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Two teams excluded from ‘customer cars’ meeting in Montreal
Two teams excluded from ‘customer cars' meeting in Montreal, it has emerged. Last Friday, photographers in the 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 EUR 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 must have a plan in the event that one or more teams...
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