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My understanding is that Banco Brasil are backing Nasr and have paid up Sutil's contract. Any comment from Sutil is likely to be sour grapes - he has got form for that!

Monisha Kaltenborn has made it quite clear that Ericsson and Nasr are their drivers for next year.

Sauber will probably also end up with Marussia's prize money in light of the news posted by Den above. Caterham have started a crowd funding exercise for £2.35m to allow them to get to Abu Dhabi, which feels like a rather cynical attempt to pocket some prize money before folding themselves.