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April 2, 2015 – This week the sports director of the Manor, Graeme Lowdon, had branded as “nonsense” the rumors reported that the British team had planned to run in Malaysia with only one car.

rumor emerged strongly after the team based in Digginton had taken part in the race at Sepang with only Roberto Merhi, while the other pilot deployed from the former Marussia, Will Stevens, he had to forfeit due to an unspecified failure of the power supply system of the fuel. Already in Australia is the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone had warned the leaders of the Manor that another non-participation after passing scrutineering on Thursday would not be tolerated and so the team presented itself in Malaysia with the intention to race two cars. Unfortunately, as mentioned, only one of them was able to take the path of the track last weekend and the rumors about the actual operation of the British team have taken flight in the paddock . Despite the criticism the same Ecclestone was trying to defend the last of the class being defined as “disgusting” the voices who reported a Manor intentioned make presence in Melbourne just to be eligible for prizes money due it from last season by virtue of points won in Monaco by Jules Bianchi.

In a nutshell an intricate matter and which has added even more pepper the latest indiscretion reported by Michael Schmidt, correspondent of the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport , who wrote that the Manor would run at Sepang with one car since it possessed a single copy of the updated software, useful to run the power unit Ferrari 2014 . During free practice the two cars of the English team there is hardly ever crossed the track, using in turn the ability to use the program responsible for the electronic engine management.

Then, once it comes into force on the parc fermé, the team would have to decide to which driver do dispute the qualifications and the choice would then relapse Spaniard Merhi. Graeme Lowdon strongly denied all these rumors and has returned to the sender not too veiled accusations of Robert Fernley Force India, which together with Monisha Kaltenborn Sauber, had spoken in recent days of the argument. Other information, this time reported by Speedweek , report that at the time the Manor would not be more than one team in the embryonic stage as in Digginton, where the headquarters of the factory, there would be only 30 People operating .

A situation which according to some experts, among whom there is also the responsibility of the organizers of the Grand Prix of Malaysia, Razlan Razali , is the limit of the paradox. The same Razali described the return to competition of the Manor – Marussia as one “joke” . The manager Asia, speaking to the microphones of the press agency AFP the British team explained so the reason for this last statement: “If you’re not ready you’re not and then you can not participate. I think you do a little ‘fun of the sport. “

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