This comes at a time when advertising of tobacco sponsorship has become illegal in the European Union and other major teams have withdrawn from relationships with tobacco companies, for example Yamaha have ended their five year relationship with Fortuna/Gauloises.
It retains the style of The IPCRESS File — multiple plots twists, Gauloises cigarettes, grimy, and soot-stained British winter.
In Chanaleilles, he won a cycle and a running race on the same day, winning two packets of Gauloises cigarettes.
It was initially driven by the experienced Jean Alesi, who was in his second year with the team, and Gastón Mazzacane, who brought valuable PSN sponsorship from Minardi after almost all the sponsors are gone, including title sponsor Gauloises, putting the team into serious financial problems.
Near the site where Vladimir was killed, he discovers Vladimir's half-empty packet of Gauloises cigarettes, containing the negative of a compromising photograph of Leipzig and another man.
Gradually he changes his breakfast habits to those of Simone, and shifts from Gauloises to Marlboro cigarettes.