09 Mar 2015

Bernie's R180m 'Plan B' for small teams

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<b>TEAM CRISIS IN F1:</b> Bernie Ecclestone has a solution for financially struggling teams - a grid Division 2 driving leased V8's. <i>Image: AP / Darron Cummings</i>

LONDON, England - Bernie Ecclestone has that admitted he devised a contingency plan for Formula 1's weakest teams.

Amid Marussia and Caterham's decline and the similar financial issues of even stronger teams, it was reported that the F1 supremo, now aged 84, was working on a 'Plan B' that would involve a kind of 'Division 2' on the grid.

The smaller teams would lease a two-year-old Red Bull chassis powered by Mecachrome V8 engines at a cost equivalent to "just" R180-million year.

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