Mercedes has rubbished suggestions that a tie-up between Aston Martin and Red Bull would help them secure a supply of its engines. A report in trade magazine Autocar suggested that Aston Martin was looking at a return to F1 with Red Bull for 2016, in a deal that would give the Milton Keynes-based team Mercedes engines. This is despite Mercedes having resisted recent overtures of a partnership with Red Bull and having long been against supplying power units to the energy drinks giant's outfits. But although Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer and director of marketing communications Simon Sproule may be eager for such a deal to happen – having engineered a similar tie-up with Red Bull when they...
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