Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – McLaren have announced their existing sponsorship deal with British American Tobacco will be ‘significantly increased' for 2020. Having signed up as a sponsor to McLaren for the 2019, the British American Tobacco brand will increase their commitment to the team for 2020. Despite tobacco sponsorship being banned and also banned under EU regulations, both McLaren and Ferrari have a tobacco sponsorship in place – although they both stress no tobacco products are being advertised. While Ferrari have ‘Mission Winnow', an ‘initiative' of the Philip Morris company that owns Marlboro, McLaren signed BAT and advertise the company on their car....
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