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Small teams resisting customer car push
F1's smaller teams are pushing back hard against the latest moves to introduce 'customer cars'. Four teams - Manor, Force India, Sauber and Lotus - are reportedly at risk of financial collapse, and perhaps as soon as 2015, according to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport. They are pleading for lower engine bills and a fairer distribution of the sport's billion dollars in official income. But the solution put forward by Bernie Ecclestone and the big teams is 'customer cars'. The latest iteration is that grandees like Ferrari and Mercedes would make four cars apiece, supplying two to a satellite partner who would lose their status as a full 'constructor'. "We would lose our...
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