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Merhi hoping to keep Manor seat for Malaysian GP

Roberto Merhi is hoping to keep his Manor race seat for Malaysia. The Spanish rookie was nominated by the resurrected former Marussia team to race in Melbourne, but Manor ultimately did not even turn a wheel. 'I assure you that we have not paid to be here,' Merhi's father and namesake said in Melbourne. But Spain's El Mundo now reports that Manor is asking Merhi, 23, to find EUR 2 million to keep the race seat in 2015. Manor was summoned by the FIA after qualifying to explain its failure to even attempt to qualify in Melbourne. Amid scepticism about the real reasons for Manor's engine silence, the FIA investigated the matter and found that the explanation about deleted software was true....
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