The proof is the simple fact that the sponsors have to form their own group in the hope of improving their sitaution with the F1 owners
Apart from that it'll all be bound within confidential contracts..but it has been well known that all teams participating within most sports have to sign over some control..
Take for example in football when they interview the managers/players in front of the camera after the match... do you think that the manager wants a barclays advert behind them instead of their own team sponsors
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It's weird how this has come up as during the last post-qualifying interviews we were explaning to my partners mother about sports sponsorship and how the logo's on the clothing were split up into different groups.. Those being F1 sponsors, Team sponsors, driver sponsors.. and also explainign to her that a driver sponsor wasn;t just paying money to the driver, but some of that money will go towards the team for allowing their overalls to be used to carry the sponsor and some of the money will go to F1 for the priviledge of sponsoring during a F1 arranged interview...
Gone are the days when it was so simple
