Formula One News — September 2005

China's Honghe tobacco company has signed a deal to sponsor the Chinese Grand Prix, despite the Chinese government ratifying the World Health Organisation's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which prohibits tobacco advertising, promotion and event sponsorships in China.

If there is any hard talking going on in the background in Formula 1 circles at the moment, it is certainly not being done in the official meetings between the teams and the others involved in the running of the sport.