Marussia Deserved to Be Treated with More Respect by Formula 1 Strategy Group

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Published: February 7, 2015

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So after months of uncertainty and plenty of defiance, the fight for a return to Formula One finally seems to be over for Marussia.

The popular backmarkers, despite entering administration soon after making their last grand prix appearance in Russia last October, had always retained hope of rejoining the grid in 2015, even when there appeared to be no hope at all.

Even after the team's administrators confirmed that Marussia would be wound up on the eve of last season's Brazilian Grand Prix, president and sporting director Graeme Lowdon told Sky Sports' Mike Wise of his refusal to accept there was "no way back."



Even when the team had been stripped to its bare bones, those remaining—as reported by Reuters' Alan Baldwin—were ready to jump on a plane and participate in the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, only for a breakdown in investment negotiations to stop them in their tracks.


Even when Gene Haas' purchase of the team's Banbury factory, as per Autosport's Jonathan Noble, left Marussia without a home after an ominously quiet winter, there remained hope.



That hope had threatened to become expectation in January when an auction of the team's remaining assets, as reported by Sky Sports' William Esler and Pete Gill, was cancelled.

The good news was followed up on Wednesday as Sky News' Mark Kleinman revealed that Justin King, formerly the chief executive of the Sainsbury's supermarket firm, was behind a "multimillion pound rescue bid" for the team, who were set to race under the name of Manor Grand Prix.



Yet the flickers of optimism were, to all intents and purposes, permanently extinguished just 24 hours after the news of King's interest came to light when Marussia were handed a death sentence.

Not, you understand, by the FIA, the sport's governing body, nor the team's administrators&mda...
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