Manor F1 team owner Stephen Fitzpatrick has said the loss of tenth place to Sauber in the championship standings sealed the team's fate, following confirmation on Friday that the team had entered into administration. The Banbury-based team had spent much of the season in tenth following Pascal Wehrlein's point-scoring finish in Austria. However during the penultimate race of the season in Brazil, Sauber's Felipe Nasr snatched ninth place to score two points, pushing Manor down to 11th. That position change cost the team upwards of £10 million in prize money and sealed their fate according to Fitzpatrick. 'Today's decision to put the team into administration represents...
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