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F1's power vacuum: are lunatics running the asylum?

Formula 1 is operating in something of a power vacuum, and Kate Walker investigates who's got the real authority when it comes to strategic decisions going forwards. F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone admitted last November that – as an employee of CVC Capital Partners – he lacked his former authority to make unilateral decisions that could better (or worsen…) the sport. Speaking to the media at last year's US Grand Prix in Austin, when both Marussia and Caterham were missing in action, Ecclestone absolved himself of responsibility for F1's financial messes, saying that he didn't have the power to enforce change. "If the company belonged to me, I would have done things in a different...
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