Marlboro’s partnership with Scuderia Ferrari is one of motorsport’s most iconic sponsorship stories: the American cigarette brand first appeared with Ferrari as a minor backer in the 1980s before growing into a full-blown title partnership. By 1997, when Marlboro pulled out of its long relationship with McLaren and became Ferrari’s main sponsor, the team was officially called Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro, a name that stuck through the peak of Ferrari’s dominance with stars like Michael Schumacher a