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Manufacturers could walk away from F1 says Szafnauer

When the dust settles on the financial crisis, Racing Point team principal Otmar Szafnauer says F1 may be short a manufacturer or two. Formula 1 is on an extended hiatus, the sport waiting for governments to give the all-clear to go racing. F1 chief Chase Carey is hoping for a July start to the season but that has yet to be set in stone. In the meantime the F1 teams and their manufacturers are taking huge financial hits with Szafnauer saying that could force some of the manufacturers to weigh up whether the cost of competing in F1. 'The thing with the manufacturers, not so much in Formula 1, but in their regular business of developing and selling and designing road cars, it's a very, very...
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