Marussia request rejected

Nothing to do for the Marussia. The Strategy Group, which met on Thursday evening to decide whether to grant her the chance to field the 2014 single-seaters on the Melbourne grid, said no as easily conceivable.

In the case of confirmation, in fact, the small teams would have found themselves obliged to renounce the shares of the coveted and always convenient commercial rights otherwise owed to the Anglo-Russian team.

The possibility of seeing twenty cars at the start of the 2015 world championship was therefore lost despite the fact that an investor, said to be the boss of the Sainsbury supermarket chain Justin King, had already paid the entry fees.