Sunday 31st July 2005

The Hungarian Grand Prix saw the beginning of the end of tobacco advertising in F1 due to the Europe-wide ban. McLaren (West) and B·A·R (Lucky Strike) ran with tobacco livery on Friday and Saturday before withdrawing it for the race, while Ferrari (Marlboro) and Renault (Mild Seven) ran full tobacco livery for the entire weekend. McLaren announced that Scotch whisky producer Johnnie Walker would take over the team’s title sponsorship for the remainder of the year. Kimi Räikkönen won the race in a McLaren-Mercedes MP4-20.