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Sponsors unsure about Bahrain, teams about politics

The 2013 Bahrain Grand prix may be going ahead next weekend, but will not do so with everyone involved seemingly as happy about it as Bernie Ecclestone.While the FIA has refused to confirm its stance on the political situation within the Gulf state, and the teams admitting that they will go wherever the sport's ringmaster leads them, the multinationals that bankroll F1 don't appear so comfortable going with the flow.Bahrain has been the subject of pro-democracy demonstrations since early 2011, when the 'Arab Spring' uprising spread across the region with greater 'success' in countries such as Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. Protestors object to the continuation of the grand prix, saying that...
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