If you thought the mood was unusually sombre at today's team principals meeting you'd be correct. However, it wasn't because their drivers hadn't performed as well as expected - surely Toto Wolff would have been grinning ear-to-ear - rather the fact that after a couple of months of newly married bliss they had just become aware that the honeymoon is well and truly over. A few hours earlier, two of the men charged with getting the sport's new owners the best bang for their buck had warned that Liberty Media will allow nothing to stand in its way. Before the sport's new owners can dream of profiting on their $8bn purchase, they have to start paying off the numerous loans they have taken out...
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