He didn't want to say the words, but Max Chilton insists a Marussia kerfuffle in Belgium should not be interpreted as a simple 'pay-driver' in distress. The struggling team stood the Briton down ahead of Friday practice at Spa-Francorchamps, but then did a u-turn and reinstated him. Marc Surer, a former driver and commentator for German television, giggled that Chilton and his sponsors must have "found a bank that was open on a Friday". It was presumably that sort of interpretation that Chilton was trying to dismiss when speaking with reporters on Friday. "What everyone seems to think has happened is not the case," he insisted. When pressed for precisely what he meant,...
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