what is the barcode like lines in the Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team's Car?

what is the barcode like lines in the Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team’s Car?
Barcodes are in the spoiler of the car and generally Beside the team’s emblem

Best answer:

That’s the subliminal branding of the Marlboro logo, because tobacco advertisement is banned in most countries.

Devious creativity and yet under the scrutiny of the anti-tobacco campaigners.

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4 Comments for what is the barcode like lines in the Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team's Car?

  • 1. ~N~M~N~/C/A/R/H/U/N/T/E/R  |  October 5th, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    Those lines refers to their sponsers Marlboro, as advertising of Tobacco is banned in many of the european nations, yet Marlboro are still sponsers of Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro F1 team, hence they use these barcodes as a symbol of the sponsership. Even in Mclaren, West is Changed to the name East for the same reason……..

  • 2. dj don  |  October 5th, 2011 at 6:04 pm

    marlboro-thier sponsor

  • 3. Tiffosa  |  October 5th, 2011 at 6:59 pm

    these lines refers to Malboro who are still sponsoring the ferrari teams although the tobacco advertising is not leagal anymore in Europe , USA and Canada

  • 4. rosbif  |  October 5th, 2011 at 7:01 pm

    Here’s the answer I gave to the exact same question 5 days ago:

    It’s because cigarette sponsorship on cars and uniforms has been banned but Marlboro is still Ferrari’s main sponsor. The “bar-code” was used by Marlboro sponsored teams (in place of the word “Marlboro”) from when all tobacco advertising was banned in Germany and England in the 1980s…I remember it definitely from 1982, but it may be older than that.

    Lotus used to write “Lotus” instead of “Camel” (1987/88/89/90) and Jordan used to put their drivers’ names instead of Benson & Hedges (1998+), for example. McLaren and Ferrari were the first teams to use the “bar code”, Once they had ended their relationship with Marlboro, McLaren also replaced the name “West” with “East” in protest at the advertising ban before the sense of humour police at the FIA made them stop; they subsequently used their drivers’ names instead. BAR (British American Racing) got around the advertising ban by naming their team after their tobacco sponsor, British American Tobacco.

    Source(s):
    1982 McLaren testing (this MAY be a pic of Lauda’s Donnington test before he made his comeback, he certainly didn’t use his usual red helmet for the test):
    ingo-cernohorsky.de/archiv/19…
    McLaren at Hockenheim, 1986:
    gptotal.com.br/images/o-mclar…
    McLaren, “West” replaced by “David”
    ananova.com/images/web/44728….
    Lauda’s 1984 McLaren:
    coraggio.dk/images/s1984b.jpg…
    deltaweb.co.uk/eagles/shows/g…

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