Gerard Lopez with Bernie Ecclestone Sutton Images Enlarge Formula One's alliance of small teams - Lotus, Force India and Sauber - believe they are finally making progress towards a better deal with the sport's commercial rights holders. The three teams have been lobbying publicly for a larger share of the sport's revenues since the US Grand Prix and have been critical of the bias in financial backing towards the top teams. In Austin, they believed they were closing on a deal with Bernie Ecclestone but an agreement failed to emerge at the following round in Brazil. However, after meeting with Ecclestone and Donald Mackenzie, the chairman the sport's controlling shareholder CVC Capital, in...
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