Both Caterham and Marussia to skip US and Brazil

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It looks like Caterham won’t be the only team that won’t be racing at the US Grand Prix next week – Marussia will also skip the race, according to F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone yesterday in a report by Reuters.

In addition, Marussia will also most probably skip the Brazil race as well, since Formula One Management’s arranged transportation for teams are supposed to take them directly from the US race to the Brazil race.

This means there will only be nine teams with 18 cars for the two races. We wonder if this is what the grid will look like for next year’s season.

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Comments

  • Matrix on Oct 26, 2014 at 12:19 pm

    haha.
    such as stupid team.
    can’t even score a point.

    Don’t know why and what they are race for.

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    • heybadigol (Member) on Oct 26, 2014 at 2:54 pm

      Marussia has actually scored points when Bianchi finished 9th in Monaco (he physically finished 8th but incurred a timed penalty after the race that dropped him to 9th). It was both Marussia and Bianchi’s only points (thus far) in F1.

      By finishing with points, teams get more share of the television rights money from FOM compared to a team with 0 points. FOM handles the commercial side of F1, compared to FIA that handles the technical/regulations side. That is the purpose of F1 teams. The higher you finish in the constructors championship, the bigger share of the F1 TV rights you will get. And the TV rights money is a huge amount of money. Mercedes is probably laughing all the way to the Bank after winning the constructors title this year.

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    • JeremyNg on Oct 27, 2014 at 10:29 am

      obviously you’re not f1 fans at all and you don’t understand how F1 work ………

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    • leonardo on Oct 27, 2014 at 10:49 am

      F1 is a marketing and/or branding tool. Not just racing.

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  • Works on Oct 26, 2014 at 12:43 pm

    seems that anything related to tony has a big mess. From lotus-team lotus dispute, air asia, qpr, and Now caterham……………..oh tony

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  • Semi-Value (Member) on Oct 26, 2014 at 7:41 pm

    tony is just doing money laundering la….

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  • paulz on Oct 28, 2014 at 1:32 pm

    Many years ago…Formula One are consider the highest and fastest pinnacle motor sport apart from WRC, Le Mans, Nascar, MotoGP however everything has changed tremendously that I witnessed the tragic and sour grape of geopolitical issues has bring down the oldest sport in the world. I guess “Marie Balestre era” has ignited the worst scenarios in F1 circus if they failed to revive back race of glory.

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