1968 Formula One season Firestone. Team Gunston, a South African privateer team, was the first Formula One team to paint their cars in the livery of their sponsors when they entered a private Brabham for John Love, painted in the colours of Gunston cigarettes, in the 1968 South African Grand Prix. In the next round at the 1968 Spanish Grand Prix Lotus became the first works team to follow this example, with Graham Hill's Lotus 49B entered in the Red, Gold and White colors of Imperial Tobacco's Gold Leaf brand. The second innovation was the introduction of wings as seen previously on various cars
1996 Newsweek Champions Cup and the State Farm Evert Cup City champion, 1995 French Open runner-up and Doha semifinalist Thomas Muster and San Jose runner-up, U.S. Open defending champion and 1990 Indian Wells winner Andre Agassi. Other top seeds were Australian Open and 1995 Tour Championships titlist Boris Becker, Michael Chang, Goran Ivanišević, Jim Courier and Thomas Enqvist. Michael Chang defeated Paul Haarhuis 7–5, 6–1, 6–1 Steffi Graf defeated Conchita Martínez 7–6, 7–6 Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde defeated Brian MacPhie / Michael Tebbutt 1–6, 6–2, 6–2 Chanda Rubin / Brenda Schultz-McCarthy defeated Julie Halard-Decugis / Nathalie Tauziat 6–1, 6–4 1996 Newsweek Champions Cup and the State Farm Evert Cup