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Williams and Force India excluded from customer cars meeting

It has emerged that two key Formula 1 teams were excluded from a key meeting regarding customer or franchise cars, held in Montreal. Photographers in the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve paddock spotted Maurizio Arrivabene (Ferrari), Ron Dennis and Eric Boullier (McLaren), Toto Wolff (Mercedes) and Christian Horner (Red Bull) meeting at McLaren-Honda for 'several hours'. It emerged that the topic of conversation was customer cars — or, now, franchise teams, where smaller outfits buy complete cars from the big teams for 50 million per season. Mercedes' Toto Wolff said: 'On behalf of and in the framework of the Strategy Group, we discussed issues related to the chassis rules for 2017. 'We...
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