sport as a sponsor of the McLaren team. McLaren and BAT said: It’s interesting timing as Ferrari’s Philip Morris sponsorship is under scrutiny for their Mission Winnow logo on the car with a pending...
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