In the wake of last week's statement from the Formula One Promoters Association (FOPA), which saw 16 of the current 21 race promoters take issue with the sport's owners, Liberty Media, on a number of issues, furious work behind the scenes saw a couple of promoters leap to the company's defence. First up was Russia, quickly followed by Mexico, while only this week the Baku promoter insisted the FOPA statement had actually been misconstrued. In a robust rubbishing of the FOPA statement, Sergey Vorobyev, deputy general director of Sochi F1 promoter Rosgonki, declared, according to Autosport: 'The statement is fairly toothless, because all the issues indicated there, in this statement, they...
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