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'We won't rule out customer cars'
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says he can see them supplying customer cars to bolster the F1 grid and reckons he has already spoken to three smaller teams about such a "contingency plan". Speaking at the Monaco GP, Wolff said he could not rule out the prospect and likened the scenario to the franchising of teams seen in other sports, for example the NFL. Also in the United States, NASCAR does not run a franchise system as such, although smaller teams do receive chassis, engine and technical support from big outfits such as Hendrick Motorsports. "I think we need to have a contingency plan in place. Customer cars, or franchises, we've seen that in other sports; we've seen that...
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