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Arrivabene denies Gutierrez is Ferrari pay driver

Ferrari team boss has denied that even the great Italian team is now heading down the pay driver road with the hiring of well funded Mexican Esteban Gutierrez Outspoken former F1 driver Mark Webber insisted this week that the fact drivers have so readily 'paid their way' onto the grid in recent years is 'rubbish'. 'That's not what we want in the sport,' he told the Herald Sun newspaper. But until now, the concept of taking on drivers who promise vast sums of money and sponsorship has been the reserve of mainly small and struggling teams. Gutierrez, for instance, debuted at Sauber with close ties to the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, and logos of the brands Telmex, Telcel and Claro were...
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