page_title: Winfield (cigarette)
section_title: Auto sponsorship
hierarchical_section_title: Winfield (cigarette) / Sport sponsorship / Auto sponsorship
caption_attribution_description: Jacques Villeneuve driving for WilliamsF1 at the 1998 Italian Grand Prix.
context_page_description: Winfield is an Australian brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by British American Tobacco Australia, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco.
context_section_description: Winfield was the main sponsor of the Williams F1 Team in 1998 and 1999, when Rothmans International opted to promote their Winfield brand, replacing the popular blue and white livery with a red one. In 1998, the team won no races and took only 3 podiums during the season, with Frentzen finishing in third at the first round in Australia and Villeneuve finishing third in Germany and Hungary. Williams finished third in the Constructors' Championship, scoring 38 points, while Villeneuve finished fifth in the Drivers' Championship with 21 points and his German teammate, Frentzen, finished 4 points behind him in seventh.
  In 1999, the team managed to get three podiums, all scored by Ralf Schumacher, with third place in the Australia and the Britain and a second place in Italy. The team finished fifth in the Constructors' Championship, the lowest finish for Williams in the 1990s; the team finished behind Stewart and Jordan, scoring a total of 35 points. Of those points, all were scored by Schumacher as Zanardi, who had not performed well in his previous stint in F1, failed to finish in the top six in any race.
  In 2000, Rothmans International had been purchased in 1999 by British American Tobacco, which owned British American Racing and chose not to renew the contract with Williams, ending the sponsorship of Winfield and earlier with Rothmans on the Williams cars.
  From 1992 until 1995, Winfield was title sponsor of Australian motor racing team Gibson Motorsport. Highlights included Mark Skaife winning two Australian Touring Car Championships in 1992 and 1994, as well as the Australian Drivers' Championship in 1992 and 1993. Skaife and Jim Richards also won the 1992 Bathurst 1000.
  From the 1970s until 1995, Winfield sponsored a number of high-profile teams in Speedway and Drag racing.
caption: Jacques Villeneuve in the Williams FW20 at the 1998 Italian Grand Prix
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