There was some confusion over the livery of those cars which usually carry branding from tobacco companies, Ferrari, McLaren, Renault and Jordan.

Brazilian law had decreed that tobacco advertising was banned earlier this year. A special dispensation had been arranged for the Brazilian GP, allowing cars to run with tobacco branding. However, the move had not been officially confirmed, so that most of the teams concerned ran without any branding in the Friday morning session. Once the matter was cleared up all the teams rushed to relivery their cars with their respective logos, so that Marlboro name once again appeared on the F2002.

The team members also had to change all their clothing and some of the Scuderia boys took a leaf out of Superman’s book, simply ripping off their shirts to reveal the correctly branded one underneath!