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Why the feel-good factor deserted Manor's resurrection

Despite its best efforts, Manor failed to turn a wheel in Australia, leading to many raised eyebrows – and a stern rebuke from Bernie Ecclestone. The FIA cleared the team of any wrongdoing, but the story is not yet over, as Kate Walker explains. The rebirth of Marussia at the eleventh hour should have been the feel-good story of an Australian Grand Prix weekend bogged down in legal wranglings. But when the Manor team freight left British shores for the warmer climes of Melbourne, it was on a wing and a prayer. The wings may have made it, but the prayers got lost somewhere over the Indian Ocean. The last-minute, last-ditch nature of Manor's efforts to make it to Melbourne were always going...
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