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Sutil: 18 car grid 'not enough'
Sauber F1 Team
Sauber driver Adrian Sutil says that the demise of Caterham and Marussia was 'obvious' and that an 18-car grid for this weekend's United States Grand Prix is 'not enough'.
Sutil's Sauber team has endured a troublesome campaign and has yet to score a point, leaving it 10th in the Constructors' Championship, behind the absent Marussia.
The German driver feels that the absence of teams from the grid was ultimately inevitable.
"It’s not nice to see two teams missing here, but it was very obvious that it was going to happen sooner or later," he said.
"Last year or this year so many teams had financial problems that I was surprised how long they actually survived...
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