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Kate Walker: It’s all about the money
Used to keeping her eye on the behind the scenes wheeling and dealing that makes Formula One a political melodrama, Kate Walker reflects on the 2014 calendar and why it won't look the same come December...Motor-racing has never been a sport for paupers. Long before the FIA and FOM (or various iterations thereof) became involved, money was a necessary factor in motorsport. Germany's dominance of pre-war grand prix racing in the 1930s was the result of sizeable investments from Hitler's government, and early Monaco grands prix were run – and won – by men who had borrowed their Bugattis from rich ladies they had met at the Casino.Ever since Formula One became the globe-trotting behemoth...
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