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Horner reiterates call for ‘bold' customer cars

Christian Horner has urged Formula 1 to 'grab the bull by the horns' and introduce customer cars rather than more pink Mercedes cars. Formula 1 is in the midst of a huge financial crisis, one that could see a team or three drop out of the sport. The smaller teams believe the best way to prevent this is to lower the budget cap to $145m and then $130m or even drop it as low as $100m. The sport's bigger teams aren't in favour. Instead Horner has proposed the reintroduction of customer cars, especially as that is pretty much was Racing Point has created this season but at a much higher cost than if they had bought a 2019 Mercedes F1 car. 'Now is the time to be bold,' he told Motorsport.com....
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