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McLaren: Formula 1 costs needs a rethink

Formula 1 needs a rethink about how it approaches the whole issue of costs, reckons McLaren, amid concerns the push to drive down budgets is helping nobody. The FIA has long made clear that one of its priorities is to ensure the survival of the smaller teams, who are struggling with finding an ever escalating amount of money. But McLaren racing director Eric Boullier thinks all efforts to contain expenditure have failed, and all they are doing is preventing big-money teams at the front closing in on pace-setters Mercedes. "I would back Bernie [Ecclestone] and say if you cannot afford it, don't come," Boullier told Motorsport.com. "If you can afford it, then let teams do what...
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