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‘Only top 10 teams to get prize money’

Bernie Ecclestone has made clear that Formula One will pay prize money to only the top 10 teams from the end of this season. Since 2010, payments have been made to the 11th and 12th-placed teams to help three newcomers on reduced budgets who came in after the abrupt departure of major manufacturers Honda, Toyota and BMW. There are now 11 teams remaining after the demise last year of Spanish-based HRT. Ecclestone, the sport's commercial chief, said the plan was to return to rewarding the top 10 only, injecting more drama into the battle to avoid last place. "It's a bit more incentive to get going and get into the top 10. It's a bit like the football where you can go up and down,"...
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