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F1 teams to follow Ecclestone to Russia

F1 team bosses have swerved around the political crisis in the wake of the MH17 air disaster. The sport is scheduled to race on Russian soil for the first time in October, but there is pressure to cancel or boycott the race amid the deepening controversy. "Obviously what's going on in that part of the world at the moment is of huge concern to everybody," Williams deputy chief Claire Williams said in Hungary. "But we've always said we try to disengage from taking a political angle on these things." Williams' colleagues broadly agree, insisting Bernie Ecclestone - an avowed admirer of the highly-controversial Russian president Vladimir Putin - and the governing FIA set the...
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