The complex tangle currently surrounding Red Bull’s engine situation and future in Formula One has reached a crisis level at Sochi, with the pace of negotiations suddenly accelerating during the Russian Grand Prix weekend. Having repeatedly threatened to leave the sport if they fail to secure a competitive power unit, the energy drinks giant’s senior management bear in mind that they are contracted to F1 until 2020. And it seems that Red Bull cannot legally invoke force majeure to justify any departure since they had a bona-fide deal with Renault through the end of the 2016 campaign. Should they deliberately throw in the towel, they could face a mammoth penalty of half a billion...
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