While Formula One's big boys think little of spending millions of pounds on tinkering to make their cars that split second more competitive, at the other end of the grid the likes of Marussia have to look at where every dollar is spent. Which makes the fact it is ineligible to claim any prize money however well it does all the more galling. Marussia's problem is that it has not agreed a commercial deal with Bernie Ecclestone (in his role as representative of CVC Capital Partners, the private equity owner of the sport). Ecclestone has repeatedly claimed there is a deal on the table; the problem is that nobody at Marussia seems to have seen it. "All we ask for is a level playing...
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