Motor racing-Mercedes make 50 redundant at F1 engine plant

By Alan Baldwin

ISTANBUL, June 7 (Reuters) - Mercedes have made around 50 employees redundant at their Formula One engine plant in Britain and could shed more depending on the future direction of the sport, motorsport vice-president Norbert Haug said.

"We have redundancies in Brixworth, I think 12 percent of the staff, roughly 50 people in step one," he said at the Turkish Grand Prix.

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