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Boycott threat still lingering as F1 heads to Brazil
F1 grid has shrunk from eleven teams to nine in three weeks between Sochi and Austin
Two hours before Sunday's United States Grand Prix, the risk that only twelve Formula 1 cars would race still existed, and as the circus heads to Brazil the chances of a boycott still lingers.
As promised, Bernie Ecclestone negotiated an eleventh hour solution, and the boycott threat posed by angry privateers Lotus, Sauber and Force India was put down.
The Formula 1 chief executive had laid the foundation of the peace deal 24 hours earlier by issuing an unprecedented ‘mea culpa' amid Caterham and Marussia's death throes.
He openly admitted that the income distribution model favouring Formula 1's most...
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