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With SONY as their new sponsor?

Dont want to be hating but typical Jo Saward horsesht. Runs a story that has been specifically denied by Sony. He gets about one in a hundred of these things right but it is all (At best) unsubstantiated rubbish.

Having said that sods law dictates that Sony will end up being McLarens new sponsor.

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I'd rather watch R/C cars racing than than FormulaE, if that is what they are going to be like, especially with the ridiculous 100m dash that the drivers have to do in the middle of the race when they change cars after 20 minutes.

not as ridiculous as the fans being able to vote extra power to a certain car.

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Dont want to be hating but typical Jo Saward horsesht. Runs a story that has been specifically denied by Sony. He gets about one in a hundred of these things right but it is all (At best) unsubstantiated rubbish.

Having said that sods law dictates that Sony will end up being McLarens new sponsor.

Think it was the weekly Sky F1 Show earlier in the year talked that Sony was a possibility when discussing the bad year they were having and chances of damaging negotiations with replacement sponsor. They were talking how the Honda deal could bring Japanese sponsors on board?!?!? Made no sense to me

And something else I stumbled across. Lotus still have not confirmed a Renault engine deal. Surely they are using one and building the car around it...but dollars from non existant sponsors etc and payments is stopping a formal deal.

I hope they are not in as bad a shape as some media outlets are saying with regards to possibly not fronting as employees still missing pay cheques :(

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Think it was the weekly Sky F1 Show earlier in the year talked that Sony was a possibility when discussing the bad year they were having and chances of damaging negotiations with replacement sponsor. They were talking how the Honda deal could bring Japanese sponsors on board?!?!? Made no sense to me

And something else I stumbled across. Lotus still have not confirmed a Renault engine deal. Surely they are using one and building the car around it...but dollars from non existant sponsors etc and payments is stopping a formal deal.

I hope they are not in as bad a shape as some media outlets are saying with regards to possibly not fronting as employees still missing pay cheques :(

Im sure they have a renault deal for this year.

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Formula 1 driver numbers revealed as FIA announces 2014 entry list.

2014 F1 entry list so far in numerical order:

# Driver Team/Car

1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault

3 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-Renault

6 Nico Rosberg Mercedes

7 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari

8 Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault

11 Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes

13 Pastor Maldonado Lotus-Renault

14 Fernando Alonso Ferrari

17 Jules Bianchi Marussia-Ferrari

19 Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes

20 Kevin Magnussen McLaren-Mercedes

21 Esteban Gutierrez Sauber-Ferrari

22 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes

25 Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Renault

26 Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Renault

27 Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes

44 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes

77 Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes

99 Adrian Sutil Sauber-Ferrari

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112089

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