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Fernley: Gang of four want to throw us out

Force India deputy team principal Bob Fernley has accused Formula 1's biggest teams of conspiring against the smaller outfits, in an effort to oust them from the sport. On Friday in Montreal, a meeting convened by McLaren's Ron Dennis was attended only by representatives of three other teams – fellow grandees Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull. Even the strategy group members Williams and Force India were excluded, and the latter's deputy chief Fernley thinks he knows why. 'The intention is clear,' he is quoted by Autosprint. 'They want to throw us out.' The ‘gang of four' meeting was chiefly about the issue of customer cars, or ‘franchise teams' as now described by Mercedes...
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