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Old 17 Mar 2013, 10:13 (Ref:3219927)   #32
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It appears that a concorde agreement is as far off as ever judging by what Dieter Rencken has to say.

http://plus.autosport.com/premium/fe...-to-f1-future/

For those who do not have access there are a number of things going on Bernie's original plan for an A/B team structure was dealth a blow with HRT going under. This involved the bigger teams selling older chassis & technology to the so called B teams. With 12 teams that left 6 and 6. However with 11 teams and Marussia refusing to go away Bernie has a problem with that plan. The advantages were for the A teams to be able to gain income from sell their old cars and B teams cost savings from having to develop new cars probably saving CVC some cash along the way.

Marussia do not have any commercial offer from Bernie at the moment but have a legal entry to the championship that means that Bernie has no right to broadcast images of their cars etc. as they are owned by Marussia.

Take that a step further if the impass lasts it could mean that Bernie is selling the TV companies something he has no rights to.

For this reason it is important to get a new deal in place but the whole structure has yet to be agreed with only the financial bits sorted for 10 teams.

There is always the possiblity of the whole thing blowing up into a major row but everybody seems to be keeping it quiet for now.
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