The rescue package to save Marussia – and get it back on the grid in time for Melbourne – almost seems too good to be true. Kate Walker investigates. After six months in limbo, the Marussia Formula One team has officially been reborn as the Manor F1 team. It is good news for the sport as a whole, as with only nine teams F1 risked dropping below contracted minimum grid sizes in the event that any of the remaining beleaguered outfits succumbed to financial pressures. Manor’s rescue comes at the hands of Ovo energy boss Stephen Fitzpatrick, 37, who found himself so seduced by the Marussia fairy tale – without the happily ever after – that the Northern Irish businessman was compelled...
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